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2nd FCC Workshop on PSTN Transition Streaming Live Today (Featured Blog)

Today, December 14, 2011, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is holding the second of two workshops on the transition of the PSTN to new technologies. The workshop started streaming live this morning at 9:30am US Eastern. The FCC’s note abo…

2nd FCC Workshop on PSTN Transition Streaming Live at 9:30am – Taking Questions Via Email and Twitter

Today, December 14, 2011, the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is holding the second of two workshops on the transition of the PSTN to new technologies, as I described last week. The workshop will be streamed live today starting at…

Video Recording Now Available of FCC Dec 6th Workshop on PSTN Transition (Featured Blog)

If you missed attending or listening to the live stream of the US Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) workshop on the transition of the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to new technologies that was held last week on December 6th, the FCC h…

Internet Society Joins Chorus of Those Opposing SOPA

Yesterday the Internet Society formally joined the opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (a.k.a. "SOPA" – background info available) with a statement from the Internet Society Board of Trustees: http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/?p=4932 The statement says in part: The Internet Society Board…

New WordPress 3.3 Available With Much Simpler User Interface, Uploading

The folks over at Automattic announced last night that WordPress 3.3 is now out and, as per usual, provided a spiffy little video to highlight the new changes: I’ve already updated one of my sites and am indeed impressed by…

Dilbert On Using Skype Versus Flying To A Meeting…

Brilliant Dilbert comic on December 8th: Well said… in this era of so many different communications and collaboration tools, the need to fly somewhere for a "quick meeting" should hopefully be reduced. I fully understand the need for face-to-face meetings……

Heading to Boston for USENIX LISA 2011 Conference Dec 8 and 9

Today I’m driving about 2 hours southeast into downtown Boston to attend the USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference. As I wrote about on an ISOC blog, the head of my team within the Internet Society, Richard Jimmerson, will…

Slides: Does Anyone Really Give a _____ About VoIP Security?

Does anyone really give a (insert favorite profanity) about VoIP security? That was the key question I asked in the presentation I have to the recent 2011 ITT Real-Time Communications Conference. Technically, my talk with titled "The State of VoIP Security", but I decided to have a little bit of…

The State of VoIP Security, a.k.a. “Does Anyone Really Give A _____ About VoIP Security?”

Does anyone really care about VoIP security? Why should they? What are the main issues? At the 2011 Real-Time Communications Conference sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), Dan York spoke about all these questions and ga…