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Open Source And The Global
Disruption Of Telecom
What Choices Will We Make?
AstriCon 2015, Orlando, Florida
14 October 2015
Dan York, Senior Content Strategist
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(pi)
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(roomba 1)
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(roomba and Asterisk)
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(power of play)
…
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(IETF 1)
(SIP)
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(telephone wires)
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(repeat pi)
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(innovation)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/boegh/6085347780/
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(ask permission)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/irontec/2595219688
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(Voxeo story)
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Permissionless"
Innovation
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Internet!
of!
Opportunity
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?
(Economist)
The State of Broadband 2015, ITU
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Online, 43%
Offline, 57%
Connecting the next 4 billion
The State of Broadband 2015, ITU
Kolawole Ogunyomade teaching Asterisk in Nigeria
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“If when you say internet, !
you think of a computer, !
then you probably don't live !
in an African country.”

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/19/africa/africa-mobile-internet/
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http://www.internetsociety.org/globalinternetreport/
94% of the world’s
population can receive a
mobile telephone signal
50% of the world’s
population can receive a
mobile internet signal
36% of the population has
subscribed to the mobile
internet
(messaging shift)
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(Meeker Internet "
Trends)
http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends
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(Meeker Internet "
Trends)
http://www.kpcb.com/internet-trends
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(IPv6)
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(Google stats)
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http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/
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(river running dry)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ejmc/5801349332/
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(repeat pi)
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http://www.internetsociety.org/iot/
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(trust)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/powerbooktrance/466709245
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Data Breaches
"Edward Snowden-2" by Laura
Poitras / Praxis Films. Licensed
under CC BY 3.0 via Commons
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The erosion of trust...
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91%
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RFC 7258
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Pervasive surveillance


Pervasive encryption
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Internet
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Present
Accessible /
Innovative
Decentralized
Closed /
Fragmented
Centralized
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Internet Invariants
•  Global Reach
•  General Purpose
•  Permissionless Innovation
•  Accessible – connect, build, study
•  Conventions and social behavior
•  Reusable tech building blocks
•  No permanent favorites
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Distributed and Decentralized
End to End
Intelligence at the edge
BBSs
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Creates the “lens”"
through which "
people experience"
the “Internet”
http://listicle.io/cluetrain/
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(ask permission)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/irontec/2595219688
https://www.flickr.com/photos/cc_chapman/8105389823/
WHO will be the"
gatekeepers?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/6384362033
https://www.flickr.com/photos/neilsingapore/12822356355
https://www.flickr.com/photos/spicuzza/4661860670
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WHO will be the"
gatekeepers?
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Permissionless"
Innovation
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Collaborative"
(Security, Governance)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/aadamus/16506071003/
December 2015

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1. Get Involved
Our mission is to promote the open development, evolution,
and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout
the world.
Founded in 1992.
Organizational home of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
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Internet Society
87
Global Presence
110
Chapters
Worldwide
79k
Members and
Supporters
146
Organization
Members
6
Regional
Bureaus
20
Countries with
ISOC Offices
NORTH AMERICA
LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN
EUROPE
AFRICA
THE MIDDLE EAST
ASIA
More than
Updated September 2015
87
Global
Staff
2. Work To Restore Trust
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/zigazou76/8989516885
3. Make A Conscious Choice
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“If you choose not to decide,
you still have made a 
choice.”

- “Free will” from Rush
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Internet!
of!
Opportunity
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(pi)
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york@isoc.org
@danyork
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Dan York
Senior Content Strategist
Thank You!
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Open Source and The Global Disruption Of Telecom: What Choices Will We Make?