____ I think it is a "delta dollar sign" problem as we used to say in chemistry (to
____ describe reactions that were possible, but not profitable). Private actors
____ seem to only make money from infrastructure projects if built with the
____ ability to exclude... [H]ere in the industry, all the projects that are "hot"
____ are networks with built-in techniques of exclusion and prioritization.[3-74]

Here _is_ a tragedy of the commons. If the commons is the _innovation_ com-
mons that the protocols of the Net embrace, e2e most important among
them, then the tragedy of that commons is the tendency of industry to add
technologies to the network that undermine it. But this is an issue for the
dark part of this book. For now, my aim is only brightness: to get you to see
the commons that has been built through a set of protocols that defined the
Internet that was.

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The internet was born on a controlled physical layer; the code layer,
constituted by the TCP/IP, was nonetheless free. These protocols expressed
an end-to-end principle, and that principle effectively opened the space
created by the computers linked to the Net for innovation and change. This
open space was an important freedom, built upon a platform that was con-
trolled. The freedom built an innovation commons. That commons, as do
other commons, makes the controlled space more valuable.[3-75]

Freedom thus enhanced the social value of the controlled: this is a lesson
that will recur.

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