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Is Comcast plan suspect or 'reasonable'?

Is Comcast plan suspect or 'reasonable'?UPGRADE YOUR NETWORK!You are certainly paid enough money to provide the services you are SUPPOSED to provide.If you can't, leave the business and let someone else step in. Please...RE: Is Comcast plan suspect or 'reasonable'?Nope. Its still unreasonable. They are still taking an antiquated...

Tags: INTERNET, Comcast Corp., Robb, QoS, Internet Engineering Task Force

Discussion threads 2008-09-23

Bandwidth Constraint Models: A Performance Study With Preemption on Link Failures

Bandwidth constraint models have been a topic of intense discussions at the IETF meetings. Three conventional methods have been described in informational IETF RFCs and their performance on a single link has been analyzed and discussed in the literature. This paper takes a further step into analyzing their performance and...

Tags: Performance, Network, Internet Engineering Task Force, IEEE, Performance Management, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2007-12-07

Larry Rosen takes the Internet Engineering Task Force to task over patent policy

Larry Rosen takes the Internet Engineering Task Force to task over patent policyThere's NOTHING Wrong with the IETF IPR PolicyWe went through this discussion 2 years ago. Nothing has changed. These are GOOD policies. Rationale is here:http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/01/there_is_nothin.htmlIETF does not standardize EthernetIt's IEEE which is in chargeof Ethernet.

Tags: Ethernet, Internet Engineering Task Force, Larry Rosen, patent policy, Rationale

Discussion threads 2007-01-26

Larry Rosen takes the Internet Engineering Task Force to task over patent policy

Larry Rosen, the man who wrote the book on Open Source Licensing, has penned an open letter to the Internet Engineering Task Force IETF regarding the formalization of a policy that paves the way for patented technologies to become IETF standards. The IETF is the organization that sets the standards...

Tags: General, Open Source, Legal, Berlind, Internet Engineering Task Force

Blog posts 2007-01-23

Linux Beats Windows! - Or the Worrying Evolution of TCP in Common Operating Systems

For a long time, operating system designers have followed the recommendation of the IETF for TCP congestion control. Lately, this has changed: the Linux kernel uses BIC-TCP by default since June 2004, and Compound TCP is going to be a part of Microsoft Windows Vista, where it is likely to...

Tags: Congestion Control, Operating System, Internet Engineering Task Force, TCP, University Of Innsbruck, Tcp/Ip, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Networking, Software

White papers 2007-01-22

IETF and OMA Architectures for Mobile Email

The IETF Internet Engineering Task Force and OMA Open Mobile Alliance both have architectures to support mobile email. This white paper looks at the differences between these architectures, and considers technical and commercial implications of the differences. Particular consideration is given to the role of service providers. Internet mobile email...

Tags: Mobile E-mail, Mobile, Internet Engineering Task Force, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Marketing

White papers 2007-01-01

Why Microsoft's spam ploy is no solution

Why Microsoft's spam ploy is no solutionA suggestion for you.If you don't like it, don't use it. See how simple that is?Seems UneducatedFirst of all everything causes false positives, and Microsoft is being very clear that publishing your SPF/Sender-ID information in DNS will only help your situation. Much like...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Microsoft Corp., spam, SPF, Internet Engineering Task Force, Sender ID

Discussion threads 2005-06-29

Open-standard bearers close ranks

Open-standard bearers close ranksYes, Microsoft would love to cause problems for open source,But it ain't workin'. We are all watching. Fun to watch the idiots squirm.So, I can take what i want and return nothing?"Boiled down, they say that in the case of software, people shall be free to use...

Tags: SenderID, open source, Internet Engineering Task Force, Linux, IEEE, Microsoft Corp., Linux kernel

Discussion threads 2004-09-23

On heels of IETF ruling, AOL bails on SenderID

That didn't take long.  Within days of the Internet Engineering Task Force giving the ixnay to Microsoft's proposal for its e-mail authentication standard to help combat spam, America Online has publicly withdrawn its support for the specification, known as SenderID, as well.  In its report, eWeek characterizes AOL's decision as a "serious...

