Lost posts, alas
Due to a complex double failure, old posts were lost about 9 months ago, and while I’ve reconstructed a couple from network caches, I’ve given up on efforts to reconstruct old blog entries from...
View ArticleA statement from various advocates for an Open Internet – why I signed on
Today a relatively large and diverse group of advocates for the Open Internet filed a statement with the FCC under their notice of proposed rulemaking entitled Further Inquiry into Two Under-developed...
View ArticleBroadband vs. Open Internet, Open Internet scores a point
FCC Chair Genachowski released a statement today to announce that he will put forward a proposal to his fellow commissioners “Preserving a Free and Open Internet”, and it has already been reported on...
View ArticleA response to Barbara van Schewick: code needs (only a little) help from the law
Barbara van Schewick posted a really thoughtful analysis about how about application-specific vs. application-agnostic discrimination directly affects innovation, and looks at an actual example of a...
View ArticleWhat we “know” that t’aint so…. and insist on teaching to kids!
What do we teach when we teach science in school? And really, why do we teach science that way? I’ve personally never been quite sure whether I’m more of a scientist, engineer, or mathematician. The...
View ArticleRegarding OAM based multiplexing of radio and light
Bob Frankston suggested I post some of my recent remarks and references to Orbital Angular Momentum and its potential value in increasing the capacity of “spectrum” (the word I think misleads everyone,...
View ArticleWhat The Internet Is, and Should Continue To Be
Occasionally, people ask my perspective on the Internet, since I often object to confusing it with things like the telephone or Cable TV. Recently I composed a response that captures my perspective, as...
View ArticleThe (word) Internet is dead. Long live Fiber!
To me, this NYT article suggests that Susan Crawford “doesn’t get it” about the Internet, in a an amazingly extreme way (an “epic fail”). She focuses on a specific hardware technology (fiber), when in...
View ArticleDoes the Internet need “governance”?
It’s remarkable to me that there are now two powerful agencies fighting to “govern” the Internet – the ITU and the FCC. On any given day, it’s hard to tell whether they are on the same side or...
View ArticleGoGo does not need to run “Man in the Middle Attacks” on YouTube
Ars Technica mentioned in a post that GoGo, the primary “airplane Internet Access provider” is breaking HTTPS security with a fake certificate in order to prevent access to YouTube over HTTPS when...
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