Political Insurrection and Whataboutism One of my relatives posted the following on Facebook: Hey Face Book fact checkers.....please check this out as I have read several things. Is it true that the Mayor
Political You Said It...! Although I sometimes think there's as much harm as good, I'm still on Facebook. It's a convenient place to see and share what's going on in the lives of friends
Social Security, the Pyramid Scheme This was first an extended comment on Facebook, and probably belongs here as much or more. A very conservative relative posted, ironically, a meme from Occupy Democrats about how Social
IETF White Supremacist Buddhist Statues What do you do when someone claims your photo from Tokyo might mark you a white supremacist?
Political Wise Restraints That Make Men Free "Freedom to" thinking tells us that the government should interfere as little as possible with the lives of its citizens, and let the market work itself out. "Freedom from" thinking tells us that government must interfere to remove impediments to liberty.
IETF ...as one who had authority [This post was started at IETF 104, and since IETF 105 is in a few weeks, I figure I'd better finish it.] There's an ongoing discussion in the HTTP community
Political Are Democrats "FOR" abortions? I saw a friend's mother post a somewhat slanted comparison of the party platforms, stating that Republicans are "FOR" "protection of the unborn", while Democrats are "AGAINST" this. The unstated
Political Medicare For All, Really Medicare For All has promise, but I'm not sure it's politically feasible in the USA. Maybe this is more feasible.
IETF IETF 101: Balance of Concerns There were many great conversations and much excellent work done last week at IETF 101 in London. As is so often the case lately, many of our decisions had to
IETF IETF 100: War for the Middle IETF 100 took place a few weeks ago in Singapore, and across multiple venues, there was one topic that surfaced repeatedly, and opinions vary so widely that we might almost
Political [Not] Kneeling in God's Country I've mostly stayed out of the whole "kneeling during the National Anthem" thing. But some things just tick me off, so I'm going to make a few comments.
IETF QUIC and Streams In my previous post, I talked about why QUIC matters to the future of the Internet. I'd also like to look a little more closely at why it matters to
Personal What kind of Architect? There's been an uptick in traffic around here lately, mostly because of people who know me at work or IETF getting exposed to my personal e-mail address on this domain.
IETF A QUIC Introspective In my long-ago last post on HTTP/2, I said that I would follow up with a discussion of QUIC and why I believe it's important. Real life has been
IETF A QUIC retrospection on HTTP/2 You may have heard this term "QUIC" floating around the Internet, and not known what to do with it. Is it an adverb? An acronym? A bad pun?
Political A Parable Let me tell you a story. Meet the Schmidts. They live in a semi-rural town, and between their jobs, bring in around $56,000/year. Grandpa Schmidt lives with them,
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