The Evolving Accidental Information Super‐Highway.
The technology of the Internet is not static. Although its ‘end‐to‐end’ architecture has made this ‘connection‐less’ communications system readily ‘extensible’, and highly encouraging to innovation both in hardware and software applications, there are strong pressures for engineering changes. Some o...
| Publicado en: | Oxford Review of Economic Policy Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 159 - 188 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2001
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