Futurist Internet

Lessons from history

John Berresford, Attorney for Media Bureau at FCC, just published a draft on the webpage for Harvard Program for Information Resources Policy. It is called “How Government Can Bring New Communications to All Americans: Six1 Lessons from History Discovered by a Libertarian”. (via Dave Farber’s IP list)

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WTF

David Isenberg is calling for an bottom-up face-to-face meeting to discuss the end of telephony, about end-to-end principles, smart people, dumb companies, etc etc. Please drop him an email if you are interested.

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IPv6 IRC

Okay, I just realized I can go onto IRC via IPv6 :P *** jseng6 is ~jseng@2001:208:5:1000:220:edff:fe1e:41d1 (James Seng) *** on channels: #joiito *** on irc via server calkins.freenode.net (Milan, IT) The best part is I can still talk to other IRC folks who is still on IPv4. See IPv6 IRC Servers list. I am on […]

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The future of Voice

David Beckemeyer has a follow up on his entry on IP Telephony. We are definately in sync altho I have a two comments. First, I agree with David that ENUM is not a magic bullet to the universal addressibility problem with current IP Telephony deployment. If the basic infrastructure is a close network, ENUM, which […]

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Send an SMS to WSIS

Via ITU SPU blog: People around the world will be able to to participate directly in the WSIS from 9 to 12 December through the Helloworld Project. Short messages can be sent via the Internet or SMS from 14hrs CET on Tuesday December 8. These messages will be projected via laser beam in the six […]

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Availablity of IPv4 addresses

Paul Wilson (APNIC) just gave the presentation on the behalf of Geoff Huston at Dubai RIPE-NCC meeting here. The research is sponsored by APNIC and the answer, well, you know what to expect from Geoff. By considerating (a) the rate of IANA allocation (b) the rate of RIRs allocation (c) BGP tables on allocated but […]

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