Category: Internet
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XKCD Comic Perfectly Captures Sad, Fragmented State of Messaging / Chat Systems
Continue Reading: XKCD Comic Perfectly Captures Sad, Fragmented State of Messaging / Chat SystemsIn one picture, this comic from xkcd nails the very sad state of fragmentation with our messaging systems today. The text says:
I have a hard time keeping track of which contacts use which chat systems.
And that is our major pain point today.
Think about it… do you know how to reach most of the people you need to communicate with?
Some readers may have just decided that they are going to ONLY use one service. They communicate on only, say, Facebook. Or WhatsApp. (Or in one case I know, someone has rejected all new messaging apps and will only communicate with email.)
And so if you want to communicate with them you have to use their one service.
But of course, if you want to communicate with other people, you have to use their service… which leads to this comic and the mental energy we all must expend to remember (names are made up):
- George likes to get Twitter DMs
- Sue and Jose only use Facebook Messenger
- Carlos only uses WhatsApp
- Heidi, Frederick and Laura only use Wire
- Your parents all use iMessage… except when they decide to use Facebook Messenger
- Your teenage kids…
- George likes to get Twitter DMs
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Heading to Romania to ION Bucharest for DNSSEC, IPv6, routing security and more
Continue Reading: Heading to Romania to ION Bucharest for DNSSEC, IPv6, routing security and moreThis week I will briefly be in Bucharest, Romania, for the Internet Society’s ION Bucharest conference. We’ve got a great set of sessions on the agenda, including:
- Deploying DNSSEC
- Romanian DNSSEC Case Study
- Let’s Encrypt & DANE
- Mind Your MANRS & the Routing Resilience Manifesto
- The Case for IPv6
- IPv6 Success Stories
- What’s Happening at the IETF? Internet Standards and How To Get Involved
I will have two roles in the event tomorrow:
- Presenting the “Deploying DNSSEC” technical session.
- Doing the live streaming of the event through the Deploy360 YouTube channel.
I enjoy doing the production of live video streams and so this should be a good bit of fun (it’s also intense work in the midst of it).
You can WATCH LIVE starting at 14:00 EEST (UTC+3, or 7 hours ahead of the US East Coast where I live).
The sessions will also be recorded for later viewing.
It will be a short trip for me. I’m currently (Tuesday morning) writing this from the Munich airport. I land in Bucharest tonight. The event is tomorrow – and then I fly home Thursday afternoon.
Despite the short visit, I’m looking forward to it – it should be a…
- Deploying DNSSEC
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Video and Slides Now Available For My AstriCon 2015 Keynote: Open Source and The Global Disruption of Telecom
Continue Reading: Video and Slides Now Available For My AstriCon 2015 Keynote: Open Source and The Global Disruption of TelecomIf you’re interested in what I said last month at AstriCon 2015 in my keynote on “Open Source And The Global Disruption of Telecom: What Choices Will We Make?“, the video and slides are both available.As I wrote about previously, the context for this discussion was to talk about the changes that are happening all around us in terms of the ways in which we communicate. Here was the abstract:
There is a battle raging for the global future of telecommunications and the Internet. Taking place in networks, board rooms and legislatures, the battle will determine how we all communicate and what opportunities will exist. Will telecom support innovation? Will it be accessible to all? Will it give us the level of security and privacy we need to have the open, trusted Internet? Or will it be restricted and limited by corporate or government gatekeepers?
The rise of voice-over-IP has fundamentally disrupted the massive global telecommunications industry, infrastructure and policies. Open source software such as Asterisk has been a huge driver of that disruption and innovation.. but now what? What role do platforms such as Asterisk play in this space? And what can be their role in a telecom…
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My First RFC – 7649 On “The Jabber Scribe Role at IETF Meetings”
Continue Reading: My First RFC – 7649 On “The Jabber Scribe Role at IETF Meetings”Last month the first Request For Comments (RFC) was published where I was one of the co-authors. Ironically, this RFC 7649 had nothing to do with SIP, VoIP, telecom, IPv6, DNSSEC, security… or any of the other open Internet standards I’ve been working on in recent years!
In fact, it’s not a “standard” at all but rather an “informational” document.
This document collects together a series of best practices for how someone can fill the role of the “jabber scribe” at IETF meetings, such as the IETF 94 meeting about to happen in Yokohama, Japan, starting this weekend. (Which I will not be attending due to scheduling challenges.) You can read RFC 7659 at:
As the abstract states:
During IETF meetings, individual volunteers often help sessions run more smoothly by relaying information back and forth between the physical meeting room and an associated textual chatroom. Such volunteers are commonly called “Jabber scribes”. This document summarizes experience with the Jabber scribe role and provides some suggestions for fulfilling the role at IETF meetings.
The document came about because over the years that I’ve been involved with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) I’ve come to both value the critical role…
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Keynote at AstriCon on Oct 14: Open Source And The Global Disruption Of Telecom – What Choices Will We Make?
Continue Reading: Keynote at AstriCon on Oct 14: Open Source And The Global Disruption Of Telecom – What Choices Will We Make?Two weeks from today I’ll be in Orlando giving the opening keynote address at AstriCon 2015. The abstract of the session is:
Open Source And The Global Disruption Of Telecom – What Choices Will We Make?
Wednesday, October 14th, 2015 – 9:00 am to 9:45 am – Pacifica Ballroom 7
There is a battle raging for the global future of telecommunications and the Internet. Taking place in networks, board rooms and legislatures, the battle will determine how we all communicate and what opportunities will exist. Will telecom support innovation? Will it be accessible to all? Will it give us the level of security and privacy we need to have the open, trusted Internet? Or will it be restricted and limited by corporate or government gatekeepers?
