Christopher Yoo

The Dynamic Internet (eBook, ePUB)

How Technology, Users, and Businesses are Changing the Network

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AEI Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780844772295
• Artikelnr.: 38242439

Autorenporträt

Christopher Yoo is a professor of law, communication, and computer and information science and director of the Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction Part I:
Changes in the Technological and Economic Environment 1. Increases in the
Number and Diversity of Internet Users Growth in the Number of Users and
Computers Connected 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
Platform 3. The Diversification of Transmission Technologies and End-User
Devices The Growing Diversity of Transmission Technologies Broadband
Technologies' Technical Differences The Economics of the Next Generation of
Bandwidth 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 Implications 5.
Changes in the Optimal Level of Standardization The Impact of Increasing
Heterogeneity of Consumer 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 the Insights of Ramsey
Pricing The Impact of Peer-to-Peer Applications on End-User Pricing Paid
Peering and the Economics of Two-Sided Markets The Benefits of Permitting
Greater Variety in Pricing Relationships 9. 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