Went over to Reston to attend the Digital City Expo. Vint Cerf was the keynote speaker :) I am surprised to see so many city government officials, mostly for their fact finding trip to deploy their own muni-wireless. The driver for deploying the muni-wireless however is very different compared to metro-wireless or those deployed in […]
Tag: Internet
Save The Internet
Joining the echo chamber (altho a bit late), Viral Marketing Contest to Save The Internet by Jeff Pulver. Ok, I am officially putting my money where my mouth is. I am initiating a viral video/ad contest to save the Internet. I am fed up with the current wave of soundbites, platitudes, ads and marketing flooding […]
APRICOT Day 3
I spend most of the day at the APIA ISOC-AU Joint Forum. Seem like the whole gang of the typical IETF suspects (IAB & IESG) are here among other speakers. The speech of the day has to come from Chris Disspain from auDA at the last session. His description of the prepcomm3 of the WSIS […]
APRICOT Day 2
One of the problem of not attending meetings for a while is you start to forget someone name. Okay, at least I have that problem. So many times that someone come forward to say hi and I have to struggle to remember their name, esp. I cant see their name tag. For those whose name […]
Net Neutrality
In Jan this year, a frontpage article on WSJ quoted Verizon Chief Executive Ivan Seidenberg “We have to make sure they (Google) don’t sit on our network and chew up our capacityâ€. Both AT&T and Bellsouth also made similar statements in the same article. A few days ago, Verizon repeat their call to “End Google’s […]
GENI Project
The GENI (Global Environment for Network Investigators) Project recently released their conceptual document. GENI is a 367M USD, 5 year project supported by NSF to build the “next generation Internet”. The document pointed out several good points about the limitation of the current Internet: • The Internet is not secure. We hear daily about worms, […]
Internet is for Porn
The Internet is for Porn from the Broadway Show Avenue Q, World of Warcraft edition.
The Internet Is Broken
Got this article from Dewayne Hendricks: At the same time, the Internet’s shortcomings have resulted in plunging security and a decreased ability to accommodate new technologies. “We are at an inflection point, a revolution point,” Clark now argues. And he delivers a strikingly pessimistic assessment of where the Internet will end up without dramatic intervention. […]
JGN II and SingAREN
I just come back from the MoU signing ceremony between JGN II and SingAREN, marking a beginning of a new high-speed 155mbps R&D link between Singapore and Japan. Early last year, I paid a courtesy visit to MIC/JGN office in Japan requesting them to open their 20mbps link to the R&D community1 but I was […]
When will we run out of IPv4?
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 […]