Cook’s Collaborative Edge

Rahul Tongia who is a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon and presently in India recently offered the best approach to the FCC’s request for the definition of Broadband that I have seen
“There’s a balance between flexibility and narrow specifications, and subjective measures always lead to other problems. Certainly speed is easier to define […]

Here is the third item of my promised trilogy. Anyone who is surprised - by what may seem to the uninitiated as alarmist remarks in yesterday’s post - (as to what may happen if the carriers are able to acquire blocks of Ipv4 addresses from other assignees) should read a document written by Geoff […]

Author’s Note: This essay appears on pages 15-18 of the March 2009 COOK Report on Internet Protocol.
A Tipping Point for the Internet?
Catching the precise moment of a tectonic shift in a global system as large and important as the Internet may be viewed as an exercise in the improbable. However, I point out in […]

I heard today from the Internet2 side of the house. Had a phone conversation as well as email exchange.
The individual said that basically I had it right in my evaluation. However he added useful balance and perspective. Apparently Tom wanted to show what could be done with a research network that did own and […]

I did a 2 hour interview on October 23rd with John Curran, Board Chair of ARIN the North American Regional Internet Routing Registry for the last decade..
I now understand what is at stake with IP v6. Outside of a key core group of network engineers I think darn few people do understand. And not all […]

In the debate about fiber to the home one of the significant issues is deciding on the architecture out of these decision fall impacts on cost and on control of the link. Will it be by the carrier, the home owner or the community network? Consider the following exchange on my Economics of IP Networks […]

Thanks to Doc Searls for allowing me to share a preview of a forthcoming SuitWatch newsletter (Link below.).
Time Magazine closed 2006 by naming You its Person of the Year: The subhead exclaimed, “Yes, you. You control the Information Age. Welcome to your world.”
Not so fast.
Allow me to present some evidence to the contrary before […]

On December 26 Peter Gutmann posted a very fascinating and highlydepressing document called A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection.
I posted some comments to my Symposium mail list and the following exchange occured between Fred Goldstein and Doc Searls.
Fred: The Gutmann article was the topic of two Slashdot front page posts this […]

From my mail list as excerpted by Tim Shepard from another post:
“A new IRTF research group, End-Middle-End (EME) Research Group, has been created with an appended charter. Too clarify, don’t get too excited about possible change. This is the IETF “research group” and it can take a long time for anything to […]