I had a lot of fun at VON yesterday, and took a few notes on things I found interesting:
Larry Lessig started the day off at 8:30 with an excellent, well-rehearsed talk on commons, property rights, history, network neutrality etc. He talks about networks other than the internet … “unowned networks”, like the […]
Now we see where Ed Whitaker (CEO SBC) and Bill Smith (CTO Bell South) talking up premium-tiered internet has led (here, here, and what Billy Joel might have to say ).
A merger of bullies, who see the internet as their toll road. I fear bad times are a’comin, at least […]
Your humble narrator had fun a couple weeks ago being interviewed on Pulvermedia Podcast Network. Here’s the brief description:
Jeff Pulver sat down and had a chat with Steve Smith, Chief Scientist at Lavalife, about the state of IP communications as they pertain to things like online dating and gaming, and where they […]
Om Malik wrote yesterday about vyatta in particular, and about a collection of enterprise open souce communications platforms that are starting to make inroads into the telecommunications market. His entry is Here Comes Open Source Telecomm.
Vyatta is building a business model around the XORP project (eXtensible Open Router Project), and […]
The two-tiered internet is a very current topic of discussion in many circles. During the last panel, Jack Waters of Level3 offered a clear description that I found useful so I have summarized it below.
The two-tiered internet is about “best effort delivery” vs “better than best effort”. Best effort delivery is of […]
Earlier this Spring, I reported on an excellent one-day meeting in Washington, DC called Peripheral Visionaries. The idea was to bring together technologists and visionaries with regulators and policy people, and to get them exchanging ideas.
The meeting was so successful that there was a clamor inside the beltway to […]