Hey everybody Brian here. I long ago promised you that if we ever did a sponsored episode I'd let you know that we were.

Well, this is a sponsored episode. As you've heard, the Internet Society has been advertising with us all week to get the word out about their paper on issues surrounding low Earth orbit satellites and the whole Internet from space.

They wanted to know if they could have a longer conversation about this topic and I said yes because they're the internet society

I've long respected their work and also because the whole space tech industry is something I find fascinating

So enjoy this discussion discussion but know that the

Internet Society paid to have this discussion. So be sure to check out the paper we're talking

about at Internet Society.org

slash Tech Meme.

Welcome to another bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home, I guess a special Thanksgiving holiday sort of a bonus episode for us.

Today I couldn't resist doing this.

The Internet Society reached out.

You might have heard their ads on the show this week.

They have a new paper out that the ads hopefully have told you about all this week about internet from space and we have from the internet society today York, to talk about that paper, to talk about, you know,

satellite, space tech, all that good stuff.

Dan, first of all, welcome.

Great, thanks for having me on.

I'm a long time listener, so I've enjoyed your show over these years.

Well, thank you so much.

I think what we should do is first start off just real briefly with the Internet Society because as I said

when you when you folks reached out I couldn't resist because I've respected the

work that you've done all these years so So just briefly tell us about the Internet society and what your goals and projects are.

Sure, so we were founded in 1992 by a group of kind of early Internet pioneers and we're a global nonprofit we have

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