So, I’m sitting in the Red Carpet Club in the San Francisco Airport, headed back home to Denver in a bit. Having independently discovered last week that Red Carpet Club members could now get Internet access for free via T-Mobile, I was eager to get online in an airport without having to drop another […]
One of the overriding themes in the Network Neutrality debate, and what triggered much of the recent activity with Comcast and the FCC, has to do with transparency. Or in the recent words of FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, “Consumers must be completely informed about the exact nature of the service they are purchasing”. When it […]
As has been discussed here many times in the past, one of the most fragile and vulnerable components of the Internet infrastructure is the global routing system. The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is used to exchange destination reachability information (routes) between different autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet. These routes consist of blocks […]
My colleague Lixia Zhang provided me a pointer a few weeks back to the article On Being the Right Size, originally published in 1928 and authored by J.B.S. Haldane. It was originally available here, and is quoted in full below. It’s interesting that since I read it, I find it’s applicability to such […]
Some of you may have seen the coverage that Ono picked up today because of it’s ability to optimize P2P transaction speeds by enabling more topologically optimal distribution - all while requiring no interaction with the ISP. On one hand, I’m happy about this, as the whole P4P thing, and the topology intelligence dependence […]
