Layered Model of Regulation

Papers

• Information Economy Report 2006: Chapter 7 The Layered Internet Architecture: Governance Principles and Policies p. 275, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Nov. 2006)
• Sicker and Blumensaadt, "Misunderstanding the Layered Models," Journal on Telecommunications & High Technology Law, pp. 44 - 111, Fall 2005
• "Beyond the Layered Model" by J. Scott Marcus , Silicon Flat Irons PPT
• Rick Whitt, MCI, A Horizontal Leap Forward: Formulating a New Communications Policy Framework Based on the Network Layers Model, 56 Fed. Comm. L.J. 587 (2004)
  • A. M. Odlyzko, Layer architectures and regulation in telecommunications, p. 16-19 in New Millennium Research Council report, Free Ride: Deficiencies of the MCI 'Layers' Policy Model and the Need for Principles that Encourage Competition in the New IP World, July 2004. [preprint, text] [full NMRC report, PDF]
• The Layers Principle: Internet Architecture and the Law, SSRN 7/18/03
• Lawrence Solum and Minn Chung, The Layers Principle: Internet Architecture and the Law, SSRN 6/24/03
• Rob Frieden, Adjusting the Horizontal and Vertical in Telecommunications Regulation: A Comparison of the Traditional and a New Layered Approach, PSU 2/4/03
• The Potential Relevance to the United States of the European Union’s Newly Adopted Regulatory Framework for Telecommunications by J. Scott Marcus; July 2002. [ Text | Word | Acrobat | News Release ]
• Douglas C. Sicker, Further Defining a Layered Model for Telecommunications Policy, TPRC 2002 2002 Download: [Abstract] [PDF]
• Robert Cannon, Will the Real Internet Please Stand Up: A Quest to Define the Internet, TPRC 2002 Download: [HTML]
• Sicker & Mindel, "Refinements of a Layered Model For Telecommunications Policy," The Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law, Volume I, 2002
• Robert Cannon, The Legacy of the Computer Inquiries, to be published in the FCLJ
• Frieden, Adjusting the Horizontal and Vertical in Telecommunications Regulation: A Comparison of the Traditional and a New Layered Approach, TPRC 9/18/02
• Sicker, Further Defining a Layered Model for Telecommunications Policy, TPRC 9/18/02
• Kevin Werbach, A Layered Model for Internet Policy Draft Sept 2000. Edventure| TPRC pdf
• The Computer Inquiry rules are set forth in the following White Paper: Where ISPs and Telephone Companies Compete:  A Guide to the Computer Inquiries, Enhanced Service Providers and Information Service Providers (March 2001) | Word | Published in Commlaw Conspectus and TPRC Proceedings 2000.
• Robert M Entman, Rapporteur, Transition to an IP Environment, The Aspen Institute (2001)
• Michael L. Katz, Thoughts on the Implication of Technological Change for Telecommunications Policy, The Aspen Institute (2001)
• Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits, p. 182 (2002) (calling for logical layer unbundling).
• "A Paradigm Shift for the Stupid Network: Interconnecting with Legacy Networks in the Internet Era" by Timothy Denton and François Ménard, June 15, 2000 (293 KB)
• Janet Abbate, Inventing the Internet, p. 51 (MIT Press 1999) (history of the adoption of the layering design for the ARPANet)
• J. Weinberg, "The Internet and Telecommunications Services, Universal  Service Mechanisms, Access Charges and Other Flotsam of the Regulatory  System," TPRC, 1998.
• F. M. Bar, "Configuring the Telecommunications Infrastructure for the  Computer Age: The Economics of Network Control," Ph.D. thesis,  University  of California, Berkeley (1990).

Books

• Janet Abbate, Inventing the Internet (MIT Press 1999) Recounting how the layered model was adopted for ARPANET
  • P 66: "The initial division between subnet and host layers had simplified the work of the network's designers; now the [Network Control Center] NCC allowed the network's users to ignore much of the operational complexity of the subnet and to view the entire communications layer as a black box operated by Bolt, Beranek and Newman [BBN]. The NCC had become a managerial reinforcement of ARPA's layering scheme."
  • P 67: "Roberts suggested separating the host functions into two layers. The first, called the "host layer," would feature a general-purpose protocol to set up communications between a pair of hosts; the second, called the "application layer," would specify protocols for network applications such as remote login or file transfer. Having spearate host and application layers would simply the host protocol and lessen the burden on the host system's programmers. Also, eliminating the need for each application to duplicate the work of setting up a host-to-host connection would make it easier to create applications programs, thereby encouraging people to add to the pool of network resources. The ARPANet model now had three layers...." This model would be reflected in the Network Control Protocol (NCP)