david lodges's "small world. an academic romance" needs rewriting. these days conferences are not any longer the place to be. less money, no official program 7days before the event. canceled? one just can guess. recently there was an lobbying event in brussel: no official progam announced, but it happened.

just another candidate : iciisce

wie im konzertsaal.

things to watch, to read, and to learn:

bufferbloat by jim getty
tcp sucks by bram cohen.
and the cacm discussion: bufferbloat: what's wrong with the internet

tcp doesn't suck

to dig on: Access Control and Copyright Protection for Images
RACE Project M1005, 1994

sidestep: if this was the way eu project papers needed to be written in the 1990s, i guess the commission should simply go back to their beginnings in order to make it easier to apply.

anyhow: an overview of dreams and ideas worldwide: Architectures for the Future Networks and the Next Generation Internet, 2011