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You have a very nice blog, but perhaps it would have been better to go directly to the source?

http://eq.wide.ad.jp/index_en.html
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/monitoring/index-e.html

An additional useful chart can be found here, in a slightly more readable and intelligible format:
http://eq.wide.ad.jp/files_en/110315houshasen_mext_en.pdf

Not as all-inclusive as Randall's work, but still good.

You mean how like the CIA recently suicided 3 detainees by hanging in Guantanamo bay?

http://harpers.org/archive/2010/01/hbc-90006368

The article seems credible. No way I could verify it obviously but it has enough detail that I think it could be verified easily by the FBI or DOJ. If you could get them to do their job, that is.

Or how Bush biographer, J.H. Hatfield, commits suicide
http://archive.salon.com/politics/red/2001/07/20/blue/

Or how Dr. David Kelly, who published facts inconvenient to Bush's poodle, commits suicide
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/830/blair_s_crisis_bush_s_crisis

Or how Itojun, a lynchpin in IPv6 security which would have eliminated many network exploits not to mention Windows, died 'unexpectedly'?
http://www.wide.ad.jp/news/press/20071031-itojun-e.html

There are more. The list is already very long.

Responding to my own post, apparently he was fighting a long illness and did not make it. Gathered from comments at undeadly.
See also http://www.wide.ad.jp/news/press/20071031-itojun-e.html

Jeez. The guy was a good guy. Very upset that he is no longer with the community. RIP.

Problem....

PDF presenters do not auto-load the next slide....this leads to an uncomfortable silence between the time you try to advance the slide, and the time the slide actually advances. This effect depends on how complicated the next slide is.

PDF cannot embed audio/video, so if you want a multimedia presentation you are screwed.

You cannot draw onto a slide to explain your point.

I've used MagicPoint, which works fine. You make each slide into a standalone graphics file, like a JPEG or GIF or PDF. Then, you setup a control file to present them. It can handle all of the PDF glitches.

OpenOffice Impress can also be used, although I was much less impressed with it than with PowerPoint. But that was a while ago, things may be better now.

The real problem is the strength of the Powerpoint monopoly. At mixed presentations, like symposia, the presenters force everyone to load their PowerPoint presentation onto one Windows machine, and anyone using Powerpoint on a Mac, or Keynote, or Linux, without fail has some glitch. On the one hand there is a real advantage to everyone being able to use the same presentation machine, but on the other hand the incompatibilities stink up the presentation.

My thoughts exactly.

A Google search showed this slide: http://www.soi.wide.ad.jp/class/20040013/slides/11 /23.html

Based on that slide, I think that Israeli BGP routers were hacked, adding a null route for the BleuSecurity IPs.

I could be wrong (in fact, I'd bet I am).

If you prefer a text-based environment for preparation of documents, etc. then you may prefer MagicPoint to Powerpoint. It has a bit of a learning curve and imperfect documentation but once you have some templates prepared, making a presentation is as simple as plonking a couple of lines of text in a file.

Oh, it doesn't do spinning/jiggling/blinking/etc. transitions, but I view this as a (major) plus.

For those in Japan, I suggest checking out IPv6 Promotion Council, WIDE, Internet Initiative Japan and the BSD folks over at KAME.

In general, you probably also want to check the IPv6 Information Page, which lists many IPv6 websites, FTP sites and even IRC sites not already listed. (Almost all the above sites are also IPv6-reachable.) This totally trashes the idea that there is NOBODY on IPv6, which is good because it is a delusion which prevents people from using IPv6.

I've used numerous IPv6 tunnels and will shortly be getting native IPv6 from my provider at home, so I cry "bullshit" to those who say it can't be done. Setting up an IPv6 tunnel through a broker requires knowing your public IP address and your MAC address, then running a simple script to set up the IPv6-over-IPv4 connection. It's all of a couple of minutes work, maximum. I dare those who say IPv6 isn't being used to actually set up such a tunnel, use IPv6, THEN come back and tell the rest of us why what they just did was so impossible.

Do not ask why I need that much memory, or I'll just toss a Bill Gates quote back at you.

