A brief history of the RFC format
No overstriking allowed! Why do RFCs have such strict text requirements?
Tag: history
Where text protocols came from, and why they’re not going anywhere
Text protocols can be read by humans, but they come with drawbacks. Do we need them?
Another chapter in the decline of the traditional telcos
Deregulation and the rise of CDNs has some telcos questioning the future of international transit.
The answer’s in the post
What can the experience of the Universal Postal Union tell us about the Internet’s arrangements for settlement and peering?
A brief history of recent advances in IPv6 security, Part I: Addressing
Guest Post: Securing IPv6 Stateless Address Auto-configuration (SLAAC) has been ongoing since 2011.
AUSeries: ‘It takes a community.’ Building the Internet in Australia
The origin of the Internet for Australia echos that of many economies and is a story of a collective and communal effort.
At the bottom of the sea: a short history of submarine cables
Submarine cable development brings together advanced physics, marine technology and engineering to create truly amazing pieces of networking infrastructure.
An RFC a day reveals an Internet in the making
To mark the 50th anniversary of the first RFC, Darius Kazemi revisited the first 365 RFCs — one for each day of 2019.
THSeries: Mapping Thailand’s past, present and future Internet
Maps are widely used in our lives and for good reason: they tell us where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going.
What do we know about an IP address?
Guest Post: There’s a lot more to an IP addresses than merely being an identifier.