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Simon Phipps of Open Source fame at Sun and the Open Source Initiative wrote an interesting article titled GitHub needs to take open source seriously. He warns about the fact, that GitHub doesn’t have a mechanism that lets new projects choose a proper license for their work. Simon also cites a survey that says this: […] as many as half [of the projects] include no easily identifiable copyright licensing information. About 30 percent include some sort of licensing information in the source files, and around 20 percent have a clear license or notice file that makes it obvious under what terms the code is made available....

Actually this is my reading list from the last several weeks. I haven’t had the time to write these down, though, since we were preparing for ICNP 2013. Since me and my teammate are developing an overlay P2P network for Browsers we are especially interested in implementation patterns for such overlays. One very well-known paper is the one from Dabek et al. titled “Towards a Common API for Structured Peer-to-Peer Overlays”....

This week I stumbled across an interesting overview paper by Srinivasan Keshav (author of “Mathematical Foundations of Computer Networking”, which I already own since some days): Naming, Addressing, and Forwarding Reconsidered The paper provides the reader with an easy to understand and profound overview of how entities (Internet computers, mailboxes, phones) are addressed. Keshav introduces the concept of location independent identifiers (LII) and location specific identifiers (LSI). The separation of LII and LSI allows for a better understanding of how an indirection (e....

Still having some time left in this summer break I started a little side project: I will try to find the best device for reading PDFs – especially scientific papers. Why? Because I don’t want to print out every paper I may (or may not, in the end) read for ecological and economical reasons. (This post will be updated with my latest results from time to time.) I’ll try to narrow down the slippery word best from above:...

This blog has been hosted on Google’s Blogger platform ever since its incarnation. The decision to use Blogger was a quite hasty one and I was never really satisfied by how Blogger works. But as many of you probably have already experienced, once you decide in favor of a piece of software you can’t change that easily. It’s not that my blog was locked-in on Blogger’s features or something. In fact it just worked and I had no real incentive to take the time for evaluating alternatives....