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Posted in Tech Matters | Posted on 08.01.13 by Andrei Robachevsky | 0 Comments
On many occasions when I talk to network operators about routing security a question of risk comes up.
Quite a few well-known and analyzed incidents, like the YouTube prefix hijack or the China Telecom traffic detour, clearly demonstrate vulnerabilities in the routing system that can be exploited and that present a real threat. But while everyone agrees there are vulnerabilities, the real...
Posted in Tech Matters | Posted on 01.01.13 by Leslie Daigle | 0 Comments
January 1, 1983, was an official 'flag day' for the ARPANET, which became what we know as the Internet. On that day, the collaborative operators of the existing networking hardware turned off the old networking protocol, NCP (network control protocol), and the TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)-based Internet became the norm.
This had been several years in the making -- TCP/...
Posted in Tech Matters | Posted on 05.12.12 by Mat Ford | 0 Comments
On the occasion of the World Conference on International Telecommunications which is meeting this week and next to revise the International Telecommunication Regulations, it is interesting to note the huge gains that the host nation has made in relation to the quality of Internet connectivity in the United Arab Emirates.
A report from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, in 2009 found...
Posted in Public Policy | Posted on 03.12.12 by Markus Kummer | 0 Comments
Some reflections on the IGF, the Internet and human rights
In a previous blog I argued how important it was holding the 2012 IGF meeting in Baku, as it provided an amplifier for discussing local and global human rights issues.
Further to the relevance of the IGF as a space to foster awareness and enhance discussions on human rights issues, the significant number of IGF sessions related to human...
Posted in Tech Matters | Posted on 29.11.12 by Mat Ford | 0 Comments
We've just published a report of the technology roundtable we held last month on the topic of bandwidth management. The agenda for this invitation-only meeting was kept deliberately broad and encompassed everything from rates of submarine cable deployment to active queue management algorithms in residential broadband gateways. We hoped for an interesting and informative two days and that's...