Category: Internet
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Join Me On VUC Today At Noon US EDT To Talk IPv6, IoT, WebRTC and more…
Continue Reading: Join Me On VUC Today At Noon US EDT To Talk IPv6, IoT, WebRTC and more…Today at 12 noon US Eastern (in about 3.5 hours), I’ll be part of a panel on the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) talking about IPv6, WebRTC, the Internet of Things (IoT) and much, much more… you should be able to watch it live at live.vuc.me or embedded here:
VUC host Randy Resnick had a scheduled guest be unable to attend and so he asked a group of us to come on for what he is calling a “VUC Vision” session. I will be on there, as will, I believe, Tim Panton and a number of others. I expect the discussion should range over good variety of topics. It should be a good time… you’re welcome to join in the discussion.
It’s probably best to also join the IRC backchannel where links are shared, questions are answered and other comments occur. You also can visit the Google+ event page for the VUC session today where there may be additional links and info.
If you won’t be at your computer, you can also call in via:
- sip:200901@login.zipdx.com
- +1 (646) 475-2098
- Skype:vuc.me
The session will of course be recorded so you can listen/watch later.
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Talko Looks Very Cool, But Needed A Firewall Change To Work
Continue Reading: Talko Looks Very Cool, But Needed A Firewall Change To WorkThe big telecom story today certainly seems to the be launch of Ray Ozzie’s new “Talko” application for iOS. Tons of attention in the tech media, and many of my friends on social media have been trying it out. There’s a brilliant article posted on Medium about the “Brave New Phone Call” along with a great blog post from Ray Ozzie about how this new app will revolutionize the voice experience.I think Talko has great potential to do so, particularly after using it.
But…
… I had to change my firewall rules in order to make Talko work. 🙁
And I don’t know how long it will continue to work.
Perhaps worse than that… it wasn’t clear initially that I had a firewall problem. Frequent testing partner Jim Courtney sent me a message and after installing the Talko app on my iPhone I tried to talk to him, but all I seemed to be able to do was send him a voice message or a text message.
Subsequently I tried connecting to Tim Panton and again could only send voice messages. It made for a very asynchronous “walkie-talkie” style of communication that clearly seemed to not be what…
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Three Years At The Internet Society
Continue Reading: Three Years At The Internet SocietyToday marks three truly amazing years at the Internet Society. It was September 19, 2011, when I visited the main office in Reston, Virginia, and began this wonderful journey. I wrote back then about why I was taking this job to fight for the open Internet – and in truth the reasons haven’t changed.
If anything, the situation has only gotten worse.
There are now far more threats to what I’ve taken to calling the “Internet of Opportunity” … the kind of Internet we have today where anyone can start any kind of service or publish any kind of information.
Within the Internet Society (or “ISOC” as we are often called) we call this “permissionless innovation“, not needing to ask permission of anyone to innovate. If you have a new idea or a new service or product… you can just do it. You don’t have to plead with a “gatekeeper” or pay someone in order to launch your service out onto the Internet.
But that could change.
Some of the legacy telecommunications companies who have lost out on revenue as everyone has moved away from phone calls would really like their revenue back. Some of the entertainment and traditional media companies…
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Watch Live TODAY (Sept 19) – CITI State of Telecom 2014
Continue Reading: Watch Live TODAY (Sept 19) – CITI State of Telecom 2014What is the future of telecommunications and the Internet? As more entertainment moves to being over the Internet, what are the implications for the media and for the technology?Today, September 19, 2014, there is an interesting set of presentations happening at the Columbia Club in New York City, organized by the Columbia (University) Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) called the “CITI State of Telecom 2014”. Subtitled, “From the Internet of Science to The Internet of Next Generation Entertainment Implications for Content, Technology and Industry Consolidation“, the session description states:
The goal of the early Internet was to connect research institutions. Yet today 71% of all Internet traffic consists of video, games, and music, and that number is growing. This transition raises issues for media content, technology, industry consolidation, business strategy, and regulatory policy. Media companies, academics, policy makers, and technologists must think ahead.
You can watch it all live at:
http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/citisot14
The sessions are being recorded, too, and are available at that address.
The session agenda and list of all the speakers is available on the CITI event page. The quick summary is:
- 9:00am Welcome and Introduction of Topic
- 9:15am Session 1- Technology and business drivers of the transformation of…
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Don’t Miss Friday’s Live VUC Call! – Martin Geddes on “Rethinking Broadband and Voice”
Continue Reading: Don’t Miss Friday’s Live VUC Call! – Martin Geddes on “Rethinking Broadband and Voice”What are you doing tomorrow, Friday, December 6, 2013, at 12noon US Eastern (1700 UTC)? Would you like to join in to what should be an excellent conversation about the future of broadband networks, IP communications, telecom, etc.? If so, make plans to join the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) call happening live at 12 noon where the guest will be the ever-interesting Martin Geddes. The topic will be “Rethinking broadband and voice: Network Science and Hypervoice” and should prompt some vigorous discussion!
