2019年整合网络经济报告 Foreword by Andrew Sullivan, President and CEO, Internet Society The Internet Society develops its Global Internet Reports to bring significant features of the Internet's evolution to the attention of the global Internet community. The report normally contains some recommendations about the topic, proposing action to be taken or avoided as the topic and conditions warrant. This year, we examine the topics of concentration and consolidation on the Internet. There can be little question that the Internet is facing change due to concentration and consolidation. The two patterns are linked but nevertheless distinct. We can observe the patterns at several levels: Transit on the Internet is consolidating. Long-haul transit operators are becoming fewer but larger because of mergers and acquisitions. Even in access provisioning, some jurisdictions are seeing fewer, larger ISPs and consolidated offerings across the market, Delivery of standard Internet services is consolidating in large providers. For several years now, for example, most Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) traffic has come from just a few mail service providers, who provide that service for a very large percentage of Internet users. 【更多详情，请下载：2019年整合网络经济报告】