Internet standards
This content is 11 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Here’s my (rather rushed) personal submission to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in response to their Call for Expressions of Interest in new work around HTTP; specifically, a new wire-level…
This content is 12 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Adobe kills mobile Flash, giving Steve Jobs the last laugh, reports The Guardian’s Charles Arthur following the late Steve Jobs’ epic Thoughts on Flash rant 18 months ago. It’s been…
This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.It’s no secret that I’m no fan of Adobe Flash: Why Adobe Flash penetration is more like 50% than 99% Towards a Flash free YouTube killer (was: Adobe Flash…
This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Today’s rant is coming between me and a day of skiing so I’ll keep it brief. While trying to get to the bottom of why I can’t enjoy offline…
This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Following some discussion on Twitter today I posted this thread to the nosql-discussion group. You can see the outcome for yourself (essentially, and unsurprisingly I might add, “please feel…
This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.What’s wrong with this picture? There’s not a single provider for telephony (AT&T, T-Mobile, etc.) There’s not a single provider for text messaging (AT&T, T-Mobile, etc.) There’s not a…
This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Earlier in the year during the formation of the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) working group I described three types of cloud infrastructure “compute” services: Physical Machines (“Bare Metal”)…
This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.Yesterday I apparently struck a nerve in revealing Twitter’s “Tweet” Trademark Torpedoed. The follow up commentary both on this blog and on Twitter itself was interesting and insightful, revealing…
This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.In order to scratch an itch relating to the Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) I submitted my first Internet-Draft to the IETF this week: Web Categories (draft-johnston-http-category-header). The idea’s…
This content is 14 years old and may not reflect reality today nor the author’s current opinion. Please keep its age in mind as you read it.A couple of weeks ago I asked Is OCCI the HTTP of cloud computing? I explained the limitations of HTTP in this context, which basically stem from the fact…