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. […]
Category: Internet
Streaming is stupid
Via Joi Ito: I’m listening to Andrew Odlyzko giving a talk right now about why Quality of Service (QoS) and real-time streaming is stupid. He showed a slide showing that P2P and other traffic are generally transmitting files at faster speeds than their bit rates. Basically, if you cache and buffer, you can have outages […]
Definition of Internet Governance
Since WGIG has avoided the topic of “what is Internet Governance”, let me point to a few posting I made regarding this topic on the APDIP IGOVAP mailing list. Mechanism of Internet Governance 17th Jan 2005 Mechanism of Internet Governance 25th Jan 2005 strategic policy priorities? 29th Jan 20051 another discussion about management of root […]
Feedback to WGIG
Adam Peake and myself wrote a joint comment to the Multilingualization of Internet naming system. (btw, Multilingualization isn’t a word in the English dictionary). This paper really shock me with its biases (and attempt rewrite reality). I also finish reading 17 out of 20 of the paper and with an exception of a few (Internet […]
WGIG papers
The Working Group for Internet Governance has just published some working papers (via Adam Peake) on a whole set of issues like IP address & domain names, root servers, peering and interconnection, multilingualization, spam, voip etc etc. I already taken a quick look at the Multilingualization paper and I am shock! shock shock shock! What […]
Arrested for using Lynx
A man in London was arrested for attempting to hack the Tsumani donation. But according to boingboing, here is what happened: For donating to a Tsunami appeal using Lynx on Solaris 10. BT [British Telecom] who run the donation management system misread an access log and saw hmm thats a non standard browser not identifying […]
SingAREN GIX
I just gave a presentation at TEIN2 meeting on SingAREN GIX. SingAREN GIX is a new Gigabit Internet Exchange we are building for the Advance Research and Education Network (AREN) community in Singapore. It is meant to be a carrier-neutral, open exchange for any research organizations (including commercial) and also provides optional Internet2 transit. One […]
Internet Interconnection Settlement
Remember I wrote about Internet Peering settlement last year? Well, Geoff Huston just published an excellent article which goes into great detail on various financial settlement model. Check it out! Efforts to extend this regulatory activity to the area of regulated interconnection and peering have been investigated by various national regimes, but with little in […]
IPv6 migration problems
Last year, I blog about a problem with Microsoft IPv6 implementation? So after you installed the v6 stack on XP and unable to connect to 6bone for any reasons, you would also lost your ability to talk to any of the dual stack site, even though you can reach them via v4. This should not […]
Does Internet needs to be Governed?
Vint Cerf, who is normally a private person, wrote an article for CircleID as titled. In a sense, ICANN has become the only globally visible body charged with any kind of oversight for the Internet. The scope of this oversight responsibility was deliberately and intentionally limited in the process of the creation of ICANN. But […]