Category: Internet
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Internet Society Launches “Internet Hall of Fame” Celebrating Early Pioneers
Continue Reading: Internet Society Launches “Internet Hall of Fame” Celebrating Early PioneersOne of the very cool announcements coming out of the Internet Society’s Global INET event in Geneva this week was the creation of an “Internet Hall of Fame” that recognizes many of the pioneers who started this amazing journey we’ve been on. The full site is available at:internethalloffame.org
Wired also had a great writeup:The Internet Gets a Hall of Fame (Including Al Gore!)
As is noted in the Wired article:The inductees fall into three categories: Pioneers who were key to the early design of the internet; Innovators who built on the net’s foundations with technical innovations and policy work; and Global Connectors who have helped expand the net’s growth and use around the world.
Both the site and the Wired article are well worth a read. It’s an amazing journey we’ve been on since those early days of the Internet… and it’s great to see folks like those listed here getting the recognition they justly deserve!
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WebRTC (real-time VoIP in web browsers) On April 13th VUC Call – Join In!
Continue Reading: WebRTC (real-time VoIP in web browsers) On April 13th VUC Call – Join In!Want to learn about how voice and video calls will take place right in your web browser? WITHOUT a Flash or Java plugin?
The “WebRTC” initiative is making this a reality through efforts of the major browser vendors, VoIP industry companies and standards working groups within both the IETF and W3C. On the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) Call on Friday, April 13th, the group will have a discussion of what exactly is happening with WebRTC… and then some live demos from the Voxeo Labs and Phono teams who have been working on this topic for some time now.
This is, to me, an incredibly important area of work as we have the opportunity to really bake real-time communications (RTC) into the fabric of the tools we use every day to work with the Internet.
I’m looking forward to the VUC call (“tomorrow” as I write this, but probably “today” when most of you read it) and would encourage you to join in to listen and/or participate in the conversation.
You can join the live call via SIP, Skype or the regular old PSTN. There is also an IRC backchannel that gets heavy usage during the call.…
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SegTEL/TVC Stringing Fiber Through Keene, NH – A New Internet Choice?
Continue Reading: SegTEL/TVC Stringing Fiber Through Keene, NH – A New Internet Choice?When I look out my office window and see a bucket truck driving by with a guy up in the bucket attaching what looks like fiber optic cable to the polls, my reaction as a networking geek was naturally:- who is stringing new fiber?
Followed, of course, by “that’s kind of a cool way to ride around town” (probably literally cool, today).
My initial thought was that it was upgraded wiring from either Fair Point Communications, our local phone company (who bought out Verizon’s landline business up “he-ah”), or Time Warner Cable, who owns the cable franchise for Keene, NH.
It turned out to be neither, but rather someone new.
I walked out and met the crew up the street when they happened to be reloading connectors into the bucket. One of them said this was new service for “SegTEL”. He said SegTel was a private company who had been recently bought out by someone and was planning to provide high-speed Internet access to businesses.
As I walked back to my house, my immediate reactions were:
- Cool! Will there be a plan I can afford as an individual?
- Will they offer IPv6?
To my surprise, SegTEL appears to have…
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WebRTC + Phono SDK = Browser Phone Calls WITHOUT A Plugin
Continue Reading: WebRTC + Phono SDK = Browser Phone Calls WITHOUT A PluginCalling people using your browser – but without a Flash or Java plugin? That's been the mission of the WebRTC initiative for some time now with efforts underway in both the IETF and the W3C to standardize the work so that it can be broadly implemented.
I was very pleased to see the team at Voxeo Labs announce that the Phono SDK can now support WebRTC with the developer build of the Google Chrome browser. They outlined their work in a blog post and produced a video demonstrating the technology and also received a very nice writeup on TheNextWeb:
This is very cool as it has the potential once WebRTC is baked into more browsers to provide us with a very solid browser-based platform for building and deploying real-time communication apps. Kudos to the Voxeo Labs team for what they've done so far!
P.S. Some interesting comments about this topic over on Hacker News…
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Video: The Day The LOLcats Died … Speak Up Before the Internet Dies…
Continue Reading: Video: The Day The LOLcats Died … Speak Up Before the Internet Dies…Truly awesome… via Techcrunch…Kudos to the LaughPong team for doing this!
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And Thus Was Born… the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme!
Continue Reading: And Thus Was Born… the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme!How can we accelerate the usage and deployment of IPv6 and DNSSEC? What are the barriers to getting those technologies more widely deployed? How can we “take away the pain” of getting started with IPv6 and DNSSEC?When I joined the staff of the Internet Society back in late September, the project I joined was charged with looking at questions like that and developing a means to promote online resources that would help speed up the usage of IPv6 and DNSSEC.
