Network Economics

General Sites
Network Externalities
Interconnection
Technical Specs & Services

General Sites

Review of Network Economics: An electronic-based refereed journal that publishes papers on the economics of network industries that have the primary purpose of reviewing, surveying, or providing a fresh perspective on existing literature.
LivingInternet.com: The net's most comprehensive source of information about the net.
Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy: A book by Hal Varian and Carl Shapiro about the economics forces at work in the "New Economy".
IBM's Next Generation Internet Site: Information about future technological developments.
The Internet Economy Indicators: Estimates of the economic impact of the Internet.
Institute for Technology and Enterprise: A research and learning hub devoted to understanding the impact of technological innovation today on people, firms and markets and discerning the resulting managerial implications.
Internet Economics: an Annotated Bibliography: Compiled by Bruce C. Klopfenstein.
Galbi's Telecommunications Policy Page: New ideas, institutions, and examples in telecommunications policy.
Netnomics: Journal concerned with economic research in electronic networking.
Telecommunications Policy Online: A magazine devoted to telecom policy.
Brazilian Electronic Journal of Economics: BEJE publishs original articles mainly in areas of Economics of the Internet, Network Economics, and Economics of Information.
Next-generation Internet: From the White House.
Internet 2: From higher education.
National Coordination Office for Computing, Information and Communications: The mission of the National Coordination Office (NCO) for Computing, Information, and Communications (CIC) is to support the Committee on Computing, Information, and Communications (CCIC), which reports to the National Science and Technology Council. See especially, their report on Next Generation Internet.
Virtual Institute of Information: Electronic platform for research and interaction on communications issues, housed at Columbia University.
Local switch congestion, access charges, and telephony regulation: A set of materials related to these issue, prepared for a workshop held at Berkeley on March 7, 1997.
Internet and telephony: From Computerworld.
Boardwatch Magazine: Lots of information about ISPs, etc.

Network externalities

Definition:: Economists say that a network externality exists when the amount that one party is willing to pay for access to a network depends on who or how many other parties are connected to it. There is a fairly large literature on how markets and other economic institutions function in the presence of network externalities, but only a small fraction of that is online.
Network Economics: Links maintained by Nicholas Economides.
Inframarginal Analysis: This is the official website of the inframarginal analysis of Economics at Monash University, Australia.
Formation of Social and Economic Networks: Concerned with research in economic and social networks.
Network Economics: Links maintained by Stan Liebowitz.
Microsoft's legal battles: Links maintained by Nicholas Economidies.
Comments on the Microsoft case: From various digerati.
Appraising Microsoft Conference: Organized by Ralph Nader, Nov 13-14, 1997 Washington, DC.
Setting the Record Straight: Microsoft's response to some its critics.
Caldera's DOS case against Microsoft: Text of complaint.
Materials relating to DOS case against Microsoft: Collection of links.
Caldera: Caldera's antitrust suit against Microsoft.
Sun's Java suite against Microsoft
Microsoft's response.: Microsoft's response to Sun.
Restricting Competition in the Software Industry: Paper by Cem Kraner about the impact of pending revisions to the Uniform Commercial Code.
Center For Information Systems Management: At the University of Texas.
Measuring and Comparing the Return on Investment on Network-Related Empowerment, by Steven Ruth at George Mason University: The paper addresses the problem in terms of measurable criteria that can be used to examine the feasibility of unit investments in networking at national, regional or local levels.
The Value of Intermediaries in Network Commerce: A paper by Wai Kiong Chong.
Intermediaries and Cybermediaries: a Continuing Role for Mediating Players in the Electronic Marketplace.
Network Externalities: By Glenn Woroch et. al.
The building of the Internet: Implications for the Future of Broadband Networks, by Jeffrey Hart, Robert Reed and Francois Bar. This paper was published in Telecommunications Policy, November 1992.

Interconnection

Interconnection economics

This website provides access to working papers relating to the economics of interconnection.

Internet Engineering and Planning Group (IEPG)

An Internet organization intended to assist ISPs to interoperate within the Global Internet.

