Programming Throwdown

138: Fixing the Internet with John Day

Jul 12, 2022

01:28:07

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The Problem of the Compiler, Is It a Risky Business?

03:41

The Algal Compiler Is a Very Simple Programming Language, Right?

03:23

What Kind of Career Advice Would You Give to Those People?

03:37

Introduction

3min

What Is the Ia B?

2min

I'm Not Going to Get This Rigtwan, but I Didn't Lose the Layer, OK?

2min

A New Protocol for Router Table Size

2min

What's the Difference?

2min

The Point of Attachment Address

2min

Ip v Six

4min

The Myths of IPv6

2min

How Do You Protect Your Refrigerator?

2min

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Y, Is It a File?

2min

11.

Is There a Better Way to Connect to a Well Known Port?

2min

12.

Isn't Google a Distributed Application?

2min

13.

How to Get a New IP Address?

2min

14.

How to Change the Address of a Process in a Cell Phone System

3min

15.

Blue Tooth Headphones

2min

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Is There a Better Solution?

2min

17.

Zencaster for Programming Throwdown

2min

18.

Is the Internet a Better Layer Than the Network Layer?

3min

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Where Do You Think Things Will Go?

3min

20.

The Separation of Mechaism and Policy

3min

21.

I Was Not Skipping Steps, Right?

2min

22.

How to Get Funding for Research

2min

23.

Is There a Logical Fallacy?

2min

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The Algal Compiler Is a Very Simple Programming Language, Right?

3min

25.

The Problem of the Compiler, Is It a Risky Business?

4min

26.

Is There a Rise in Private Networks?

2min

27.

Using a Layer in a Network

2min

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Architecture

3min

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What Kind of Career Advice Would You Give to Those People?

4min

30.

I Don't Read a Lot, Right?

4min

31.

The Best Advice You Can Give to the Folks Out There?

3min

32.

You Don't Have to Take Calculus in the Summer

4min

33.

What's the Name of the Book?

2min

34.

Is There a Difference Between Audibl and Kendall?

2min

35.

You Know, I Think We Go Through Cycles in Civilization.

2min

36.

The Internet's Not Going Away, Is It?

3min

00:00:24 Introductions

00:00:49 IP v6

00:04:50 OSI

00:12:53 The IP v7 debate

00:20:18 The definition of an address’s scope

00:21:38 Why John feels DNS was a mistake

00:26:40 How IP mobility works

00:32:13 Bluetooth

00:41:41 Where will Internet architecture go from here

00:49:49 Understanding the problem space

00:59:04 The angels in the details

01:00:53 Scientific thinking vs engineering thinking

01:04:01 Victorian architecture

01:06:11 John’s career advice

01:11:18 Garbage Can Model

01:14:38 How to make the most out of college today

01:27:05 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Professor John D. Day:

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Day_(computer_scientist)
Website: https://www.bu.edu/met/profile/john-day/
Book: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/patterns-in-network/9780132252423/

Terminologies:

CIDR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing
OSI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
Connectionless Network Protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectionless-mode_Network_Service
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol
Garbage can model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_can_model

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