February 6, 2015 archive

Feb 06

Heading To Singapore for ICANN 52

I'm sitting in Newark airport (EWR) right now in the midst of a 5-hour layover waiting for a United flight that will take me to the other side of the world... quite literally! UA 179 flies directly from Newark to Hong Kong... for 16 hours in the air!

After that I'll have another 4 hours of travel time from Hong Kong down to Singapore... getting me in there about 1:40am Sunday morning, February 8, 2015.

With the funky aspects of timezones, I will be losing "Saturday" almost completely except for the hour or so I will be on the ground in Hong Kong.

Here is what the flight looks like on the Great Circle Mapper, complete with my return trip back through Tokyo:

Great circle singapore icann52

(With the usual non-intuitive notion (to me) that we are flying north over the North Pole to get to the other side of the planet. My brain always thinks I should fly west... but north is actually shorter.)

I'm off to Singapore for the 52nd meeting of the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, better known as "ICANN". ICANN is the nonprofit organization that oversees the world of domain names and the Domain Name System(DNS) and I have a specific interest in how we secure the DNS. I'll be there primarily for a series of activities related to DNSSEC that I describe here:

There are a great number of other activities happening there, too, and one of my colleagues outlined some of the items related to public-policy:

I will of course be monitoring those issues as well. I expect to be doing some writing from Singapore for multiple sites... and probably some video and audio as well.

I've had the privilege of being able to visit Singapore twice before and have been impressed by what a beautiful city it is. I took some photos on my first trip there that I posted to a set on Flickr:

Singapore flickr album

You'll notice how the grove of "supertrees" captured my attention. Here's one of my favorite photos from that set:

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The supertree grove is a rather surreal (and unreal) place to visit - definitely worth seeing! I don't know if I'll be able to get there on this trip... my schedule is extremely packed... but we'll see.

It should be a good week.

P.S. And talk about temperature changes... it was -10F (-23C) when I left Keene, NH, this morning and it will be near 88F (30C) during the day in Singapore!

I recorded an audio commentary about this trip:

Feb 06

TDYR 222 – Traveling to Singapore for ICANN 52

I'm on the way to Singapore for the ICANN 52 meeting. More info here: http://singapore52.icann.org/en/ http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2015/02/many-dnssec-and-dane-activities-at-icann52-next-week-in-singapore/ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/public-policy/2015/02/return-singapore-chili-crabs-names-numbers-and-protocol-parameters

Feb 06

ICANN Announces DNSSEC Root KSK Rollover Design Team

ICANN.jpgAfter soliciting statements of interest back in December, ICANN announced this week the people who had been selected for the DNSSEC Root Key Signing Key (KSK) Rollover Design Team. They are:

  • Joe Abley, Snake Hill Labs/DyN, CA
  • Jaap Akkerhuis, NLNetLabs, NL
  • John Dickinson, Sinodun Internet Technologies, UK
  • Geoff Huston, APNIC, AU
  • Ondrej Sury, CZ.NIC, CZ
  • Paul Wouters, No Hats/Red Hat, NL
  • Yoshiro Yoneya, JPRS, JP

We’ve written before about how important we believe the rollover of the Root KSK of DNSSEC is, and we are pleased to see this next step in the process.  All of the people selected have been extremely involved in the DNS / DNSSEC community for many years and have contributed in many ways to the ongoing deployment of DNSSEC.

We look forward to hearing the next steps taken by this team to move forward on rolling the Root KSK.  I suspect there will be some discussion at ICANN 52 next week in Singapore, but I also expect much more to happen after that event in the months ahead.

P.S. If you want to get started with DNSSEC, please visit our Start Here page to begin!