Disrupting the Disruptors:

Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing Service Launches Nationally
By Leigh Beadon
Mar 6, 2012
One of the points we often try to make at Techdirt is that the effects of disruptive technologies are going to be felt far beyond the entertainment and publishing industries—they are not limited to the online world. The internet creates abundance of information, but it also creates a push towards decentralization in all things, and that’s one of the big ways it intersects with the physical: although you can’t download a car, you can create whole new systems for buying, selling, renting, reviewing and maintaining cars, and those systems will replace established but less-efficient ones.
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Obama Administration: ACTA Is Binding & Don’t Worry Your Pretty Little Heads About TPP
By Mike Masnick
Mar 7, 2012
We’ve covered how Senator Wyden has been pressing the administration on ACTA and TPP concerning the process behind both agreements. The State Department has now responded by admitting that ACTA is, in fact, binding on the United States.
Under international law, the ACTA is a legally binding international agreement. By its terms, the ACTA enters into force when at least six parties have deposited instruments indicating their consent to be bound. Accordingly, once in force for the United States, the ACTA will impose obligations on the United States that are governed by international law. As in the case of other international agreements, it is possible that Congress could enact subsequent changes in U.S. law that are inconsistent with U.S. international obligations.
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BITAG’s Large Scale NAT Report Published

(Mar. 7, 2012)
The Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses. A successor address format, IPv6, has been developed to support as many devices as can conceivably be connected to the Internet for the foreseeable future but the IPv6 transition will take several years to be completed. IPv4 and IPv6 will thus need to co-exist until the demand for IPv4 services diminishes.  Network operators are employing a variety of techniques to extend the life of IPv4 addressing given the specter of a long term IPv6 transition. Large Scale Network Address Translation (also known as “Large Scale NAT” or “LSN”) is one such technique.  LSN equipment allows a large number of IPv4-enabled end devices to share a single public IPv4 address. Network Address Translation (“NAT”) functionality has long existed in local/private networks to help network operators manage their network addresses using private address space but network operators now contemplate using it on a widespread basis.
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