Hosted by Dr. Lee Boon Yang, the appreciation lunch today marks the conclusion of the National Internet Advisory Committee and Community Advisory Committee under MDA. For my (little) contribution, I got a nice stationary for Chinese Calligraphy that my wife probably will put into good use. Today also marks the beginning of two new committees: […]
Category: Organizations
Peace …
Finally, after nearly 8 years of tug-of-war, ITU finally comes to terms that it needs to work with ICANN as I noted a few years ago (here and here). The Internet should continue to be overseen by major agencies including ICANN and the ITU, rather than any new “superstructure,” the new head of the International […]
No more one more year!
Had a long coffee chat with a former colleague from IDA yesterday. It was nice to know whats happening with the team as well the usual corporate gossips. It is even nicer to confirm one of the work I started is indeed going places, not just to the Cabinet (and PM was there :-) but […]
Timetable for IDN TLD testbed
ICANN announced the Timetable of Proposed Testing of IDNS in Top-Level Domains: ICANN released today a statement outlining a proposal by the President’s Committee on IDNs (co-chaired by Hualin Qian, Mouhamet Diop and Paul Twomey) for a timetable leading to the technical testing of IDNs at the TLD level. The timetable contains a series of […]
APRICOT Day 4
The highlight of the day should goes to Geoff Hutson’s keynote on Convergence. Geoff as I noted previously has a talent for writing and giving really good speeches. A short summary: 1. Convergence is something the industry has always being doing constantly. 2. Triple Play is game over. Bittorrent has won! 3. What your users […]
China’s alt. root? Panic over confusion
Last night, after dinner hosted by Mao Wei, I got this email from Dave’s Interesting-People: “China To Launch Alternate Country Code Domains”. It was funny because no one said anything about the BIG news during dinner but nevermind, I could clarify with them in the morning. By morning, this little email turn into small discussion […]
APRICOT Day 1
I missed my flight from Singapore to Perth. It was really silly; I was doing my email in the lounge and I forgot the time :( By the time I ran to the gate, they just closed it. *sigh* The next available flight was at 9:30am the next day, so I ended up having to […]
Developing the Advance Research and Education Network in Singapore
I wrote an article for the Dec issue of SingaporeWave the monthly newsletter published by IDA. Check out the other issues of Singapore Wave too while you are there. In the early days, Internet is a research and education network among the major universities. It is a “playground†for academics to experiment with network technologies […]
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 […]
Proposed Spam Control Bill for Singapore
IDA & AGC Seek Second Round Views on Proposed Spam Control Bill for Singapore The proposed Spam Control Bill includes, in addition to email spam, legal measures to manage mobile spam in Singapore. The Bill also proposes that anyone who suffers damages or loss arising from spam be given the right to initiate legal action […]