"Did I leave the light on when leaving the house?" 5 kilometres from home, Nathalie Trenaman finds the answer to her question via her mobile phone. In her spare time, she implemented the IPv6 protocol onto home devices to try to figure out if IPv6 is the driver behind the Internet of Things?
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Fragmentation of the net ahead?
Routing security sounds like a nice idea, yet in "post Snowden" times the trust in centralised core resources has vanished even more. Internet adminstrators warn against fragmentation, while at the same time making use of one tool that could go in that direction: the RPKI system.
Europe pushes rewind button on net neutrality
The EU draft regulation on a “ connected continent “ has made one thing clear: the fight around net neutrality is far from over. What's more, the fire has set the European Commission ablaze.
Slovenia out of luck as pioneers out for lunch
Is Slovenia at the avant-garde of communications policy? One says yes, the next says no. Where lies the thruth? Read the first of our country-by-country series on smaller countries in Europe and their approaches, ideas and implementation of internet policy.
No European net neutrality legislation after all
Net neutrality proponents are in shock. Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes, they think, failed them on the finish line for a regulation.
This week the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meets in Berlin. In this guest commentary Fred Baker , longtime IETF chair, calls upon the technical community, legislators and researchers to make a stronger effort in advancing privacy online.
EuroDIG discusses variants for EU net neutrality rule
Details about a future European net neutrality rule are still lacking, but competing models from EU member states are already on the table. Should it be a law, like in the Netherlands and Slovenia, or are co-regulatory guidelines like in Norway doing the job. The Internet Policy Review's Monika Ermert was at EuroDIG this week and found some leads.
The 4th generation mobile or LTE network coverage in the European Union looks like a patchwork blanket. Reasons for the different speeds in building and offering the newest mobile broadband network vary, and as Monika Ermert finds out, business analysts simply cannot agree.
For many years the internet address registry for Europe and the Middle East RIPE has managed a scarce resource: IPv4 addresses. Since September, IPv4 addresses have run out. At the 66th meeting of the RIPE community in Dublin this week, discussions addressed the question of whether the end of the IPv4 protocol should also mean abandoning the “
Germany, Sweden, Spain, Italy, Portugal, France and recently The Netherlands and the UK have all allocated new spectrum in the 800 MegaHertz (MHz) band to providers of mobile broadband service, especially LTE (Long Term Evolution). Despite this new development, EU Commission Vice-President and Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes is not