telecom recovery unlikely as long as best effort is industry's only business model

2004-05-28 Thread Gordon Cook
Since mid March I have been leading a private mail list and came out with a conclusion last weekend that there can be no telecom recovery as long as the industry relies solely on the best effort business model which I believe is not economically sustainable. This has led to two articles on my

why optical developments since 2001 are bad news for Carriers

2005-02-01 Thread Gordon Cook
I have written some material that I think will be of interest to list members. While layer three is great there is a whole new world building out there at layer one and two with cheap user rolled optical nets. This new world will I believe affect IP and IP routing in important ways. Optical

what happened to America's internet Future? - a pointer to an essay

2006-01-23 Thread Gordon Cook
that I hope you will enjoyHere with the first two paragraphs  -Capitalism in the United States in the 21st century has not moved forward with the rest of the world. We are still embedded in the post World War II mindset of America as the great economic power at the peak of the industrial age. While

Announcing Availability of free Cook Report back Issues

2003-08-06 Thread Gordon Cook
Well over a year ago someone on Nanog asked me why I didn't give away back issues. I said I planned to give them away at the Creative Commons web site. I sent a bunch to them on a CD rom but as far as I know nothing happened. OK - The wait is over and more than 10 years of back issues are no

Why Does the US Have Expensive & Obsolescent Broadband?

2003-11-03 Thread Gordon Cook
Why Does the US Have Expensive and Obsolescent Broadband? COOK Report, Comparing US and Canada, Scrutinizes Current State of Regulatory Gridlock Introduction - Eyes Wide Shut For the full story http://cookreport.com/12.10.shtml The talk is all about investment in broadband. But the reality is

Our findings on the emptying out of Title II

2003-11-03 Thread Gordon Cook
A Chain of Reasoning What follows is an interpretive summary of what we have learned in putting this issue together. It is designed to be a bare bones road map to the evolution of the regulatory landscape and the critical changes now in the balance. It should give a high level sense of how we

Re: Adding SpamAssassin Headers to IETF mail

2003-12-16 Thread Gordon Cook
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...we are planning to turn on SpamAssassin on all IETF mail... good would it be asking too much to add [ietf] to the subject line of each message? -- = The COOK Report on Internet Protocol, 609 882-2572 (PSTN)

Re: Adding SpamAssassin Headers to IETF mail

2003-12-17 Thread Gordon Cook
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:00:38AM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: I don't- IMHO it's stupid to waste the precious bits in the subject line to say "[ietf] " because there is no need for such. The messages can be filtered better using other thods as well, and humans can look at the headers.. I agre

Re: More frustrating that not having [ietf] (Fw: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender)

2003-12-17 Thread Gordon Cook
030 From: Mark Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Gordon Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Adding SpamAssassin Headers to IETF mail Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-12 Thread Gordon Cook
While one aging application does not constitute 'the Internet', this should be taken as an early indicator of things that are happing, with more to come. http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/eol/ Like it or not, the IETF must stop wasting time and effort building new structures on a crumbling framewor

Re: Last Call: Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 to Informational

2000-01-04 Thread Gordon Cook
OK Paul, lets give you the benefit of the doubt and say that your assertions below are absolutely right. Please explain then why it should become an informational RFC without having the comments of the RAB members attached to it? (Even though as Patrick said it is not common practice to do th

oh merde! Patrick F. and ICANN board error

2000-01-04 Thread Gordon Cook
Wiping red face. I carry a lot of ICANN data around in my head and I am generally pretty good at it. However my attention has been called to the fact that I screwed up on my association with Patrick as an ICANN board member. Following a few URL trails I see that he and Goeff Huston w

Re: oh merde! Patrick F. and ICANN board error

2000-01-05 Thread Gordon Cook
>At 09:38 PM 1/4/00 -0500, Gordon Cook wrote: > > I carry a lot of ICANN data around in my head and I am generally > >pretty good at it. However my attention has been called to the fact > >that I screwed up on my association with Patrick as an ICANN board > >member.

IP Everywhere - state of the Internet 2000http://cookreport.com/ipeverywhere.shtml

2000-01-24 Thread Gordon Cook
successful business strategies. For the first time the technology is likely to be as much affected by policy decisions of network design and global regulation as by the older unregulated Internet frontier mentality which drove the mad rush to add users, scale the network, and increase market shar

March COOK report Summary ONLY /Diff serv interview and 10 Gig Estandards/

2000-02-11 Thread Gordon Cook
GIGABIT ETHERNET RIDES ECONOMY OF SCALE AS IT ERASES LAN WAN BOUNDARY GIGABIT ETHERNET MAKES NETWORK LESS COMPLEX, EASIER TO MANAGE -- 10 GIG STANDARDS WILL DEMAND CHOICES AFFECTING ATM SONET WAN FUNCTIONALITY, pp. 1- 10 We interviewed Dan Dov Principal Engineer for LAN physical Layers with H

Apologies for double send !

