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APRICOT 2026 (Jakarta, February 2026)

Central Asian Peering and Interconnection Forum, Bishkek, 24-25 September 2024

ZANOG 2025 (Durban, April 2025)

RIPE Southeast European Regional Meeting (Sofia, April 2025)

Since Deepseek has released distilled Qwen models under a generous MIT license, it’s simpler than you might expect to create a quick assistant for small reasoning tasks on your own hardware.

The following prompt was supplied to a distilled instance of Deepseek-R1:32B, running on my desktop machine with a single GPU (an NVIDIA RTX A4500 with 20GB of VRAM).

In the summer of 2024, preparing to spend time at the Berkman Klein Center as a new fellow, I spent some time thinking about AI and law.

IETF121 / IRTF Global Access to the Internet for All (GAIA RG) (Dublin, 6 November 2024)

RIPE89 Measurement and Tools Working Group (Prague, 29 October 2024)

Central Asian Peering and Interconnection Forum, Bishkek, 24-25 September 2024

Thanks to everyone who responded to my earlier post about the need to preserve and curate the history of Internet measurement for future historians.

I could have happily been a librarian.

When you said ‘AI’ in the 1990s, you meant symbolic AI .. and decades of work and many millions of dollars went into the construction of the ontological foundations atop which edifices of symbolic reasoning would one day be built.

An unedited dialogue with ChatGPT.

In part 1, I gave two predictions: that the Ukrainian Internet would prove resilient as Russia’s attacks on infrastructure continue, and that Central Asian connectivity could become more diverse in response.

Looking back, I suspect 2022 will be remembered as a year in which conflicts and crises shaped our collective attitudes toward infrastructure and the Internet in interesting ways.

Central Asian Peering and Interconnection Forum, Astana, 17 Nov 2022

Internet Society Tech Talk Series (11 May 2022)

I finally found a quiet afternoon to pull together a set of my old presentations from the Renesys and Dyn Research days, and reconstruct the timeline.

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MENOG 16 (Istanbul, 23 March 2016)

ENOG 10 (Odessa, 13 October 2015)

ENOG 10 (Odessa, 13 October 2015)

DNS-OARC meeting (Montreal, 2015)

APNIC 40 (Jakarta, 10 Sep 2015)

RIPE Regional Forum (Tbilisi, 19 May 2015)

Central Asian Internet Symposium, Bishkek (Dec 2014)

Moscow Internet Exchange Peering Forum (Moscow, 2014)

NANOG 62 (Baltimore, 7 Oct 2014)

Eurasian Network Operators Group 8 (Baku, 14 Sep 2014)

MENOG 14 (Manama, 30 March 2014)

NANOG 59 (Phoenix, 9 Oct 2013)

EPF8 (Rekjavik, 11 September 2013)

Capacity (Prague, 27 June 2013)

CITI (NYC, 20 June 2013)

Eurasian Network Operators Group 5 (St Petersburg, 27 May 2013)

Tunis IXP Workshop (Tunis, 29 April 2013)

MENOG 12 (Dubai, 6 March 2013)

EuroIX Forum (Stockholm, 13 November 2012)

TRNOG2 (Istanbul, 1 June 2012)

ENOG3 (Odessa, 23 May 2012)

MENOG 12 (Dubai, 30 April 2012)

NANOG 54 (San Diego, 6 Feb 2012)

Harvard Berkman Center Luncheon Series (Cambridge, 1 Nov 2011)

MENOG 9 (Muscat, 3 October 2011)

Eurasian Network Operators Group 1 (Moscow, 6 June 2011)

MENOG 8 (Al Khobar, 14 May 2011)

NANOG 51 (Miami, 1 Feb 2011)

MENOG 7 (Istanbul, 22 October 2010)