December 2012 archive
Dec 10
FIR #681 – 12/10/12 – For Immediate Release
Dec 07
5 DNSSEC Training/Technical Sessions at USENIX LISA Next Week In San Diego
Want to learn more about DNSSEC? Next week at the USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA) Conference in San Diego there are going to be some excellent DNSSEC sessions in addition to our ION San Diego event happening on Tuesday.
Starting it off will be a half-day DNS and DNSSEC tutorial on Tuesday morning (right before our ION event) by Shumon Huque of the University of Pennsylvania. It looks like a great way to spend the morning diving deep into DNS and DNSSEC.
Tuesday afternoon will be our ION San Diego conference where we have two sessions focused on DNSSEC on our agenda. First, Pete Toscano of ARIN will talk about ARIN’s support of both DNSSEC and RPKI. Second, I’ll be moderating what should be a truly outstanding panel on the topic of deploying DNSSEC. We have a great group of panelists including Rick Lamb from ICANN, Infoblox’s Cricket Liu who is also the author of multiple O’Reilly books on DNS, Jim Galvin of Afilias (who operates multiple TLDs) and Roland van Rijswijk-Deij of SURFnet who has been very actively working on getting more validating DNS servers deployed. The panel will be a questions-based, highly interactive discussion session that we expect to be very educational (and perhaps entertaining) for all attending. I’ll have questions for the panel but there will also be plenty of opportunities for you to ask your questions, too.
(Did we mention that registering for ION San Diego is FREE? Just fill out the form and come in for great IPv6 and DNSSEC education.)
Jumping to Friday, there are then two invited talks about DNSSEC. First, Roland van Rijswijk-Deij of SURFnet will be discussing “DNSSEC: What Every Sysadmin Should be Doing to Keep Things Working“. Roland’s presentations have been both educational and amusing in the past, so I’m sure this should be a good one. Following Roland and closing out the DNSSEC sessions next week, Scott Rose of NIST will be presenting “DNSSEC Deployment in .gov: Progress and Lessons Learned” where he’ll be providing the case study of the US government’s deployment of DNSSEC and relaying their lessons learned thus far. Scott and the team at NIST have been doing great work monitoring the DNSSEC deployment and this session should be very helpful to those looking to understand how to deploy DNSSEC on a very large scale.
There you have it… lots of great DNSSEC material! If you are in San Diego next week for USENIX LISA, check out these sessions and also come to our ION conference. Great opportunities to learn what you need to do to get started with DNSSEC today!
Dec 03
World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) Starts Today in Dubai
These ITRs were last updated in 1988... and the world of telecom has changed just a wee bit since then! :-)
Unless you've been asleep or offline for the past few months, you'll know that some of the countries out there are seeking to use this WCIT conference as a way to expand the ITRs to cover the Internet - and to thereby control the Internet more or to impose other business models on the Internet. Obviously a lot of people (myself included) are opposed to the expansion of the ITRs to include more of the Internet and believe that the ITRs should remain focused on the telecommunications interconnection related to the traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).
This all will play out over the next two weeks in the meetings happening in Dubai that will culminate with a series of votes by the member states. The ITU is a United Nations (UN) entity and so each country gets a vote.
I'll not comment further here about the ITRs and WCIT, except to note that if you want to follow along with what is happening, my colleagues in the Internet Society Public Policy team (of which I am not a part) have been maintaining a site where they are curating news about WCIT:
http://www.scoop.it/t/wcit
They've been doing a great job and it's the site that I am using to keep up with what is being said out there about WCIT and the ITU.
That same team also has a great site full of background material about WCIT, the ITRs and other related information - follow the links in the right sidebar for much more material:
http://www.internetsociety.org/wcit/
The material includes a good background paper on the ITRs that explain a bit about how the ITRs evolved and why they matter. The Internet Society's communications team also has a page up that they will be updating throughout the week with news:
http://www.internetsociety.org/wcit-newsroom
You can expect to see social networks filling up with commentary, too... and I know I'll be watching two Twitter hashtags:
The reality is that true to the title of this blog, the telecommunications industry has been severely disrupted by the Internet. The world of the PSTN has been fundamentally altered by Voice over IP (VoIP), by "Over The Top" (OTT) applications, by SIP trunking... and so many other aspects of Internet-based communications. This WCIT event does provide a chance for all of those who have been victims of this disruption to try to push for changes that will be in their favor. Similarly, all of those wanting to ensure the Internet remains open are fully engaged now, too... and various countries are aligning on both sides.
It shall be an interesting next two weeks...
P.S. Vint Cerf's op-ed on CNN is worth a read on this topic: 'Father of the internet': Why we must fight for its freedom
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Dec 03
FIR #680 – 12/3/12 – For Immediate Release
