Re: History of the Economics of the Internet?
Greg Skinner via Internet-history <[email protected]>
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On Jul 28, 2026, at 5:35 PM, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think there are some really interesting economic questions, such as: > > - why did advertising, and charging for domain names, become major factors in Internet economics? > - how has the design of BGP4 affected carrier economics (competition vs collaboration)? > - why did flat-rate charging become the dominant model for ISPs? > - what fractions of application layer revenue come from advertising, subscriptions, pay-per-view, etc? > - why does anyone trust cryptocurrency? > - how will AI change Internet economics? > > I think email and spam are actually minor, economically speaking. > > Regards/Ngā mihi > Brian Carpenter > While looking for something else, I found references to the piara BOF <https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/piara/about/>. I had forgotten about it. A few writings may be of interest: Towards a Cost Model for Routing and Addressing <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-piara-cost-model/> Financial Incentives for Route Aggregation and Efficient Address Utilization in the Internet: A Framework <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bellovin-piara-framework/> Financial Incentives for Route Aggregation and Efficient Address Utilization in the Internet <https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/piara/> --gregbo -- Internet-history mailing list [email protected] https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history - Unsubscribe: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9b6ef0621638436ab0a9b23cb0668b0b?The%20list%20to%20be%20unsubscribed%20from=Internet-history