1、Internet SocIety Global Internet report Consolidation in the Internet Economy table of contents Foreword by Andrew Sullivan, President and CEO, Internet Society 35 Impact Analysis 5861 Executive Summary 69 Conclusions and Questions for the Future 6264 Introduction 1011 Methodology 6569 How We See th
2、e Internet 1216 Acknowledgements 7071 What Is Consolidation? 1732 Community Survey: Questions and Results 7274 Takeaways Access Services; and Service Infrastructure. In this report, we have outlined what we think the benefits and the threats are, and what features from the current trends of consolid
3、ation we believe are important as we look towards the future. As such, this report is not intended to provide an in- depth economic analysis, but rather a collection of observations that has been gathered through research and with the help of our global community. While most questions remain unanswe
4、red, we believe that many of them are too important to ignore. Instead, this project has prompted even more questions that have made it clear that consolidation is a topic that will require further work. The work must be done not only by us, but hopefully in collaboration with the broader Internet c
5、ommunity. Introduction Introduction How We See the Internet internetsociety.org 13 Defining how we at the Internet Society see the Internet is an important first step. When we think about the Internet, what comes to mind for many of us is something beyond the technology of the Internet itself. By de
6、finition, the Internet is a technical system: a communications infrastructure that enables networks around the globe to interconnect. Its a network of networks. That said, over the past two decades, the Internet has come to mean far more than just the technology. With more than 4 billion people onli