Monday, June 13th is the birthday of James Clerk Maxwell, the inspiration for our network emulators! James Clerk Maxwell was born 13 June 1831. Among his many contributions to physics, James proposed a thought experiment called “Maxwell’s demon” that suggests that the Second Law of Thermodynamics could be violated …

NTIA has published a Notice for Public comment that is titled “The Benefits, Challenges, and Potential Roles for the Government in Fostering the Advancement of the Internet of Things”. This could become ICANN-2, bigger, longer, and uncut; and with a much greater impact on the future direction of the internet.

However, my thoughts on this go well beyond the possibility of another ICANN …

The ground breaking FCC ruling on Net Neutrality has continued to stir the debate on whether corporations or the government should be in charge of regulating the use of the internet. Last week The Wall Street Journal published an article by Holman W. Jenkins: The Gigabit Distraction. This article makes some misleading and “distracting” claims about network neutrality …

Since the Heartbleed bug was exposed in April, one thing has become apparent: the underlying infrastructure of the Internet—and the applications and services that rely on open source projects like SSL and TLS to operate—are extremely vulnerable. And now, many network professionals believe that the only way to make it more secure is to provide oversight into the underlying infrastructure of the Web …

As both the CTO of IWL and an attorney, the recent report of the SSL failure in the iOS code concerns me, but not for the reasons in the tech press. This incident once again raises the question of why software seems immune from the laws of liability that apply to other kinds of products? …