Brian Trammell

Scientist, Synthesist, Cyclist, SRE

I’m an American-Swiss geek of several trades living in Wallisellen, Switzerland. I’m a proud father, unrepentant pedestrian supremacist, recovering security person, and scientist with interests in Internet architecture, Internet measurement, and the evolution of the Internet general and Internet protocols specifically, especially at Layer 4. I’m active in the IETF, IRTF, and have been recently appointed as a Trustee of the Internet Society.

My day job is in Site Reliability Engineering at Google in Zürich, where I don’t work in networking for a change.

Yet Another Non-Swexit

15 June 2026

I waited long enough to write about Kein 10-Millionen Schweiz that I get to do so in the past tense, with a sense of relief, albeit incomplete. Yes, dear reader, the Swiss People’s Party ran yet another Schwarzenbach referendum to attempt to create their little island without resorting to kinetics, and despite some fear based on early polling numbers that maybe this time they’d managed to do it, with a campaign that tried (but ultimately failed) to break from their explicitly fascist house style (in the sense of “blame foreigners for everything, including the traffic caused by your own love of cars, and do it mostly with red, white, and black ink”), we will once again not be Doing A Swexit. …