Brian Trammell

In the late winter of 2006, I realized, on a train from somewhere between Freilassing and Rosenheim, after an interop in Salzburg leading up to IETF 65 in Dallas, that I was probably going to have to move to Central Europe.

For the next decade or so, the southern edge of my small home city on the north side of Zürich will be a complex linear construction site, after which we’ll have a segment of a bicycle highway between Zürich and the upper Glatt Valley, and a mostly-brand-…

As a left-leaning white kid who grew up in what turned out to be a dying Southern city, going from a fully-integrated Montessori elementary school in a neighborhood named after the white flight it later suffered to an East Memphis middle school whose hist…

I waited long enough to write about Kein 10-Millionen Schweiz that I get to do so in the past tense, with a sense of relief, albeit incomplete.

And welcome, once again to my blog, the last seven years of which seem dominated by me talking about the technical aspects of keeping my blog up to date.

That people “disappear” into Google after joining (especially from academia) is a complaint so often told that it’s nearly a cliche… says the Googler whose last blog post, about joining Google, was over two and a half years ago.

A couple of months ago, I posted about leaving academia.

About three years ago I started working part-time (20%) on SCION, a secure, available future Internet architecture.

Looking back over the arc of my career in pseudoacademia, especially over the last three years of digging into transport stack evolution with the MAMI project, there are a few bits of work I’m especially happy to have been a part of.

The IETF uses Jabber for instant messaging during working group meetings, as does the IAB for its own teleconferences and meetings.

I always love going to Schloss Dagstuhl, a retreat for computer scientists in the middle of nowhere in Saarland, Germany.

A year and some after Switzerland’s plucky protofascist poster art collective cum Trumpist political party, the SVP (Swiss People’s Party), screamed Verfassungsbruch!

I’m writing today from Berlin, after an excellent Passive and Active Measurement conference and a very long but fruitful week in London for IETF 101, which, for me, came to be dominated by the The Spin Bit.

I don’t think I’ve ever written a completely optimisic post about politics, but today seems as good a day as any to try.

My opinion on Billag(1) is complicated.

Tomorrow, I’ll take part in a panel discussion at ETH Zürich, entitled “Internet and Trust”.

Internet architecture and Internet-centered research being a global enterprise, I spend between four and seven weeks a year on the road, depending on which year, your definition of road and your definition of week, and a fair amount of time in teleconfere…

On the shores of Lake Sarnen in central Switzerland, there’s a museli factory.

Wasting time at Christmas by burning the site to the ground and starting over seems to be a tradition around here…

Wow, that year went quickly, on which more later.

This is the most recent academic paper describing an ongoing project.

I’m off to New York in a couple of weeks to present a paper at PAM (which I mentioned here, though sadly the flashy automated demo I was hoping to build was a bit optimistic).

In German, there’s a word for an organization which takes its mission very seriously but is adorably incompetent at it: “Kaninchenzüchterverein” (lit.

The issues identified in of part one of this post led to yet another search for solutions to the problem of making (especially passive) measurement repeatable.

Part one of this post painted a somewhat bleak picture of the state of Internet measurement as a science.

Mail is broken.

In the back of the pantry at the house I grew up in in Memphis, there was always a stack of little plastic tubs of dried candied “fruits” of various colors (I say “colors” because the flavor was invariably “sugar”).

I spent quite a lot of time in 2014 thinking about the following problem: if I hand you a paper that claims something about the Internet, based on data I cannot show you because I am bound by a nondisclosure agreement due to corporate confidentiality or u…