It may be more prone to melting than expected
You may have missed this important story in the media.
What is so special about my son Chris?
One reason is that Chris is such a devoted and knowledgeable person. This is especially so in respect to his involvement with the international environmental science movement. I believe that this link demonstrates the merit of my words. Chris is a co-author of a science document currently [2023] featured in Nature Magazine.
Understanding 5G. Unraveling some mysteries
I present an article written by Anthony Rutkowski. Rutkowski’s credentials are cited further down. I believe that very few of us are aware of the greater story quietly lurking behind the contemporary international 5G debate. It seems to me that the author has done a sound job in composing this article. I have emboldened text that I feel that might most interest my readers
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“The initial, essential step toward understanding 5G is to perform an intellectual body purge of the endless disgorging of cluelessness and disinformation that emerges from the Washington White House and radiates out around that city and then to the outside world that it infects. The institutes, pundits, self-professed experts, summits, and even the U.S. press all pretty much feed out of the same trough of 5G political slop that gets passed around as incantations of ignorance, spin, and K-street lobbying.
The next essential step is the difficult one. Unfortunately, it requires the hard work and a knowledge base obtained from following and analyzing the only authoritative collective sources of 5G information — and that is the multiple global industry bodies where hundreds of technical experts constantly collaborate at diverse locations contributing thousands of input documents per month developing and specifying in great detail, the architectures, services, interfaces, radio links, and capabilities that constitute 5G. These bodies have been working on this effort for the past five years, and publish the resulting documents in a series of releases that resemble computer operating system versions. Release 16 — which is true 5G SA with network core virtualization (as opposed to transitional precursors) — is being accomplished this year. Subsequent releases promise ever more advanced applications and features. The bottom line: 5G is a constantly evolving continuum.
These bodies are usually layered and have endless strings of acronyms like the 3GPP (SA, CT, RAN) core, which is then surrounded by NFV ISG, MEC ISG, ETSI TCs, MEF, ITU-R, ITU-T, OASIS, TCG, IETF, OMA, GSMA, IEEE802. You can search on the acronyms for meanings, access portals, meetings, participants, and input and output materials. Additionally, large swaths of 5G work never make it into the global industry fora, and only appear in patent filings, research literature, and product announcements that require continuous monitoring and assessment. Given the enormous complexity and continuously evolving technical and institutional complexities spread across all these venues, anything approaching a complete understanding is not possible. All 5G knowledge is an approximation at a point in time.
Principal 5G features
A number of basic features can be distilled out of the enormous swirling 5G maelstrom that go far beyond the focus on political trivializations, lobbying, trolling for spectrum, and marketing in the popular press. These features represent a tectonic change far exceeding anything seen in the history of electronic communications – in the way networks and services are instantiated and provided.
- Virtualization of everything from data centres and local Mobile Edge Computing facilities
- Partitioned architectures & services on demand transparently across all media using network slicing
- Shifting away from DARPA internet protocols to low-latency Virtual Carrier Ethernet
- Prolific ephemeral encryption
- High-speed mobility support combined with constant dynamic portability to mobile platforms and IOT
- Commoditized hardware and orchestration of everything else
- Ubiquitous, high bandwidth radio access capabilities
- Shift to global “content distribution networks” on demand where discoverable endpoint and traffic intelligence become highly valuable
- Intelligence shifts from endpoints to middleboxes and data centres
- Trusted platforms, middlebox based traffic analysis, and auditing become security essentials
Explaining these features and conclusions are beyond the scope of a basic primer, but readers can do their own homework using authoritative source materials.
Threaded through this array of capabilities is a need for security that is best summed up as constant “cyber hygiene” representing a virtualization reapplication of today’s 20 CIS Critical Security Controls. Unilateral actions undermining public international law like banning a vendor’s hardware because of its place of incorporation are not only unlawful but utterly delusional and counterproductive toward addressing the necessary capabilities. The 5G security capabilities have for several years been developed and evolved continuously in global industry bodies.
The problem here is that understanding all of the above requires a comprehensive level of knowledge and available resources to distill from a broad array of activities — and those resources only exist in a few companies and institutions. As a result, the purveyors of jingoistic 5G snake oil political analysis are left to pursue their trade. Simplistic portrayals of 5G are low-hanging fruit for a world challenged by understanding even the basics of how a smartphone works.
Emerging 5G markets, strategies, and participants
There are arguably four classes of winners in the 5G world. In the near term, they include a few companies and their component suppliers who can exist in the global 5G mass commodity physical “box” game that has a finite market period and extends into developing countries. Their success is synergistic and important to the derivative markets. The three additional, larger, persistent, and even more lucrative market winners in this massive tectonic shift to a tailored, on-demand, content delivery global architecture, are: 1) those who provide the low latency, trusted network slice orchestrations out of cloud data centre/MEC facilities and middleboxes, 2) those who collect and maintain the mobile endpoint identifiers and intelligence to provide resolver services, and 3) those who can maintain and provide content for specific classes of customers.