For those of you who can't stand your piddly little 384 kbps stream

...and are feeling unfulfilled by your 1.5 Mbps stream

...Don't worry. They have set up an experimental 30 Mbps DV multicast stream , complete with it's own free DVTS player so you can catch all this incredibly FAST paced action, as it happens!

here's a better link to the actual DVTS software:

http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/DVTS/

A little app that might be worth a shot is DVTS. The purpose of this suite is to encapsulate DV streams into IP packets. (I've used it before with a SD camera, it's actually pretty cool. Firewire in one computer, out the Ethernet to another, and out of that computer's Firewire.) It has a tool called dvsave that basically dumps the DV stream to your hard drive. Whether or not this app would work with HDTV, I really have no idea since I've never really looked in to HDTV or how it works.

Hmm. I wonder what will happen if the "VoIP" protocols (SIP and H.323) are suddenly used for much more than only VoIP? If apps like this generate a lot of traffic how will it affect the CALEA and other IP wiretapping efforts? Suddenly the SIP data is just a bunch of garbled white noise. Is it encrypted or is it P2P traffic?

[B]ut this is education, and things do not make much sense.

Hear hear. Seems like the Administration (including those in charge of the computers/network) are more concerned with Covering Their Own Ass® than anything else.

For example, I recently got an out of school suspension. Why? "Inappropriate Use of Computers." What did I really do? Installed some GPL apps on a computer that I use all day every day. (Audacity, VNC, ssh, dvts... I'm in charge of our TV studio, this stuff helps me get things done.) Obviously, I was pissed when I came in one day to find out that the shit has hit the fan. Oh, then they had the balls to call me at home 2 days later when they couldn't figure out how to turn on the lights in the theater.

Anyways, since I am producer/editor/everything else, I have the issue of copyright to deal with: The kids in the TV class submit their videos (which we later air on closed-circuit TV to everyone inside the building) with songs as background music or whatever that they have either downloaded or ripped off a CD. During the aforementioned shitstorm, the issue of copyright was brought up. They refered to some guide that had some bullshit about using 10% of copyrighted works. I say that is bullshit as I just read from this post that there is nothing of the sort in the actual law.

This is very much a grey area, and makes me wonder, is what we are doing actually fair use (I think it is), or is it indeed infringement and should I start getting worried about the the RIAA's Private Copyright Enforcement Force, er... the FBI knocking down the doors?

My guess is that this is what you are looking for DV Stream on IEEE1394 Encapsulated into IP

You may also want to look at The Comet Project if you are willing to buy some custom hardware (non english)

*eth1394 (depends on ieee1394 - and both are in the latest kernels - I know it's in the 2.4.20+ for a fact *use it myself..not eth1394, but ieee1394...*)

• but Read this site carefully, check your kernel,
• download a patch & patch it if necessary... the 'usual common sense'-principle...

  so grab a supported/the patched kernel...,and don't don't forget to configure & compile it with these options:

  • 'OHCI-1394 support'
  • 
    'Ethernet over 1394
    'Raw IEEE1394 I/O support'
    ...ps, and maybe while you're at it, add 'SBP-2 support (Harddisks etc.)' too ...
    

  (btw, in 2.4.20+ - you'll need to enable "Code maturity level options --> [*] Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers" , or else you won't see the "IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support (EXPERIMENTAL)" all this is under..)

  if you compiled 'all of these things' as 'Modules', don't forget to load up these modules(and try to do them in that order....):

  • ieee1394
  • 
    raw1394
    ohci1394
    eth1394

  elsewise, load only those that are modules .... - and if you compiled all of them into your kernel, just skip all of the above...

  !PS - on some hardware it's also required that you first unload 'ohci1394' before you remove your the Firewire Controller (ONLY for PCMCIA users ...)

  !PS - if you are a really 'unfamiliar with loading & unloading drivers' & 'don't know how to automate these things'.... don't bother, stick with your windows/OS X box... }:-)

• DVTS - for some furthur info if you don't manage on your own ( they are implementing a "..DV streams from IEEE1394 over IP.", sorta related, I guess)
• FIREHOSE - "FIREHOSE gives you a basic data transfer over multiple network devices supporting TCP/IP layers. Stripe multiple 100Mbit, Gigabit, 10 Gigabit, or firewire to give one humungous pipe for firehosing your gigabytes and gigabytes of data." (I guess, also related...)

