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Dan York
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May 21
WebRTCHacks Publishes Analysis of Facebook and WhatsApp Usage of WebRTC
Those articles are summaries explaining the findings, with much-longer detailed reports also available for download:
Both of these walk through the packet captures and provide a narrative around what is being seen in the discovery process.
A common finding between both reports is that the services are not using the more secure mechanism of DTLS for key exchange to set up encrypted voice channels. Instead they are using the older SDES mechanism that has a number of challenges, but, as noted by the report, is typically faster in enabling a call setup.
All in all the reports make for interesting reading. It's great to see both Facebook and WhatsApp using WebRTC and I think this will only continue to help with the overall growth of WebRTC as a platform. As an audio guy, I was pleased to see that Facebook Messenger is using the Opus codec, which is of course the preferred codec for WebRTC... but that doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be implemented by companies using WebRTC within their own closed products. Kudos to the Facebook team for supporting Opus!
Thanks to Philipp Hancke for writing these reports and I look forward to reading more in the series!
May 21
The Scourge Of Cancer Strikes More People I Know
The Scourge Of Cancer Strikes More People I Know by Dan York
May 19
Verizon Wireless Nears 70% IPv6, AT&T Crosses 50%, More…
The latest World IPv6 Launch measurements are out for May 15 and as my colleague Mat Ford explains in a blog post, there’s a lot of great momentum happening! My attention was drawn to the fact that Verizon Wireless is at 69.1%… at their current rate they should cross over 70% by next month:
As Mat noted, AT&T broke through the 50% IPv6 mark this month and has the kind of growth chart you love to see:
Looking at the May measurements, T-Mobile USA also continues their solid growth as do Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Telefonica del Peru.
Mat’s post also dives into some of the newer entrants such as Saudi Arabia’s Saudi Telecom Company.
All around great news to see! IPv6 deployment is happening! 
If you’ve started deploying IPv6 in your network, why not sign up to have your network counted in the measurements? It’s free and you’ll help the global technical community gain more insight into the true status of IPv6 deployment.
And if you haven’t started with IPv6 yet, please do visit our Start Here page to find resources to get going! The time is now!
May 18
Watch Live Today – 2nd Annual InterPlanetary Networking Conference
How do we extend the Internet to outer space? How do we build a truly "interplanetary" Internet? Today, Monday, May 18, 2015, this topic is being discussed at the 2nd Annual InterPlanetary Networking Conference in Washington, DC, where the focus is on "Delay & Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN)". Participants include Vint Cerf and teams from NASA, Boeing, the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and others involved with space exploration.
You can watch the conference live from 9:00am to 5:00pm US EDT (UTC-4):
Dan York
May 18
The Hobson & Holtz Report #808: How digital leaders outperform their peers
Intro: New FIR website goes live (and a hint of more to come), FIR’s new Pinterest account – and a board for sharing books for young communicators;
Quick News: How T-Mobile blew $200K on a campaign against Verizon, Domino’s to roll out tweet-a-pizza in the US, the town in Spain that runs on Twitter, gay-themed traffic lights get Vienna in the mood for the Eurovision Song Contest; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop;
News That Fits: How digital leaders outperform their peers; Michael Netzley’s Asia Report: Singapore’s media authorities enforce new internet content provider guidelines to shut down a political blog; where are the videos in corporate newsrooms?; listener comments in audio and in the FIR Podcast Community on Google+; seven top futurists’ surprising predictions about what the next decade will bring; Igloo Software promo; Dan York’s Tech Report: with Bryan Person in Keene, New Hampshire; the past week on the FIR Podcast Network;
Music from KA Morton; and more.
Links related to content discusse don this week’s show are on Delicious.
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May 16
TDYR 246 – Interview with Bryan Person About Lithium, Austin, Social Media and more
TDYR 246 - Interview with Bryan Person About Lithium, Austin, Social Media and more by Dan York
May 15
The People of Nepal Need Our Help
Updated: 15 May 2015
On 25 April a powerful 7.8 earthquake devastated the country of Nepal. Two weeks after the initial quake, there are more reports of another major earthquake hitting near the town of Namche Bazar, near Mount Everest.
All our Chapter members have reported that they are safe.
These earthquakes already claimed the lives of more than 5 000 people, injured thousands more and left tens of thousands of people without homes and supplies.
The Internet Society has a Chapter in Nepal and has been working on Internet related projects in the region since 2007.
Right now, humanitarian and aid organizations need your help to help serve areas affected by the earthquake.
Lia Kiessling
Dan York
May 14
TDYR 245 – Live-tweeting a Conference… From 200 Miles Away!
TDYR 245 - Live-tweeting a Conference... From 200 Miles Away! by Dan York