Yesterday, after a long 3 months of hard work, we formally announced what we are now calling the “Internet Society Deploy360 Programme” located at:
http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/
On that site, you will find real-world deployment information about how to get started with both technologies. Case studies, how-to documents, links to other sites, and much, much more…
THIS LAUNCH IS JUST THE BEGINNING!
The site is certainly incomplete… we wanted to get the site out there and now my task over the months ahead is to fill the site up with answers to questions and pointers to new information.
We’re not looking to add ALL the information found on the web about IPv6 and DNSSEC, but rather the best information we can…
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Looking for last-minute tax donations? Why not support the open Internet?
Continue Reading: Looking for last-minute tax donations? Why not support the open Internet?As 2011 draws to a close, are you looking at what donations to make to charitable organizations for tax purposes?Here in the USA, this is something that many of us think about in these final days. It’s a last chance we have to make tax-deductible donations that can then be used to potentially lower the taxes you pay to the US government when we go through all that fun over the next few months.
Now, there are admittedly a zillion great causes and organizations out there to whom you can give donations. Local organizations, global organizations, relief organizations, churches and religious groups, arts organizations, environmental groups, sports groups, school groups, cancer and other research organizations… so, so many…
In the midst of all that, I’d also encourage you to think about possibly making donations to organizations helping in the fight to maintain an “open Internet”.
2012 promises to be a challenging year for the Internet… not just with the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and it’s PROTECT-IP cousin here in the US… but with similar legislation cropping up all around the world. With various governments seeking to put restrictions on the Internet in their country. With upcoming global telecommunications…
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2 Insanely Simple Steps to Completely Bypass the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
Continue Reading: 2 Insanely Simple Steps to Completely Bypass the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)How completely BROKEN is the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) be?Here are the two steps ANY consumer can take to COMPLETELY bypass the DNS filtering proposed in SOPA:
1. Find The Computer’s DNS Settings
On a Mac, go into System Preferences, then Network, select the network connection being used (typically “Wi-Fi” or “Ethernet”) and then click on the “Advanced…” button in the lower right corner. On the resulting screen, click on the “DNS” tab to see a screen like this one:
On a Windows computer, go into the Control Panel and look for “Network and Sharing Center”, find the adapter being used, right-click it and choose “Properties”. Next click on “Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)” (or IPv6 should you use that) and press the “Properties” button. Microsoft provides step-by-step instructions on their website for changing these properties.
On mobile devices, tablets, etc, the same kind of screen can generally be found in a “preferences” or “settings” area. Linux systems likewise may have a graphical control panel/settings area or may requiring editing of a file.
2. Enter In Addresses for Public DNS Servers OUTSIDE The USA
All someone has to do is search for “list of public DNS servers…
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2nd FCC Workshop on PSTN Transition Streaming Live at 9:30am – Taking Questions Via Email and Twitter
Continue Reading: 2nd FCC Workshop on PSTN Transition Streaming Live at 9:30am – Taking Questions Via Email and TwitterToday, December 14, 2011, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is holding the second of two workshops on the transition of the PSTN to new technologies, as I described last week. The workshop will be streamed live today starting at 9:30am US Eastern at:http://www.fcc.gov/live
The FCC’s note about the workshops mentions that people watching live can send in questions to panelists using either of two methods:
- by e-mailing livequestions@fcc.gov
- tweeting on Twitter using the hashtag #FCCLIVE
9:30 a.m. – 9:40 a.m.
Welcome Remarks
by Zachary Katz, Chief Counsel and Senior Legal Advisor, Office of the Chairman, FCC9:40 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Impact of the Transition on the Technology and Economics of the PSTN
Participants include: University of Colorado, Carnegie Mellon, George Washington University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Gillan Associates, SIP Forum10:45 a.m. – 11:45 p.m.
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Internet Society Joins Chorus of Those Opposing SOPA
Continue Reading: Internet Society Joins Chorus of Those Opposing SOPAYesterday the Internet Society formally joined the opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (a.k.a. “SOPA” – background info available) with a statement from the Internet Society Board of Trustees:
http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/?p=4932
The statement says in part:
The Internet Society Board of Trustees has expressed concern with a number of U.S. legislative proposals that would mandate DNS blocking and filtering by ISPs to protect the interests of copyright holders. While the Internet Society agrees that combating illicit online activity is an important public policy objective, these critical issues must be addressed in ways that do not undermine the viability of the Internet as a platform for innovation across all industries by compromising its global architecture. The Internet Society Board of Trustees does not believe that the Protect-IP Act (PIPA) and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) are consistent with these basic principles.
Specifically, the Internet Society is concerned with provisions in both bills regarding Domain Name System (DNS) filtering. DNS filtering is often proposed as a way to block illegal content consumption by end users. Yet policies to mandate DNS filtering will be ineffective for that purpose and will interfere with cross-border data flows and services undermining innovation and social development across…