Speaking of Standards

This video is about six months old, but after a friend reminded me of it, I realized that I had to blog about it. I mean, how can you not be amused by “The Day The Routers Died…” (once you adjust to the use of the European “rooter” vs the American “rowter”):

Note that if you click on the video and go to the YouTube page, you can click on the “More Info” link and get the full words.

For those not familiar with RIPE, it is an open organization for Europeans interested in the Internet and through the RIPE Network Coordination Centre provides allocation of IP addresses, domain names and other aspects of Internet “policy” (such that there is) in the European region. This song was performed at their last meeting (RIPE 55) and their next meeting, RIPE 56, is coming up May 5-9 in Berlin.

Kudos to whoever spent the time to come up with these lyrics and to the gent performing it! Nicely done.

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Out here at IETF 70 in Vancouver, British Columbia, I decided to continue our experimentation with video with this quick lunchtime interview with RJ Auburn:

For those curious, this was shot with my Canon SD1000 “point-and-shoot” camera, imported into iMovie ‘08 for editing and credits and then exported to YouTube (again using iMovie ‘08). Audio of the rain is a bit louder than I would like, but I’m just using the omnidirectional mic built into the Canon camera.

Comments about our little experiments are definitely welcome.

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Being a US East Coaster, I found myself up extremely early this morning and so I decided to go over to the Westin hotel and try a little bit of video. So here you have a greeting from Vancouver:

For those interested, this video was created just using the built-in camera on my MacBook Pro, edited slightly in iMovie ‘08 and then uploaded to YouTube using the “Export to YouTube…” feature of iMovie ‘08.