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Colin Perkins
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Computer networking research and Internet standards. Professor in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. Long-time IETF participant. Former chair of the IRTF. Personal views only. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

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A silver tone photo, taken from across the street at roof level, of the Victorian brickwork, windows, and rooftops of the hotel at Glasgow Central Station
September 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Once more at the Cosener’s House coseners.net/coseners-2025/
The Coseners’s House
July 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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I’m in Oslo for the UN Internet Governance Forum, starting tomorrow. If you’re also attending, please do join me, and my colleagues from the IAB and Internet Society, on 24 June for Networking Session #138 "Tech & Policy: Building Bridges in Internet Governance" csperkins.org/standards/20...
IGF Norway 20 Years
June 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Solstice
Oslo harbour on the day of the summer solstice. Calm blue-green water, featuring a dark-hulled boat moored at a wooden dock in the foreground and several tall sailing ships with masts anchored throughout the harbor. Buildings line the waterfront under a clear blue sky.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
June 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Spotted on my walk to work this morning:
A stylised silver tone photo of a bumper sticker on a vehicle, trees and sky reflecting in the shiny paint around it. On the left of the sticker a large boxy vehicle, on indeterminate manufacture, lumbers towards the camera. On the right, the words “it’s not a jeep. It’s a fucking Land Rover.”
April 29, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Status:
Sun loungers and an infinity pool. A sun umbrella. Tall buildings rise in the distance, the sun slowly sinking behind one.
March 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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For some reason, I'm reminded of this photo. "Human beings are noodle beings".
A large gold statue of Momofuku Ando, inventor of the Cup Noodle. He is an elderly Japanese gentleman, balding with glasses, wearing a formal suit, waistcoat, and tie, who is standing facing the camera, left hand of hip, right hand holding a pot of Cup Noodles out in front on him. The statue is imposing, appears to be made of gold, and towers over visitors to the Cup Noodle Museum in Yokohama. I have no knowledge of Momofuku Ando's politics, but he was very good at noodles. Some things are worth a gold statue.
February 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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“Wind is making it feel colder”
Screen shot from iPhone weather app: Feels like -13 degrees C, actual 4C. Wind is making it feel colder.
January 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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A man walks his dog on a foggy night in Glasgow. Sharply monochromatic. Several cones of light slant downward, streetlights in the fog, one illuminating a man and dog walking downhill away from the camera. A tree leans over the street from the right. Car headlights in the distance.
December 10, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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Vote early, vote often
A sign on a gate, text reads “Polling place way in”
December 5, 2024 at 12:59 PM
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Notes from IETF 121 – sustainability and space research groups, moderation and codes of conduct, and perhaps even a hint of technical work

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Monochrome image of the Samuel Beckett Bridge in Dublin, next to the IETF-121 meeting venue. The supports of the bridge are in the shape of a harp. The image shows the main support, rising from the bottom right corner like the prow of a ship while rows of parallel cable stays reach down and to the left in a series parallel lines; three others reach up to the top-left corner of the image in sharply expanding relief. To the right, a single support vanishes into the distance, almost straight to the right
November 25, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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Getting Empirical About Standards – thoughts on the Fourth Annual Empirical Research Conference on Standardisation, where I presented some results from our work on Streamlining Social Decision Making for Improved Internet Standards

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Chicago skyline from the Navy Pier – blue water; tall buildings; blue sky
November 25, 2024 at 1:51 PM