Internet protocols

Background and motivation Internet is a challenging environment for innovation diffusion • distributed and unregulated –> market-based diffusion • various stakeholders with diverse economic goals –> tussles • significant network externalities –> bootstrap problem The success rate of Internet protocols is not that great • RFC 5218: A "successful " protocol is one that is used for its original purpose and at the originally intended scale. (Thaler & Aboba, 2008) Existing literature valuable but has some limitations • Generic protocol design principles focus on technical issues and fail to account for the special characteristics of each protocol • Retrospective case studies cannot affect protocol design and typically limit on the potential end users Thaler, D., & Aboba, B. (2008). What Makes for a Successful Protocol? RFC 5218 (Informational), July 2008. 2 How to improve protocol success rate? Analyze feasibility systematically from the beginning of protocol development • Identify and solve the deployment problems early Translate technical design to costs & benefits = techno-economic • One step further from technical performance analyses Cover all relevant stakeholders of the whole deployment process • Deployment defined as a process during which a protocol is advanced from the first specification into actual use on the Internet Build cross-disciplinary analysis teams • Collaboration between protocol developers and business experts 3 Levä, T., & Suomi, H. (2013). Techno-economic feasibility analysi