2000-02-11 Thread Gordon Cook
I had one queued for IETF and stopped the transmission from eudora before it completed. Or so I thought! I had not finished my edits on it . The two pieces were not the same. But I sincerely regret letting the first escape eudora said it was still queued. Any way I sent it here primar

100th Issue of The COOK Report on Internet (September 2000)

2000-07-20 Thread Gordon Cook
Caimis Launched as CAIDA Commercial Spin Off Goal Is to Give Internet Industry its First Production Quality Network Management, Traffic Analysis and Location Sensitive Measurement Tools pp. 1 - 8, We interview Tracie Monk, Kim Claffy (kc), David Moore, and Daniel

Light, PI Gig E - 2001 Annual Report seehttp://cookreport.com/lightipgige.shtml

2001-02-02 Thread Gordon Cook
Light, IP and Gigabit Ethernet A Road Map for Evaluation of Technology Choices Driving the Future Evolution of Telecommunications - 2000 COOK Report Interviews - Introduction to the 6th in an annual series. Contrary to some opinions, the COOK Report finds that the Internet revolution is not s

table of contents - june cook report on internet

2001-04-15 Thread Gordon Cook
The COOK Report on Internet June 2001 (Vol. 10, No. 3) CONTENTS Netera Offers CWDM Gig E Backbone -- SUPERNET to Bring Fiber to Entire Province --Focus on Alberta in Assessing Canadian Development in Current Economic Downtu

contents July COOK Report on Ethernet in the first mile

2001-05-12 Thread Gordon Cook
The COOK Report on Internet July 2001 (Vol. 10, No. 4) CONTENTS Tools For Access And Scaling: Ethernet In The First Mile, 10 Gig In Backbone, ENUM In PSTN -- Jonathan Thatcher & Howard Frazier Explain Standards Goals Of EFM

Empowering the Customer or Empowering the Telco - State of the Internet 2002 (abridged) Published annually to the IETF list

2002-01-06 Thread Gordon Cook
r Cochrane, the former CTO of British Telecom in an article Broadband Won't Happen by Accident. See the Canarie list on 12/30/: http://www.canarie.ca/MLISTS/news2001/0228.html. Here Cochrane suggests that as the ILECs collapse those who step into to pick up the pieces could affordably

one copy sent to list but THREE returned

2002-01-06 Thread Gordon Cook
I sent but a single copy of 'empowering' to the list. It returned THREE to me. If everyone else got 3, my apologies. If anyone can inform me as to what happened i'd appreciate it. -- The COOK Report on Internet, 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing

We Should be Overcoming ICANN by Listening to Paul Baran

2002-03-20 Thread Gordon Cook
We Should be Overcoming ICANN by Listening to Paul Baran On June 23, 1995 Paul Baran, the inventor of packet networks gave a talk at the MARCONI CENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM Bologna, Italy. He end his talk with four paragraphs that seven years later and after almost 4 years of ICANN read like prophecy

Re: RFC3271 and independance of "cyberspace"

2002-05-01 Thread Gordon Cook
Keith you have put your finger squarely on the nub of what is wrong with this RFC . I recommend to you and other list members the essay of Yochai Benkler. Grab the whole essay with the following URL. Benkler asks that we consider what we are doing. Building the perfect shopping mall or the

Report on Peering and Transit Economics (etc)

2002-09-29 Thread Gordon Cook
I have published an extremely detailed report on the economics, technology, and politics of peering and transit. At http://cookreport.com/11.08-09.shtml you will find the complete introductory article, contents and list of 25 contributors to the effort. The report centers on interviews with

Re: Comments and alternatives to draftt-huston-ietf-pact-00(long)

2002-11-21 Thread Gordon Cook
this has to be a new record for the ietf's broken mail list software. I have now received 12 copies of johns 23 kbs 11:52 am essay -- The COOK Report on Internet, 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) [EMAIL PRO

Re: Root Server DDoS Attack: What The Media Did Not Tell You

2002-11-23 Thread Gordon Cook
Louis Touton is Vice President and General Counsel of ICANN. yes true ICANN has had a root server advisory committee from early days, working on root server placement to improve resilience; would you be kind enough to offer a url that points to what this group has done? they had a CRADA t