[tahoe-dev] a good google tech talk video

[zooko]

I just had a date with my wife Amber in which we watched the Google  
Tech Talk video starring Van Jacobson.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6972678839686672840

I picked it out because it was in the top ten most highly rated  
google tech talk videos and because Van Jacobson is justly famed for  
TCP/IP congestion avoidance (as well as multicast media tools, and  
RTP, and probably other stuff), and because it promised to reveal the  
next paradigm shift in network after the 20th-century paradigm shift  
from telephony to packet-switching.

Guess what?  Not to spoil the ending, but Jacobson's vision for  
newfangled networking has a lot in common with tahoe.

It's pretty good.  I especially enjoyed the historical context,  
although I am skeptical that ARPAnet used 56 Kb/s acoustic couplers.   
56 Kb/s?  Did they really have that in 1971?  Maybe he meant 56 baud.

Regards,

Zooko