Internet Architecture and Innovation (Hardcover)

Barbara van Schewick

商品描述

The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. New applications continually enable new ways of using the Internet, and new physical networking technologies increase the range of networks over which the Internet can run. Questions about the relationship between innovation and the Internet's architecture have shaped the debates over open access to broadband networks, network neutrality, nondiscriminatory network management, and future Internet architecture. In Internet Architecture and Innovation, Barbara van Schewick explores the economic consequences of Internet architecture, offering a detailed analysis of how it affects the economic environment for innovation.

Van Schewick describes the design principles on which the Internet's original architecture was based—modularity, layering, and the end-to-end arguments—and shows how they shaped the original architecture. She analyzes in detail how the original architecture affected innovation—in particular, the development of new applications—and how changing the architecture would affect this kind of innovation.

Van Schewick concludes that the original architecture of the Internet fostered application innovation. Current changes that deviate from the Internet's original design principles reduce the amount and quality of application innovation, limit users' ability to use the Internet as they see fit, and threaten the Internet's ability to realize its economic, social, cultural, and political potential. If left to themselves, network providers will continue to change the internal structure of the Internet in ways that are good for them but not necessarily for the rest of us. Government intervention may be needed to save the social benefits associated with the Internet's original design principles.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

互聯網的驚人增長得益於創新。新的應用程序不斷推動著互聯網的使用方式,而新的物理網絡技術則擴大了互聯網運行的網絡範圍。關於創新與互聯網架構之間的關係的問題,塑造了有關寬頻網絡開放訪問、網絡中立性、非歧視性網絡管理和未來互聯網架構的辯論。在《互聯網架構與創新》一書中,芭芭拉·范·舍維克探討了互聯網架構的經濟後果,詳細分析了它如何影響創新的經濟環境。

范·舍維克描述了互聯網原始架構所基於的設計原則-模塊化、分層和端到端的論點-並展示了它們如何塑造了原始架構。她詳細分析了原始架構如何影響創新-特別是新應用程序的發展-以及改變架構將如何影響這種創新。

范·舍維克得出結論,互聯網的原始架構促進了應用程序的創新。目前偏離互聯網原始設計原則的變化減少了應用程序創新的數量和質量,限制了用戶按照自己的意願使用互聯網,並威脅到互聯網實現其經濟、社會、文化和政治潛力的能力。如果讓網絡提供商自行改變互聯網的內部結構,這對他們可能有利,但對我們其他人不一定有利。政府可能需要干預,以保護與互聯網原始設計原則相關的社會利益。