The providers who fall into all of the above categories are very actively engaged in the real 5G/NFV work. They encompass product vendors and service providers at multiple levels across the globe — in many instances, orchestrating different subsidiaries across multiple countries. Some industry consortiums in the cable, railway, and automobile fields have become prominent. The metrics of the huge commitments of personnel and contributions of intellectual property in submissions are available in all the venues. In the 5G security arena, by any metric, there is only one clear global leader — the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre.
Principal 5G Challenges
Although the challenges are certain to evolve over time, those that are obvious at this point fall into three categories: 1) effective, inclusive global arrangements for extraterritorial orchestrations of 5G architectures and services including access to forensics, 2) concentration of 5G orchestration, resolver and end-point intelligence services in the hands of a few commercial providers, and 3) an inability of government institutions to understand the previous two challenges and their own strategic interests. The last challenge is largely resident in only one nation at the moment.
The first challenge can be potentially satisfied by further extending the many global intergovernmental arrangements developed a century ago for the first global radio-based networks and a quarter-century ago for public internets. To the extent solutions cannot be found, costs will simply be driven up and market access limited by building more national-based facilities that operate within a confined jurisdiction. The second challenge is similar to the first with complex antitrust, privacy, law enforcement, and national security overlays. Nations will similarly insist on geographic jurisdictional compartmentalization. The third challenge will hopefully be solved in the near future.
About the author:
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“Principal, Netmagic Associates LLC
Joined on August 15, 2012 – United States
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Tony Rutkowski is a Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP) at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. As Executive Vice President for Yaana Technologies, he has served as rapporteur for cybersecurity in ITU-T since 2009 and served as the counselor for two ITU Secretaries-General between 1988 and 1992, co-authored a published ITU history, and led development and authored many regulatory provisions, laws, briefs, treaties, standards, books, and articles as an engineer-lawyer over many years in multiple positions in industry, government and academic institutions. At one time, he did real engineering – being responsible for the communications and command & control systems as part of the Apollo Launch Teams at KSC Launch Complex 39″ http://www.circleid.com/members/6809/
Geo-political round up and akin
In this new blog I introduce you to important news stories that you may never have heard about or seriously considered before. You will notice that I put emphasis on subjects relating to international politics and the potential for war. This includes the politics behind the development of new highly destructive international weaponry. You will find a few of these links are a little dated but I do not feel that this is detracts from their potential reader interest. I intend to update this list from time to time.
Begin your reading experience here:
1] Does Australia need a nuclear arsenal? And what would be the cost?
3] Trump is Forcing China to Reassess its Strategy
4] Trump spoils Xi’s Belt and Road Forum, without even attending
5] US Submarines to Field Hypersonic Weapons in 2025
6] How China fooled Donald Trump
7] South China Sea: Deterring a Fait Accompli
8] In Korean War Commemoration, Xi Warns That China Will ‘Use War to Prevent War’
9] Your 5G Phone Won’t Hurt You. But Russia Wants You to Think Otherwise
10] India’s First Indigenous Air-Launched Radar-Killing Missile Is Headed For Service
11] Blasting The Air In Front Of Hypersonic Vehicles With Lasers Could Unlock Unprecedented Speeds
12] The Real Strategic End Game in Decoupling From China
13] You Can’t Imagine World War III Between America and China
14] America’s Startling Short Range Air Defense Gap And How To Close It Fast
15] U.S. won’t ‘tiptoe’ around China with Asia stability at threat: defense chief
16] China and U.S. clash again on trade and regional security
17] Twitter-post garbage the clearest sign yet of desperation in Beijing
18] Just like Trump’s tariffs, China’s trade attack will backfire
19] Tightening the Chain: Implementing a Strategy of Maritime Pressure in the Western Pacific
20] An India-Australia-France Trilateral Dialogue Is Overdue
21] China’s Hong Kong security laws could lead to ‘complete decoupling’ from US
22] China and Iran: Joining Forces to Beat U.S. Stealth Fighters?
23] Pentagon secretly struck back against Iranian cyberspies targeting U.S. ships
24] Russia and China Go War Against America. Here’s What Could Happen Next
25] Australia may need to consider nuclear weapons to counter China’s dominance, defence analyst says
27] Chinese Nuclear Armed Submarines in Russian Arctic Ports? It Could Happen
28] Sanctions: the new economic battlefield
29] America vs. Russia and China: Welcome to Cold War II
30] The Army’s ‘Big Six’: America Plan to Wipe Out Russia or China In a War
31] The Ultimate Way to Deter China: Why Island-Chain Defense Can Work
32] China vs. Japan: Is the East China Sea Showdown Back on?
