Rob Malan's Posts

World IPv6 Day: Final Look and “Wagon’s Ho!”

June 9, 2011 by Rob Malan

After reflecting on the data from IPv6 day, the phrase the best comes to mind is: “Wagon’s Ho!” It’s going to be a long hard slog to IPv6-Land. Yesterday’s IPv6 flag day looks to have been a success. After a decade of implementation work by the infrastructure vendors in building towards IPv4 functional parity, combined [...]

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Net Neutrality: Are You Ready For It?

April 18, 2008 by Rob Malan

May you live in interesting times. I have seen the futures — both of them: one in which net neutrality isn’t adopted by the Internet carriers, and one where it is. I have a particularly bad track record of predicting how the majority of the electorate will respond to external stimuli. Since there continues to [...]

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Second-hand smoke from the Net-Neutrality pipe

October 26, 2007 by Rob Malan

I may regret this, but one thing I can’t abide is second-hand smoke. I haven’t seen one sane thought about the Comcast BitTorrent “fiasco” yet. The “people’s” argument is as follows: Axiom 1: Internet access should be unhindered. I want to buy my Internet service from Comcast for $xx.yy per month; where x is min(x). [...]

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