* Posts by wwwhatsup

7 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Sep 2009

Internet Society's Vint 'father of the 'net' Cerf dodges dot-org sell-off during public Q&A

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> At a two-day meeting this weekend, its board voted unanimously to allow its CEO Andrew Sullivan to enter into negotiations with Ethos Capital.

If you follow your link there it goes to the meeting on October 29 2019. Obviously such negotiations had been pretty much concluded before the announcement on Nov 13

As to ISOC Netherland's statement. it's from the Chair. Unlike ISOC, where there is sufficient transparency to see Board unanimity, ISOC Netherlands do not publish their minutes. There are 120+ other Chapters/SIGs, none of whom has issued a similar statement.

Lend me your ears and AI will play with your brain: Machine voice imitators outsmart us

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Go

VIDEO OF THIS AND SIMILAR PRESENTATIONS AT NDSS

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfUWWM-POgQvk44ZNBQ9v4FcQ0VtaZ9Yk

The Pew 'gig economy' study is here, and it's grim

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Platform Cooperativism Conference video

Last week there was a 3 day conference in NYC on exactly this topic. Two days of plenary video are available at https://livestream.com/internetsociety/platformcoop2016

LTE-U vs. WiFi fight gets closer to a settlement

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Isn't WiFi offload generally free of data charges, whereas LTE-U will not be? Thus the whole thing is lose-lose for consumers?

China's Internet Society backs online censorship

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FAIL

Internet Society Of China

Can I just emphasize that Internet Society of China (ISC) is not affiliated with the global Internet Society (ISOC).

The article is misleading in this respect.

Top level domain explosion could wreak MAYHEM on NET

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FAIL

Says it all.

“It's a bunch of FUD,” he said, referring to the scenarios painted by Ray and other critics. “Yes, if domains like wpad or localhost or localdomain were assigned, bad things might happen. Those domains aren't going to get assigned. It's not like there aren't layers of approval that have to go in place to get a top level domain.”

Says it all.

Hackers strike OneWebDay idealists

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FAIL

spaced out?

Dreamspace?