Just as my previous FOSDEM talk, my presentation at FOSSASIA was titled “Designing a Human Centric Next Generation Internet”.

Trying to learn from the previous presentation – and having less time, and adding the pressure of a live event – I tried to focus more on a future Internet architecture.

The benefit of that approach is that it can be done as an analysis of the web’s more-or-less-achieved REST architecture and it’s successes and failures. Reading is certainly highly recommended!

The video starts about 8 hours and 20 minutes into the day, and the embed is set to begin just there.

In February, I was able to give a talk at FOSDEM, Europe’s premier conference on free and open source software. Entitled “Designing a Human Centric Next Generation Internet”, I tried to lay out the requirements such an Internet might have, derived from the failures of the current web.

FOSDEM'21: Designing a Human Centric Next Generation Internet

I suspect the talk was a little too unfocused, but the response was great nonetheless! It certainly helped me understand better how I need to present the Interpeer Project in future.

As is usual these days, I don’t write here half as much as I would like to. In recent weeks, this is because I have been very busy preparing for a number of conferences and writing papers. Since they all relate in one way or another to the protocol work I have been writing about, I figure people might find them interesting.

I have mentioned before that I am working part time at AnyWi Technologies B.V.. The two jobs are fairly complementary; at Interpeer, protocol design is for peer-to-peer networks, while in the latter, it is for autonomous vehicles, in particular for drones. Really, the Venn diagram between the two, if you would draw it, would probably have about 90% overlap or so. So …