ITU comissioned a paper Herding Schrödinger’s Cats: Some Conceptual Tools for Thinking about Internet Governance for its up coming workshop on Internet Governace. (via ITU Newsblog) The paper missed touched on a point which I have ranted before: ICANN is not Internet Goverance. While public see ICANN = internet governance but I see it as […]
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IDA allocates 2.3 Ghz and 2.5 Ghz spectrum for Trials and Commercial Deployment
While I am not directly involved in this, I am proud to see this announcement from IDA today! Well done! Congz to all all my friends who been working on this! The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) today announced the allocation of dedicated spectrum bands for trials and commercial deployment of wireless broadband. This […]
Day 2 in Kuala Lumpur
The funs begin today with friends started to arrive and doing the usual “Hey hi!”, “When you arrived?”, “How’s your flight” etc etc. I am also getting a lot of “Oh, how’s your baby?” :-) Spend the morning at a ad-hoc session called by Kilnam on “Native Names” which is kind of related to IDN […]
IETF Selection of Internet Society Trustee
As some of you may have already know, I have been nominated as one of the candidate as the ISOC Board of Trustee. I didn’t mention this earlier because I don’t want to (and appear to) solicate comments for myself. (Comments closed two days ago :-) I wrote a statement of why I am interested […]
Day 1 in Kuala Lumpur
Technically, Day 1 is yesterday but I spend most of the day with Tommy, just chatting about things. Other then the shock we have when the hotel staff informed us that the 9 hole golf game will cost us RM1,500 (400USD), nothing else happened. :-) So, back to topic, I spend day 1 stuck in […]
Personal Glider
One of my all time fav movie is Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind which feature a personal jet glider. I am very please to learn that OpenSky is attempting to build such a glider (via Slashdot). They even have a movie clip of the test flight! Now, I couldn’t wait to get my […]
Going to APRICOT
Just packed my luggage. Next stop is Hotel Intercontinental where I will pick up Tommy Matsumoto and then fly to Kuala Lumpur with him for APRICOT. This is going to be an extremely busy meeting for me, attending APSTAR retreat and numerous APIA/APRICOT board and members meetings. I am also going to do presentations at […]
Munch Munch Linux
Wired ran an article about the problems Munich is facing with its migration to Linux for its 14,000 desktop. Issues cited include (a) resistance to change (b) lack of test plans and (c) lack of linux experience in local vendors. Like it or not, Linux Desktop is about 5 to 10 years away. I wonder […]
Promotion: Dad
  My first baby girl, Zee Yau, borned on 14th Feb 2004 @ 9:04pm SGT. Both Mother and baby are doing well! Update: The Chinese name is 莊茈遙/庄茈遥 (Zhuang1 Zi3 Yao2). 茈 (Zi3) is a kind of flower which is often mention in chinese poems for its fragrance and sturdiness. 遥 (Yao2) comes from the […]
Pulver FWD won FCC hearing!
Yesterday, FCC has a hearing on FWD appeal and they rule 3-2 in favour of FWD! In other words, IP-to-IP telephony is now classified as “information service” not “telecommunication service”. This means FWD and other like it, will not be subjected to telecom regulations, taxes, univeral services or E911 requirements etc etc. This is a […]