robertshaw.info Telecoms, Internet and Convergence  04 December 2002 ITU and Cisco Systems to Expand Internet Training Centre Initiative ITU Press Release:  ITU and Cisco Systems to Expand Internet Training Centre Initiative.  2:14:52 PM    Google It!     Toward Lowering the Load on DNS Root Nameservers Toward Lowering the Load on DNS Root Nameservers (PDF) by Duane Wessels of The Measurement Factory and CAIDA, suggests that over 95% of the roughly 100 million daily queries to each root server are invalid and unnecessary queries.  1:16:18 PM    Google It!     Mapping the Internet Two university research pieces for those interested in mapping the Internet. Boston University's: On the Geographic Location of Internet Resources (PDF) and the University of Washington's: Rocketfuel: An ISP Topology Mapping Engine.  12:07:20 PM    Google It!     Distributing the K-Root Service by Anycast Routing RIPE NCC operates the K-root server (k.root-servers.net). They have recently published a draft on Distributing the K-Root Service by Anycast Routing of 193.0.14.129. The application of anycasting to providing DNS services was explored in a number of Internet drafts which eventually became the informational RFC 3258: Distributing Authoritative Name Servers via Shared Unicast Addresses. RFC 3258 describes how authoritative name servers with the same IP address could be replicated at different locations. The route to these servers would be advertised for each location and the routing protocols would direct traffic to the topologically nearest server. See my earlier note on this topic.  11:57:01 AM    Google It!     ITU-T Workshop on Satellites in IP and Multimedia The ITU-T, on 9-11 December 2002, is hosting a Workshop on Satellites in IP and Multimedia. An advance program is available.  11:39:26 AM    Google It!     New Korean ENUM Site in English The Korea Network Information Center has made available a new English language ENUM site.  11:31:35 AM    Google It!     ITU Asia-Pacific Telecommunication Indicators Report Coinciding with ITU TELECOM Asia 2002,  the ITU has published its 5th edition of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunication Indicators. A presentation (PDF) with highlights and extracts is available as is a related summary of the report. The report demonstrates the Asia-Pacific region has now become the world's largest telecom market. Asia-Pacific also leads in advanced Internet technologies such as broadband access and mobile data. The Republic of Korea and Hong Kong, China, are the top two economies in the world in terms of broadband Internet penetration. In mobile Internet, Japan and the Republic of Korea were the first two nations to launch third generation cellular networks commercially. The region also has the largest percentage of Internet users. These exploits corroborate the view that the global telecommunications epicentre is shifting from North America and Western Europe to the Asia-Pacific region. Also see the related ITU Press Release.  11:20:41 AM    Google It!

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