hi, I am sure many of you saw the story on Sean Gorman's research into
Internet geography, but just in case...

"Dissertation Could Be Security Threat: Student's Maps Illustrate Concerns
About Public Information", by Laura Blumenfeld
Washington Post
Tuesday, July 8, 2003; Page A01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23689-2003Jul7.html

As part of his Ph.D dissertation, George Mason University graduate student
Sean Gorman has created a map of the internet infrastructure from
publically available data that is so detailed that the US Government has
asked him not to post the map publically. So far, Gorman has voluntarily
withheld his maps and dissertation..
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Sean has been actively researching Internet geography for several years.
He does not have a homepage at the moment, but here are a few of his most
recent papers.

"Least Effort Strategies for Cybersecurity"
Sean P. Gorman, Rajendra G. Kulkarni, Laurie A. Schintler, Roger
R. Stough, June 2003
http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0306002

"Fixed and fluid: stability and change in the geography of the Internet"
Sean P. Gormana and Edward J. Malecki, Telecommunications Policy,
Vol. 26, 7-8, August-September 2002, pp. 389-413
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0308-5961(02)00022-8

"The networks of the Internet: an analysis of provider networks in the
USA"
Sean P. Gormana and Edward J. Malecki, Telecommunications Policy,
Vol. 24,2, March 2000, pp. 113-134
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0308-5961(00)00005-7


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martin dodge

cyber geography research
centre for advanced spatial analysis, university college london
gower street, london, wc1e 6bt, united kingdom

email: [log in to unmask] (remove the nospam bit)

http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk       http://www.cybergeography.org
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