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Issue 78: Battles over strong encryption, IPv4 addresses exhausted while IPv6 surges
Two articles in each of two threads this week:
- If Strong Encryption is Outlawed...
- Allocations of IPv4 Internet Addresses Now Restricted; It's a Good Thing IPv6 is Finally Here
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Thursday Threads: Machine-Meaningful Web Content and Successful IPv6 Test
Two threads this week: the first is an announcement from the major search engine on a way they agree to discover machine-processable information in web pages. The search engines want this so they can do a better job understanding the information web pages, but it stomps on the linked data …
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IPv4 Address Space Disappearing, Here Comes IPv6
Last week in DLTJ Thursday Threads I posted an entry about running out of IP addresses. Since I posted that, I've run across a couple of other stories and websites that bring a little more context to the consequences of last week's distribution of the last blocks of IP addresses …
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Thursday Threads: So-called "Internet Kill-switch", IP address exhaustion, demographics of P2P piracy
This week of DLTJ Thursday Threads covers a wide range of topics. First, from a public policy perspective, is news that the U.S. Senate has a bill proposing the study of an internet "kill-switch" that some are speculating could behave like what happened in Egypt last week. Next, from …
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Thursday Threads: Print-on-Demand, Video Changing the World, Puzzling Out Public Domain, and more
I'm starting something new on DLTJ: Thursday Threads -- summaries and pointers of stories, services, and other stuff that I found interesting in the previous seven days. This is culled from entries that I post to my FriendFeed lifestream through various channels (Google Reader shared items, citations shared in Zotero, Twitter …
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Vint Cerf on the Origins of 32-bit IP Addressing
Via a weekly wrap-up post by Dion Almaer on the Google Code Blog comes mention of a Google Tech Talk video from their IPv6 Conference 2008. It is a panel discussion called "What will the IPv6 Internet look like?" and it offers insight into the difficulties of transitioning to the …
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