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”?

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