Ethan BlantonFeb 18
I reminded my #DistributedSystems class today that DNS is a global, decentralized, eventually consistent database with a continuous uptime and client compatibility window of 40 years, and I'm not sure that they were suitably impressed.
Show threadflorian 
@elb it's also the only one we ever got to work. 
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Show threadEthan BlantonFeb 18
@florian That's basically what I said ... stuff like IP and TCP and DNS is lifetime achievement material, and if a company could turn out something like that on demand they'd dominate whatever market they were in.
Show threadDaniel SchildtFeb 18
@elb @florian I remember talking with a random person on the ICANN conference in Helsinki (back in summer of 2016), and asked how long he has been on the Internet. He said he started to work with DNS back in 1984, and was still working on it in 2016. It is inspiring how nice many of the long time builders of the Internet are.
Show threadEthan BlantonFeb 18
@autiomaa So true. It's been years since I was involved with the IETF/etc, but so many just really competent and knowledgeable people were happy to give me the time of day when I was a snot-nosed twenty-year-old. Sally Floyd (RIP) and Van Jacobson happy to discourse on congestion control, Randy Bush and Geoff Huston on routing and autonomous systems, etc. I really believe the Internet we have today (whether we're doing the right things with it or not) is because they shared experience.
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Show threadDaniel SchildtFeb 18

@elb @florian I was there on the ICANN event just on a few evenings, because I had a day job in a software consulting company. But since my friend was going to the ICANN event, I knew it was a good opportunity to see a small slice of how things are run globally.

Most of the attendees at the event were lawyers from countries around the world. There were technical engineering people (like those who had been doing it since the 1980s), but there were also lobbyists from Google etc. who were really silent about their presence at the event. Heard from a friend that Google mostly had closed doors meetings with different participants (while it was trying to influence decision making process in some ways).

Show threadflorian Feb 18
@elb oh, and it's federated.
Show threadReiner Jung 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺Feb 20
@florian @elb the whole Internet is federated. At least it's basic technology and services. Mail is a federated model, net news was too, the web was and still is to some extent. Big tech corps try to steal that from us, but we will never give up.