Can a network be a Commons?
(In the Ostrom sense)
I would think so — if a network can be proprietary it could instead be a Commons, no?Eg CompuServe was a proprietary network, which was supplanted by the internet, which arguably is a (gigantic, and not well governed) Commons. Visa, back in the days it was a club of banks was arguably mostly a network governed as a commons, I would think.
So why doesn’t a web search find much for “network commons”?
@J12t I covered this a bit with Episode 9 of the Implausipod, but it might not be 100% what you're looking for.
Are you looking for something like Castells, or have you considered that and are looking elsewhere?