Ok.  Just in case anyone notices, I’m stealing one of my posts from Blog Idol 2009 – dated April 27, 2009 to be exact.  Last year, I had just read a new book about network architectures and layers……..I think it’s worth repeating!

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I just thought I’d follow on with a favourite topics….networks and communications…..before the contest closes.  I posted about standards and networking last year, and I followed up with another post about John Day’s book called Patterns in Network Architecture recently.

Networks (i.e. pervasive communications) are also key to success in fighting large scale health issues such as Swine Flu (my last post implies this).

Last year we also blogged on the topic of Cloud Computing.  At that time I raised the ugly topic of security and privacy – I’ve recently been seing articles that seem to prove my point.  Also, the big players are seeing it as a new market segment and are aiming for Gorilla status (see the Gorilla Game by Geoffrey Moore).

We were also asked to blog on the topic of “legacy networks” in the contest this year.  I don’t think many posts were forthcoming, however.  I was wondering what would be considered as legacy these days.  When I was involved with IBM’s SNA it was the simple teletype circuit that was legacy; then TCP/IPV4 came along and eventually made OSI, SNA and DECnet all legacy.  Now its perhaps IPv6 that is trying to become the “legacy-maker”.  And what might be next – The Network IPC Model from John Day’s book may provide clues as to the future of networking.

Here’s a few topics that would be worth exploring, and which will have to wait for a future post (if time allows):

-  Types of interaction (one-way, two-way, small message, realtime vs. batch transfer), etc.

-  Clouds as network elements (inter-cloud communications, addresses for clouds, management of clouds

-  Processing in the network (or only at endpoints)

-  Naming and addressing and directories and name servers and more

-  Management of distributed Web 2 systems in general (I hated it when I couldn’t access the Change Delivery Option for my local courier the other day)

-  Layering updated (is layering still a good model?)

All in all, this is fertile ground for quite a few posts……..perhaps I will try to move some of this over to the “Ahead of the curve” area next month.  Let me know if you have any favourite topics of your own that deserve airplay.

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I don’t think much has really changed in a year……..

However, as a quick update, check out the Pouzin Society for a little more on PNA.  Also see a discussion of RINA.

So many new acronyms!