February 2015 archive

Feb 10

Watch Live NOW – DNSSEC Workshop From ICANN52 In Singapore

ICANN 52 - SingaporeWhat is happening with DNSSEC in the Asia-Pacific region? What are DNSSEC and DANE all about, anyway? What challenges are large DNS operators encountering when deploying DNSSEC?

As I mentioned last week,  all these questions are being discussed TODAY (in fact right now) at the DNSSEC Workshop at ICANN 52 in Singapore.  You can watch and listen live at:

http://singapore52.icann.org/en/schedule/wed-dnssec

You can also download the slides that will be presented today.  As you look at the agenda, please note that all times are Singapore Time which is UTC+8. (So, for instance, the 8:30 am SGT start time of the DNSSEC Workshop on Wednesday, 11 Feb, will be 1:30am Wednesday in Central European Time and 7:30pm Tuesday evening in US Eastern time.)   Here is a view from the room today:

ICANN DNSSEC Workshop

The sessions for today will be:

  1. Introduction and DNSSEC Deployment Around the World
  2. DNSSEC Deployment in the Asia Region
  3. 10th Anniversary of DNSSEC Workshops
  4. Reverse DNS and DNSSEC in Japan
  5. ccTLD Deployment Experiences
  6. The Operational Realities of Running DNSSEC
  7. When Unexpected DNSSEC Events Occur
  8. DNSSEC and DNS Operators

As a member of the Program Committee, I am very pleased with the presentations and speakers we have and I’m very much looking forward to the event. The last panel, in particular, is of interest to me as it will involve a number of DNS operators, including CloudFlare, talking about challenges they have encountered while rolling out large-scale DNSSEC and looking to identify solutions within the community. It should be a very interesting session. I also always enjoy the DNSSEC case studies from the regional panels.

If you want to get started NOW with deploying DNSSEC, why not visit our Start Here page to find resources tailored for your type of organization?

Feb 10

ISOC at ICANN52, Wednesday: The DNSSEC Workshop And Other Technology Topics

As happens on every Wednesday of an ICANN week, a major focus today will be the 6+ hour DNSSEC Workshop that will bring together some of the greatest DNS-related technical minds from across the industry for a session focused on how we continue to move DNSSEC forward and make the Internet more secure.  Attendees will learn about the current state of DNSSEC deployment within the region, about new tools and services and will discuss some of the current challenges and work together to discussion potential solutions.  Organized by the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), the DNSSEC Deploy

Dan York

Feb 09

ISOC At ICANN52, Tuesday: Constituency Day and A Meeting of Internet Society Members

Tuesday at ICANN 52 is what is usually called "constituency day" within the ICANN community as all the various supporting organizations, stakeholder groups and constituency groups hold their individual meetings. You can see this quite clearly if you look at the ICANN schedule for today.

Dan York

Feb 09

FIR #794 – 2/9/15 – For Immediate Release

Quick News: Solis and Saad unveil new podcast; workers want employer views on political and public policy issues; Madonna premieres new music video on Snapchat; universities began banning smartwatches; Ragan promo; News That Fits: intimate data will arise from the Internet of Things; Michael Netzley's Asia Report; hotel will replace humans with robots; Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop; listener comments; SlideShare as content marketing; Dan York's report; Igloo Software promo; the last week on the FIR Podcast Network; verified accounts and the Twitter troll problem; music from Downtown Mystic; and more.

Feb 09

FIR #794 – 2/9/15 – For Immediate Release

Quick News: Solis and Saad unveil new podcast; workers want employer views on political and public policy issues; Madonna premieres new music video on Snapchat; universities began banning smartwatches; Ragan promo; News That Fits: intimate data will arise from the Internet of Things; Michael Netzley's Asia Report; hotel will replace humans with robots; Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop; listener comments; SlideShare as content marketing; Dan York's report; Igloo Software promo; the last week on the FIR Podcast Network; verified accounts and the Twitter troll problem; music from Downtown Mystic; and more.

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.

And if you want to get started NOW with deploying DNSSEC, why not visit our Start Here page to find resources tailored for your type of organization?

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/

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