ITU has a good summary of the WTSA including the several Internet issues discussed in my previous entry. (via ITU SPU) The two main topic of the whole assembly could be summaries as (1) NGN (aka the move to packet-switch network) and (2) Internet issues (aka Spam, ENUM, IDN and ccTLD).
Tag: Internet
Who “manages” the Internet?
Who “Manages” the Internet by Michael Nelson. (via Internet Policy) “Phone governance” Who makes choices about the Net?
FCC Roundtable discussion on IP-based Services
FCC conducted a Global Roundtable discussion on IP-based services (basically just VoIP) 2 days ago (30th July) and the webcast is available online. (via Jeff Pulver). Yes, I sit infront of the computer for 2 hours and listen the whole webcast and here are some of my thoughts: 1. (Obvious) Take away: Regulation certainity is […]
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 […]
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 […]
End of an Era for PostOne
I probably should blog about this earlier but forgotten until this reminded me: PostOne.com is shutting down. PostOne.com started as a project (Pobox, which is why I have pobox.org.sg) I did for fun back in 1994. The idea comes from a discussion I have with Markus Ranum (of Firewall-1 fame). There was this cool thing […]
Explaining China IPv9
[Update 7th July: A modified version of this article is publish on CircleID.] I receive some email from friends asking me if I know of the recent IPv9 news from China. I thought I should just blog about it and point them to this entry. I heard of them first time back in 2001. The […]
Exciting weeks to come…
The next few weeks would be pretty hectic and exciting for me. We invited Dave Farber1 to Singapore for CommunicAsia 2004. Yeah! The week after, I will be flying to the Bay Area on 21st to attend Supernova 2004. I have been looking forward to Supernova and meeting all the cool people. I will be […]
Upload speed
Saw this on Straits Times paper today: NO MENTION OF UPLOAD SPEEDS: Singapore’s Internet broadband providers are offering access speeds of 1,500 kbps and 3,000 kbps. However, one thing their advertisements fail to mention is the upload speed (data speed from user to Internet). When I signed up for a 1,500 kbps connection last year, […]
Reuter RSS Video Feed
Reuter is providing video clips of news via RSS (via Loic). Yoo, finally. I discussed the idea (RSS + BT) sometime last year and really happy to see this happening :-)