Tags: America Online Inc., Internet Engineering Task Force, SenderID

Blog posts 2004-09-16

Patent concerns foil Microsoft anti-spam spec at IETF

Just weeks after the open source community voiced concerns that Microsoft's SenderID e-mail authentication specification for combatting spam is saddled with unacceptable licensing terms, a technical working group within the Internet Engineering Task Force (the standards-setting body for the Internet) has rejected SenderID for consideration as an IETF standard due to...

Tags: Internet Engineering Task Force, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2004-09-14

IETF puts SenderID on the fast track

Though the motivation for developing and adopting it has been to fight spam and phishing, SenderID probably shouldn't be thought of as an anti-spam standard.  Rather, it's an e-mail authentication standard that's will enable the fight against spam.  If you're not up to speed on how e-mail authentication works, News.com's...

Tags: e-mail, e-mail authentication, SenderID

Blog posts 2004-08-23

A Reliable Subcasting Protocol for Wireless Environments

This paper presents an end-to-end reliable multicast protocol for use in environments with wireless access. It divides a multicast tree into sub-trees where subcasting within these smaller regions is applied using a tree of Retransmission Servers RSs. RM2 is receiver oriented in that the transmitter does not need to know...

Tags: Internet Engineering Task Force, IP, RM2, Internet Group Management Protocol, Network Technology, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless

White papers

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Ending DNS abuse with European open source

Secure domain name abuse is one of the main tools hackers have for getting past security systems, and making domains tougher to forge is something that is devoutly to be wished. The announcement of OpenDNSSEC follows an Internet Engineering Task Force meeting in Sweden. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: DNS, Open Source, Domain Names, Security, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-07-30

From Chapter Four: The Unix and Open source Culture

This is the 41st excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Roots (2) In its present form this commitment to publication and peer review, originally derived from the core academic and scientific approach giving rise to the science...

Tags: Noorda, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Is Comcast plan suspect or 'reasonable'?

Network neutrality advocates are taking contrasting views towards Comcast's new network management plan. The new plan de-prioritizes heavy users in 15-minute chunks. If your upload traffic is more than 70% of maximum bandwidth or your download traffic is more than 80% of max, you'll be de-prioritized. Free...

Tags: Network, Comcast Corp., Network Neutrality Advocate, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-23

ejabberd Exceeds Expectations at SIPPhone

SIPPhone is a strong advocate of industry standards. Based in San Diego in the USA, the company provides a range of Voice over IP VoIP services for consumers and businesses. SIPPhone wanted to establish a new instant messaging service that would be highly available and robust. To gain the trust...

Tags: SIPphone, ProcessOne, Ejabberd, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Open Source, Networking

Case studies 2008-05-29

Comcast offers really-broad band

Comcast is rolling out high-speed Internet in the Twin Cities. High-speed as in 50Mbps downstream, but only 5Mbps upstream. And they say it can be turned up as high as 160Mbps downstream. Cost is $150 per month and they expect to deploy in 20 percent of markets by the end...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Peer To Peer (P2P), Networking, Network Administration, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-03

Comcast traffic management issue before FCC

Today is the deadline for the FCC call for comments on the Comcast traffic management case brought about by a formal complaint from the Free Press and Public Knowledge.  As a former network engineer who designed networks and servers and as someone who has written extensively on these matters, I...

Tags: FCC, Bandwidth, Packet, Electronic Frontier Foundation, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., P2P, Problem, Verizon Communications Inc., Broadband, DOCSIS, Network Management, BitTorrent Seeder, Networking, Cable, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-02-13

Neural-Based Quality of Service Estimation in MPLS Routers

The MultiProtocol Label Switching MPLS is being considered as one possible approach for scalable Quality of Service QoS provisioning in the Internet. As MPLS is standardized by Internet Engineering Task Force IETF and is expected to be implemented in the near future, this paper addresses the issue of QoS estimation...

Tags: QoS, MPLS, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2008-01-01

Warp speed file serving with pNFS

Files: quickly getting bigger. Networks: slowly getting faster. Something's got to give. Here's the scoop.Parallel NFS: standards-based parallel file servingThe Network File System NFS is the oldest NAS Network Attached Storage protocol. Developed by Sun in the '80s and made an open standard, NFS makes files on the network available...

Tags: Clusters, Infrastructure

Blog posts 2007-05-23