Epidemiology end-to-end- November 29, 2005 Some musings regarding the proposal by the CDC to require tracking the net of passengers sharing flights for contact tracing purposes_._One of the sources of difficulty with proposals like the CDC's here is that there is a knee-jerk reflex in systems that contain networks (here the airline transport network) to assign functional responsiblity to the network for functions that are fundamentally "end-to-end" goals.Though the end-to-end argument is well-understood in the Internet community (though.http://www.satn.org/2005_11_27_archive.html#113327657053652423 Truthful TV ads- November 27, 2005 Watching the Sunday morning interview shows with their corporate ads, I was struck by the alternate ways you could hear their tag lines in light of other discussions about those companies.Every week there seems to be another example of Microsoft being involved in some effort to stop the adoption of Open Document Format in Massachusetts. They appear so passionate in their zeal to find a way, any way, to prevent the change or discourage others from making a similar change. I also read press...http://www.satn.org/2005_11_27_archive.html#113311183808802164 |