Worth Reading: The World’s First Treaty on AI

11 April 2024


This month, the Council of Europeメs Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) wrapped up negotiations on a groundbreaking draft Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence, human rights, democracy and the rule of law.

Worth Reading: The 2023 IPv4 Market in North America

11 April 2024


In 2021, the story was price. In 2022, the story was price and large block supply. The story in 2023 is decline—but with a notable caveat.

Worth Reading: The Backdoor to Control the Internet

10 April 2024

Worth Reading: The Backdoor to Control the Internet
Few people are aware, but over the last several days, a perceptive developer foiled a multi-year plot to install a remote backdoor into, well, the entire Internet. Two years ago, a programmer known as Jia Tan (JiaT75) started helping out with a lesser-known compression library, known as xz.

Worth Reading: Carrier Hotels

10 April 2024


The need for carrier hotels became apparent in the year after the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. That new law allowed local competition for telephone service. New competitive exchange carriers (CLECs) had to tie their network into the public switched telephone network (PSTN), which was largely controlled by the big Bell Telephone companies and a few others.

Worth Reading: Massive African Internet Outage

9 April 2024


Eight countries in West Africa reported Internet outages after damage was reported to four different undersea fiber cables. The most affected countries are Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Benin, with additional problems caused in Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon.

Worth Reading: Starlink and the Future of Low-Orbit Internet

9 April 2024


Starlink’s megaconstellations deliver broadband Internet to customers around the globe. But while the tech promises to democratise Internet access, it’s not always clear how existing protocols and regulations apply beyond the clouds. In this episode, Geoff Huston talks about the future of low-orbit Internet.

Worth Reading: The FCC Cyber Trust Label Gambit

8 April 2024


A few days later, Paul Baran published a second less-known seminal paper that would also fundamentally reshape the cyber world. That paper directed at the U.S. national security community known as Memorandum RM-3765 described a bold new world of cybersecurity–articulating all the threats and mitigations.

Worth Reading: DNS Updates from IETF 119

8 April 2024


The Internet is rapidly shifting to a name-based network and the DNS is now the underlying technology that lies the core of today’s network. So, let’s see what we are currently thinking about in terms of names and the DNS at the recent IETF meeting.

Worth Reading: Remote Work Is Here to Stay

4 April 2024


The pandemic-driven rise of remote work has changed many companies’ views of the necessity of physical office spaces.

Worth Reading: [Podcast] DNS-OARC’s many faces

4 April 2024


This time on PING, Phil Regnauld from the DNS Operations, Analysis, and Research Center (DNS-OARC), discusses the three distinct faces DNS-OARC presents to the community.