A month ago, I mentioned about a paper by Tony Hain regarding IPv4 allocation status. The paper was recently published in the Internet Protocol Journal which sparked a debate on Slashdot. Particularly, Tony’s paper suggested that IANA will run out of IP addresses in 5 years or less. However, there is another paper written by […]
Category: Internet
World of Warcraft Economy
Let me introduce my World of Warcraft character. As you can see, I just spend 1000 gold pieces (900 after discount) on an Epic Mount (the mechnical bird) which allows me to travel twice as fast. 1000 gps is really a lot of money which tooks me several months to accumlate so I am pretty […]
Neustar and .GPRS
Ever since Neustar announced they signed a deal with GSMA to oversea global database for the mobile operators last week (see also Washington Post), there are many debates about the deal online. “Neustar, a company that should certainly know better, has announced that they’re going to create a .gprs TLD to serve the mobile phone […]
Assumption: Bandwidth + CPU = 0
On DSL Prime (via Canarie) In a decision that is changing the future of the internet, Google has told employees to move forward on the assumption that bandwidth and server costs will rapidly approach zero. That’s a revolutionary development, whose importance is being evaluated on Wall Street and in the press in several articles you’ll […]
Singnet IPv6 Trial
I just discovered Singnet is offering IPv6 Trial to its ATM or Lease Line customers. And they also have a very cute IPv6 test modeled after the famous dancing turtle @ kame.net.
The Long Tail
I notice a trend lately : I seldom watch movies or TV. I get my dose of mass media movies from my longhaul flight (SingaporeAir has great collection on their movies-on-demand). I dont watch TV because I lost interest in Mediacorp programming and more importantly, I found something that suit my need – Internet. I […]
Innovation in DNS business
[ This entry is also on CircleID. ] One thing that amazed me about the ICANN community is the creativeness in finding new business models. I am not even talking about new technology like Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), the number of business models created from the vanilla DNS (actually just .com) are just mind boggling. […]
Internet Performance
Got this interesting report (via Ran Atkinson) on performance of Internet. Academic paper but have lots of interesting information about quality of the network (packet loses, ping times, rount trip time etc) from US to various part of the world. Bottomline: Internet Performance is improving a lot since 2001. :-) Internet performance is improving each […]
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!
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 […]