Alison Harcourt is Professor of Public Policy at the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter. She is also Director of the Centre for European Governance. Alison specialises regulatory change in digital markets and interested in solutions to regulatory problems based around the citizen/consumer and/or civil society voice. She has written on the regulation of traditional and new media markets and internet governance at EU and international levels contributing to the literature on agenda setting, regulatory competition, soft governance, Europeanisation and policy convergence. George Christou is Professor of European Politics and Security at the Department for Politics and International Studies. His main research interests include the EU's role in conflict resolution, with specific interest in Cyprus and Turkey; European Neighbourhood Policy; the EU as an actor in Internet Governance and the political economy of European and Global Internet Governance; and the EU's Cyber Security Policy/The Politics and Governance of International Cybersecurity. Seamus Simpson is Professor of Media Policy in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford. He has written extensively on European and global communications policy matters and his work has been funded by the ESRC and the European Commission. He is a past Chair of the International Communication Association (ICA), Communication Law and Policy Division and Board of Directors member of the ICA. He is currently Senior Editor at the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication (OUP) and Academic Management Committee member of the AHRC North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership.

• 1: Introduction: global standard setting in Internet governance. 2: Informal governance and decision-making through multiple streams: explaining standard developing organisations. 3: Internal governance of the IETF, W3C and IEEE: structure, decision-making and internationalisation. 4: The Quick UDP Internet Connection (QUIC) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 standards: Snowden and the impact on the encryption debate in the IETF. 5: Political drift and forum shifts: the case of browser development. 6: 802.11ax: technical standards-making, unlicensed spectrum and the future of WiFi. 7: The Do Not Track (DNT) standard: a failure of self-regulation and the politics of contestation. 8: Dynamic Spectrum Access, technical standards and competing spectrum policy interests in the TV white space environment. 9: Protocols and state surveillance. 10: Engineers and the public interest. 11: The Internet of Things: a policy window for standard essential patents. 12: Conclusion: SDO decision-making and the public interest.

Alison Harcourt is Professor of Public Policy at the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter. She is also Director of the Centre for European Governance. Alison specialises regulatory change in digital markets and interested in solutions to regulatory problems based around the citizen/consumer and/or civil society voice. She has written on the regulation of traditional and new media markets and internet governance at EU and international levels contributing to the literature on agenda setting, regulatory competition, soft governance, Europeanisation and policy convergence. George Christou is Professor of European Politics and Security at the Department for Politics and International Studies. His main research interests include the EU's role in conflict resolution, with specific interest in Cyprus and Turkey; European Neighbourhood Policy; the EU as an actor in Internet Governance and the political economy of European and Global Internet Governance; and the EU's Cyber Security Policy/The Politics and Governance of International Cybersecurity. Seamus Simpson is Professor of Media Policy in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford. He has written extensively on European and global communications policy matters and his work has been funded by the ESRC and the European Commission. He is a past Chair of the International Communication Association (ICA), Communication Law and Policy Division and Board of Directors member of the ICA. He is currently Senior Editor at the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication (OUP) and Academic Management Committee member of the AHRC North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership.

• 1: Introduction: global standard setting in Internet governance. 2: Informal governance and decision-making through multiple streams: explaining standard developing organisations. 3: Internal governance of the IETF, W3C and IEEE: structure, decision-making and internationalisation. 4: The Quick UDP Internet Connection (QUIC) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 standards: Snowden and the impact on the encryption debate in the IETF. 5: Political drift and forum shifts: the case of browser development. 6: 802.11ax: technical standards-making, unlicensed spectrum and the future of WiFi. 7: The Do Not Track (DNT) standard: a failure of self-regulation and the politics of contestation. 8: Dynamic Spectrum Access, technical standards and competing spectrum policy interests in the TV white space environment. 9: Protocols and state surveillance. 10: Engineers and the public interest. 11: The Internet of Things: a policy window for standard essential patents. 12: Conclusion: SDO decision-making and the public interest.

Alison Harcourt is Professor of Public Policy at the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter. She is also Director of the Centre for European Governance. Alison specialises regulatory change in digital markets and interested in solutions to regulatory problems based around the citizen/consumer and/or civil society voice. She has written on the regulation of traditional and new media markets and internet governance at EU and international levels contributing to the literature on agenda setting, regulatory competition, soft governance, Europeanisation and policy convergence. George Christou is Professor of European Politics and Security at the Department for Politics and International Studies. His main research interests include the EU's role in conflict resolution, with specific interest in Cyprus and Turkey; European Neighbourhood Policy; the EU as an actor in Internet Governance and the political economy of European and Global Internet Governance; and the EU's Cyber Security Policy/The Politics and Governance of International Cybersecurity. Seamus Simpson is Professor of Media Policy in the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford. He has written extensively on European and global communications policy matters and his work has been funded by the ESRC and the European Commission. He is a past Chair of the International Communication Association (ICA), Communication Law and Policy Division and Board of Directors member of the ICA. He is currently Senior Editor at the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication (OUP) and Academic Management Committee member of the AHRC North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership.

• 1: Introduction: global standard setting in Internet governance. 2: Informal governance and decision-making through multiple streams: explaining standard developing organisations. 3: Internal governance of the IETF, W3C and IEEE: structure, decision-making and internationalisation. 4: The Quick UDP Internet Connection (QUIC) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 standards: Snowden and the impact on the encryption debate in the IETF. 5: Political drift and forum shifts: the case of browser development. 6: 802.11ax: technical standards-making, unlicensed spectrum and the future of WiFi. 7: The Do Not Track (DNT) standard: a failure of self-regulation and the politics of contestation. 8: Dynamic Spectrum Access, technical standards and competing spectrum policy interests in the TV white space environment. 9: Protocols and state surveillance. 10: Engineers and the public interest. 11: The Internet of Things: a policy window for standard essential patents. 12: Conclusion: SDO decision-making and the public interest.