https://www.circleid.com/blogs/ Postings from on CircleID en Copyright 2026, unless where otherwise noted. 2026-04-17T18:55:00+00:00 https://circleid.com/posts20200712-why-you-shouldnt-believe-network-speed-tests https://circleid.com/posts20200712-why-you-shouldnt-believe-network-speed-tests More...]]> 2026-04-17T11:55:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20170428_domain_names_are_fading_from_user_view https://circleid.com/posts20170428_domain_names_are_fading_from_user_view More...]]> 2026-04-17T11:55:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20160714_internet_quo_vadis_where_are_you_going https://circleid.com/posts20160714_internet_quo_vadis_where_are_you_going More...]]> 2026-04-17T11:55:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20160411_ntia_on_iot_icann_2 https://circleid.com/posts20160411_ntia_on_iot_icann_2 More...]]> 2026-04-17T11:55:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/posts20100315_whats_wrong_with_the_fccs_consumer_broadband_test https://circleid.com/posts20100315_whats_wrong_with_the_fccs_consumer_broadband_test More...]]> 2026-04-17T11:55:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/postsnetwork_neutrality_ups_and_fedex https://circleid.com/postsnetwork_neutrality_ups_and_fedex More...]]> 2026-04-17T11:55:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/postsgoogle_buys_verisign_not https://circleid.com/postsgoogle_buys_verisign_not bought Postini -- and one would have to be fairly naive to believe that Google does not intend to dredge through all... More...]]> 2026-04-17T11:55:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/postscircuit_breakers_dns_protect https://circleid.com/postscircuit_breakers_dns_protect More...]]> 2026-04-17T11:55:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/postslosing_control_of_the_internet https://circleid.com/postslosing_control_of_the_internet More...]]> 2026-04-17T11:55:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/postsinternet_zombies https://circleid.com/postsinternet_zombies Dave Farber's IP list, someone revived the ancient argument that ICANN imposes limits on the number of top level domains (TLDs) because to have more than a few will cause DNS to wobble and cause the internet to collapse. Although long discredited, that argument hangs around like a zombie. ICANN has never been able to adduce a shred of proof that there is anything to support that assertion... More...]]> 2026-04-17T11:55:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/postsquestioning_net_neutrality https://circleid.com/postsquestioning_net_neutrality not to be content neutral. Even before there was an IP protocol there were precedence flags in the NCP packet headers. And the IP (the Internet Protocol) has always had 8 bits that are there for the sole purpose of marking the precedence and type-of-service of each packet. It has been well known since the 1970's that certain classes of traffic -- particularly voice (and yes, there was voice on the internet even during the 1970's) -- need special handling... More...]]> 2026-04-17T11:55:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/postsgps_as_europe_is_to_us_controlled_dns_root https://circleid.com/postsgps_as_europe_is_to_us_controlled_dns_root More...]]> 2026-04-17T11:55:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/postsicann_does_something_technical https://circleid.com/postsicann_does_something_technical Guidelines for the Implementation of Internationalized Domain Names, Draft Version 2 [PDF] (pending approval by the ICANN board.) It's only four pages long, but those few pages contain a lot of significant material. More...]]> 2026-04-17T11:55:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/postsforgotten_principles_of_internet_governance https://circleid.com/postsforgotten_principles_of_internet_governance More...]]> 2026-04-17T11:55:00-07:00 https://circleid.com/postsabout_those_root_servers https://circleid.com/postsabout_those_root_servers More...]]> 2026-04-17T11:55:00-07:00