http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/ Tracking key issues for independent ISPs: changes in policy, technology and monopoly business practices. en-us 2008-10-15T16:40:13-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/10/asterisk-business-edition-cont.html Digium continues to do the right things to make open source software attractive to small business. Today's news story is courtesy of VoIP Planet, Skype Meets Asterisk. Skype, of course, is a proprietary and sometimes controversial system but there's no... agoldman 2008-10-15T16:40:13-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/10/its-october-do-you-know-where.html Pedro reminds us all that October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. It may seem cheesy, but it's actually a good reminder that now is the time to sell security. In his article, Pedro notes that this is the start... agoldman 2008-10-02T16:17:20-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/09/motorolas-airdefense-acquisiti.html Just a quick note to point out this article on Wi-Fi Planet. The acquisition shows that Motorola continues to work on positioning its fixed wireless offering as a unique product for demanding customers.... agoldman 2008-09-30T14:51:02-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/09/usda-has-342-million-to-dish-o.html The .pdf file is dated September 17th, the press release is dated September 24th, and we heard about it today. The USDA announced that it has awarded $342 Million 18 companies. WISPs are small. If the USDA were serious about... agoldman 2008-09-29T09:48:01-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/09/know-your-filters-isps-block-w.html This happens. Today, we learn that some ISPs in Finland thought that W3C.org, which makes the web accessible to those with disabilities, was a child porn site. Previously: In The Name of Blocking Child Porn, Another Barrier To Entry Know... agoldman 2008-09-29T09:26:06-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/09/org-the-most-secure-domain.html Just a quick post to point out this excellent article on internetnews.com. It's great to see that at least one TLD is adopting DNSSEC, something that, we recently pointed out (see The DNS Vulnerability and the ISP), everyone should do.... agoldman 2008-09-26T10:05:40-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/09/isps-like-this-deserve-to-be-s.html Nobody is willing to name names to me on the record, but I do hear complaints from some ISPs about other ISPs. Most ISPs run legitimate businesses, but some host spammers or worse (actually, it's hard to tell the difference... agoldman 2008-09-24T13:36:57-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/09/bus-company-vs-the-internet-in.html This has happened before. Clay Shirky told the Freedom to Connect Conference earlier this year about a bus company in France that sued cleaning women who were sharing rides for running a bus company. Now BoingBoing notes that the same... agoldman 2008-09-19T10:51:45-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/09/suing-the-president.html You can read about this all over the internet. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing Bush, Cheney, and the National Security Agency (NSA) over warrantless wiretapping. Here are the stories on: Wired's threat level blog BoingBoing BBR Cory Doctorow is... agoldman 2008-09-18T15:51:37-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/09/this-would-help-small-business.html On his blog, Brad Templeton's thinking about how often the law that protects consumers doesn't ever apply, in a post called What to do when the default law is only for suckers. He's making the right suggestion. Rather than create... agoldman 2008-09-16T11:21:20-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/09/government-will-sue-your-custo.html Wired's Threat Level blog notes, Proposed Copyright Law a 'Gift' to Hollywood, Info Groups Say. Not content with its own massive lawsuit operation, the music industry is asking the government to initiate and foot the bill for its lawsuits. So... agoldman 2008-09-11T11:58:24-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/09/new-phishing-scam-pretend-to-b.html They don't need warrants and don't need evidence. And now, they might be criminals. The Register in the UK is reporting that criminals like the mafia tactics of copyright enforcement so much that they're paying those tactics the sincerest form... agoldman 2008-09-04T12:18:54-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/09/bbr-fcc-loves-ilecs.html The actual title of the article is FCC To Stop Collecting Phone Reliability Data. Karl Bode writes, "If you didn't know, the FCC is pretty cozy with the nation's largest phone companies, rarely meeting a merger or baby bell proposal... agoldman 2008-09-04T10:11:56-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/isp-ceo-credits-key-technician.html Being a CEO blogger is risky. Jupitermedia's CEO Alan Meckler was, I believe, one of the first CEOs to blog. Meckler shares his experience, which goes back to the start of the commercial internet, but he also gives credit to... agoldman 2008-08-29T13:10:13-05:00 http://blog.isp-planet.com/blog/2008/08/bbc-level-3-deal-could-be-bad.html Broadband Genie in the UK reports that the BBC may switch from Akamai to Level 3 to deliver content from its iPlayer. The change would cost small ISPs money. Whereas Akamai will set up a server in a small ISP,... agoldman 2008-08-27T10:18:31-05:00