Internet architecture and innovation / Barbara van Schewick.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-550) and index.

Architecture and innovation -- Internet design principles -- The original architecture of the Internet -- Architecture and the cost of innovation -- Architecture and the organization of innovation -- Architecture and competition among makers of complementary components -- Network architectures and the economic environment for application innovation -- Decentralized versus centralized environments for application innovation -- Public and private interests in network architectures.

Van Schewick describes the design principles on which the Internet's original architecture was based--modularity, layering, and the end-to-end arguments--and shows how they shaped the original architecture of the Internet.