March 2015 archive
Mar 23
FIR #800 – 3/23/15 – For Immediate Release
Mar 20
TDYR 233 – Working Toward the Consistent Creation Of Quality Content
Mar 20
At IETF92 Next Week, Much Happening With IPv6, DNSSEC, DANE, TLS and more…
Next week is IETF 92 in Dallas, Texas, and there will be a great amount of activity happening with the topics we cover here on Deploy360: IPv6, DNSSEC (and DANE), TLS, anti-spoofing and securing BGP. As part of the Rough Guide to IETF 92, several of us have written posts outlining what’s happening in the various topic areas:
- IETF 92: DNSSEC, DANE and DNS Security
- IETF 92: All About IPv6
- IETF 92: Routing Resilience and Security
In each of those posts you’ll find a summary of what’s happening and a list of the relevant working groups and the associated links about how to learn more. More information about IETF 92 in general can be found on the main Rough Guide to IETF 92 page at:
https://www.internetsociety.org/rough-guide-ietf92
Beyond all of that, Chris Grundemann will also be talking about our “Operators and the IETF” work and discussing Best Current Operational Practices (BCOP) with people as well.
If you can’t get to Dallas next week, you can attend remotely! Just visit the IETF 92 remote participation page or check out http://www.ietf.org/live/ for more options.
To that end, as a bit of a change both Megan Kruse and I (Dan York) will be participating in this IETF 92 remotely. It’s very strange to not be attending an IETF meeting in person, but different circumstances have made it not possible for both of us. Jan Žorž will also be remote having just returned from v6 World Congress in Paris and about to head off to another event. Chris Grundemann will be there on site in Dallas, though, and so if you have any questions about Deploy360 activities or want to get more involved, please contact Chris!
We’re looking forward to the usual crazy busy blur of a week that is an IETF meeting… and we’re looking forward to learning what else we can do to help accelerate the deployment of these key Internet technologies to make the Internet work better, faster and be more secure!
An audio commentary about IETF 92 is also available from our SoundCloud account:
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Mar 20
At IETF92 Next Week, Much Happening With IPv6, DNSSEC, DANE, TLS and more…
Next week is IETF 92 in Dallas, Texas, and there will be a great amount of activity happening with the topics we cover here on Deploy360: IPv6, DNSSEC (and DANE), TLS, anti-spoofing and securing BGP. As part of the Rough Guide to IETF 92, several of us have written posts outlining what’s happening in the various topic areas:
- IETF 92: DNSSEC, DANE and DNS Security
- IETF 92: All About IPv6
- IETF 92: Routing Resilience and Security
In each of those posts you’ll find a summary of what’s happening and a list of the relevant working groups and the associated links about how to learn more. More information about IETF 92 in general can be found on the main Rough Guide to IETF 92 page at:
https://www.internetsociety.org/rough-guide-ietf92
Beyond all of that, Chris Grundemann will also be talking about our “Operators and the IETF” work and discussing Best Current Operational Practices (BCOP) with people as well.
If you can’t get to Dallas next week, you can attend remotely! Just visit the IETF 92 remote participation page or check out http://www.ietf.org/live/ for more options.
To that end, as a bit of a change both Megan Kruse and I (Dan York) will be participating in this IETF 92 remotely. It’s very strange to not be attending an IETF meeting in person, but different circumstances have made it not possible for both of us. Jan Žorž will also be remote having just returned from v6 World Congress in Paris and about to head off to another event. Chris Grundemann will be there on site in Dallas, though, and so if you have any questions about Deploy360 activities or want to get more involved, please contact Chris!
We’re looking forward to the usual crazy busy blur of a week that is an IETF meeting… and we’re looking forward to learning what else we can do to help accelerate the deployment of these key Internet technologies to make the Internet work better, faster and be more secure!
Mar 20
Join Live On Sunday – 2nd Registration Operations Workshop (ROW) In Dallas (Featured Blog)
Mar 18
Rough Guide to IETF 92: DNSSEC, DANE and DNS Security
As per usual, DNSSEC, DANE and DNS security in general are all topics of great attention at IETF 92. The major DNS-related working groups, DNSOP and DANE, are both meeting with busy agendas and the DPRIVE working group is back again with a focus on DNS privacy concerns. Here is a rough view of what the week looks like...
NOTE: If you are unable to attend IETF 92 in person, there are multiple ways to participate remotely and listen to these sessions.
Mar 18
Registration Operations Workshop This Sunday Before IETF92 To Talk About EPP, Encryption, DNS
How can operators of registries such as top-level domains (TLDs) make their operations more efficient and more secure? What can operators learn from each other? And what are some of the larger initiatives happening that may affect registry operators?
These are all the kinds of questions that will be discussed this coming Sundary, March 22, 2015, at the 2nd Registration Operations Workshop (ROW) happening at the Fairmont Dallas Hotel on the Sunday before IETF 92 starts. The ROW workshop is not affiliated with the IETF but has worked with the IETF to use a room at the same venue. There’s a website where you can learn more at:
and Scott Hollenbeck wrote about the call for participation for the event back in February on CircleID. Scott subsequently provided an update to the provreg mailing list (about the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)) where he outlined the agenda for Sunday’s workshop that will include:
- A discussion of the new RFC 7451 about registering extensions to EPP.
- Richard Barnes of Mozilla will focus on the Let’s Encrypt initiative and the Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol.
- Olafur Gudmundsson of CloudFlare and Jacques Latour of CIRA will focus on a proposal for a new registry access model to update delegation information.
All of those topics are interesting, but this last topic is of particular importance to us here at Deploy360 as it relates to the challenges for automating DNSSEC within the current DNS registration model. Specifically the inability of DNS operators to update the DS record in a TLD registry. This lack of automation may have played a role in the recent HBO NOW problem with misconfigured DNS records – and regardless is clearly a point that needs to be fixed. Olafur and Jacques will be discussing this issue and seeking input on what can be done.
If you are interested in these topics you can visit the ROW website to register and attend on Sunday. Remote attendance is possible (for instance, I will be doing so). You just need to register on the ROW website and they will send you the info about how to participate remotely.
I think this is a great initiative to increase communication between operators who interact with registration systems and I would encourage you to check it out and participate if you can. Any way we can increase the automation that helps make the Internet more secure is a good thing!
Mar 17
FYI – New Mobile Web Interface For Deploy360 Site
Just a quick administrative update about this Deploy360 site. If you are browsing this site using a smartphone such as an iPhone or Android device you will notice that as of yesterday your user experience has been changed to be more “mobile-friendly”. Whether it is a topic such as IPv6 or DNSSEC or a page like our Start Here page or news from our Deploy360 blog, you will now see the text in a more readable form.
This is part of our long-standing commitment to make our information as accessible as possible to all visitors regardless of platform. Making the site mobile-friendly has been a task I’ve wanted to make happen for quite a long time, but the change this week was admittedly driven by the fact that Google has indicated that effective on April 21, 2015, they will use the “mobile-friendly” status of a site as a ranking factor in returning search results on mobile devices. We want to be ready for that change by Google so that our pages do appear ranked as highly as possible in mobile search results.
I mention this because we still may be tweaking the mobile user experience over the next days and weeks. For example, I’d like to have an easier menu for mobile users and so we may be changing that. The current mechanism we use for the mobile interface does not change the display for tablets such as the iPad or Android tablets – and we’re evaluating whether that matters or not.
So if you are browsing from a smart phone and see some changes… don’t be surprised! Our goal is to provide you with the best possible user experience – and we will be working on that.
P.S. If you have comments about the mobile user experience for this site, please do feel free to leave the comments here on this post or anywhere on social media where we post the link. Thanks!
Mar 16
FIR #799 – 3/16/15 – For Immediate Release
