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Late last month I attended the 92nd meeting of the IETF, the Internet Engineering Task Force. For those unfamiliar, the IETF is an international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers. It’s open to any interested individual, and most of its work is conducted over the Internet. The mission of the IETF is to: […]

The Internet is an interesting phenomenon. I say phenomenon because it’s more than a single network or technology, larger than any single nation or continent, and serves a multitude of purposes for people all over the world. I say interesting because it is fundamentally unlike anything we’ve seen before; it’s an experiment that escaped the […]