Why meta-X?
Hello colleagues, friends, foes.. I intend to maintain this blog as much as I can and sort of share my feelings and thoughts, and hopefully facts too. I do want to keep the blog scoped to my work, which involves research and teaching computer networking. I started with the blog name "meta-networking" but I/we may change it as time goes by. I did partially copycat the name from Prof. Demirbas's blog: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com . Meta-X generally refers to something that helps X be X. Sometimes "meta" might be beyond just help, it might be necessary to make X. Meta-networking, in that sense, means the stuff you do to keep the network up and running. Protocols, money, labor, human behavior and other stuff I may be forgetting now all count into meta-networking. Meta-X also has this other meaning that meta is the residual or sort of like a dual of X. You maintain the meta along with X and use it for "helping" X be X. So, this meaning of meta is