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In our second episode, we will be talking to Ignacio Castro from the Queen Mary University of London regarding a recent study he was involved in characterising the demographics and trends in the IETF across its history and how this has impacted the evolution of the Internet. Using a unique dataset of 2.4 million emails, 8,711 RFCs and 4,512 authors, the group examined the shifts and trends within the Internet standards development process, showing how protocol complexity and time to produce standards has increased.You can learn more about the project via sodestream.github.io (https://sodestream.github.io/) where you'll also find a link to their IMC 2021 paper.The views expressed by the featured speakers are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of APNIC.

For our first episode, we will be talking to Internet Hall of Famer and APNIC’s Chief Scientist, Geoff Huston about Facebook’s 6-hour outage on the 5th of October 2021. The show builds on Geoff's blog post (https://blog.apnic.net/2021/10/07/opinion-learning-from-facebooks-mistakes/) and discusses how the network design of Facebook and other large content distribution networks are unique from the traditional ways that networks connect to the Internet as they seek to improve efficiency. However, these unique designs have compromised resilience, which results in outages. So what can we learn from these outages and are they such a bad thing if they ultimately seek to evolve the way the Internet works.The views expressed by the featured speakers are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of APNIC.