Couldn’t sleep and woke up at 6am. Went downstair to do my emails, met Toru Takahashi and went breakfast with him. Found out from him that one of his company is going IPO…again. To be exact, third time now. Remember, the last time I met him in Korea a year ago, same thing happened. Dunno […]
Year: 2005
APEET Bert
Yahoo! BB got 16M IP address
Just discovered that Yahoo! BB just got a /8 (formerly known as Class A) IP address allocation 126.0.0.0/8 from APNIC on 8th Feb 2005. /8 in layman terms is equivalent to over 16M IP addresses – one of the largest IP allocation block we have seen. Wow!
Kyoto Day 2
[In case it is still not obvious, all my travel entries are really for my wife (and my boss) who wants to know what I have been up to.] Started early and have breakfast with Marc Blanchet, the former co-chair of IDN WG with me. Anyway, Marc is back doing IPv6 and his small startup […]
APDIP Internet Governance Panel @ APRICOT
I was at a panel on Internet Governance organized by APDIP. The show goes to Geoff Hutson, who gave the most eloquent impromptu speech1 I have heard. Unfortunate for me, I didn’t really prepared much before I was up on the panel; Instead, I was busy scribbling some talking points while the other speakers takes […]
Kyoto Day 1
Have breakfast at Suguru Yamaguchi. I know him when he is still a “young” professor many years ago but now, he is the IT Security Advisor to the Japan Cabinet and Prime Minister. Wow very important person now! Anyway, have a little discussion with him on privacy and asked him to hook up with Joi. […]
Giving out WiFi SIP Phones
This is an exciting day for me. We are giving out Hitachi WiFi SIP Phones at APRICOT 2005. This is part of the APEET ENUM/SIP Live Trial we have been putting together for the last few months. Every wifi phones are assigned with a SIP address which also comes with an ENUM1 number and this […]
Perfect Execution
My original plan is this: arrived in Osaka-Kansai airport at 1532, clear custom by 1552, take shinkansei at 1616 and arrived in Kyoto at 1729 so as to get to my dinner appointment at 1600 in Hotel Granvia next to Kyoto station. The (not) surprisingly thing is that this work out perfectly in Japan : […]
Off to Kyoto
Off to Kyoto now for APRICOT 2005. Sleep really late last night (3am) and have to wake up at 6am to rush for the flight and almost couldn’t make it. Luckily I did because I have a dinner to rush to immediate upon arrival. Oops, last call now. See you in Kyoto!
GSM – watch VoIP
via Telecom Asia The emergence of VoIP apps like Skype isn’t just bothering fixed-line telcos – the prospect of VoIP over wireless LANs is making cellcos nervous too. Some see it as a threat, some as an opportunity, but many see it as inevitable and something that can’t be ignored. “VoIP is a huge threat, […]