September 7, 2012 archive

Sep 07

Speaking in Montenegro about DNSSEC on September 12

ccTLD conference in MontenegroOn Wednesday of this week I’ll be speaking about DNSSEC at the 5th international conference for ccTLD registries and registrars of CIS, Central and Eastern Europe in Budva, Montenegro.  I’m very much looking forward to this event as it is entirely focused around the concerns of registries and registrars – and they are one of the key groups who can accelerate the deployment of DNSSEC.  In fact, you can see DNSSEC come up a few times on the agenda  – and I’m looking forward to hearing the case study of the .UA deployment of DNSSEC.

My session on Wednesday is titled “Key Steps in Accelerating DNSSEC Deployment” and for the registries and registrars the steps really can be ultimately reduced down to these:

  • Registries need to make it as simple as possible for registrars to upload DS (Delegation Signor) records into the registries’ zones.
  • Registrars need to make it as simple as possible for DNS hosting providers to upload DS records into the registrars databases.

Those two steps right there would greatly accelerate the deployment of DNSSEC in those ccTLDs.

That’s not all I’ll talk about, of course.  I’m also going to be discussing the growth of the .NL signed domains as that example may be something some of the ccTLDs can replicate. I’ll be talking about how the ongoing work with DANE securing SSL/TLS certificates via DNSSEC should spur enterprise interest in deployment.  I’ll be providing some examples of a good user experience … and much more.  I’ll be making the slides available later and potentially an audio or video recording if I am able to do so.

The main point of my attendance, too, is to interact with registries and registrars and find out what we can do to make it easier for them to deploy DNSSEC.  That feedback will certainly help our DNSSEC content roadmap and help us prioritize what materials we are creating first.

If you attending the event I look forward to meeting up with you,  and I look forward to learning from those there about DNSSEC – and all the other issues – in the Central and Eastern European region.

Sep 07

New Mailing List for “Migrating Apps to IPv6” Updates

Would you like to be notified when updates are made to “Migrating Applications to IPv6“?  If so, there’s a nifty little sign-up box over in the right sidebar that will add you to an email distribution list that I will use ONLY to alert you to news about the book.  Info about updates will also be posted here to the book’s blog, of course, and will also appear on the Google+ page and in my normal Twitter stream. But I realized recently that some readers might want to receive specific messages when updates are available.  If you purchase the ebook directly from O’Reilly, you’ll get notified through their notification system, but if you purchase through another retailer – or would just like to receive an extra update, please feel free to subscribe.  I promise I won’t spam you or do anything else with your email address outside of alert you to the new updates.

Thanks for your interest in the book!

Sep 07

AdhearsionConf 2012 Call For Speakers Ends Tomorrow (Sept 8)

Adhearsionconf2012Do you like building telephony apps with Adhearsion? Have you built a really cool app that is worth sharing? Or used Adhearsion in an unusual way? Are you planning to attend AdhearsionConf 2012 in Palo Alto on October 20-21? Or would you attend if you could speak?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, why not consider applying to be a speaker? The call for speakers is at:

http://adhearsionconf.com/call-for-speakers/

The only catch is ... the deadline is TOMORROW, Saturday, September 8th!

Ever since I first saw Jay Phillips present about Adhearsion back at one of the early ETel conferences in maybe 2006 or so I've been intrigued by how easy Adhearsion made it to develop telecom apps. It's just incredibly simple to make powerful apps.

If you are a Ruby developer (or want to be) and you are interested in building telephony apps, Adhearsion is definitely worth a look... and if you do use Adhearsion, why not consider signing up as a speaker?

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Sep 07

.NL Becomes First TLD To Pass 1 Million DNSSEC-Signed Domain Names!

History was made today in the ongoing effort to deploy DNSSEC globally and bring about a more secure Internet -

.NL became the first top-level-domain (TLD) to pass 1 million DNSSEC-signed domain names!

Celebrated in tweets from SIDN, the operator of the .NL registry, and from Bert Hubert, principal author of PowerDNS, as well as in an announcement from SIDN, the milestone can be clearly seen in the unofficial .NL statistics site operated by PowerDNS:

It is also visible on SIDN’s home page where they also show the total number of .NL domains:

Note, too, the significance of those numbers –

over 20% of all .NL domains are now signed!

Outstanding to see… and we look forward to seeing how much higher it grows.

We’ve previously covered (also here) the rise of the .NL domain and we’re delighted to see them hit this milestone! Kudos to the folks at SIDN, PowerDNS, SURFnet, NLNet Labs and everyone else involved!

Now we just need to get all the other TLDs moving on the same path!  (Including .COM, which has just over 106,000 domains signed… as Bert commented to me on Twitter, .NL had more signed delegations added yesterday than .COM has in total!)

Want to help?  Here are some steps for how you can get started signing your domain!