Khaled Fattal, CEO of MINC gave an presentation of MINC yesterday on MINC. A very nice presentation with a nice story, about involvement of local community, respects of different culture, one that is difficult for people who believe in the bottom-up process to dispute. But he never managed to answer my question what has all […]
ICANN IDN Workshop
I am back in KL today for the ICANN IDN Workshop. Yes, I am one of the unnamed speaker for the morning session chair’ed by Sharil and Vint Cerf. John Klensin basically took over the stage giving a tutorial of the higher level problem, the Internationalization or more accurately the multilingualism of the Internet. John […]
DVD on the Internet
Jonathan Schwartz points out that video over IP will stress today’s network infrastucture (via Kevin Werbach) “When it’s put onto DVD, the movie will size up to something like 5 Gigabytes. Requested by 250,000 technology executives (or more likely, their kids) on a quiet evening – for display on their new IP TV’s or mobile […]
You know it is hype…
when a “bluetooth-enabled mobile phone peer-to-peer social network service” (is there any more hype-word you can use?) known as BEDD is launch in your own country (ie. Singapore) carrying their news in Reuters syndicated to ITU (no local newspaper?). But surprisingly, you have no idea of the service and no one you know knows about […]
Asia Pacific ENUM Engineering Team
Press Release about Formation of APEET Singapore, July 19, 2004 – [CNNIC] (China Network Information Center), [JPRS] (Japan Registry Service), [KRNIC] (Korea Network Information Center), [SGNIC] (Singapore Network Information Center) and [TWNIC] (Taiwan Network Information Center) today announced the formation of Asia Pacific ENUM Engineering Team (APEET), an informal technical project team formed to coordinate […]
Pre-ICANN meeting
I am in Kuala Lumpur this wekend to give an overview of IDN to Government Advisory Committee of ICANN. This ICANN meeting seem to be political charged, surrounding mainly on the 15M USD proposed budget for ICANN and heated discussion in ccNSO. There are also some discussion about new sponsorred TLD and and .net redelegation. […]
Going up to ICANN…
Just concluded a successful APEET meeting in Singapore (thanks you!) and I am getting to leave for Kuala Lumpur in 10mins time. But before I leave, I thought of leaving two interesting news I saw today. First, is a report of Verisign SiteFinder by Steve Crocker (a representive of Security and Stability Advisory Committee of […]
Punch cards and Circult Switches
Bravo! (via Interesing-People) From: Randall Date: July 12, 2004 10:23:08 PM EDT To: Dave Farber Subject: Re: [IP] The Great IP Debate On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 07:41, David Farber wrote: > In addition, carriers have invested so much in their legacy voice > networks that many hesitate to move voice traffic from the legacy > […]
Fahrenheit 911 factchecks
Here are Michael Moore’s extensive factchecking notes on Fahrenheit 911. (via Joiito). What it doesn’t say is how Michael strings the facts together in such a way to paint a reality he likes his audience to see. (No, don’t get me wrong…I watched the show in US and love it :-) Incidently, the next few […]
Drupal 4 Blogger v0.10
Just release Drupal for Bloggers V0.10. There are several changes with this release: Mainly, this is brought up-to-date with Drupal 4.4.2 so all the bugfixes from 4.4.1 to 4.4.2 is now integrated into D4B. Captcha is also rewritten as a separate module and can be enabled not only for comments but also user registrations, forums, […]