NetFlash: IETF’s quest to be quicker moves slowly

It’s taken a year and a half, but the IETF as a whole seems to have realized that it has problems and even has a good handle on what they are. Now – how to fix those problems? That’s the debate the Internet standards group started in on last week, and it’s a debate that’s bound to last some time. IETF’s quest to be quicker moves slowly http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1117ietf.html?net

It’s taken a year and a half, but the IETF as a whole seems to have realized that it has problems and even has a good handle on what they are. Now – how to fix those problems? That’s the debate the Internet standards group started in on last week, and it’s a debate that’s bound to last some time.

IETF’s quest to be quicker moves slowly

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1117ietf.html?net

ISPs take on DDoS attacks

There’s a growing sense that the folks who really ought to be doing something about distributed denial-of-service attacks are the ISPs that provide the means for them to take place. Some ISPs are tackling this problem head-on, and should have services ready by next year.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1117specialfocus.html?net

WLANs shift to new gear

New wireless LAN products from Cisco and a pack of others are the latest evidence that keeping up with advances in this market is getting ever more challenging.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1117cisco.html?net

Footwear maker treads wirelessly

It used to take Skechers five days to conduct a physical inventory of its footwear stock. Now the company says it’s done in two days – all 1,500 styles and 60,000 product types contained within 1.5 million square feet of distribution space.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/1117skechers.html?net