Can we build it? Aye, we can!
A local community network in Scotland shows how a grassroots movement can help bridge the digital divide.
Sometimes the power problem is unsolvable
Michele McCann, Teraco Data Environments presented at RIPE69 on “iGDP in Africa”. It was a roundup of the various developments in the continent, but I took a snipper to heart and have been thinking about it.
OpenWRT and Firefox underpin an open-bus virtual ISP model in China
An innovative ‘virtual ISP’ system being deployed nationwide in China caught my eye at APNIC 38.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the Internet of risks
Billions of devices will be connected to the Internet of Things… but will they be secure?
SAVE us from DDoS
Paul Vixie discusses Source Address Validation Everywhere (SAVE) as an approach to mitigating bad traffic problems.
Success of Vanuatu’s Internet Exchange (VIX)
George Michaelson outlines a brief history of the Vanuatu Internet Exchange from the Pacific Industry Workshop at APNIC 38.
IPv6 in the Pacific Island Communities: New Caledonia goes fibre to the home
George Michaelson summarizes the plans by OPT-NC for a nationwide FTTP and 4GLTE deployment from the Pacific Industry Workshop at APNIC 38.
CrypTech.is and why it matters
CrypTech is attacking the fundamental roots of the “trust” problem.
DNSOP at IETF90
Warren Kumari (Google) and Paul Hoffman (VPN Consortium) discussed their draft to permit recursive DNS resolvers to fetch the signed root zone, and serve it.
WEIRDS Interop
At IETF90 tech staff from the RIR and ccTLD/gTLD communities held an all-day RDAP interop test. RDAP is the protocol and data specification in JSON which hopefully can replace WHOIS in the long term.