Network architecture as internet governance
The architecture of a networked system is its underlying technical and logical structure, including transmission equipment, communication protocols, infrastructure, and connectivity between its components or nodes. This article introduces the idea of network architecture as internet governance, and...
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Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
2013-10-01
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| author | Francesca Musiani |
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| description | The architecture of a networked system is its underlying technical and logical structure, including transmission equipment, communication protocols, infrastructure, and connectivity between its components or nodes. This article introduces the idea of network architecture as internet governance, and more specifically, it outlines the dialectic between centralised and distributed architectures, institutions and practices, and how they mutually affect each other. The article argues that network architecture is internet governance in the sense that, by changing the design of the networks subtending internet-based services and the global internet itself, its politics are affected – the balance of rights between users and providers, the capacity of online communities to engage in open and direct interaction, the fair competition between actors of the internet market. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-12ab3d2e218a40f0b382d99f84f19ea22022-12-22T01:56:59ZengAlexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and SocietyInternet Policy Review2197-67752013-10-01Volume 2Issue 410.14763/2013.4.208Network architecture as internet governanceFrancesca Musiani0Université Paris-SorbonneThe architecture of a networked system is its underlying technical and logical structure, including transmission equipment, communication protocols, infrastructure, and connectivity between its components or nodes. This article introduces the idea of network architecture as internet governance, and more specifically, it outlines the dialectic between centralised and distributed architectures, institutions and practices, and how they mutually affect each other. The article argues that network architecture is internet governance in the sense that, by changing the design of the networks subtending internet-based services and the global internet itself, its politics are affected – the balance of rights between users and providers, the capacity of online communities to engage in open and direct interaction, the fair competition between actors of the internet market.https://policyreview.info/node/208 |
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