Cloud TV: Toward the next generation of network policy debates
The migration of video onto the internet creates a wide variety of technologies, standards, devices, and providers. For reasons of interoperation, convenience, etc. this diversity will be held together by cloud intermediaries, through which much of media content will flow. We identify a new generation of policy issues, in particular that of market power of clouds. Such market power can be contained by assuring competitiveness, which requires an interconnection of clouds with each other and with various providers. The interconnection can be substantially maintained by an a-la-carte system of service elements.
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