Hello again! Apologies for the extended silence but April proved to be a very chaotic month here – too many children and bank holidays involved. Anyway, I’ve used the extended break to catch up on my reading and there are a couple of interesting items I’d like to share…
As someone with absolutely no technical background, I wanted to devote at least part of my Easter reading to acquiring a better understanding of internet technology. I still have a long way to go but, as a thought-provoking introduction, I thoroughly enjoyed Richard Bennett’s ITIF paper, Facts of Life: The Citizen's Guide to Network Engineering. As well as describing the underlying technologies, Bennett’s paper also manages to comment on some of the controversy surrounding the development of traffic management techniques, e.g.
“The Internet’s dynamic process of self-modification is the key to its longevity and utility. It would be a supreme error for any regulatory body to insist that the Internet should be declared a finished system forbidden from further improvement”.
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