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		<title>Geoff Huston &#45; CircleID</title>
		<link>http://www.circleid.com/</link>
		<description>Postings from Geoff Huston on CircleID</description>
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		<dc:rights>Copyright 2013, unless where otherwise noted.</dc:rights>
		<dc:date>2013-04-21T12:57:00-08:00</dc:date>
		

		
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			<title> A Primer on IPv4, IPv6 and Transition (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130421_a_primer_on_ipv4_ipv6_and_transition</link>
			<description><![CDATA[There is something badly broken in today's Internet. At first blush that may sound like a contradiction in terms. After all, the Internet is a modern day technical marvel. In just a couple of decades the Internet has not only transformed the global communications sector, but its reach has extended far further into our society, and it has fundamentally changed the way we do business, the nature of entertainment, the way we buy and sell, and even the structures of government and their engagement with citizens. In many ways the Internet has had a transformative effect on our society that is similar in scale and scope to that of the industrial revolution in the 19th century. How could it possibly be that this prodigious technology of the Internet is "badly broken?" <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130421_a_primer_on_ipv4_ipv6_and_transition">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2013-04-21T12:57:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> "Multi-Stakeholderism" and the Internet Policy Debate (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130221_multi_stakeholderism_and_the_internet_policy_debate</link>
			<description><![CDATA[With WICT-12 over, and now the preparation for the forthcoming WTPF underway, and of course also we have the WTDC and WTISD coming up, one could be excused for thinking that that world famous, but hopelessly unintelligible, cartoon character from the 80's and 90's, Bill the Cat, has come out of retirement to work as head of Acronym Engineering at the ITU. However, no matter how unintelligible the acronyms of these meetings can get, the issue of how we come to terms with a technology-dense world is a serious matter.  <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130221_multi_stakeholderism_and_the_internet_policy_debate">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2013-02-21T20:41:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Addressing 2012: Another One Bites the Dust (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130107_addressing_2012_another_one_bites_the_dust</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Time for another annual roundup from the world of IP addresses. What happened in 2012 and what is likely to happen in 2013? This is an update to the reports prepared at the same time in previous years, so lets see what has changed in the past 12 months in addressing the Internet, and look at how IP address allocation information can inform us of the changing nature of the network itself. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20130107_addressing_2012_another_one_bites_the_dust">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2013-01-07T22:16:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Calling Stumps at WCIT: Win, Lose or Draw? (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121226_calling_stumps_at_wcit_win_lose_or_draw</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The problem with setting expectations is that when they are not fulfilled the fallout is generally considered to be a failure, and while everyone wants to claim parenthood of success, failure is an orphan. In that sense it looks like the WCIT meeting, and the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs) that were being revised at that conference this month are both looking a lot like orphans. There have been a number of reports of the outcome of the two week... Most of the blogs were quick to characterize the outcome as a loss for the dark forces that lurked somewhere in the closets of the ITU's headquarters in Geneva. But there is more to it than that. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121226_calling_stumps_at_wcit_win_lose_or_draw">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-12-26T14:36:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> To Flat or To Cap? (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121221_to_flat_or_to_cap</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I don't think it's a surprise to anyone, but it's the Christmas season again and doubtless a large number of television sets will be sold as part of the annual retail festivities. But these days the devices for sale in the shops are not just televisions: today's television is perhaps better described as a media computer with a very large display. Sure, the device can tune in to radio transmissions and display them... but the device also is equipped with either a WiFi or an Ethernet jack, or both. This alone sounds like a relatively innocuous addition to the television, but it's providing to be a highly disruptive change in the traditional Internet market space. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121221_to_flat_or_to_cap">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-12-21T09:43:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Superstorm Sandy and the Global Internet (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121201_superstorm_sandy_and_the_global_internet</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The Internet has managed to collect its fair share of mythology, and one of the more persistent myths is that from its genesis in a cold war US think tank in the 1960's the Internet was designed with remarkable ability to "route around damage." Whether the story of this cold war think tank is true or not, the adoption of a stateless forwarding architecture, coupled with a dynamic routing system, does allow the network to "self-heal" under certain circumstances. Can we see this self-healing in today's network? <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121201_superstorm_sandy_and_the_global_internet">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-12-01T14:05:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Carriage vs. Content (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120709_carriage_vs_content</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Does anyone remember the Internet before Google? And no, using Google to ask about the pre-Google Internet is not going to work all that well! For those of you who can recall the Internet of around 2000, do you also recall what debates were raging at the time? Let me give you a hand in answering that question. One big debate at the time was all about the relationship between the carriage service operators and the content providers, and, as usual, it was all about money. The debate was about who owed who money, and how much. Ten years later and it seems that nothing much has changed. