[User] User Digest, Vol 6, Issue 3

[Mike Liebhold]

Of possible interest: ( please forgive cross posting)

Please join us next Tuesday 1/27 in Palo Alto for the next event in the 
Institute for the Future's Second  Curve Internet (Insurgent Internet)  
Speaker Series

What should Version 2 of the Internet look like? ,And how should we get 
there?

IFTF Second Curve Internet Speaker Series with Peter Eckersley—January 
27, 2015

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The Internet's core protocols—TCP, IP, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS—have served us 
very well for the past twenty to thirty years. But all of these 
protocols have limitations that are beginning to bite us in various 
ways. Because of these limitation, our global network is less secure, 
less reliable, and harder to innovate with.

In this talk, EFF Technology Projects Director Peter Eckersley will give 
a tour of those limitations, and review some of the current efforts to 
upgrade the Internet's protocols to fix them.

This includes the newly announced Let's Encrypt certificate authority, 
which EFF is working on with Mozilla, Cisco, and Akamai, that aims to 
make HTTPS free and ubiquitous. It also includes an analysis of 
essential features of other efforts to upgrade TCP, IP, and DNS such as 
IPv6, DNSSEC, and QUIC, and the difficulties that Internet engineers 
face when they try to change the protocols used by a planet-wide network.

In IFTF's new Second Curve Internet Speaker Series, we explore the 
critical elements necessary to reinvent the Internet, gathering leading 
minds together with IFTF’s deep experience thinking about technology and 
the ways of communicating, coordinating, and organizing in the changing 
world around us.

Join us for our January event featuring Peter Eckersley!

Peter Eckersley is Technology Projects Director for the Electronic 
Frontier Foundation. He leads a team of technologists who watch for 
technologies that, by accident or design, pose a risk to computer users' 
freedoms—and then look for ways to fix them. They write code to make the 
Internet more secure, more open, and safer against surveillance and 
censorship. They explain gadgets to lawyers and policymakers, and law 
and policy to gadgets.

Peter's work at EFF has included privacy and security projects such as 
Panopticlick, HTTPS Everywhere, SSDI, and the SSL Observatory; helping 
to launch a movement for open wireless networks; fighting to keep modern 
computing platforms open; and running the first controlled tests to 
confirm that Comcast was using forged reset packets to interfere with 
P2P protocols.

Peter holds a PhD in computer science and law from the University of 
Melbourne; his research focused on the practicality and desirability of 
using alternative compensation systems to legalize P2P file sharing and 
similar distribution tools while still paying authors and artists for 
their work. He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security 
and Cooperation at Stanford University.



Event Details

DATE: January 27, 2015

TIME: 6-8pm

LOCATION: Institute for the Future, 201 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto, 
California 94301

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  Sign up here: 
http://www.iftf.org/our-work/global-landscape/ten-year-forecast/reinventthenet/second-curve-internet-series-what-should-version-2-of-the-internet-look-like/

By the way - if you missed the first two events in the series: with Cory 
Doctorow and David P. Reed, The Videos are online here:

Redesigns for a Broken Internet - Cory Doctorow [Video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J_9EFGFR-Y

"The Internet's broken and that's bad news, because everything we do 
today involves the Internet and everything we'll do tomorrow will 
require it. But governments and corporations see the net, variously, as 
a perfect surveillance tool, a perfect pornography distribution tool, or 
a perfect video on demand tool—not as the nervous system of the 21st 
century. Time's running out. Architecture is politics. The changes we're 
making to the net today will prefigure the future our children and their 
children will thrive in—or suffer under."

Cooperate and Thrive, or Divide and Conquer?  David P. Reed

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RAnHWPS-Iw



  "You never step into the same river twice. So it is with the Internet. 
The Internet transcends any particular physical devices, any particular 
services, country boundaries etc. But today it remains a collection of 
rivers, with firm banks, a few major sources, and a vast 
undifferentiated ocean of "consumers."

The Internet has begun to encompass the air around us. That is, almost 
all of us in the West now carry the Internet with us, maintaining 
constant connections to the rivers, attempting to create "rivers" in the 
sky. Technically, rivers in the sky makes no sense at all. What will the 
next phase of the Internet look like? How will it be built?

In this talk we will focus on two major technology issues that challenge 
the future evolution of the Internet—radio networking architecture and 
proximate interaction. In each, the core principles that helped the 
Internet succeed are being discarded. What will happen?"




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