Information technology and access to networks
    Technological standards           The Internet   is a multi-layered network which is operated by a variety of  participants. The Internet has come to mean a combination of standards,  networks, and web applications (such as streaming  and file-sharing )  that have accumulated around networking technology. The emergence of  the Internet coincided with the growth of a new type of organizational  structure, the standards committee.  Standards committees are responsible for designing critical standards for the Internet such as TCP/IP , HTML , and CSS .  These committees are composed of representatives from firms, academia,  and non-profit organizations. Their goal is to make decisions that  advance technology while retaining interoperability between Internet  components. Economists are interested in how these organizational  structures make decisions and whether those decisions are optimal.   The supply of Internet access       ...
