Worth Reading: Is AI success real or hallucination?

8 July 2024


Ever consider how much of AI is a hallucination? Not how much AI output is hallucination, but rather how much of what we hear or read about it is genuine?

Worth Reading: The New Verbal Economy

8 July 2024


Look beneath The Button, and you’ll realize that we must not to forget how to write without it.

Worth Reading: Exploring IPv6 scanning activities and prefix discovery

3 July 2024


Internet-wide scanning is an important tool for understanding network behaviour and security. However, as the adoption of IPv6 grows, the studies of scanning activities remain less comprehensive compared to IPv4.

Worth Reading: 20 Years of Inferring Interdomain Routing Policies

3 July 2024


As the structure of the Internet has become ever flatter over time, what effect has this had on the dynamics of inter-domain routing? A new study examines whether 20-year-old insights into the characteristics of routing policies still hold.

Worth Reading: A Mature Broadband Market?

2 July 2024


In several recent blogs, I said that it is becoming clear that the broadband market is reaching maturity. This is already causing havoc in the industry for ISPs that relied on year-over-year customer growth to prop up stock prices.

Worth Reading: Conserving IP Address Space with OSPF

2 July 2024


Back in March I took a look at two slightly different ways of doing this for IPng, notably against a backdrop of conserving IPv4 addresses. As the network grows, the little point to point transit networks between routers really start adding up.

Worth Reading: DNS Evolution

1 July 2024


The DNS is a crucial part of today’s Internet. With the fracturing of the network’s address space as a byproduct of IPv4 address run down and the protracted IPv6 transition the Internet’s name space is now the defining attribute of the Internet that makes it one network.

Worth Reading: Questions emerging from Cyberstarts’ remarkable success

1 July 2024

Cyberstarts does not hide the existence of the compensation plan for CISOs, but they are worried about it being leaked as they consider it a “trade secret”.

Worth Reading: How much of that data do you really need?

27 June 2024


Interview NetApp’s Chief Technology Evangelist, Matt Watts, is worried about sustainability and data wastage, even as his employer withdraws third-party support from BlueXP classification.

Worth Reading: When I use a word it means what I chose it to mean

27 June 2024


A discussion is currently underway within the IETF about the status of RFCs. This discussion focuses on the integrity of the documents’ meanings, rather than their standing in relation to other documents, rules, or laws.