February 8, 2015 archive

Feb 08

Watch LIVE Today From ICANN52 – DNSSEC For Everybody: A Beginner’s Guide

ICANN 52 - SingaporeAs we mentioned last week, today (Monday, Feb 9) you will be able to watch live from ICANN 52 in Singapore the session:

DNSSEC For Everybody: A Beginner’s Guide

This session will be from 17:00 – 18:30 SGT where we’ll be explaining what DNSSEC is all about and also putting on our “skit” dramatizing what happens with DNS and DNSSEC. This session tends to be a good bit of fun and we’ve heard it has helped a good number of people understand the subject a bit more.  You can follow along remotely (or watch it later) at:

http://singapore52.icann.org/en/schedule/mon-dnssec-everybody

Please note that the times are Singapore Time which is UTC+8.

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Feb 08

ISOC At ICANN52, Monday: A Great Amount Of IANA Transition Discussion With A Bit of Cybersecurity and DNSSEC, Too

Greetings from Singapore! As the 52nd meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gets formally underway this morning on Monday, February 9, 2015, we thought we'd give you an idea of what we'll be focusing on today from an Internet Society point of view as well as provide links so that you can join in and follow along remotely.

Dan York

Feb 08

TDYR 223 – How Maps Frame Our Expectations For Travel

How do the maps we have around us frame our expectations for how we might travel from Point A to Point B? I talk about this in the context of my flights from New Hampshire to Singapore, which I naturally thought would go from East to West... and friends thought would go West to East... but in fact went a different way! A couple of the links I talked about were: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections#Cylindrical http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Mercator http://www.gcmap.com/