June 2015 archive

Agenda Available for ICANN 53 DNSSEC Workshop on 24 June 2015 in Buenos Aires

ICANN 53 LogoIt’s time to talk DNSSEC and DANE in Latin America! The DNSSEC Workshop at ICANN 53 in Buenos Aires will take place on Wednesday, 24 June 2015, from 9:00 to 15:15 ART. NOTE THE LATER START TIME! Previously the workshops started at 8:30am but this time our start is 9:00.

Remote participation information, slides, the agenda and more info can be found at:

https://buenosaires53.icann.org/en/schedule/wed-dnssec

The sessions will be recorded if you would like to listen to them later. Slides will be posted as the date gets closer.

The current agenda includes (all times are Argentina Time (ART) which is UTC-3):

0900-0915 – DNSSEC Workshop Introduction, Program, Deployment Around the World – Counts, Counts, Counts

  • Dan York, Internet Society
0915-1030 – Panel Discussion: DNSSEC Activities in the Latin American Region

  • Moderator/Presenter: Luciano Munichin, NIC.AR
  • Panelists:
    • Luis Diego Espinoza, Consultant, Costa Rica
    • Carlos Martinez, LACNIC
    • Gonzalo Romero, .CO
    • Frederico Neves, .BR
    • Hugo Salgado, NIC.CL
1030-1100 – Presentation: Update on DNSSEC KSK Root Key Rollover

  • Ed Lewis, ICANN
1100-1115 – Break
1115-1215 – Panel Discussion: DNSSEC Automation

  • Moderator: Russ Mundy, Parsons
  • Panelists:
    • Eberhard Lisse, .NA – Proof of Concept on Smart Card HSM to Automate Key Signing
    • Robert Martin-Legène, Packet Clearing House — PCH DNSSEC Signing Service
    • Joe Waldron, Verisign – Verisign DNSSEC Signing Service
1215-1230 – Great DNS/DNSSEC Quiz

  • Paul Wouters, Fedora
1230-1330 – Lunch Break
1330-1445 – Demonstrations and Presentations: DANE and Applications

  • Moderator: Dan York, Internet Society
  • Panelists:
    • Jaap Akkerhuis, NLNetLabs – Demonstration on Opportunistic Encryption
    • Wes Hardaker — Presentation on Opportunistic SMTP Encryption
    • Jacques Latour, CIRA — Demonstration of DNSSEC Open PGP Keys and Encryption of Email
    • Danny McPherson, Verisign Labs — Demonstration of Running Code for DANE S/MIME and Practical Tools
    • Paul Wouters, Fedora – Opportunistic IPsec
1445-1500 – Presentation: Deploying New DNSSEC Algorithms

  • Dan York, Internet Society
1500-1515 – Presentation: DNSSEC – How Can I Help?

  • Russ Mundy, Parsons and Dan York, Internet Society

We look forward to seeing you there!

DNSSEC And DANE Activities At ICANN53 In Buenos Aires On 22-24 June

ICANN 53 LogoNext week we’ll be in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for the 53rd meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and as per usual there will be a great about of DNS security activity happening.  Some great introductions to DNSSEC and DANE – and some outstanding technical talks (and demos!) on Wednesday. Here are the three main activities – remote participation is available for two of them.  Do note that all times are Argentina Time (ART) which is UTC-3.


DNSSEC For Everybody: A Beginner’s Guide

On Monday, 22 June 2015, we’ll have the regular “DNSSEC For Everybody: A Beginner’s Guide” session from 17:00-18:30 ART where we’ll do our “skit” dramatizing DNS and DNSSEC.  If you have been seeking to understand WHY this all matters, do join in to see!  You can watch it remotely (or watch the archive later) at:

https://buenosaires53.icann.org/en/schedule/mon-dnssec-everybody

And yes, I’ll be talking about blue smoke as I usually do… and I’ll be in the skit because, why not? :-)


DNSSEC Implementers Gathering

After the DNSSEC For Everybody session on Monday, many of us who have been involved with deploying DNSSEC or DANE will travel to a nearby Irish pub (yes, in Argentina!) for the “DNSSEC Implementers Gathering” for food, drink and conversation from 19:30-21:30 ART.  Many thanks to CIRA, NIC.AR and SIDN for sponsoring this event.  If you will be at ICANN 53 and would like to join, please RSVP to Julie Hedlund by the end of the day on Thursday, 18 June.


DNSSEC Workshop

As usual, the main event will be the DNSSEC Workshop on Wednesday, 24 June 2015, from 9:00 to 15:15 ART. NOTE THE LATER START TIME! Previously the workshops started at 8:30am but this time our start is 9:00.

Remote participation information, slides, the agenda and more info can be found at:

https://buenosaires53.icann.org/en/schedule/wed-dnssec

The sessions will be recorded if you would like to listen to them later.  Slides will be posted as the date gets closer.

The current agenda includes:

0900-0915 – DNSSEC Workshop Introduction, Program, Deployment Around the World – Counts, Counts, Counts

  • Dan York, Internet Society
0915-1030 – Panel Discussion: DNSSEC Activities in the Latin American Region

  • Moderator/Presenter: Luciano Munichin, NIC.AR
  • Panelists:
    • Luis Diego Espinoza, Consultant, Costa Rica
    • Carlos Martinez, LACNIC
    • Gonzalo Romero, .CO
    • Frederico Neves, .BR
    • Hugo Salgado, NIC.CL
1030-1100 – Presentation: Update on DNSSEC KSK Root Key Rollover

  • Ed Lewis, ICANN
1100-1115 – Break
1115-1215 – Panel Discussion: DNSSEC Automation

  • Moderator: Russ Mundy, Parsons
  • Panelists:
    • Eberhard Lisse, .NA – Proof of Concept on Smart Card HSM to Automate Key Signing
    • Robert Martin-Legène, Packet Clearing House — PCH DNSSEC Signing Service
    • Joe Waldron, Verisign – Verisign DNSSEC Signing Service
1215-1230 – Great DNS/DNSSEC Quiz

  • Paul Wouters, Fedora
1230-1330 – Lunch Break
1330-1445 – Demonstrations and Presentations: DANE and Applications

  • