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How IPv6 will work as IPv4 wanes

How IPv6 will work as IPv4 wanes

...unused, so there's still breathing room. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has already produced IPv4's successor, IPv6. There's just the small... Read more

2 February, 2011 by Tim Chown

Google-backed DMARC system aims to block phishers

...group plans to submit its specification to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for standardisation.For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Antiphishing... Read more

30 January, 2012 by Elinor Mills

WebSocket browser tech nears completion

...development at Kaazing, which commercialises WebSocket. "There's a meeting of the IETF [Internet Engineering Task Force] at the end of the month in Prague... Read more

22 March, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Iana allocates final IPv4 address blocks

...the internet architecture board of the non-profit Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), said at the press conference that organisations that switched to IPv6 would... Read more

4 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Google adds VP8 video tech to standards group

...VP8 Data Format and Decoding Guide on the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) website earlier in January, but that does not signal it is becoming... Read more

24 January, 2011 by Stephen Shankland
Coordinated TCP Westwood Congestion Control for Multiple Paths Over Wireless Networks

Coordinated TCP Westwood Congestion Control for Multiple Paths Over Wireless Networks

Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP) has just been approved by the IETF. It was designed to be fairly shared with regular TCP, so its... Read more

18 January, 2012
MPLS-TP - The New Technology for Packet Transport Networks

MPLS-TP - The New Technology for Packet Transport Networks

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Telecommunication Standardization Sector of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T... Read more

1 January, 2012
Provide a Model for Handover Technology in Wireless Networks

Provide a Model for Handover Technology in Wireless Networks

...MIPv6 (FMIPv6) has been proposed to reduce the Handover latency, in the IETF. It could not find the acceptable reduction, so led to more efforts... Read more

1 September, 2011
Enhanced Distributed Mobility Management Schemes for NGWNs

Enhanced Distributed Mobility Management Schemes for NGWNs

The IETF IP working group is working on the solutions to address the deployment... Read more

18 August, 2011
A Novel Overlay Network for a Secure Global Home Agent Dynamic Discovery

A Novel Overlay Network for a Secure Global Home Agent Dynamic Discovery

Mobile IP and Network Mobility are the IETF proposals to obtain mobility. However, both of them have routing limitations, due... Read more

10 August, 2011
A Location-Based Handoff Scheme Based on IEEE 802.21 in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

A Location-Based Handoff Scheme Based on IEEE 802.21 in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) proposed 802.21 Media Independent Handover Function (MIHF) in 2006 to help... Read more

1 July, 2011
Evaluating the Performance of RPL and 6LoWPAN in TinyOS

Evaluating the Performance of RPL and 6LoWPAN in TinyOS

...increasing interest to connect Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) to the Internet, the IETF has proposed standards that enable IPv6-based sensor networks. Specifically, the IETF... Read more

14 April, 2011
Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Congestion Control for Multipath TCP

Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Congestion Control for Multipath TCP

Multipath TCP, as proposed by the IETF working group mptcp, allows a single data stream to be split across... Read more

2 March, 2011
Wire-Compatible Unordered Delivery in TCP and TLS

Wire-Compatible Unordered Delivery in TCP and TLS

...Internet applications can benefit from out-of-order delivery, a feature all IETF transports since TCP have included. Yet latency-sensitive applications still frequently build... Read more

2 March, 2011
IP Fast ReRoute: Loop Free Alternates Revisited

IP Fast ReRoute: Loop Free Alternates Revisited

IP Fast ReRoute (IPFRR) is the IETF standard for providing fast failure protection in IP and MPLS/LDP networks... Read more

10 February, 2011

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

2 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

3 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

7 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

10 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

10 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

13 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

14 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

15 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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