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Colin Perkins

@csperkins.org

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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. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 csperkins.org

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 28/08/2026

Wall size mural at the University of Strathclyde – stylised rows of students sit in rows in an old-fashioned lecture theatre, expressions ranging from concentration to horror on their faces

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 09/08/2026

The Duke of Wellington statue in Glasgow, with three traffic cones balanced on his head and one on the plinth. In the foreground, a Scottie dog statue with a traffic cone on its head. The Scottie is part of the Scotties in the City fundraiser for the Maggie’s Cancer Care charity.

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 25/07/2026

Useful information

Mugs in a gift shop, two rows of fours, one above the other. The mugs are white, with a yellow and black information sign “no kangaroos in Austria” with a stylised kangaroo picture

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 20/07/2026

Another excellent edition of the ACM/IRTF Applied Networking Research Workshop getting underway at #IETF126 in Vienna www.irtf.org/anrw/2026/progra...

Johanna Ullrich from the Interdisciplinary Transformation University (ITU) in Linz giving the ANRW2026 keynote.

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 22/06/2026

"Scotties in the City"

A large Scottie dog statue, decorated in Glasgow Subway orange with a subway map

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 07/05/2026

Vote early (well, err, vote!), vote often

Entrance to a polling station – a sign says “Polling place way in”

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 29/04/2026

London, briefly – it’s always a pleasure to support the @internetsociety.bsky.social in their policymaker programme

View of the river Thames, looking downriver towards the City, taken from Embankment near Waterloo Bridge. A bright sunny day.

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 05/04/2026

Snow through a window. Black and white patterned curtains tightly frame a three-paned window. Over-exposed, through the window, snow falling on an evergreen tree.

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 20/03/2026

@maryellenfoster.bsky.social I saw this and thought of you

Robots waiters in Pepper Parlour cafe in Shibuya, standing by at each table to help take orders

Robot concierges at Pepper Parlour. Three humanoid robots in a row, each with a display screen on their chest and a fashionable red beret, standing behind a desk greeting customers.

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 17/03/2026

A Japanese language keyboard – hundreds of keys!

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 16/03/2026

A video of Tokyo from the 25th floor of the Shibuya Stream building.

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 03/01/2026

A partially dismantled dining chair, its seat propped up and leaning against the frame, as we prepare to re-upholster the seat.

A prominent label on the underside of the chair says “NOTICE: THIS ARTICLE MEETS THE FLAMMABILITY REQUIREMENTS OF CALIFORNIA BUREAU OF HOME FURNISHINGS TECHNICAL BULLETIN 117. CARE SHOULD BE EXERCISED NEAR OPEN FLAME OR WITH BURNING CIGARETTES.”

Out of frame: upholstery fabric and a lethal looking industrial staple gun.

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 25/12/2025

A sparkling bauble, shiny white frosted glass, glinting in the sunlight, hangs from a Christmas tree. On the left, greenery from the tree, the bauble hanging just left of centre. To the right, a deeply blurred background, blue and grey, shows the view out of the window behind the tree, with no details visible. Happy Christmas!

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 14/11/2025

The DiveIn centre for doctoral training in diversity-led, mission-driven research at the University of Glasgow is now accepting applications for its fully-funded 4-year PhD programme – more info at www.divein.org.uk

Flyer advertising the DiveIn CDT. On the left, a picture of two students working with some scientific equipment that looks like it might be part of an engineering or physics laboratory. On the right, the logos of the University of Glasgow, EPSRC, and the DiveIn CDT, with the text "Applications now open: fully-funded 4-year PhD. Applicant Webinar, 26th November. More info at divein.org.uk"

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 13/11/2025

A reminder that nominations for the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) are due on 17 November 2025 www.irtf.org/anrp/ – please consider nominating; self-nominations are welcomed

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 12/11/2025

The Cloisters of the University of Glasgow. Dark under stone arches, looking out into a more brightly lit quad. In the quad, the Alma Mater sculpture, by Jephson Robb.

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 03/09/2025

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

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 03/07/2025

Once more at the Cosener’s House coseners.net/coseners-2025/

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 22/06/2025

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...

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 21/06/2025

Solstice

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 29/04/2025

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.”

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 21/03/2025

Status:

Sun loungers and an infinity pool. A sun umbrella. Tall buildings rise in the distance, the sun slowly sinking behind one.

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 26/02/2025

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.

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 24/01/2025

“Wind is making it feel colder”

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 10/12/2024

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.

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 05/12/2024

Vote early, vote often

A sign on a gate, text reads “Polling place way in”

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 25/11/2024

Notes from IETF 121 – sustainability and space research groups, moderation and codes of conduct, and perhaps even a hint of technical work csperkins.org/standards/20...

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

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Colin Perkins @csperkins.org · 25/11/2024

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 csperkins.org/research/pro...

Chicago skyline from the Navy Pier – blue water; tall buildings; blue sky

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