01 funding
How does the infrastructure sustain its operations? Public or private? Which business model?
Data
Where it sits, who can compel access to it, and on whose terms it moves. Residency is settled here. Jurisdiction is not.
Six questions we ask of every layer
02 control
Who gets to decide on the creation and maintenance of this layer? Who can shut it down?
03 power distribution
How is power distributed among the different stakeholders in this layer? Is it centralised among a small number of key players, or decentralised across many?
04 dependency
How dependent is this layer on other infrastructural decisions up or down the stack?
05 sovereignty
How much of this layer does Europe directly control? How much is it dependent on others?
06 is there an Alternative?
What would it take to make this layer fully European? Is there an alternative path that could serve us best?
In this layer
in developmentProjects for this layer are in development and will be published here.