Peering Models for ISPs (by Geoff Huston)

The Great Peering Debate

News items about UUNET's announcement to charge for peering.

Interoperability and the Economics of Information Infrastructure

A conference held at the Freedom Forum in Rosslyn, Virginia, July 6-7, 1995.

Islands in the Bit-Stream: Charting the NII Interoperability Debate

by François Bar, Michael Borrus, and Richard Steinberg, October 1995.

USA Global Interoperability for Broadband Networks

The G-7 Global Interoperability for Broadband Networks theme projects concern the establishment of global interconnection of national high speed, testbed networks.

Notes on the interoperability debate from Computer and Intelligent Systems of GTE Labs.

LLNL Fibre Channel Interoperability Testbed

The Advanced Telecommunications Program (ATP) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is supporting an interoperability test bed for the Fibre Channel standard (Standards).

Names and numbers

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the central coordinator for the assignment of unique parameter values.

Network Solutions

Name assigning authority.

World Internet Alliance Home Page

Nice roadmap to different views on the DNS system problems.

Namestake.com

Domain name, trademark and competitive intelligence.

Press releases about DNS

Collection of announcements.

The Domain Name System

From Computerworld.

Internet Ad Hoc Coalition

The IAHC is a coalition of participants from the broad Internet community, working to satisfy the requirement for enhancements to the Internet's global Domain Name System (DNS).

Domain Stock Exchange

For buying, selling, and trading domain names.

INTERNET DOMAIN NAMES Privatization, Competition, and Freedom of Expression

A CATO Briefing paper by Milton L. Mueller.

GENERIC TOP LEVEL DOMAIN Memorandum of Understanding

Guide to gTLD-MoU.

Domain Name Rights Coalition

Group opposed to IAHC solution.

Internet Domain Names and the ITU

From ITU's Inter-Active Magazine. (Scanned image.)

Enhanced Domain Name Service

Yet another domain name proposal.

What's in a Name?

By Jonathan Agmon, Stacey Halpern and David Pauker. Exposition and proposed solution to DNS problem.

ITU's conference on DNS

Provides links to source materials and commentary.

The Great Naming Debate

Links to stories about the DNS flap.

EFF's statement on the DNS dispute

Provides background information along with EFF's viewpoint.

InterNIC-Network Solutions

Support services for the Internet.

Name.Space

Realtime Namespace Creator with Portable Address Management (PAM) and Smart Whois (sWhois).

Media/Name.Space Motion

Preliminary Injunction against NSI and NSF to open Domain Name System to international self-governance and free expression.

Smart Whois (sWhois)

Search the global namespace for entries or availability of a namespace.

USC's Information Sciences Institute

See particularly the Computer Networks Division and the US Domain Name Registration Systems.

Network information

Internet 2: Mission: "Facilitate and coordinate the development, deployment, operation and technology transfer of advanced, network-based applications and network services to further U.S. leadership in research and higher education and accelerate the availability of new services and applications on the Internet."
High Bandwidth Web Pages: Links to a variety of resources about high-bandwidth access (ISDN, ADSL, cable modems, etc.)
NSF Networking and Communications Research
Telegeography: Nice maps of fiber, cables, etc.
Internet architecture today
Merit's Routing Arbiter
NAPS: Presentations by Ameritech, Sprint, and PacBell about their project.

February 1995 NANOG meeting
Ameritech home page

1995-1996 Internet Access Providers Marketplace Analysis from the Maloff Company

NSP Interconnections Maps: NAPS, CIX, MAE-East/West, etc.
New York NAP: Check the status of the New York NAP.
Interconnection points: Check on who interconnects and where.
UUNET: Describes UUNET's national network.

Providers

Technical specifications and services

InternetMCI page
Connecting Homes to the Internet: An Engineering Cost Model of Cable vs. ISDN: A paper by Sharon Gillet.
High Bandwidth Web Page: Links to resources describing cable modems, ISDN, video telephones, etc.