Innovations in the Internet's Architecture that Challenge the Status Quo

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 79 I. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE EARLY INTERNET .................... 81 A. The Topology of the Early Internet .......................................... 81 B. Business Relationships on the Early Internet: Peering and Transit ................................................................................... 84 II. THE EVOLUTION OF THE INTERNET’S TOPOLOGY ................ 85 A. Private Peering, Multihoming, and Secondary Peering ............ 86 B. Server Farms and Content Delivery Networks ......................... 88 III. THE EVOLUTION OF BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS ..................... 90 A. The Growing Importance of Peer-to-Peer Architectures ............ 90 B. The Emergence of Partial Transit and Paid Peering ................. 95 CONCLUSION ......................................................................................... 99