Internet economics: when constituencies collide in cyberspace

Computer engineering, economics and public policy offer different perspectives on the problem of sustaining Internet growth without abandoning the technological innovations that underpin the infrastructure-and culture-of global information. This article offers a framework for addressing this interdi...

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Published inIEEE internet computing Vol. 1; no. 6; pp. 30 - 37
Main Authors McKnight, L.W., Bailey, J.P.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.11.1997
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Bandwidth
Character recognition
Clouds
Electronic commerce
IP networks
Pricing
Public policy
Technological innovation
Telecommunication traffic
Web and internet services
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Summary:Computer engineering, economics and public policy offer different perspectives on the problem of sustaining Internet growth without abandoning the technological innovations that underpin the infrastructure-and culture-of global information. This article offers a framework for addressing this interdisciplinary challenge. We examine how the often conflicting and overlapping interests of different Internet constituencies are beginning to yield to a rough consensus. In particular, we believe these constituencies are beginning to recognize that the growth of the Internet can be explained by a combination of three features: its technical characteristic of statistical sharing, its economic feature of positive network externalities, and its policy objective of interoperability.
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ISSN:1089-7801
1941-0131
DOI:10.1109/4236.643934