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Google's Adsense1 team has apparently decided that it is the morality police and that this 2012 story we wrote, about a lawsuit involving a porn star and the rapper Bow Wow, is somehow improper and a violation of Google's high moral standards. The story involves no nudity or porn. It's about how the porn star…

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I go back to the International Forum on the White Paper (IFWP). (Like Jeff, I was very young.) The Department of Commerce had just issued the White Paper, and there was a proposal that we pass control of the critical Internet identifiers to a new not-for-profit corporation with a bottom-up Multistakeholder way of making policy and an international board of directors.

The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.

As ICANN turns 25 and I turn 51, I realize that I have literally spent more than ½ of my life working in the domain name industry and with the first multistakeholder experiment originally called NewCo (later called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"). My first interaction with NewCo, after the Green Paper, White Paper, Internet Forum for the White Paper, etc., was an Intellectual Property attorney at the law firm of Arter & Hadden.

Personal history of Tom Van Vleck. The history of electronic mail and instant messaging, written in 1965 for MIT Computation Centers CTSS timesharing system and later re-implemented on Multics.

Today, we are more connected than ever. Take a trip through history exploring the evolution of the internet: how we got our most impactful modern invention.

Profile page of John Berryhill on CircleID

One of the topics we keep coming back to at Systems Approach is “when should a feature be made part of a platform”. This question is at the heart of much of the work we have done over the years, and it is a reason we keep returning to the End-to-end argument in all sorts of contexts. This week we’re looking back at how the arguments played out in the context of traffic engineering.

A handful of demos shaped today’s networked world