Bill St Arnaud has the following paper available for reading
A personal perspective on the evolving Internet and Research and Education Networks
here is an abbreviated abstract:
Over the past few years the Internet has evolved from an “end-to-end” telecommunications service to a distributed computing information and content infrastructure. [snip].This evolution in the Internet was predicted by […]
It is not often that I see such delightful news. The public interest is protected in California even as it is abused in Washington DC.
Ever since the NTIA mapping program became a topic of discussion on my mail list and Sara Wedeman saw and critiqued the work of Rachelle Cong and her project manager […]
For the past year I had some hope that the election of BHO would truly make a difference. That hope is gone. BHO is business as usual not change one can believe in.
When I read Art Brodsky’s December 14th piece on Connected Nation in Colorado yesterday I was outraged. But then this […]
COOK’s Edge: Richard Bennett has been flaking the ITIF Foundations view on Net Neutrality for many months. He wandered into Nanog and very foolishly picked a fight there. The result at 8:39 this morning he wrote to Randy Bush
I didn’t bring this discussion over here, hippie.
COOK’s Edge: Not a wise […]
The gaming of the broadband stimulus is going on in full force.
Consider Rachelle Chong’s testimony from last Thursday’s hearing on the ARRA deployment.
Chong: In 2006, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had the foresight to form a blue
ribbon Broadband Task Force, on which I served. The Task Force performed a
broadband mapping exercise and brought recommendations to […]
Free, the broadband arm of Groupe Iliad is an increasingly important French national broadband player. Free’s management is extremely innovative.
Among other things on March 19 it announced that it is building an all IP mobile network so that it will no longer have to pay Orange for the circuits it resells. A very […]
Editor’s note:
Thanks to Paul Budde for this essay.
Paul called it “Australian case study” I have changed the emphasis slightly because i intend to follow it tomorrow with a piece on the emerging private market for IPv4 addresses, and the following day with a piece on RFC 1744. I fully agree with Pau’ls main […]
In response to a well written piece by Eric Krapf: “British Telecom (BT) led the charge into all-IP, next-gen networks. A £10 billion (US$18 billion at the time of writing) investment in its 21st Century Network (21CN) was announced back in 2004, and while there have been some glitches, changes of technology direction and […]
I think it is fair to say that for a long time we have all been
wondering what will emerge as the dominant business model by means of which carriers to cope with the internet? Will they try to strangle and control it as ATT is-
sticking, no matter what, to their old models about […]
Moral of story that follows: if you sign up for online automatic credit card billing be very very careful to keep written notes of what you are doing and especially your user id and password which will NOT be variants of your Normal usual ID and passwords. If you don’t do this you […]