33] Is Russia Having Second Thoughts About Integration With China?
34] Why the China-Russia Alliance Won’t Last
35] Baoshang Bank collapse threatens China’s economy and may trigger central bank response
36] Nuclear Holocaust: If an Israel vs. Russia War Broke Out in the Middle East
37] As China and the United States fight for global dominance, is Australia’s safety at risk?
38] The Limits of the Alliance Between China and Russia
39] NATO needs to address China’s rise, says Stoltenberg
40] Indo-Pacific security should also be a European affair
42] The bitter reality is the Morrison Government doesn’t know how to deal with China
43] Why China’s Premature Bid for Hegemony Is More Fragile Than You Imagine
44] The Kremlin Hierarchy Is Fast Decaying
45] So Much for Suez: What Britain’s Tanker Crisis with Iran in the Gulf Really Means
46] Chinese construction boom in Cambodian town raises fears of secret military pact
We are all interested in the devastating Australian fires but how about us also seriously thinking about the massive melting of harmful permafrost in Canada and Russia too?
I hope that you do not mind me sharing this issue with you at this time. Even if you disagree with my position I think that we all should at least be seriously thinking and talking about it and certainly not play politics with the subject.
If you read the literature carefully you will find that this melting permafrost in Canada [also including Russia and elsewhere] is far more likely to adversely impact on the planet than widespread forest fires in various nations as has been happening in recent times. With global warming both disasters go hand in hand! Also see my blog Omnicide who is responsible for the greatest of all crimes generally relating to this same subject.
I will leave it to the following story about this subject to talk for itself:
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” ‘It scares me’: Permafrost thaw in Canadian Arctic sign of global trend
…”It scares me,” said Kumari Karunaratne, a permafrost expert who works for the Northwest Territories Geological Survey. “This methane that’s being released is being released over huge areas across the north. And it’s continually seeping out.
Methane is a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. So, as climate change speeds up the permafrost melt, the permafrost melt will exacerbate climate change. By exactly how much, it’s impossible to say. Karunaratne won’t even try to guess, because measuring it is difficult and imprecise. The area where it’s happening is vast and much of it remains uninhabited and unexplored. But there are dramatic examples that show just how much methane is bubbling up from underground. Some lakes in the Arctic are so full of it, if you punch a hole in the ice you can light the escaping gas on fire. YouTube has videos of researchers and others doing it in Alaska and Siberia. But the same thing is happening in the Northwest Territories.
There are other problems, too.
Last summer in Siberia, the unusually intense summer heat melted the permafrost, exposing a reindeer carcass that had been embedded in it. That carcass was infected with anthrax, a deadly bacteria that had been locked in the ice. A 12-year-old boy died after being infected and at least eight others were sickened. It opens up the possibility that other dangers could be unleashed. Siberian researchers say a gravesite in one town contains bodies of people who died of smallpox in the 1890s. They were buried in the soil just above the permafrost, which is now melting. That’s raising fears that smallpox, which was eradicated globally in 1977, could make a comeback. A woman stands with reindeer in the Yamal-Nenets region of Siberia, Russia, where a 12-year-old boy died and 20 people were infected in 2016 after an anthrax outbreak. An unusually intense summer had melted the permafrost, exposing a reindeer carcass containing anthrax.
Sergey Netesov, chief of the virology laboratory at Novosibirsk State University, told the Siberian Times newspaper that there are thousands of graves in the region — some human, some cattle. The recent anthrax outbreak, he said, is “reason enough to finance research into the diagnostics and prevention of exceptionally dangerous infections.” Whether that happens or not, people in the Northwest Territories know they have no power to stop climate change. Global temperatures are already at record levels and the polar regions are feeling the effects more dramatically than anywhere else. “There are really remarkable changes that are happening in a short amount of time,” said Karunaratne.
And there’s likely more to come.”…”
Also see the story that respected Skeptic allowed to be published in it magazine in 2008 entitled “How We Know Global Warming is Real. The Science Behind Human-induced Climate Change”
(In this instance I do not see that the age of this document is relevant)
Important update from The Diplomat August 1st 2020
…as well as this BBC Science article and this one too.
…as well as this one too
Making Smart Cities Smarter
A video presentation relating to the new frontier for sustainability science
I feel that the content in this two hour presentation is very important for those who care to better understand how future urban environmental development may occur. This is perhaps more so in respect to what many people see as the emergent global climate change phenomenon.