From IETF74 San Francisco to “The Wearable Sixth Sense”
So it has been a few weeks since the IETF74 held in San Francisco, California on March 22-27, 2009.
With a packed agenda, one could imagine that the meetings were quite busy.
At the IAB Technical Plenary we listened to various speakers representing the vendor and service provider community who participated in the following MPLS panel entitled: “MPLS turns 12: A successful protocol’s history and lessons learned”
One point emphasized during the course of the discussions, was that there should have been a focus on OAM from the beginning, something that the current protocol developers are focused on.
With regard to so called “complexity,” one of the service provider participants asserted that there is an association with desired capabilities, mechanisms required for time to market differentiation to “complexity,” concluding that service providers themselves are often the source of complexity.
I would be very interested in your thoughts on this topic.
IPv6 and various tunneling mechanisms were indeed part of various meeting agendas at the IETF74. One of my colleagues, Eric Vyncke, is author of RFC 5514, “IPv6 Over Social Networks” with an abstract that commences and includes a working prototype by the way:
“There is a lack of IPv6 utilization in early 2009; this is partly linked to the fact that the number of IPv6 nodes is rather low. This document proposes to vastly increase the number of IPv6 hosts by transforming all Social Networking platforms into IPv6 networks. This will immediately add millions of IPv6 hosts to the existing IPv6 Internet.”
I wrote about IPv6 in a previous blog posting literally one year ago.
And by the way, I will be in Beijing April 15, 2009 speaking at the Global Mobile Internet and IPv6 Next Generation Internet Summit 2009.
Again, it would be great to hear your thoughts about IPv6.
Ok, let’s move into the “wearable sixth sense.”
As you know I have written about teleportation, quantum computing, holograms, and semantic web technology in my past blog postings, but what about a notion of a wearable sixth sense?
Pranav Mistry and his colleagues have been working on wearable sixth sense at Pattie Maes’ MIT Lab [under the Fluid Interfaces Group].
Here you can hear and see a cool demo at the TED February 2009 Conference.
Beyond cell phones?
Posted by Monique Morrow at 08:18AM PST
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