Tried to start reading « The Layers Principle: Internet Architecture and the Law » by Pr. Solum after reading about it yesterday.
Comments by Derek Slater here and a follow-up here.
I’m still trying to start reading though. The basic idea of transparent flow between the layers and targeting regulation at the problematic layer is interesting. Too bad there is no human layer in the OSI model.
But some where suggested… 8 and 9, economics and politics…
See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-discuss/1999Mar/0001.html
and http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/07/10stratdev_1.html (end of
the article).
And apparently, layer 0 would be funding. So the OSI network model is indeed popular metaphore material.
http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/frame/2003/0210fr2.html