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120709_carriage_vs_content">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-07-09T15:25:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> A Report on the OECD/BEREC Workshop on Interconnection and Regulation (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120628_report_on_oecd_berec_workshop_on_interconnection_and_regulation</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I presented at a OECD/BEREC workshop that was held on the 20th June in Brussels, and I'd like to share some personal impressions and opinions from this workshop. The OECD/BEREC workshop was a policy-oriented peering and exchange forum. It was not a conventional operational peering forum where the aim is to introduce potential peers to each other and facilitate peer-based interconnection of network operators, but a workshop that involved both network operators and various national and EU regulators, as well has having inputs from the OECD. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120628_report_on_oecd_berec_workshop_on_interconnection_and_regulation">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-06-28T12:33:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Measuring IPv6 - Country by Country (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120625_measuring_ipv6_country_by_country</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Some years ago a report was published that ranked countries by the level of penetration of broadband data services. You can find the current version of that report at the OECD web site. This ranking of national economies had an electrifying impact on this industry and upon public policies for broadband infrastructure in many countries. Perhaps this happened because there were some real surprises lurking in the numbers at the time. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120625_measuring_ipv6_country_by_country">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-06-25T20:51:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Occam's ITRs (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120621_occam_itrs</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It's been a quarter of a century since the world's governments convened to draft up a common set of regulations about the conduct of international telecommunications. In December of 2012 the world's governments will convene to reconsider these regulations, to hopefully sign an updated set of regulations. This time around, this activity is generating considerable levels of public interest. Congressional hearings in the United States have been held, and various pronouncements of intent from various governmental, regional, and industry groups have been made. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120621_occam_itrs">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-06-21T11:33:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> A Quick Primer on Internet Peering and Settlements (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/a_quick_primer_on_internet_peering_and_settlements</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The business world today features many complex global service activities which involve multiple interconnected service providers. Customers normally expect to execute a single paid transaction with one service provider, but many service providers may assist in the delivery of the service. These contributory service providers seek compensation for their efforts from the initial provider. However, within a system of interdependent providers a service provider may undertake both roles of primary and contributory provider, depending on the context of each individual customer transaction. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/a_quick_primer_on_internet_peering_and_settlements">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-04-19T11:59:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Number Misuse, Telecommunications Regulations and WCIT (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/number_misuse_telecommunications_regulations_and_wcit</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Another twenty five years has just zoomed by, and before you know it, it's all on again. The last time the global communications sector did this was at the WATTC in 1988, when "the Internet" was just a relatively obscure experiment in protocol engineering for data communications. At that time the Rather Grand telephone industry bought their respective government representatives... to the Rather Grandly titled "World Administrative Telegraph and Telephone Conference (WATTC) in November 1988 in Melbourne, Australia and resolved to agree to the Rather Grandly titled "International Telecommunication Regulations." <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/number_misuse_telecommunications_regulations_and_wcit">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2012-03-14T15:35:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> Hacking Away at the Internet's Security (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/hacking_away_at_the_internets_security</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The front page story of the September 13 2011 issue of the International Herald Tribune said it all: "Iranian activists feel the chill as hacker taps into e-mails." The news story relates how a hacker has "sneaked into the computer systems of a security firm on the outskirts of Amsterdam" and then "created credentials that could allow someone to spy on Internet connections that appeared to be secure." According to this news report this incident punched a hole in an online security mechanism that is trusted by hundreds of millions of Internet users all over the network. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/hacking_away_at_the_internets_security">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-09-17T10:45:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> IPv6 Transitional Uncertainties (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/ipv6_transitional_uncertainties</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The telecommunications industry has been around for quite some time. Whether you take it as a starting date the first efforts with the wired telegraph in the 1830's, or the telephone in the 1870's, this industry has been around for quite a long time. During this periods it has made huge achievements, and there is no doubt that the impacts of this industry have changed our lives in many ways... It is literally amazing that this industry has managed to preserve dial tone on telephone handsets while completely changing the underlying network and switching fabric of the telephone system numerous times. <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/ipv6_transitional_uncertainties">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-09-12T11:51:00-08:00</dc:date>
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			<title> The Rising Technical Challenges of Networking at Home (Featured Blog)</title>
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			<link>http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_rising_technical_challenges_of_networking_at_home</link>
			<description><![CDATA[For me, one of the more interesting sessions at the recent IETF 81 meeting in July was the first meeting of the recently established Homenet Working Group. What's so interesting about networking the home? Well, if you regard challenges as "interesting", then just about everything is interesting when you look at networking in the home! <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/the_rising_technical_challenges_of_networking_at_home">More...</a>]]></description>
			<dc:date>2011-08-03T09:11:00-08:00</dc:date>
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