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Tue, 28 Jan 2003 04:13:31 GMT

This is the very last post that I will be making to the Radio iteration of the blog. Over the next 72 hours, DNS will propagate the pointers to the new site, which is already up and running in a preliminary form. The URL for the new site will simply be http://www.byte.org. There's much housekeeping to do over coming weeks, but now is the time to get out of Radio and fully into the new content management system. There are a lot more details regarding this transition that can be found on this post at the new blog. Please note that the archives and RSS feeds will continue to work at the URLs that they should, but that they are, in the case of the RSS, obsoleted by feeds at the new site, and in the case of the archives, will be duplicated by archives that will be moved to the new installation. There are also more details regarding this on the new site.

Sun, 26 Jan 2003 20:01:48 GMT

The prior three posts were actually leftovers from this past Friday that got stuck in the mailqueue for some reason. Yet another reason why I need to finish moving to MT.

Sun, 26 Jan 2003 19:57:02 GMT

Flush.

Sun, 26 Jan 2003 19:57:01 GMT

12:31pm - I have been on hold on my ISPs tech support line for 2 hours, 9 minutes and 38 seconds. I'm afraid to hang up and call back in case they are doing first come first served. Agh.

Rebid the Registry Now.

Sun, 26 Jan 2003 19:57:00 GMT

RGP will be a test of how much competition we have with the TLD registries. If they all launch at or about the same price, we've got some serious problems with competition. If we don't see at least one that offers this at a substantial discount, the ICANN community needs to have a serious conversation about how we can quickly provide the market with some real choice.

On the third day of spam season, Verisign sent to me...

Fri, 24 Jan 2003 13:34:30 GMT

I rarely get mail at home. My wife does, I don't, that's just the way it is. Today is different though. I got mail delivered to the house to the attention of Alex Grinberg from a company called "Network Solutions, A Verisign Company." Now I just need to find Alex so that we can open it together. More details tonight...

Remembrance of The Real Options Approach to Network-based Service Architecture

Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:08:15 GMT

I met Mark the first time a few years back at a seminar that Lessig put together with some help from Red Hat and a few other organizations. The event was really my first exposure to what living in an e2e world meant. It was a rather heady event (I see stars) and I can still clearly hear Mark proudly describing his new paper to Denton, Isenberg, Auerbach and myself over dinner.

Earlier this same evening I was exposed to the fact, for the first time, that Verisign might have to give up dotORG some day in order to keep what would ultimately be left of their monopoly. It didn't happen as quickly as was implied that night, but a few years later its nice to look back on the wisdom of that conversation with the knowledge that PIR is in place helping all of us make a new history that doesn't revolve around a monopoly.

Thu, 23 Jan 2003 22:38:06 GMT

"The company is also reasonably certain that none of the e-mail addresses are confidential, but are instead those listed in the Whois database" More at The Register.

They should know better than to send a 2mb attachment...

Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:54:26 GMT

Unbelievable...Eric Longman writes on Tucows reseller discussion list that "...at 6:47 this morning I got a 2MB email apparently from Network Solutions that contained nothing but a list of THOUSANDS of email addresses and the subject ".ORG Domain Name Update" More here.

Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:58:05 GMT

Wow - Radio really mangled that one eh? Sometimes its fun to chuck things into the radio-refinery via email and see what comes out - didn't expect that mess. I will fix it when I get home ;) [update: Fixed.]

The New Network Solutions - still sends the same old spam...

Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:53:36 GMT

At least I get Air Miles now...







	If you haven't done business with Network Solutions lately, you may not know about all the changes we've made to make working with us easier. Maybe you're familiar with the name. But while we started out as Network Solutions and were the first company to provide Internet domain names, we've evolved, as a division of VeriSign, to provide E-mail and Web site services as well. etc....etc....snip... Sincerely, John Donoghue Executive Vice President Network Solutions, Inc.

Wed, 22 Jan 2003 04:28:06 GMT

At some point over the next two weeks I am going to be cutting over to MT and my new webhost. I'd like to time it as close to the end of the month to make navigation as straightforward as possible because it doesn't look like I will be able to properly convert my Radio content into MT content - something which still bugs me to no end, but I've got to give up on as simply being impractical at this point. Given that this weekend is really the last one of this month, I will probably try to make things happen this Sunday.

I'm not sure what the TTL on my DNS looks like, so I might be off the air for a while...c'est la vie - this isn't a mission critical resource, so I'm not going to sweat it. :)

Its not Piracy if its been paid for...

Wed, 22 Jan 2003 04:23:02 GMT

Someone whom I would characterize as being a respectable, principled and honest person said something interesting to me today. Roughly paraphrased he said "I'd always been strongly opposed to piracy in any form for the obvious reasons until I realized that I've been paying for content that I've never bought through levies on the media that I buy."

Fri, 17 Jan 2003 06:47:48 GMT

via icann.blog, Sen. Burns "Tech Agenda" causes me some concern. Not only is it a no-win proposition as Brett points out, but it sounds more like something written by a hysteric. Whomever is paying the lobbyist that wrote this certainly got their money's worth. I just don't like the agenda.