Anyone care to use the method with RFC1149 Avian Carrier Protocol, namely Using Ping to determine Speed of Flight!

I recall there were some guys who actually implemented it. However, although some still teach it, it's not too commonly implemented in the USA nowadays, since the FBI think it's a threat to national security.

Won't we need IPv7 by then?

No, we will not. The current IPv4 has approximately 4,300,000,000 (4.3 x 10^9) total addresses in its address space. IPv6, however, has 3.4 x 10^38 available addresses.

To quote from the WIDE FAQ: "If the address space of IPv4 is compared to 1 millimeter, the address space of IPv6 would be 80 times the diameter of the galactic system."

It is simply not feasible that we will ever need anything more than IPv6.

this sounds a lot like "64k ought to be enough for anybody"

I've been playing around with this at home, and it works! Sound, too.

Since there aren't many people (yet) who have xdvshow to watch the stream, a method needs to be devised to pipe this to other formats. (I was investigating this, but ran out of time last weekend. If anyone knows of a DV to QT/Real/etc. converter, please let me know!)

Not really.
IRC, IPv4 was the first publicly aviable and IP (as defined in RFC760).
http://www.iana.org
IPv5 was taken by the ST-II protocol, which was supposed to be the next Internet Protocol (at least in the eyes of its inventors). But it was based on connection-oriented routing. This lead to a great resitance in the internet community, which is generally opposed to the idea of connections and channels.
It became experimental due to lack of support not by intend.

Have a look at the Version-numbers as assigned by the IANA.

For those to lazy to look it up.
IPv7 is the "TP/IX: The Next Internet"
IPv8 is "The P Internet Protocol"
IPv9 is "TUBA"

But some people are already joking that one will adopt an odd/even numbering scheme.

The following list will keep you occupied about IPv6 for some time... oh just for the record ams-ix is doing NATIVE IPv6 since 1998 now... alongside NSPIXP6 and PAIX and some others to be found at v6nap.net.

First two nice repositories where you can find almost anything IPv6 related:
IPv6 News and Links (hs247)
Open Directory Project Computers/Internet/Protocols/IP/IPng/

And some others important ones which can also be found there:
6bone
Belnet
Bieringer's Linux IPv6 FAQ
Euronet Belgium
IPng
KAME
Kitame's Debian IPv6 Packages
Microsoft IPv6
PuTTY IPv6
SiXXS
Sun Solaris IPv6
Surfnet IPv6
Trumpet IPv6

IPv6 for the future (or something advocating like that :)

One of the main points of ipv6 is that routing will be simplified greatly. The header has been fixed in size (less work for the router to parse) and the addresses can be distributed in a hierarchical fashion. See the IPv6 Routing FAQ for more details.

IP addresses will be dynamically assigned, be transitory, and be mobile.

Or checkout the IPv6 project page

I think the amount of addresses is cool to think about:

It is 2 to the 128th power which means, 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,45 6 different IP addresses can be assigned. This means that if we set the world population at 10 billion, there is 3.4*10^27 addresses per person, and if assign addresses by land mass, an average of 2.2*10^20 addresses per square centimeter. There is very little chance of addresses running out.

From a FAQ

Almost as nice as the WWFS, which is an NFS server which can use any FTP site. An advantage of Napster is it can be used on more MS systems.

Check out this site for a semi-informative FAQ: http://faq.v6.wide.ad.jp/ There is also: http://www.ipv6.org/ and http://www.6bone.net/ They claim they are working on a real FAQ and there are apparently some hotows floating around the site...

RE: 10^38 is enough

It should be enough however companies like Microsoft have got big slabs of the pie early (i might be mistaken but that was my understanding). Also if we want to get every appliance in the house/garden on the net it might be pushing it, but is an average of 2.2*10^20 addresses per square centimetre overkill?

RE: Address assignment

[Taken from: http://www.ewos.be/coexist/etg071/ga ddress.htm ]
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has the responsibility for the management of the IPv6 address space [4], with the advice of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).

Also from http://faq.v6.wide.ad.jp/Trans/4-22.html it mentions a paper that tells you how to allocate your own site local addresses