Telemetry is a big buzzword in the networking industry these days. As any buzzword, telemetry means different things to different people; exactly like SDN or intent-based networking (I guess this one will need its own blog entry at some point in time). —Benoit Claise

When IBM launched the OpenPower initiative publicly five years ago, to many it seemed like a classic case of too little, too late. But hope springs eternal, particularly with a datacenter sector that is eagerly and actively seeking an alternative to the Xeon processor to curtail the hegemony that Intel has in the glass house.…

The Free Range Routing project, a project we at Cumulus Networks set out to collaborate on with innovators in the industry to help shape the future of web-scale networking. —Kelsey Havens @Cumulus

I’m never surprised by the ability of an IETF Working Group to obsess over what to any outside observer would appear to be a completely trivial matter. —Geoff Huston @APNIC

Whatever happened to baby steps? @I, Cringely

In 2008, network researcher Dan Kaminsky announced a DNS vulnerability that would let any determined attacker, for the cost of about 10 minutes of packet bombing, insert data into the DNS such that any victim could be made to see whatever an attacker wanted them to see. —Paul Vixie and Joe St. Sauver @farsight

Typically, most companies release white papers that claim to detail their architecture (or math, as one claimed). In reality, and with rare exception (Datrium actually comes to mind here), they’re little more than five to seven pages of marketing-style technical claims with no citations or justification. —Rachel Traylor @The Math Citadel

Until the advent of medium earth orbit (MEO) provider O3b (short for ‘Other 3 billion [users]’), geostationary (GEO) satellites were the only option for such ISPs. That meant huge dish antennas and, most of all, bandwidth prices of many hundreds of dollars per megabit per second per month (Mbps/month). —Ulrich Speidel @APNIC

Most of us expect Internet security spending to increase from $70B to $140B by the end of this decade. But even at $70B, our spending is in the same order of magnitude as our losses. —Paul Vixie @Far Sight Security

None of the ‘big three’ cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP) have an IPv6 feature set that is capable of reasonably supporting containers. Their support ranges from non-existent (yep, it’s 2018 and there are still public cloud providers with zero IPv6 support!) to ‘it’s just like IPv4, but with colons!’. —Matt Palmer @APNIC