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Informationen zum Autor By Christopher Yoo Klappentext The Dynamic Internet: How Technology, Users, and Businesses are Changing the Network offers a comprehensive history of the Internet and efforts to regulate its use. University of Pennsylvania law professor Christopher S. Yoo contends that rather than engaging in prescriptive regulatory oversight, the government should promote competition in other ways, such as reducing costs for consumers, lowering entry barriers for new producers, and increasing transparency. These reforms would benefit consumers while permitting the industry to develop new solutions for emerging problems. It is fruitless for government to attempt to lock the burgeoning online industry into any particular architecture; rather, policymakers should act with the knowledge that no one actor can foresee how the network is likely to evolve in the future. Zusammenfassung The Dynamic Internet: How Technology! Users! and Businesses are Changing the Network offers a comprehensive history of the Internet and efforts to regulate its use. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AcronymsIntroductionPart I: Changes in the Technological and Economic Environment1. Increases in the Number and Diversity of Internet Users Growth in the Number of Users and ComputersConnected to the Internet Changes in the Nature of Users 2. Changes in the Nature of Internet Usage Bandwidth Intensiveness Sensitivity to Jitter, Delay, and Unreliability The Shift from Person-to-Person to Mass Communications The Emergence of Peer-to-Peer Applications Cloud Computing The Emergence of the App Store and the Changing Nature of the Essential Platform3. The Diversification of Transmission Technologiesand End-User Devices The Growing Diversity of Transmission Technologies Broadband Technologies' Technical Differences The Economics of the Next Generation ofBandwidth Expansion The Growing Diversity of End-User Devices 4. The Upsurge in the Complexity of Business Relationships The Topology of the Early Internet Private Peering Points Multihoming Secondary Peering Content Delivery Networks Server Farms Implications Part II: Policy Implications5. Changes in the Optimal Level of Standardization The Impact of Increasing Heterogeneity ofConsumer Preferences The Impact of Increasing Heterogeneity in Technology 6. The Inevitable Decline of Informal Governance The Importance of Close-Knit Communities Spam Control The Domain Name System Congestion Management 7. The Migration of Functions into the Core of the Network Network Security Congestion Management 8. The Growing Complexity of Internet Pricing Deviations from Flat-Rate Pricing for End Users The Importance of Investment Incentives and theInsights of Ramsey Pricing The Impact of Peer-to-Peer Applications onEnd-User Pricing Paid Peering and the Economics of Two-Sided Markets The Benefits of Permitting Greater Variety inPricing Relationships9. The Inevitability of Intermediation The Benefits of Intermediation The Supreme Court's Embrace of Intermediation Implications 10. Incomplete Convergence and the Myth of the One Screen Reliability, Network Performance, and Cost Reduction Differences in Technological Capability and Services Implications 11. The Maturation of the Industry Supply-Side Theories Demand-Side Theories Transaction Cost Considerations Implications for Business Strategies and Internet Policy Conclusion References Index About the Author...
