Not the optimal moment for daylight savings to kick in and rob everyone of an hour’s brain rest. Praise be for caffeine.
Bob Frankston - Professional iconoclast and heckler
Greasing the path, retaking the edge. Make it Simply Stupid (MISS)
Commoditize transport. Crypto essential (stops value added in the middle).
Internet is too smart. Induces thoughts about owning value. Fuck ‘em Strategy.
Water is water, bottled water is an option for the too rich. Static IP address bad, need GUID. You should control routing, not have someone else. IP mobility brings back circuits. Discovery mechanism from other nodes much simpler. Just works. No way to sell differentiated services. Marketplace is inorexible.
Don’t ask don’t tell is the principle. [Beyond end-to-end]
Lindsey Annison - British broadband campaigner
US can help [UK] BB campaigns. BB not about technology. ADSL strategy in the UK. ADSL isn’t broadband. Live in rural area. Suffering badly. Communities are taking control. Can do mentality.
Putting in antennas base stations, mesh boxes. Set up as co-ops. Social and economic benefits stay in communities, not behemoth telcos.
Having to do everyting – maintenance, installation, billing, bandwidth management. Have to manage scarce bandwidth. One user might ask everyone else to stay off network. Sometimes have to knock on people’s door. Like having a shared line in the old days.
Organic building networks is the only way, don’t have access to capital
Malcolm Matson - British entrepreneur
Scarcity and value. Very powerful investment in the center. Generation of revenue by allocation of scarce resource. Scarcity gone away. Artificially put computers in the middle to keep it scarce.
All the talent at the edge. Fighting against broadcasters and publishers.
Inevitible as the wheel we will win out, just WHEN? Will be big political battle, lots of bruises.
Gerry Gleason - Ethical global commons
Issues are larger than us. Commons doesn’t always commons. Traffic is an example of tragedy of the commons. But harder to add more road than to build more telecom. Not cheap, but as a chared resource, not expensive per person.
Horizontal org, modularity, standards.
Too few people on internet, not enough connected.
New economic models, commons-based peer production
Russ Nelson - Economist
Many hats. Wearing hacker hat today. No policy in the middle of the network.
[Lucent and their policy manager.] Holds smart IP phone. Earlier demo.
Smart by itself, but doesn’t need any other devices.
But problem is that it doesn’t have any concept of other devices than itself and other SIP phones. Have electronic rolodex at work. Can’t cut’n’paste to phone. Phone has web browser. Can’t fix it, not an open source phone.
Have position paper on the need to open software.
Example #2 is cell phone. Thinks it’s a smart device, but really depend on network. Has pseudo-GPS, talks to towers, and dependent. No API to get at location.
Newer phones have an API. Layered model. h/w. Device drivers. Session management. UI. [I didn’t really understand what he was getting at here. Any other WTFers want to clarify?]
Newer phones programmable in Java. Can’t replace UI etc in Java. Making the devices too smart is a problem.
Q: Thoughts on Eli Noam’s market failure thesis
A: No such thing as market failure. They just operate the way they do. You can choose to not like it. Bad luck.
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Slight correction: Rather than "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", I said "Don't Ask, Just Tell" -- you are in control and can do the talking. But I guess it's a reminder that a play upon an internalized phrase is too risky -- cute but futile.
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