Because I love oldies. Sad it is always true.

$ whois -h whois.ripe.net POEM-RIPE55-SONG
[...]


% Information related to 'POEM-RIPE55-SONG'

poem: POEM-RIPE55-SONG
form: FORM-PROSE
descr: At his first RIPE meeting, Gary wrote this and performed at
descr: the closing plenary. It was truly awesome.
descr: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0
descr:
text: A long long time ago
text: I can still remember
text: when my laptop could connect elsewhere.
text:
text: And I tell you all there was a day
text: the network card I threw away
text: had a purpose - and it worked for you and me.
text:
text: But 18 years completely wasted
text: with each address we've aggregated
text: the tables overflowing
text: the traffic just stopped flowing...
text:
text: And now we're bearing all the scars
text: and all my traceroutes showing stars.
text: The packets would travel faster in cars
text: the day the routers died.
[... continued ...]

Je dis aime, la haine je la jette… Bonne écoute Daesh ;)

Sorry, but this time it will be a french article.

Ce qu’il faut que la France reste :

  • Amour ;
  • Diversité culturelle ;
  • Fête ;
  • Liberté !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;
  • Laïcité ;
  • Passions et liberté de les exprimer par toutes les manières que se soit dans le respect des autres ;

J'ai les méninges nomades 
J'ai le miroir maussade 
Tantôt mobile 
Tantôt tranquille
Je moissonne sans bousculade

Je dis Aime
Et je le sème
Sur ma planète
Je dis M
Comme un emblème
La haine je la jette

Je dis AIME, AIME, AIME

Du Sphinx dans mon rimeur
Paris au fil du cœur
Du Nil dans mes veines
Dans mes artères coule la Seine

Je dis Aime
Et je le sème
Sur ma planète
Je dis M
Comme un emblème
La haine je la jette

Je dis AIME, AIME, AIME

Pour le dehors le dedans
Pour l'après pour l'avant

Je dis Aime
Et je le sème
Sur ma planète
Je dis M
Comme un emblème
La haine je la jette

Je dis AIME, AIME, AIME

How do you explain Internet/BGP/ASN to your non-IT friends ?

It is not really easy to explain BGP/ASN concepts to a non-friendly-IT friend. I am really interested in how you explain this. Just to know. I am really curious.

Do you use an analogy ? Which ? Do you go directly in technical stuff ?

To begin : for my part I use an analogy around city/country. I explain that city/country announce to others her streets or better a set of streets. and so on …

It could be cool to know your stories about this…