Essays and Articles
Thoughts on technology, marketing, strategy, and more.
IPv4 Free Pool Depletion at ARIN – A New Projection
Long time IPv4 observer and prognosticator Tony Hain has just published a new report on ...
Sparking Creativity through Change
Creativity is like a muscle that needs regular exercise to get strong and stay strong, ...
Taking Stock (2012) and Starting Fresh (2013)
Predictions of our eminent demise have again been exaggerated and although b’ak’tun 13 has ended, ...
The Future of Home Networking: A Problem Statement
I’m a network engineer, and like many engineers I often gravitate to the big projects; ...
ARIN Election 2012
The fall ARIN meeting is just around the corner and that, of course, means it's election time again.
IPv6: What is it, why do I need it, and how do I get it?
The Colorado Chapter of the Internet Society (CO ISOC) recently held an event aimed at ...
A Chat with Steve Crocker
Steve Crocker is an Internet Pioneer. Steve organized the Network Working Group (the predecessor of ...
Pre-XXX ARIN Policy Update
With the Autumnal Equinox behind us, fall is in the air and that means we ...
WTF is SDN?
Buzzword alert! Like "Cloud" before it, "SDN" is quickly becoming all the rage, and, just like your favorite Gotye song - it's overplayed. Also like "cloud", SDN has some potentially very interesting (if not entirely new or well defined) implications. In this first-for-me post on SDN I will try to take a pragmatic look at what SDN actually is.