I’ve known Martin for many years now and have been a great fan of his analysis and writing ever since back in the days of his “Telepocalypse” blog. He’s truly a great thinker in the space and is also quite an enjoyable and fun speaker to listen to. We know each other well from the early days of VoIP blogging as well as the conference circuit, and I regularly read his email newsletter and other great content he puts out. He’s very active on Twitter as well.
Having said all that, I do have some fundamental disagreements with some of what he is advocating these days. I wrote about some of this disagreement last year and he and…
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Two Years At The Internet Society
Continue Reading: Two Years At The Internet SocietyIt rather staggers my mind that it was two years ago today, on September 19, 2011, that I began work for the Internet Society (a.k.a. “ISOC”). Longtime readers and friends may remember my impassioned (and naturally long) post at the time, “Ch-changes – Taking A New Job At The Internet Society To Join The Fight For The Open Internet“.
Two years later that passion has only grown stronger! The events of recent months with the massive Internet surveillance disclosures have only reinforced the need for organizations like the Internet Society to be out there doing what they can to preserve the open character of the Internet.
Whether it is the excellent work on leading Internet technologies – and support for the IETF… the incredible work of our public policy team … or the great work going on to to expand access to the Internet in regions where there is limited connectivity… or the global work of our chapters helping at a local and regional level… or the programs to develop the next generation of Internet leaders… or the many, many other activities going on around the globe… it’s been an absolute pleasure to be a staff member for the…
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Did Google REALLY Kill Off All XMPP/Jabber Support In Google+ Hangouts? It Still Seems To Partially Work
Continue Reading: Did Google REALLY Kill Off All XMPP/Jabber Support In Google+ Hangouts? It Still Seems To Partially WorkDid Google really kill off all of their support for XMPP (Jabber) in Google+ Hangouts? Or is it still there in a reduced form? Will they be bringing back more support? What is really going on here?
In my excitement yesterday about Google Voice now being integrated with Google+ Hangouts, I missed a huge negative side of the new Hangouts change that is being widely reported: the removal of support for the XMPP (Jabber) protocol and interoperability with third-party clients.
But yet a few moments ago I did have a chat from an external XMPP client (Apple’s “Messages” app) with Randy Resnick who received the message in a Google+ Hangout. I opened up a Google+ window in my browser and I could see the exchange happening there as well. Here’s a side-by-side shot of the exchange in both clients:
So what is going on here?
Reports Of Google Removing XMPP
This issue has been widely reported in many of the tech blogs and sites. Matt Landis covered this issue very well in his post: Hangouts Won’t Hangout With Other Messaging Vendors: Google’s New Unified Messaging Drops Open XMPP/Jabber Interop which then generated long threads on Reddit and Slashdot.
The Verge in…
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WebRTC Passes Huge Milestone In Rewiring The Web – Video Calls Between Chrome and Firefox
Continue Reading: WebRTC Passes Huge Milestone In Rewiring The Web – Video Calls Between Chrome and FirefoxThis week the WebRTC/RTCWEB initiative passed a HUGE milestone in adding a real-time communications layer to the Web with achieving interoperability between Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Google and Mozilla celebrated with a pair of blog posts:They also published the video I’ve embedded below. On the surface, the video doesn’t appear terribly exciting: two guys having a basic conversation over video. But consider this:
- The video conversation was initiated from within web browsers.
- There were NO plugins used… no Flash, Java or anything else.
- The entire conversation was securely encrypted.
- The call used “wideband audio” (also called “HD audio”) to provide a much richer experience that far exceeds any kind of conversation you can have on traditional telecom and mobile networks.
- The call did not have to involve any external telecom networks or services and could have been initiated directly from one browser to the other. (I don’t know exactly how they set up this call.)
And perhaps most importantly:
Any web developer can now create this kind of real-time communication using a few lines of JavaScript and other web programming languages.
As I’m said before, WebRTC will…
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Live Webcast at 8:30am: WCIT Post Mortem with ISOC DC Chapter
Continue Reading: Live Webcast at 8:30am: WCIT Post Mortem with ISOC DC ChapterWhat happened with the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) last week in Dubai? In about 25 minutes, at 8:30 US Eastern time, the Internet Society DC Chapter will be hosting a panel discussion doing a “post mortem” on the WCIT event. Details are here:http://isoc-ny.org/p2/4609
And you can tune in to the livestream here:http://livestream.com/internetsocietychapters
The session will be archived for those who can’t attend. It should be a very interesting discussion!
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