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Internet Governance: An Antispam Perspective

• Comment posted Feb 16, 2006 7:12 pm PST — by Ian Woollard
  I find that the problem is more taking a utopian view of this. Short of keeping your computer off the net, ultimately, no technological fix can completely eradicate all phishing and spamming. There's always the chance that the bad guys…

IPv6 for the Rest of Us

• Comment posted Jun 07, 2007 12:24 am PDT — by Ian Woollard
  You can have multiple fixed IP addresses on IPv6, so that at least is an advantage, whereas many ISPs typically can only provide one under IPv4.

DNSSEC: Once More, With Feeling!

• Comment posted Dec 13, 2007 7:59 pm PST — by Ian Woollard
  In spite of the claim in the article, there is a technical issue here, DNSSEC doesn't support multiple roots; if it did that, then there would be no political issue, because everyone would get to win. The fact that the…

Introductory Remarks from Innovation '08

• Comment posted Jun 16, 2008 2:56 pm PDT — by Ian Woollard
  VOIP is both latency sensitive as well as jitter sensitive. As latency goes above about 100ms perceived quality by the users plummets and you tend to get a lot of echoes and people talking at the same time and so…

No Fines for Comcast

• Comment posted Jul 13, 2008 6:20 pm PDT — by Ian Woollard
  Comment removed by CircleID Admin as per Codes of Conduct.

• Comment posted Jul 13, 2008 5:46 pm PDT — by Ian Woollard
  Traffic analysis? Good thing there's no known ways to tackle that like 'Traffic flow security'. That was invented in WWII. What could go wrong? Really, as soon as you start treating your own customers like they were the enemy in…

• Comment posted Jul 12, 2008 11:19 pm PDT — by Ian Woollard
  I'm constantly stunned at how badly Richard Bennett fails to get this stuff. Comcast are currently using deep packet inspection to try to enforce network non neutralities. It's a daft, losing strategy. The reason it fails is because any company…

FCC and Comcast: Reasonably Vague

• Comment posted Jul 15, 2008 5:07 pm PDT — by Ian Woollard
  But you have to consider that, if the service providers really attempted to disclose it, if they really tried to explain the theory behind oversubscription and how it keeps broadband prices low, could it really be done in a way…

Counting the Bullets on the (Malware) Front

• Comment posted Aug 06, 2008 5:03 pm PDT — by Ian Woollard
  We need to stop enumerating badness. There's more bad applications out there than good, so a register of all the good applications would be smaller, and the good apps aren't trying to hide themselves.