Microloops Explained (in video)

This is the blog post by Ivan I discuss in the video, and this is an older post here on Rule11 about the same topic, if you prefer your explanations written.

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Worth Reading: Hype to reality

Looking back, even long term industry veterans can’t remember so many ‘earth shattering’, ‘ground breaking’ and ‘industry changing’ solutions hitting the market, in such a short timeframe. SDN will revolutionize the way we manage networks, shortly after (or before) NFV will change the way we build them. And all of this will make 5G the savior of bandwidth hungry users, service providers struggling to find feasible business cases, and lonely fridges looking for ‘peers’ to talk to. All, of course, based on openness and full vendor interoperability. Why would anybody want to crash this party? —ECI

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Worth Reading: The introspective Ouroborus

Introspection can be lethal for a writer. Then again, so can water if you drink too much. If you can moderate your intake, it sustains you. —Arc

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Monkey on Your Back

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Worth Reading: Humans training their AI replacements

Some humans are already training the artificial intelligence systems that will take over their jobs, and reporters are wondering if their experiences offer the first glimpses of an exotic new future of diminished human utility that’s awaiting us all. —The New Stack

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Worth Reading: Bartering for privacy

If data is the new currency then why isn’t exchanging data for use of a service a barter transaction? If a doctor exchanges medical services for chickens, for example, that is a taxable event at fair market value. It’s a barter arrangement. A free service that sells user data is similarly bartering the service for data, otherwise said service would not be offered. —High Scalability

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On the ‘net: A New Routing Stack Comes to Town

While Quagga has always been the mainstay of the open source routing world, but this “granddaddy of open source routing stacks” has always suffered from a shallowness of community participation, a lack of a solid legal framework, and—probably more than anything else—a lack of automated and regular integration testing. In fact, the lack of a widely supported, thoroughly tested, and strongly founded open source routing stack has hindered the disaggregation and white box worlds for a long while. —ECI

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Worth Reading: We are not done with state sponsored hacking

It seems every election is likely to be disrupted by some form of hacking and the subsequent spread of fake news and stolen documents. Unfortunately, the problem won’t go away. —Monday Note

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Worth Reading: Openstack and complexity

It was only one T-shirt amongst the crowd of attendees at Monday’s opening day of OpenStack Summit 2017 in Boston, but it spoke on behalf of a good many others: “Make OpenStack Great Again.” —The New Stack

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Procrastination

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Worth Reading: RDNSS enabled in Windows 10

It is a pleasant surprise for many (us included) that Microsoft implemented support for the RDNSS (RFC 8106) option in Router Advertisements beginning with the Windows 10 Creators Update. Interestingly, I wasn’t able to find any official documents from Microsoft stating this. —Insinuator

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Worth Reading: IoT devices will never be secure

The biggest problem with IoT security is that most devices are going to be relatively simple and inexpensive connected things. The bandwidth consumption of these devices should be kept to the minimum to save bandwidth. Yet at the same time, security is supposed to be a continuous process. This involves a party that is responsible for keeping an eye on the various security vulnerabilities that emerge from time to time, and another one to make sure that suitable patches are being prepared and applied on timely basis. —CircleID

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Troubleshooting: Half Split

The best models will support the second crucial skill required for troubleshooting: seeing the system as a set of problems to be solved. The problem/solution mindset is so critical in really understanding how networks really work, and hence how to troubleshoot them, that Ethan Banks and I are writing an entire book around this concept. The essential points are these—

• Understand the set of problems being solved
• Understand a wide theoretical set of solutions for this problem, including how each solution interacts with other problems and solutions, potential side effects of using each solution, and where the common faults lie in each solution
• Understand this implementation

of this solution

Having this kind of information in your head will help you pull in detail where needed to fill in the models of each system; just as you cannot keep all four of the primary systems in your head at once, you also cannot effectively troubleshoot without a reservoir of more detailed knowledge about each system, or the ready ability to absorb more information about each system as needed. Having a problem/solution mindset also helps keep you focused in troubleshooting.
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Worth Reading: A simple start to project management

Being able to track your work efficiently is a very useful skill. For years I completed my work but rarely tracked my work in a project management professional (PMP) sort of way. Sure, I’ve done the weekly reports, sticky notes, Outlook tasks, and Outlook calendar block scheduling, which are all useful. However, simple project management skills help create a consistent and straightforward approach to managing time, resources, and tasks. —Life of a Network Admin

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Worth Reading: Automation and Jobs

Here is a milestone economics paper, showing that the new wave of automation is already a net destroyer of jobs. The next industrial revolution has begun, and the effects will accelerate from here. We have to start thinking about ways to divide the new wealth it produces — and handle the massive unemployment. —Fabius Maximus

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Managing Attention

This is Ethan’s post I talk about in the video on value and social media.

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Worth Reading: Enabling DNSSEC Validation

In July 2010, we saw an important Internet milestone: the Domain Name System (DNS) root zone was signed with DNSSEC, the DNS security extensions. DNS was designed without much thought given to security, but DNSSEC adds much-needed authentication and data integrity features. With DNSSEC, information in the DNS, including the root zone, can be cryptographically signed. DNS clients can validate the resulting signatures to have more trust that the data coming out of DNS is the same as what the owner put in and signed, and that the data hasn’t been modified in transit. —APNIC

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Worth Reading: Improving peering relationships in Japan

Route servers are used by many Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) — including our own at Japan Internet Exchange (JPIX) — to facilitate multilateral peering among various members. To better understand the peering characteristics of our members, we recently studied the routing table of our route servers operating at JPIX Tokyo and JPIX Osaka. —APNIC

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Turtle Fountain

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Worth Reading: Partner or die

If your job is process oriented, for example, calculating make-goods for improperly filled orders, your whole department will be automated soon. Don’t let the pink slip surprise you. If you analyze numbers in Excel, craft a narrative about them, and move them around spreadsheets, your employable days are numbered. Any white-collar job you can learn to do in a few days is threatened – even if it takes a lifetime to master. (Poker takes minutes to learn and a lifetime to master. So professional pokers players are at risk. Please read “Can Alexa Lie?” for details.) —Shelly Palmer

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