1) The document discusses observations about openness and networks, with three main observations noted.
2) It discusses how openness competes with network owners seeking revenue, and questions whether investments in infrastructure will generate sufficient returns if open networks do not allow for new services and ways to generate revenue.
3) It concludes that even mobile network regulations should support innovation without permission to drive new applications, while also ensuring networks generate sufficient societal benefits and returns on investment. It questions how much has been invested in infrastructure.
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10. Networks became the most
ef鍖cient organizational forms as
a result of three major features of
networks [...]: 鍖exibility,
scalability and survivability.
13. ...we conclude that there is a risk that the
range of new requirements now emerging
could have the consequence of
compromising the Internet's original design
principles. Were this to happen, the Internet
might lose some of its key features, in
particular its ability to support new and
unanticipated applications.
17. We link this possible outcome to a number
of trends: the rise of new stakeholders in the
Internet, in particular Internet service
providers; new government interests; the
changing motivations of a growing user
base; and the tension between the demand
for trustworthy overall operation and the
inability to trust the behavior of individual
users.