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ENUM: Mapping the E.164 Number Space into the DNSMar 30, 2006
Telecom Impact on Per-Capita GDPMar 24, 2006
Freedom to ConnectMar 23, 2006
Telecom Policy Review Panel Calls For Net Neutrality Legal SafeguardsMar 23, 2006
David Farber on Net Neutrality: Reaction to the Current "Debate"Mar 22, 2006 Dave Farber was recently interviewed as part of the 37th KMB Conference, March 8, 9, &10, 2006 held at St. Petes Beach FL. Dave Farber provides the following background information and link to this video interview: "We have seen the Internet become a truly mass market phenomenon, reaching more than half of all American households. Broadband networks have been and are being deployed that are moving us towards higher levels of speed and capability. My concern with all of the debate and discussion I've reviewed to date is that there is far too little solid, in depth analysis and understanding on all sides and their implications on the future of the Internet." ›››
What If They Simply Made Communications Technology Better?Mar 20, 2006
Spring VON Final ThoughtsMar 20, 2006
Skype: When Good Press Releases Go BadMar 16, 2006
Give Us TVoIP, Not IPTVMar 16, 2006 A buzzword in the cable/ilec world is IPTV, a plan to deliver TV over IP. Microsoft and several other companies have built IPTV offerings, to give phone and cable companies what they like to call a "triple play" (voice, video and data) and be the one-stop communications company. ...I'm at the pulver.com Von conference where people are pushing this, notably the BellSouth exec who just spoke. But they've got it wrong. We don't need IPTV. We want TVoIP or perhaps more accurately Vid-o-IP. ›››
Communications Policy for 2006 and Beyond: VoIP as a Case in PointMar 15, 2006 In this article, published in the Federal Communications Law Journal (›››
Secure Voice over IP: Zfone ReleasedMar 14, 2006 Philip Zimmermann, creator of PGP, has announced the first official release of Zfone -- a system for encrypting any SIP VoIP voice stream. Below is Philip's introduction on Zfone as posted on his ›››
Is the U.S. Dancing to a Different Drummer?Mar 13, 2006
A Very Shallow Gene PoolMar 09, 2006
My "Industry Perspective" at Spring VON Next WeekMar 08, 2006
Today's Carrier Networks as Trollways?Mar 08, 2006
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Many communications networks are constructed for a single form of communication, and are ill suited to being used for any other form. Although the Internet is also a specialized network in terms of supporting digital communications, its relatively unique flexibility lies in its ability to digitally encode a very diverse set of communications formats, and then support their interaction over the Internet. In this way many communications networks can be mapped into an Internet application and in so doing become just another distributed application overlayed on the Internet. From this admittedly Internet-centric perspective, voice is just another Internet application. And for the growing population of Voice over IP (VoIP) users, this is indeed the case... 
Over the last ten years, 
The 
I promised to finish up my VON posting after getting back, and wanted to comment briefly on two keynotes I particularly enjoyed. First was Tim O'Reilly, who is Jeff Pulver's counterpart in the Web 2.0 space. Jeff and Tim's worlds are increasingly sharing a common orbit, and I hope we'll see more cross-pollination here in future shows. Actually, Tim's presence struck me as the only really fresh wrinkle in the VON format, and I suspect -- and hope -- to see more content moving beyond voice to encompass things like Web 2.0 and video. Tim message about tech innovation had parallels to Jeff's keynote... 
Burton Group issued a 
Is the United States in full retreat from internationally recognized regulatory best practice? Or is it instead headed toward some different destination -- "dancing to the beat of a different drummer"? Where is this likely to lead? The following is an introduction to a 
The recent announcement that (new) AT&T will merge with (medium new) BellSouth doesn't change the current policy landscape very much. The dinosaurs are huddling ever-closer in the snow, hoping to survive whatever changes are ahead. It's a smart move on AT&T's part. Sheer numbers (70 million phone customers, 22 states, $130 billion in sales) may speak to AT&T's investors in a way that their business plans may not. 
As I keep pointing out -- there is indeed a viable alternative of a real marketplace not a fake one. Today's system is a fake because it depends on capturing the value of the application - communications - in the transport and that is no longer possible because with the Internet the value is created OUTSIDE the network. One example of the collateral damage caused by today's approach is the utter lack of simple wireless connectivity. Another is that we have redundant capital intensive bit paths whose only purpose is to contain bits within billing paths. |
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