The rise of voice-over-IP has fundamentally disrupted the massive global telecommunications industry, infrastructure and policies. Open source software such as Asterisk has been a huge driver of that disruption and innovation.. but now what? What role do platforms such as Asterisk play in this space? And what can be their role in a telecom infrastructure that is now mobile, increasingly embedded (Internet of Things) and more and more using proprietary walled gardens of communication?
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Four Years At The Internet Society
Continue Reading: Four Years At The Internet SocietyIt was four years ago today that I joined the Internet Society staff… and what an amazing four years it has been!If I go back and read my long post here about joining ISOC in September 2011, my passion and motivation continues to be the same – if anything, that passion has only gotten stronger!
As I wrote about last year in my three-year post, the “Internet of opportunity” that we all value is under severe threat.
The big change for me this past year, was, of course, the big change of joining the Internet Society Strategic Communications team in March 2015 (you can also listen to an audio recording).
That’s been a wonderful yet crazy change!
If you go back and look at what I wrote last year – or two years ago – it’s all about the technology behind the Internet and how we need to improve the infrastructure to make the Internet work better, be faster and be more secure.
The change this year is that now I’m more involved in other areas of Internet Society work, particularly in the public policy space. You can see that in some of the posts I’ve been writing for…
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There Was Power In What Happened Last Night (At InterCommunity 2015)
Continue Reading: There Was Power In What Happened Last Night (At InterCommunity 2015)There was an amazing power in what happened last night. There was a “magic” … that I can’t quite explain.
I sat in a room in Ottawa, Canada… but yet for 2.5 hours I was connected into a global meeting that brought me together with people all around the world… sitting in their homes, offices… or wherever. And gathered in large groups in New Zealand… Tunisia… El Salvador… Uruguay… New York… DC… the Dominican Republic… more…
The event was the Internet Society’s InterCommunity 2015 … something I wrote about on Circle ID, wrote about here, and talked about twice in my TDYR podcasts: episodes 258 and 259.
For that 2.5 hours we talked about how we are collectively working to bring the opportunities of the Internet to the 50% of the world that doesn’t yet have access… we heard stories about the amazing work people are doing… we heard about our new 2015 Global Internet Report that highlights the rise of the “mobile Internet” and both the awesome potential – and pitfalls – that we are seeing… we talked about “Collaborative Governance” and how we need to work together to address the changes the Internet has brought to governance -…
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InterCommunity 2015 on July 7/8 – Join In To Voice Your Opinion! (And I’ll Be In Ottawa)
Continue Reading: InterCommunity 2015 on July 7/8 – Join In To Voice Your Opinion! (And I’ll Be In Ottawa)How do we as a society address some of the most critical concerns about Internet governance? Internet security? connecting the entire world? (including all the Internet of Things?) This week on July 7 and 8 you have a unique opportunity to get involved with discussions – and actions – related to these questions at the Internet Society’s InterCommunity 2015 event.It is an event happening ON the Internet… not tied to any one physical location but rather bringing together thousands of people around the world in a global conversation.
You can register for free at:
www.internetsociety.org/intercommunity2015/
You can join in from your home, office, or wherever you have connectivity. The meeting will be taking place in two different sessions:
- 7 July 2015 from 20:00 to 22:30 UTC
- 8 July 2015 from 06:00 to 08:30 UTC
(Use this time zone converter to find out what times these are for you!)
As the agenda shows, we’ll have sessions on Internet access, governance and security – and a chance to interact with people on all of these issues.
Now, there are what we call “regional nodes” around the world where larger groups of people will be gathering together to have face-to-face conversations and…
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Net Neutrality: Did We “Win” A Battle, Only To Possibly Lose The War?
Continue Reading: Net Neutrality: Did We “Win” A Battle, Only To Possibly Lose The War?Friends don’t understand why I’m not jumping for joy after the FCC’s “Network Neutrality” decision yesterday. After all, they’ve been hearing me passionately argue for years about how we need to wake up and pay attention to the choices we have to make for the future of the Internet. They’ve heard me rail against the Internet access providers here in the US who seek to be the new gatekeepers and require people to ask permission or pay to get new services online. They’ve heard me strongly say that “The Internet Way” is for services to be “decentralized and distributed”. They’ve seen me write about “permissionless innovation” and the dangers we could face. In fact, I’ll be in Austin, TX, next week speaking at the NTEN conference about “Our Choice of Internet Futures”.
They know that I joined the Internet Society in 2011 specifically to fight for the open Internet – and that a large goal in my life is to be one of the voices helping advocate for the open Internet and ensuring that my children have the same “Internet of opportunity” that I’ve been able to have. Friends could hear in the closing words of FCC Chairman Tom… -
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Video: VUC 528 Provides An Update On Matrix.org And Wire
Continue Reading: Video: VUC 528 Provides An Update On Matrix.org And WireLast Friday’s VUC conference call / podcast / hangout provided some interesting updates about the ongoing work at Matrix.org to build services for scalable, distributed and federated collaboration systems as well as some discussion of Wire, the app I’ve written about here. Guests included Matthew Hodgson and Amandine Le Pape from Matrix.org, as well as the usual cast of characters and a couple of live demonstrations, too.
You can view the episode web page and listen to the show here:
I joined the show about mid-way through and naturally wound up talking about IPv6, the Internet of Things (IoT), ICANN, DNS and other topics.
FYI, some good info about Matrix.org can be found in their FAQ. Back in November 2014, there was also another VUC episode focused around Matrix.org.
It was an enjoyable show and I’d encourage you to give it a listen.
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