Clug Notes (was Re: TransACT)
Peter Barker
pbarker at barker.dropbear.id.au
Sun Nov 25 23:55:30 EST 2001
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 jeremy at itassist.net.au wrote:
> The answer was "no technical issue, we just don't do it"
Yup.
> Peter?
Here's the notes I took. As usual, they're fairly crap.
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- transact peer-to-peer networking
- Robert Eckerman, Matt, ???, Michael, Geoff
- "opinion" floating around on the mailing list etc.
- taking it as read we all know about TransACT (thank god)
- leading edge
- international interest to several emails per week
- Phoenix, Arizona has a 26Mbit network
- but it may be shared?
- Full VOD is not supplied by any other mob
- Peer-to-Peer _is_ going to happen
- "Broadband user to Broadband user"
- "Broadband user to Local Service, Content and Application providers"
- ACT government
- "Broadband user to ISP or other VPN providers"
- ERX1400 router
- 10Gbit backplane
- all traffic goes through this
- possibility of upgrading to 40Gbit when needed
- generator backed....
- bounces from the default "Virtual Router" to another "Virtual Router", which then uses Radious to authenticate you.
- USER at L2TPISP gives access to
- layer 2 tunneling protocol
- transact does not get in the way
- USER at ISP gives ISP access
- if you have a real-world IP address
- presumably routing is done with TransACT?
- USER at TRANSACT
- Another virtual router, given a STATIC 10.x.x.x address.
- USER at TRANSACTISP
- some funky stuff going on with interception of traffic etc etc... local stuff goes here,
- speed capping
- will apply to the private network
- but may be able to have multiple VPNs, running at different speeds
- recommend firewalls
- not plans to supply firewall/blocking stuff themselves
- address ranges to apply blocking on was suggested
- that is, 10.0->127.x.x is open slather, 10.128->255.x.x disallows incoming to low ports etc etc etc
- asymmetricity
- partly the hardware vendors building their equipment for it...
- purely configuration, though...
- 6Mbit symmetrical sounds good....
- mentioned "telehousing" again
- rackspace at 1/2 commercial rate...
- ~ $1000 per month for the first one per month
- just starting to get to the corporate customers
- caching
- peer-to-peer links to other ISPs
- no plans to provide any "TransACT caches"
- idea of someone putting a publicly available proxy cache @ $2 per user etc
- laws?
- televisions feed content.... Radios?
- they've looked at it....
- ATM to each other???
- they've certainly looked at, but they're not sure if end users are interested....
- two concurrent logons?
- no!
- by policy
- possibly in future
- possibility to allow you to change rates up/down on-the-fly
- peer-to-peer and ISP at same time????
- they're testing....
- the ISP would have to help.
- no technical problems...
- there are already mutiple sessions e.g. video
- current STBs can only really do 1Mbit... 10Mbit boxes next year.
- very expensive boxes!
- slides to come on the web
- if you want to help TransACT, use their telephony services
- they don't worry too much about IP based telephony
- there are 4 pairs in cat-5
- 52 Mbit per pair. do the math.
- problem in Australia is bringing the MB in in internationally.
- Bob put the hard word... end of Novemeber?
- "Some integration with the customer management system"....
- programming needs to be doing
- expected date:
- none to give. Need to make an informed thingy.
Haskell, with Martin Schwenke
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- it's really funky
- the notes are available on the web at melvin.org(?)
- these notes will only cover the "extras" Martin throws in...
- booth talk in silly conference in Sydney...
- 3 minute preparation in hotel room
- this talk brought to you by emacs.
- and the number 8.
- Haskell
- lazy functional
- defined by the "Haskell Report"
- http://haskel.org
- made by academics
- no variables
- programming becomes simpler without them
- lisp
- good, but don't use setq ;-)
- IO is a bugger
- Miranda screwed that bit up
- the pizza time limit means he can't tell us the secrets here...
- call by vlaue/name, lazily
[ air guitar ]
- digression into emacs 21
- digression into Muilin Rouge
- by "variable" it means "identifier"
- low battery....
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Yours,
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