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BL
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1042866
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b797236
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Van Schewick, Barbara
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| Title & Author
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Internet architecture and innovation /\ Barbara van Schewick.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Mass. :: MIT Press,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (xii, 574 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0262265869
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: 9780262265867
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0262013975
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026251804X
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9780262013970
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9780262518048
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Architecture and innovation -- Internet design principles -- The original architecture of the Internet -- Architecture and the cost of innovation -- Architecture and the organization of innovation -- Architecture and competition among makers of complementary components -- Network architectures and the economic environment for application innovation -- Decentralized versus centralized environments for application innovation -- Public and private interests in network architectures.
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| Abstract
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Today--following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemployment--the Internet remains the most reliable mechanism for fostering innovation and creating new wealth. The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. In this pathbreaking book, Barbara van Schewick argues that this explosion of innovation is not an accident, but a consequence of the Internet's architecture--a consequence of technical choices regarding the Internet's inner structure that were made early in its history. The Internet's original architecture was based on four design principles: modularity, layering, and two versions of the celebrated but often misunderstood end-to-end arguments. But today, the Internet's architecture is changing in ways that deviate from the Internet's original design principles, removing the features that have fostered innovation and threatening the Internet's ability to spur economic growth, to improve democratic discourse, and to provide a decentralized environment for social and cultural interaction in which anyone can participate. If no one intervenes, network providers' interests will drive networks further away from the original design principles. If the Internet's value for society is to be preserved, van Schewick argues, policymakers will have to intervene and protect the features that were at the core of the Internet's success.
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Business-- Data processing.
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Computer network architectures.
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Internet.
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Technological innovations.
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Business-- Data processing.
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Computer network architectures.
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COMPUTERS-- Internet-- General.
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COMPUTERS-- Networking-- General.
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Innovationsmanagement.
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Internet.
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Internet.
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Rechnernetz.
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Technological innovations.
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| Dewey Classification
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004.6/5
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TK5105.875.I57V378 2010eb
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