We are very pleased to announce that our keynote speaker for TFI2014 is Russ White! Russ White has over 25 years of experience in network engineering from operating systems to network architecture. Russ is a Principal Engineer at Ericsson in the IPOS Team, where he works on large scale design, control planes, Internet governance, network Read more…

CO ISOC’s The Future of the Internet (TFI) events focus on real problems and on finding the best solutions, so that you can leave informed and ready to tackle the newest networking trends while avoiding the pitfalls of the newest buzzwords. This year’s first annual event “Defining Software Defined Networks” will bring together experts and Read more…

The Internet Society and the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force unify events in Denver to increase IPv6 adoption rate [Denver, Colorado] – The number of available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses is declining rapidly and will soon leave businesses and individuals worldwide who have not yet adopted the new IPv6 protocol with limited options Read more…

Top websites serving billions of users demonstrate progress towards largest transition in Internet’s history Top websites and Internet service providers around the world, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Akamai, and Limelight Networks, joined t…

In light of recent events in the Middle-east and Africa, we need to evaluate what our local community could do in response to a disruption of our access to the Internet. This disruption could be due to a natural disaster, a foreign or domestic attack of some sort, or perhaps even government intervention. We need to ask both ‘what will work’ and ‘how do we do it’.

ISOC Global (particularly Bill Graham)  did a great job of reporting out as the conference went on. All of their reports are available on the main ISOC website but I find the topic important enough to re-post them all here. They are embedded below in chronological order, notes from week 1 through 3 are followed Read more…

I am extremely excited to announce that CO ISOC has crossed another membership milestone recently and now has over 200 members! While having 200 members is exciting in it’s own right, I am even more enthused because of how fast we are moving. CO ISOC was founded in January of 2008 by two friends and Read more…

CO ISOC is now a certified ICANN At-Large Structure (ALS)! Congrats all around! Here is an excerpt from the email I received earlier today: Dear Chris, ICANN’s At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) is pleased to inform you that ISOC Colorado has been certified as an At-Large Structure (ALS).  The ALAC greatly appreciates your group¹s interest in Read more…

Yes sir, this is the super-easy list of super-easy things you can (and should) do to help the Colorado Chapter of the Internet Society. In fact, they are so easy you can probably do (at least start) all of them today!

CO ISOC needs a Mission Statement. After asking for submissions on several occasions (and not receiving any), I decided to take a stab at it myself. Here is what I came up with: CO ISOC seeks to harness the great resources of this region in order to perpetuate the open evolution of the Internet for Read more…