Title page
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 4
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 6
1. INTRODUCTION 8
1.1. What Are We Doing Here? 10
2. THE OPEN-SOURCE ECOSYSTEM 12
3. OSS AS INFRASTRUCTURE: THREE ANALOGIES 18
3.1. Defining Infrastructure 18
3.2. Three Analogies 20
3.2.1. Water Management Systems 22
3.2.2. Capital Markets 26
3.2.3. Roads and Bridges 29
4. REAL-WORLD INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY FOR OSS 35
4.1. Government Support and Funding 35
4.2. Ecosystem Risk Management 36
4.3. Responsible Use 37
5. CRAFTING INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY FOR OSS 38
5.1. Encouraging Sustainable OSS Participation 38
5.1.1. Start By Improving Government Consumption 38
5.1.2. Support Private-Sector Consumption 39
5.1.3. Protect OSS Good Samaritans 39
5.2. Address systemic risk 40
5.2.1. Establish an Office of Digital Systemic Risk Management (ODSRM) 40
5.3. Provide Resources with Security and Sustainability in Mind 40
5.3.1. Target of Opportunity 41
5.3.2. Establish the OSS Trust 41
5.3.3. Adopt-a-Package 42
6. CONCLUSION 43
APPENDIX: SURVEY RESULTS 44
Figure 1. Survey responses 9
Figure 2. Survey responses 9
Figure 3. Dependencies and contributions 13
Figure 4. Buried OSS relationships 14
Figure 5. Maintainer and contributor relationship 16
Figure 6. Survey responses 17
Figure 7. Table of shared principles of infrastructure and open source 21
Figure 8. Water management and open source 22
Figure 9. Capital markets and open source 27
Figure 10. Roads and bridges and open source 30
Figure 11. Survey responses 32
Figure 12. Survey responses 33