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Kuala Lumpur Mandates WiFi for All Restaurants and Bars

• Comment posted Jan 17, 2012 7:32 pm PST — by Bob Frankston
  Many, if not most, venues in the US with free "Wi-Fi" require you use a WEB browser to login or click "agree". This makes it difficult to use devices for connectivity. Does anyone know if the mandate will require "just…

The Rising Technical Challenges of Networking at Home

• Comment posted Aug 03, 2011 7:27 pm PDT — by Bob Frankston
  I very much agree that homes are not islands and we should view connectivity in terms of relationships not paths. Rather than attempting to build on current network-centric protocols we need to take a fresh look based on edge-to-edge relationships.…

Internet Census: 4 Billion Addresses Just Not Enough for 7 Billion People

• Comment posted Feb 01, 2011 8:26 pm PST — by Bob Frankston
  We should think about an address per chip not an address per person. 4 billion was never enough for deployment and I complained when I first heard about the 32 bit address. Moving to IPv6 is necessary but doesn't address…

FiOS: A Reality Check

• Comment posted Dec 21, 2009 4:55 pm PST — by Bob Frankston
  As you note the measurements I made were very casual. The main point is that there wasn't that much magic in Fiber as FiOS is now offered. As to that one Internet — of course we do have a maze…

ICANN to Drop Yugoslav's .YU Domain

• Comment posted Sep 30, 2009 9:42 pm PDT — by Bob Frankston
  Next we’ll purge all history books of references to Yugoslavia because the name is no longer in use? George Orwell would be impressed by the efficiency of modern technology – we don’t need to cut and paste to purge history.…

Carriers Are Trying to Take Back Control of the Home Network

• Comment posted Jan 23, 2009 5:01 pm PST — by Bob Frankston
  I don’t hate the carriers as much as I feel their pain and we suffer their problematic business model. They are in an untenable position in having to fund their infrastructure by selling services. It’s a structural defect and that’s…

• Comment posted Jan 22, 2009 4:59 pm PST — by Bob Frankston
  “If Ethernet or fiber in the house were more prevalent [sic], they would add that as an option, but it is not.” And that’s the problem — the dead hand of the past and its death grip on the future.…

• Comment posted Jan 22, 2009 3:13 pm PST — by Bob Frankston
  They only support Coax to the STBs and their VoD makes it very difficult to use a dualWAN router. I can only run the wires the way they choose to allow me to. I am the professional and they are…

• Comment posted Jan 22, 2009 3:19 am PST — by Bob Frankston
  There is traditional telecom/CE issue which is about delivering products at low cost to a large market. The key is to find the commonality that creates a large market for silicon and while creating opportunity for the unanticipated. Normalizing on…

• Comment posted Jan 21, 2009 3:31 pm PST — by Bob Frankston
  A key element of the Internet is the decoupling of the transport protocols from the application protocols. This is what has enabled the rapid evolution of each. The reason I cited IEEE-1394 was that it’s the antithesis of this approach…