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15 Apr 2024
One of the major issues in building the Internet or any large network
is internetworking.
If you have two networks built and run by different entities, how do
you connect them together?
The Internet addressed this problem in two ways.
One is by layering, so that consistent upper layers can hide differences
in lower layers.
(In my office I have devices using wired Ethernet, fiber, wifi, and 5G,
all looking the same at the Internet level.)
Another is gateways, connecting things togeher and translating the
differences, which to some extent is what fiber modems and routers do.
But the Internet is hardly the first time these questions have arisen.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/gauge.html
29 Nov 2022
The usually perceptive Tim Harford has a column in the current Financial
Times complaning that since he can move his phone number from one carrier
to another, why can't he move his social media account from Twitter to
Mastodon. If only it were that simple.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/notport.html
19 Sep 2022
The ever-entertaining Fifth Circuit has recently upheld a strange Texas law that forbids
most kinds of social media moderation.
(Techdirt explains many of the reasons the
court is wrong, so I won't try.)
This brings us to the trendy question of whether Facebook, Twitter, et al. should be
treated as common carriers.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/common.html
06 Mar 2022
Last week the Ukrainian government sent a letter to ICANN
asking them to revoke the “.ru”, “.рф” and “.su” top-level domains.
It also said they were asking RIPE, which manages IP addresses in Europe, to revoke
Russian IP addresses. Both ICANN and RIPE said no.
Other people have explained why it would have been a policy disaster, but beyond that,
neither would actually have worked.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/notru.html
12 Sep 2021
Technologists and law enforcement have been arguing about cryptography
policy for about 30 years now.
People talk
past each other, with each side concluding the other side are unreasonable
jerks, because of some fundamental incompatible assumptions between
two conceptual worlds in collision.
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Stable link is https://jl.ly/Internet/catastrophe.html
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