First major book on ICANN?

MIT Press has published Ruling the Root: Internet Governance and the Taming of Cyberspace, a new book by Milton Mueller, ICANNWatch.org editor and director of the graduate program in telecommunications and network management at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. Salon’s Andrew Leonard’s review provides a brief yet illuminating narrative description of ICANN’s relatively short history and its current challenges.

Nice quote from Francis Bacon about the difficulty of explaining complex stuff to a bemused public

” Those whose conceits are seated in popular opinions, need only but to prove or dispute; but those whose conceits are beyond popular opinions, have a double labor: the one to make themselves conceived, and the other to prove and demonstrate. So that it is of necessity with them to have recourse to similitudes and translations [that is, metaphors] to express themselves.”