Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1-2010
Abstract
Over the past two decades, the Internet has undergone an extensive re-ordering of its topology that has resulted in increased variation in the price and quality of its services. Innovations such as private peering, multihoming, secondary peering, server farms, and content delivery networks have caused the Internet’s traditionally hierarchical architecture to be replaced by one that is more heterogeneous. Relatedly, network providers have begun to employ an increasingly varied array of business arrangements and pricing. This variation has been interpreted by some as network providers attempting to promote their self interest at the expense of the public. In fact, these changes reflect network providers’ attempts to reduce cost, manage congestion, and maintain quality of service. Current policy proposals to constrain this variation risk harming these beneficial developments.
Keywords
network neutrality, private peering, multihoming, secondary peering, paid peering, partial transit, server farms, content delivery networks, peer-to-peer, client-server, two-sided markets
Publication Title
Regulation
Repository Citation
Yoo, Christopher S., "Network Neutrality or Internet Innovation?" (2010). All Faculty Scholarship. 309.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/309
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Publication Citation
Regulation, Vol. 33, No. 1, Pp. 22-29, Spring 2010