August 2014 archive

Aug 28

Watch LIVE Now! AfPIF Lightning Talks On IXP Toolkit, Deploy360, More

AfPIF LogoRight NOW in Dakar, Senegal, the last session of the African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) 2014 is happening.  As we wrote previously, our Chris Grundemann is there – and he will actually be speaking during this “Lightning Talk” session about what we are doing here with Deploy360 in general and in particular with our Best Current Operational Practices (BCOP) efforts.  You can watch live at:

http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/AfPIF2014Day3

It will also be archived for later viewing.

Right now our Internet Society colleague Jane Coffin is talking about the IXP Toolkit that has been developed to help with the creation of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) (see our IXP page for our resources to help).

The list of speakers will be:

  • IXP Toolkit (Jane Coffin, ISOC)
  • IPv6 Webinars (Kevin Chege, ISOC)
  • Peering in Kenya (Barry Macharia, KIXP)
  • The successful implementation of an IXP and its evolution (Adelard Kenese, Burundix)
  • DO Base (Chris Grunderman, ISOC)
  • Business Intelligence Application (Elaud Kutiwa)

Each is to do a short 5-10 minute presentation.

If you want to see more, you can watch live RIGHT NOW!  :-)

Aug 26

African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) Streaming Live This Week From Dakar, Senegal (Featured Blog)

The 5th African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) gets underway today, August 26, 2014, in Dakar, Senegal, with a packed agenda full of sessions focused on the future of peering and interconnection in Africa. There are sessions targeted at Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), infrastructure providers, content creators and policy makers and regulators. The event goes through Thursday, August 28, 2014. More...

Aug 26

African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) Streaming Live This Week From Dakar, Senegal (Featured Blog)

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Aug 25

TDYR #170 – SoundCloud Launches Ads With “On SoundCloud” Partner Platform

TDYR #170 - SoundCloud Launches Ads With "On SoundCloud" Partner Platform by Dan York

Aug 25

MPAA: Need To Move To IPv6 For Improved Video Viewing Experience

MPAA logoWant an improved video streaming experience?  Want faster delivery of higher resolution HD and 4K videos? Move to using IPv6!  That’s essentially the message from Alex Deacon of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in a recent blog post, “Delivering An Enhanced Video Experience With IPv6“.  He begins:

As the popularity of video streaming services continues to grow across the globe so do the requirements for efficient and high-speed network infrastructure used to deliver them. While much work is happening in this regard, one area of focus is the global deployment of IPv6 (Internet Protocol v6).

He then explores a number of the critical aspects of network infrastructure that are solved by the move to IPv6 including potentially removing the added latency that will come with deployment of Large-Scale NAT(LSN) / Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN).  He also mentions the potential for faster routing and improved multicasting, both of which can make the delivery of video faster.  His key quote to me is this (my emphasis added to the latter part):

The continued deployment and use of IPv6, and the many network efficiencies it brings, is key to the continued ability for our industry to deliver high quality, high speed and high definition content to users. This will minimize video start-up wait times, reduce video buffering and enable the delivery of HD and 4K content.

As someone who consumes video content primarily through video streaming services, I very much want to have faster start-up times and reduced video buffering.  It is great to see an organization such as the MPAA promoting this as a benefit of the move to IPv6.

The article is definitely worth a read … and if you are a provider of video streaming services, we would encourage you to visit our “IPv6 for Content Providers” page to learn more about how you can get started!

P.S. And if you are not a provider of video streaming services, you may want to visit our “Start Here” page to find resources to help you get started with IPv6.

The post MPAA: Need To Move To IPv6 For Improved Video Viewing Experience appeared first on Internet Society.

Aug 25

MPAA: Need To Move To IPv6 For Improved Video Viewing Experience

MPAA logoWant an improved video streaming experience?  Want faster delivery of higher resolution HD and 4K videos? Move to using IPv6!  That’s essentially the message from Alex Deacon of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) in a recent blog post, “Delivering An Enhanced Video Experience With IPv6“.  He begins:

As the popularity of video streaming services continues to grow across the globe so do the requirements for efficient and high-speed network infrastructure used to deliver them. While much work is happening in this regard, one area of focus is the global deployment of IPv6 (Internet Protocol v6).

He then explores a number of the critical aspects of network infrastructure that are solved by the move to IPv6 including potentially removing the added latency that will come with deployment of Large-Scale NAT(LSN) / Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN).  He also mentions the potential for faster routing and improved multicasting, both of which can make the delivery of video faster.  His key quote to me is this (my emphasis added to the latter part):

The continued deployment and use of IPv6, and the many network efficiencies it brings, is key to the continued ability for our industry to deliver high quality, high speed and high definition content to users. This will minimize video start-up wait times, reduce video buffering and enable the delivery of HD and 4K content.

