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| author | Akiwate, Gautam Ruth, Kimberly Habib, Rumaisa Durumeric, Zakir |
| author_facet | Akiwate, Gautam Ruth, Kimberly Habib, Rumaisa Durumeric, Zakir |
| contents | Over the past decade, Internet centralization and its implications for both people and the resilience of the Internet has become a topic of active debate. While the networking community informally agrees on the definition of centralization, we lack a formal metric for quantifying centralization, which limits research beyond descriptive analysis. In this work, we introduce a statistical measure for Internet centralization, which we use to better understand how the web is centralized across four layers of web infrastructure (hosting providers, DNS infrastructure, TLDs, and certificate authorities) in 150~countries. Our work uncovers significant geographical variation, as well as a complex interplay between centralization and sociopolitically driven regionalization. We hope that our work can serve as the foundation for more nuanced analysis to inform this important debate. |
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| spellingShingle | On the Centralization and Regionalization of the Web Akiwate, Gautam Ruth, Kimberly Habib, Rumaisa Durumeric, Zakir Networking and Internet Architecture Over the past decade, Internet centralization and its implications for both people and the resilience of the Internet has become a topic of active debate. While the networking community informally agrees on the definition of centralization, we lack a formal metric for quantifying centralization, which limits research beyond descriptive analysis. In this work, we introduce a statistical measure for Internet centralization, which we use to better understand how the web is centralized across four layers of web infrastructure (hosting providers, DNS infrastructure, TLDs, and certificate authorities) in 150~countries. Our work uncovers significant geographical variation, as well as a complex interplay between centralization and sociopolitically driven regionalization. We hope that our work can serve as the foundation for more nuanced analysis to inform this important debate. |
| title | On the Centralization and Regionalization of the Web |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19569 |