Blockchain Going Mainstream

• Soramitsu Open Sources Blockchain Platform “Iroha” – Offers Code to Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project

• Soramitsu contributes code to Hyperledger

  Soramitsu Co., Ltd. (CEOs : Makoto Takemiya and Ryu Okada; hereafter, "Soramitsu") has announced today the open sourcing and proposal of a distributed ledger technology (blockchain) platform called "Iroha" to the Hyperledger Project, an open source Linux Foundation collaborative project for the enhancement of blockchain and distributed ledger technology.

• Congressional Blockchain Caucus Formed

• The US is looking to formalise policy around blockchain technology

• U.S. Congress Sees a Bipartisan Caucus for Bitcoin and Blockchain

• Lawmakers announce new bipartisan Congressional Blockchain Caucus

• SC Republican among founders of congressional Bitcoin caucus

• US forms caucus to shape policies related to digital currency

• Blockchain Now Has Own Congressional Caucus

• Lawmakers announce blockchain technology caucus

• New Congressional Caucus Seeks Favorable Laws for Blockchain

• Polis, Mulvaney Launch ‘Blockchain Caucus’

• Blockchain gains congressional support

• Tech-savvy lawmakers found blockchain caucus

• US Politicians Form Blockchain Caucus to Create Sound Bitcoin Policies

• The US Congress now has a caucus dedicated to bitcoin and blockchain

• Blockchain Just Made Some New Friends in Congress

  Boy, has blockchain become respectable. It wasn’t long ago that the face of the technology, which powers the crypto-currency bitcoin, was libertarians and drug dealers. Today, it’s the banking industry and members of Congress. On Monday, Rep. Jared Polis (D-Co) and Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) announced the creation of a “Blockchain Caucus” to promote laws and policies to encourage the development of crypto-currencies and other blockchain-related tools.

FOSS in Networking

• OPNFV Colorado platform bolsters open source NFV efforts

  The Linux Foundation’s Open Platform for NFV project claims its third platform release targets accelerating development of NFV apps and services The telecom market’s continued move towards integrating network functions virtualization received a boost as the Linux Foundation’s Open Platform for NFV project released its latest Colorado platform release, the third from the open source-based organization.

• Open-source NFV Project delivers third platform release

  The OPNFV Project, an open source project that facilitates the development and evolution of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) components across various open source ecosystems through integration, deployment, and testing today announced the availability of OPNFV Colorado, the project’s third platform release.

• Inocybe Technologies Launches Community Version of their Open Networking Platform

• Open Source Getting on My Nerves

  Open source people are generally not dirt dishers, however. Take Phil Robb of OpenDaylight , where he is senior technical director. Robb was on that MANO panel in Denver, and he spoke to me shortly afterward in an interview on ODL's new Boron software release. I specifically asked him about the "messy MANO situation" right now. His response was frustratingly calm. "I would equate the MANO space with where the controller space was three years ago," he says. "One of the great things about open source is that real code is going to be up, going to be used, stuff will work or it will fall over. But we'll fail fast and move on." (See Carriers Driving ODL's Boron Release.) So having multiple versions in process isn't a bad thing, Robb says, because it might be that one approach works better for a set of use cases than another. What the industry will come around to "sooner rather than later" is that one approach likely addresses the broadest set of use cases and will be more widely adopted, while others address niches and either are used alongside the major approach or incorporated into it.

Open Access on the Rise

• The crazy price of college textbooks is pushing more US universities to adopt an “open-source” solution

  Seven Rhode Island universities, including Brown and Rhode Island College, will move to open-license textbooks in a bid to save students $5 million over the next five years, the governor announced Tuesday (Sept. 27). The initiative is meant to put a dent in the exorbitant cost of college and, more specifically, college textbooks. Mark Perry, a professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan Flint, and a writer at the American Enterprise Institute, estimated last year that college textbook prices rose 945% between 1978 and 2014, compared to an overall inflation rate of 262% and a 604% rise in the cost of medical care.

• Gov. Raimondo announces plan to ease college textbook burden

• Textbook plan hopes to save RI college students $5 million

• Governor says open-text initiative will save RI college students $5 million each year

• Rhode Island aims to put $5 million in textbooks savings back in students' pockets

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