As someone who consumes video content primarily through video streaming services, I very much want to have faster start-up times and reduced video buffering.  It is great to see an organization such as the MPAA promoting this as a benefit of the move to IPv6.

The article is definitely worth a read … and if you are a provider of video streaming services, we would encourage you to visit our “IPv6 for Content Providers” page to learn more about how you can get started!

P.S. And if you are not a provider of video streaming services, you may want to visit our “Start Here” page to find resources to help you get started with IPv6.

Aug 25

FIR #770 – 8/25/14 – For Immediate Release

Quick News: a passport app, browser extension exposes natve ads, stats on the most popular apps, podcast suit settled; Ragan promo; News That Fits: does a PR firm need to reflect community demographics?, Dan York's Tech Report, Sky News' digital platform promotes dialog ahead of 2015 election, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, Amtrak's content marketing strategy, the past week on the FIR podcast network, Igloo Software promo, FT introduces Twitter aggregator FT Antenna; music from Winter Harvest; and more.

Aug 18

FIR #769 – 8/18/14 – For Immediate Release

Crisis interview coming this week, Linked Conversations host Chuck Hester appeared on The Social Hour, IABC members take note of cyber-attack on association's servers; Quick News: 10 years of podcasting, Snapchat more popular than Twitter in U.S. 18-34 demographic, Facebook post embeds up 50% since launch of Facebook Newswire, robots can do your jobs, Ragan promo; News that Fits: exploiting Robin Williams tragedy, introducing Dark Social, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, UK news audience shifting to mobile, Igloo software promo, the last week on the FIR Podcast Network, the Ice Bucket Challenge; music from Pretty Visitors; and more.

Aug 15

The DNSSEC Coordination “Breakfast” At IETF90

As has been our practice for the last several IETF meetings, a group of us involved with DNSSEC got together at about 7:30am on Friday, July 25, 2014, at IETF 90 in Toronto to talk about… well… whatever we wanted… but often involving DNSSEC! As usual it was an enjoyable time catching up and learning more about each other… and talking about new ideas and new ways we could do things.

DNSSEC breakfast

This breakfast included: Shumon Huque, Paul Ebersman, Mike Baer, Dan York (me), Russ Mundy, Frederico Neves and Wes Hardaker.

If you’d like to join into DNSSEC-related activities such as this, please feel free to join the public “dnssec-coord” mailing list where we coordinate plans like this to get together.

And if you’d like to learn more about DNSSEC, please check out our Start Here page to learn more about how to get started!

Aug 14

Watch Live Today – DNSSEC Root Key Ceremony #18

IANA logoIf you are interested in understanding a bit more about how the overall DNSSEC infrastructure operates, you can watch the “Root DNSSEC KSK Ceremony 18″ live today, August 14, 2014, from a data center in El Segundo, California, USA, starting at 12:15pm Pacific time, which is 19:15 UTC.  All the information and the link to the live stream can be found at:

https://www.iana.org/dnssec/ceremonies/18

The key ceremonies are part of the activities performed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) under its contract to operate the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). As explained on the overview page:

Ceremonies are usually conducted four times a year to perform operations using the Root Key Signing Key, and involving Trusted Community Representatives. In a typical ceremony, the KSK is used to sign a set of operational ZSKs that will be used for a three month period to sign the DNS root zone. Other operations that may occur during ceremonies include installing new cryptographic officers, replacing hardware, or generating or replacing a KSK.

This ceremony today is to use the “master” root Key Signing Key (KSK) to generate a set of Zone Signing Keys (ZSKs) that will then be used until the next key ceremony.

There is a complete script that outlines the overall process that is used by ICANN to perform this operation today.  In the interest of transparency there is also a live video stream that will show the entire process and that will be archived for later viewing.

Additionally, during today’s key ceremony there will be a replacement of one of the Cryptographic Officers (COs) who each hold a part of the overall master Root Key.  Ed Lewis is ending his term as a CO and is being replaced by Olafur Gudmundsson.  There is also a complete script outlining the steps of the replacement process.

The “root key” is at the top of the “global chain of trust” that is used to ensure the correct validation of DNSSEC signatures (for more info see “The Two Sides of DNSSEC“) and so it is critical that the security and integrity of this root key be maintained.  Ceremonies such as the one today are a part of that effort.  If you are interested in learning more, today is a bit of a peek behind the curtain about how all of this happens…

P.S. If you want to learn more about how to get started with DNSSEC, please visit our “Start Here” page to find resources focused on your type of role or organization.