ITU comissioned a paper Herding Schrödinger’s Cats: Some Conceptual Tools for Thinking about Internet Governance for its up coming workshop on Internet Governace. (via ITU Newsblog) The paper missed touched on a point which I have ranted before: ICANN is not Internet Goverance. While public see ICANN = internet governance but I see it as […]
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IETF Selection of Internet Society Trustee
As some of you may have already know, I have been nominated as one of the candidate as the ISOC Board of Trustee. I didn’t mention this earlier because I don’t want to (and appear to) solicate comments for myself. (Comments closed two days ago :-) I wrote a statement of why I am interested […]
Pulver FWD won FCC hearing!
Yesterday, FCC has a hearing on FWD appeal and they rule 3-2 in favour of FWD! In other words, IP-to-IP telephony is now classified as “information service” not “telecommunication service”. This means FWD and other like it, will not be subjected to telecom regulations, taxes, univeral services or E911 requirements etc etc. This is a […]
$8,000 to become your own (voip) telco
Ted Shelton done a brief analysis of the economics of starting a VOIP telco and conclude it will take only $8,000. (Via Kevin Werbach) I made a similar rant last year arguing that people will wonder why they dont do it themselves once they discover how cheap it is. I also believe that IP Telephony […]
Guiding Principle of the Internet
I just read Michael Powell speech on 8th Feburary called Preserving Internet Freedom: Guiding Principles For The Industry. It is excellent piece on giving power to the people, reduce regulation of the Internet and most of all, maintain “Internet Freedom”. I am impressed! I mean, as the Chairman of FCC, it is easier give some […]
Blogging on the Train
I been taking the train to work lately. Standing in the train and typing this in my Zaurus, I begin to wonder how long will it take for the Internet to be really perversive. I mean, the technologies are already here. We have Wifi (802.11), 802.16, 3G etc. But getting companies to invest and deploy […]
Observations from Japan
Broadband pentration in Japan rise to 13.6M or 29% of the household at the end of Dec 2003, according to MPHPT. This means there are nearly 5.8M new subscribers in the last 12 months. Following the trend, we are seeing about 1/2M new subscribers per month. The main driver for this growth apparently are Broadband […]
Secure your Server
FTC is urgings companies to close their open proxies. I play a small role in advising IDA to participate in this initiative. Sure, whats the point of closing open proxy now that most spams dont even go through open proxy? But “why not?”. Yes, we can do more but that is a story for another […]
Architecture of the Internet
Andrew Odlyzko, author of The many paradox of Broadband, published an equally thought-provoking article: Pricing and architecture of the Internet: Historical perspectives from telecommunications and transportation While engineers and technologist like myself have been arguing the need for “End-to-End” principle either on ideological or technical reasons, Andrew provides an economical perspective of why the “threats” […]
Orkut
Orkut is back after been down for the last few days for upgrade. Google, probably upset for not able to buy friendster has outdone itself this with Orkut. In certain ways, it is better the friendster (at least faster) and less annoying then linkedin. It is best of breed of the two and I love […]