CNRI publishes D-Lib Magazine, a journal of digital library research and development.

Also of special interest is the Infrastructure History Series, a series of studies that address historical examples of large-scale infrastructure.

Additional relevant documents are the XIWT White Papers and IETF Proceedings.

Earlier staff publications are listed in an archive.

Kahn, Robert E., "The Role of Architecture in Internet Defense", America's Cyber Future: Security and Prosperity in the Information Age, Center for a New American Security (CNAS), Volume II, Chapter XII, May 2011. Full report available here.

Denning, Peter J. and Robert E. Kahn. "The Profession of IT: the Long Quest for Universal Information Access". Communications of the ACM, December 2010, Vol. 53, No. 32, pp. 34-36. doi:10.1145/1859204.1859218

Kahn, Robert E. "The Architectural Evolution of the Internet". Corporation for National Research Initiatives, July 28, 2012. hdl:4263537/5044

Corporation for National Research Initiatives. "A Brief Overview of the Digital Object Architecture and its Application to Identification, Discovery, Resolution and Access to Information in Digital Form". June 1, 2010. hdl:4263537/5041

Manepalli, Giridhar, James Xu, Geir Isaksen, Bill Railer. "Multinational Federated ADL Search and Retrieval — II: Sharing Across NATO". Presented at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation & Education (I/ITSEC) Conference, November 30 – December 3, 2009, Orlando FL.

Patrice A. Lyons, with input from Robert E. Kahn. "Some Myths about the Internet," Society for Scholarly Publishing, 4 April 2009.

J. Khoury, H. Jerez, N. Nehme, and C. Abdallah, "An application of the mobile transient network architecture: IP mobility and inter-operability", 2006, arXiv.

Robert E. Kahn; Patrice A. Lyons, "Representing Value as Digital Objects; A Discussion of Transferability and Anonymity". Journal on Telecommunications & High Technology Law, Vol. 5, Issue 1, 189 (2006). An earlier version of this article was published in D-Lib Magazine, May 2001.doi:10.1045/may2001-kahn

Manepalli, Giridhar, "Federation of Metadata Registries". Presented at the International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries (ICSD-2007), Bangalore, India, February 21-23, 2007.

Robert E. Kahn & Robert Wilensky. "A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services". International Journal on Digital Libraries, (2006) 6(2): 115-123. doi:10.1007/s00799-005-0128-x. (First published by the authors May 13, 1995, "A Framework for Distributed Digital Object Services", hdl:4263537/5001).

J. Khoury, H. Jerez, C. Abdallah, "H-SIP: Inter-domain SIP mobility: Design", appearing in Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2007, Las Vegas, NV, Jan 2007.

Henry Jerez, Giridhar Manepalli, Christophe Blanchi, and Larry Lannom, "ADL-R: The First Instance of a CORDRA Registry", D-Lib Magazine, February 2006. doi:10.1045/february2006-jerez

Giridhar Manepalli, Henry Jerez, and Michael L. Nelson, "FeDCOR: An Institutional CORDRA Registry", D-Lib Magazine, February 2006. doi:10.1045/february2006-manepalli

Giridhar Manepalli, Henry Jerez, and Michael L. Nelson, "FeDCOR: Un Registro Institucional CORDRA". To be presented at the 4th International Symposium on Digital Libraries (S.I.B.D.), June 21-23, 2006, Malaga, Spain. (Spanish language version, with additional content, of an article originally published in D-Lib Magazine, February 2006)

Friedlander, Amy, Communications and Content: Radio Technologies in the U.S. Infrastructure, 1865-1976. CNRI, 2005.

Sam Sun, Larry Lannom, Brian Boesch, "Handle System Overview". Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comments (RFC), RFC 3650, November 2003. hdl:4263537/4069

Sam Sun, Sean Reilly, Larry Lannom, "Handle System Namespace and Service Definition". Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comments (RFC), RFC 3651, November 2003. hdl:4263537/4068

Sam Sun, Sean Reilly, Larry Lannom, Jason Petrone, "Handle System Protocol (ver 2.1) Specification". Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comments (RFC), RFC 3652, November 2003. hdl:4263537/4086

Bonita Wilson. "D-Lib Magazine: Incremental Evolution of an Electronic Magazine." E-Serials: Publishers, Libraries, Users, and Standards. Second Edition. Edited by Wayne Jones. Toronto, Ontario: The Haworth Information Press. ISBN: 0-7890-1229-4, pp. 1-15, January 2003.

Sara Graves; Craig Knoblock; Laurence Lannom. (2002) "Technology Requirements for Information Management.", Technical Report 02.07, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS) and Universities Space Research Association (USRA).

Christophe Blanchi & Jason Petrone, "Distributed Interoperable Metadata Registry", D-Lib Magazine, December 2001. doi:10.1045/december2001-blanchi

Christophe Blanchi & Jason Petrone, "An Architecture for Digital Object Typing", White Paper, Corporation for National Research Initiatives, September 2001. hdl:4263537/4096

Larry Lannom, et al., "Linking to the Appropriate Copy", D-Lib Magazine, September 2001. doi:10.1045/september2001-caplan

Archive of Earlier CNRI Staff Publications