Abstract : The Internet research community has in recent years taken a renewed interest in the long-standing global Internet routing scaling problem. Much of this research has taken the form of much-needed "clean-slate" research, where ideas are pursued unconstrained by the installed base. Our research group takes an opposite but complementary approach. We look for solutions that are economically motivated and therefore have a decent chance of actually being deployed.

Title : Scaling the Internet with LISP

Abstract : During the last years, several solutions have been proposed to better scale the Internet. The Locator Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) proposed by Cisco is one of the solutions that has attracted most interest. In this talk, I'll present the current state of the LISP specification being discussed within the IETF and will explain the remaining issues and challenges.

The patent protection system was designed a long time ago to encourage companies to publicly disclose their industrial and trade secrets so that other companies could use them later. In exchange of this public disclosure, companies received a protection as a period of exclusive usage. In recent years, we've seen a growth in the number of submitted patents and surprisingly, the patent examiners have granted patents to dubious inventions such as :

On September 1st, gmail was down for about 100 minutes. This is not the first time that gmail suffered from a failure and probably not the last one neither...

More and more software development is done by teams that rely on version control systems to share the source code and work together. Researchers also frequently use version control systems to cooperate on writing articles. CVS that was the defacto standard in the early days has been replaced in many environments by subversion. Recently, git and mercurial were proposed as a better alternative to subversion.

Based on data collected from 67 different ISPs, Arbor Networks has started to analyse the behaviour of Internet traffic. In a first blog post that should be followed by others, Craig Labovitz compares the daily evolution of the volume of Internet traffic in both the US and Europe.