ConnectivityWeek conference and and NIST's Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) meetings in Santa Clara, CA. It looks like an interesting week of Smart Grid and energy-efficiency sessions ahead (with a half-dozen or so intrepid BACneteers present). The SGIP has grown trememndously from the kickoff meeting last November, up from 400+ organizations to 528, and from 440 or so individuals (present) to 1600 members today.
Yesterday, the first day of the meeting, closed with a most memorable address from one of our members, Vint Cerf -- if the name is familiar, he's a father of the Internet. We learned much about designing systems to be flexible going forward, just the way the Internet Protocol became.
(And that 32-bit IPv4 address that's becoming a problem as address space runs out? Well, as he said, the underlying Internet as we know it was only an experiment -- one that never came to an end.)
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