... Research Projects Agency (the “ARPA” of ARPAnet), and the four universities with which BBN contracted in turn to do the network design work itself. Participation in the conversation was open to all who were interested, and from the start came from many more institutions than those under direct contract...

... employs transaction cost economics in analyzing the role of government in regulating electronic contracting. Due to the transaction costs arising from e‐commerce, explicit contracts between parties are usually incomplete. The paper argues that these contracts should always be backed by implicit contracts...

...William Lehr; Lee W. McKnight Delivering real‐time services (Internet telephony, video conferencing, and streaming media as well as business‐critical data applications) across the Internet requires end‐to‐end quality of service (QoS) guarantees, which requires a hierarchy of contracts...