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IETF
EVPN Can Select One Multicast Source. It Cannot Certify Redundancy.
A receiver may show one clean programme while two contribution sources are transmitting. RFC 9856 explains how an EVPN can suppress the extra copy. It does not establish that the surviving source was healthy, equivalent, or switched without loss. Those are separate operational…
History
Ned Freed and the Filename That Had to Be Reassembled Before It Could Be Distrusted
RFC 2231 let a long internationalised MIME parameter travel as numbered pieces. A receiver has to reconstruct the pieces in order before decoding them—but a valid result is still content-disposition metadata, not a safe pathname, an identity claim or permission to act.
History
The Version Number Promised the Next Message, Not This One: RFC 2068
In January 1997, an HTTP message that began with `HTTP/1.1` was making a carefully bounded promise. The label described the sender’s message format and the highest HTTP capability it could support in further communication. It did not say which HTTP/1.1 features this particular…
IETF
The Reply Crossed Three Domains. The Proof Did Not
RFC 9716 gives an SR-MPLS echo reply a route home when ordinary IP reachability ends at a domain boundary. Its label stack can be supplied in advance or assembled border by border. That makes inter-domain diagnosis practical; it does not turn one returned echo into proof that the…
History
RFC 2067: The Standard Deleted Three Legal Packet Shapes
In 1997, Internet engineers advanced IP over HIPPI by making the specification smaller. Three packet forms allowed by RFC 1374 disappeared: a short burst could no longer come first, the D1 area could no longer contain fill, and the D2 offset could no longer be nonzero. RFC 2067…
IETF
A DTLS Return-Routability Probe Is Not a Migration Receipt
A protected datagram arrives with the right Connection ID and a new source address. The cryptography can locate an existing DTLS security context, yet the receiver still has a separate decision to make: whether to move that context, release application output to the new address…
History
Ward Christensen and the 128-Byte Agreement That Left the Ends Free
XMODEM became useful by declining to become a platform. Ward Christensen put a small, deterministic agreement on the line, then left almost every other decision—dialling, storage, filenames, interface and improvement—to the computers and people at either end.
IETF
The Orbit Said the Link Was Ready. The Network Had Not Agreed
RFC 9717 turns orbital predictability into a routing advantage without confusing a forecast with an observation. Its proposed satellite architecture can prepare for scheduled change, but a schedule, a computed SID list and even a successful install receipt remain different claims…
History
RFC 2066: The Character Set Was Already Right. The Reply Still Had to Arrive
Telnet had a rule for avoiding endless politeness: do not acknowledge a request for a mode already in effect. RFC 2066 made a narrow but consequential exception. A receiver already using one of the proposed character sets still had to send `ACCEPTED`, because silence would force…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Payoneer won the vote. Its shares still have not become $7.40 cash
The 224.99 million affirmative votes removed one branch of the Payoneer–Nuvei merger’s decision tree. They did not trigger the legal event that converts eligible shares into cash, settle the disclosure litigation or make the remaining regulatory perimeter disappear.
History
RFC 2065: The DNS Reply Crossed an Ordinary Server. Its Signature Carried the Trust
In January 1997, RFC 2065 proposed a security upgrade that did not require every machine carrying a DNS answer to become its judge. A security-aware resolver could retrieve signed records through a server that knew little about the new machinery and verify the evidence itself.…
IETF
A TLS CertificateRequest Context Correlates a Response, Not an Authorization Scope
An opaque value can tell a TLS server which certificate request a client answered. It cannot tell an application what the authenticated key may do. When a correlation handle is promoted into a tenant, role or access boundary, precise cryptographic sequencing becomes an accidental…
History
Dina Katabi and the Feedback Field That Was Not a Bandwidth Grant
A packet leaves its sender asking to increase the flow by a certain amount. The first router accepts the request; the second writes a smaller number; the receiver sends that surviving value back. XCP turned congestion control into an explicit negotiation, but the number in its…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Ooma's US$65m loan almost matches the cash-adjusted acquisition price
Ooma announced two cloud-communications acquisitions at headline prices that add to US$68.2 million. The final purchase-price allocations tell a different and more useful story: US$73.186 million of consideration, including US$8.563 million of cash acquired, leaves US$64.623…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Zscaler’s acquisition-adjusted growth uses three different perimeters
Zscaler reported 25% growth in both revenue and annual recurring revenue for fiscal 2026, then offered a 20% comparison that removed Red Canary. Elsewhere, its accounts valued four acquisitions and its year-end controls report excluded all four from testing. The figures are not…
Global Cloud Services Trends
SentinelOne’s Flex milestone needs a consumption bridge
SentinelOne says its Flex commercial model now accounts for more than 10% of annualised recurring revenue. That is a meaningful threshold inside a business with US$1.218 billion of ARR and US$1.7 billion of remaining performance obligations. Yet the filing also says revenue from…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Workiva’s large-contract growth has an acquisition clock inside it
Workiva’s largest customer tiers are expanding much faster than its total customer count. That looks like a clean enterprise-upmarket story until one sentence in the filing changes the perimeter: customers acquired with Sustain.Life enter the customer count and…
CASE FILE
One Color Crossed Three ASes. It Never Became an SLA: RFC 9723
A low-latency color can survive every BGP hop and still fail to buy low latency. RFC 9723 gives SRv6 operators a compact way to propagate intent through colored locator prefixes; it does not merge the intent dictionary, route installation, packet path and customer outcome into…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Expensify’s card growth fails the two-rebate test
Expensify’s headline card number looks uncomplicated: interchange revenue rose 12% in the second quarter of 2026. The income statement tells a more demanding story. Customer cashback grew faster and reduced revenue, while a Visa volume incentive that reduces cost of revenue fell…
History
Stephen Casner and the Timestamp That Was Not a Clock
Two packets leave in sequence and carry the same timestamp. That looks like a broken clock only if the number is asked to describe transmission. In RTP, the two packets may simply be fragments of one video frame. Stephen Casner and his coauthors made that distinction part of the…