Three of the best: George Michaelson

By on 7 Jan 2026

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This year, APNIC’s Senior Research Scientist George Michaelson (GGM), touched on topics ranging from news to explainers. Here are three of his best:

  1. Is ‘Postel’s law’ causing protocol ‘ossification’? — A recent routing incident sparks renewed debate on protocol design, error handling, and whether Jon Postel’s famous saying (“Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send”) is helping or hurting the Internet’s evolution.
  2. Internet in Spaaaaace — Marc Blanchet’s presentation about deep space networking imagines a future where the Internet works well for people on the moon, and those they are connected to back on Earth.
  3. A load of old… — Is quantum computing and post-quantum cryptography really that big of a deal? Does the emperor have any clothes on?

Continue reading George’s posts on the APNIC Blog.


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