This is a topic for someone interested in computer generated
sounds. I am interested in algorithms that convert status
information obtained by monitoring systems (say a monitor of
computer network) into audible sounds that (i) are not intrusive
but (ii) can signal significant changes in the conditions. There is
work in this space. Some people recently wrote special programming
languages that allow to describe sound generations as programs.
Good bye Wordpress. We have moved (back) to static web pages, thanks
to the wonderful Hugo web site generator. The move to Hugo was a bit
of an effort but now we have (almost) all content back in plain files,
a big advantage if you ask me. And the best of all, Hugo allows us to
use org-mode to edit our content very conveniently in emacs.
So what are the benefits from the user's perspective? The biggest
advantage is good support for mobile devices via responsive
themes. And of course faster page delivery - serving static files is
as fast as it can possibly be. And serving static files is very robust
against attacks since there is not much left to attack.
The definition of a network management datastore architecture (NMDA)
has been published [RFC 8342]. We believe this is one of the more
important RFCs we have worked on since it tells us how to think about
configurations and their relationship to operational state. A few more
RFCs will appear during the coming weeks providing the technology
extensions that allow us to use the new framework in practice. Work on
this document started with a trip to Stockholm in May 2016 but the
discussions have a much longer history. We have run repeatedly into
problems because the values of configuration objects may mean
different things at different processing stages and we hope that the
new network management datastore architecture allows us to be much
clearer about the semantics of configuration objects in the future.
Our research on YouTube performance over IPv6 made it into the blog of
the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC). You can find the blog post
here.
The EU funded LEONE project (2012-2015) contributed to the development
of standards for large-scale measurements of Intern et performance,
produced by the LMAP working group of the IETF. The key
specifications, the LMAP information model [RFC8193] and the LMAP YANG
data model [RFC8194], have been published as RFCs just a few days
ago. It took roughly five years from the start of the formation of the
working group until the publication of the core specifications. The
first version of the information model was posted roughly 2.5 years
before publication of the final document. This example shows that
initiating and completing standardization work within the lifetime of
EU projects is just not realistic.
Vaibhav Bajpai presented a paper summarizing his PhD thesis at the
IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on
Integrated Network Management (IM 2017) and he received the best
dissertation paper award.
We helped to organize a Dagstuhl seminar on Using Networks to Teach
About Networks, which took place March 12–15, 2017. During the
seminar, we discussed the different approaches to teach computer
networking and how to best use of online resources to better educate
students. For details, see the seminar report.
We presented our work on measuring webpage similarity delivered over
IPv4 and IPv6 at the RIPE 72 plenary in Copenhagen. A recording of the
talk can be found on Vimeo.