http://www.circleid.com/ Postings from Karl Auerbach on CircleID en Copyright 2008, unless where otherwise noted. 2007-07-09T21:51:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/google_buys_verisign_not http://www.circleid.com/posts/google_buys_verisign_not bought Postini -- and one would have to be fairly naive to believe that Google does not intend to dredge through all... More...]]> 2007-07-09T21:51:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/circuit_breakers_dns_protect http://www.circleid.com/posts/circuit_breakers_dns_protect More...]]> 2007-04-03T08:41:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/losing_control_of_the_internet http://www.circleid.com/posts/losing_control_of_the_internet More...]]> 2007-03-09T12:47:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_zombies http://www.circleid.com/posts/internet_zombies Dave Farber's IP list, someone revived the ancient argument that ICANN imposes limits on the number of top level domains (TLDs) because to have more than a few will cause DNS to wobble and cause the internet to collapse. Although long discredited, that argument hangs around like a zombie. ICANN has never been able to adduce a shred of proof that there is anything to support that assertion... More...]]> 2007-01-08T09:54:00-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/questioning_net_neutrality http://www.circleid.com/posts/questioning_net_neutrality not to be content neutral. Even before there was an IP protocol there were precedence flags in the NCP packet headers. And the IP (the Internet Protocol) has always had 8 bits that are there for the sole purpose of marking the precedence and type-of-service of each packet. It has been well known since the 1970's that certain classes of traffic -- particularly voice (and yes, there was voice on the internet even during the 1970's) -- need special handling... More...]]> 2006-02-10T13:04:53-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/gps_as_europe_is_to_us_controlled_dns_root http://www.circleid.com/posts/gps_as_europe_is_to_us_controlled_dns_root More...]]> 2005-12-29T10:45:46-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_does_something_technical http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_does_something_technical Guidelines for the Implementation of Internationalized Domain Names, Draft Version 2 [PDF] (pending approval by the ICANN board.) It's only four pages long, but those few pages contain a lot of significant material. More...]]> 2005-11-08T20:04:44-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/forgotten_principles_of_internet_governance http://www.circleid.com/posts/forgotten_principles_of_internet_governance More...]]> 2005-10-22T09:45:10-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/about_those_root_servers http://www.circleid.com/posts/about_those_root_servers More...]]> 2005-08-01T12:33:01-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_power_of_google http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_power_of_google More...]]> 2005-07-26T14:14:58-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/an_infrastructure_tld_avoiding_the_side_effects_of_todays_net http://www.circleid.com/posts/an_infrastructure_tld_avoiding_the_side_effects_of_todays_net More...]]> 2005-06-01T10:38:29-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/protecting_the_internet_certified_attachments_and_reverse_firewalls http://www.circleid.com/posts/protecting_the_internet_certified_attachments_and_reverse_firewalls More...]]> 2005-03-16T13:50:24-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_net_top_level_domain_and_cross_coupled_failures http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_net_top_level_domain_and_cross_coupled_failures More...]]> 2005-01-21T12:00:23-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/are_we_attending_the_right_icann_meeting http://www.circleid.com/posts/are_we_attending_the_right_icann_meeting More...]]> 2004-12-06T09:12:31-08:00 http://www.circleid.com/posts/an_open_letter_to_ntia_icann_and_iana http://www.circleid.com/posts/an_open_letter_to_ntia_icann_and_iana More...]]> 2004-10-10T17:00:58-08:00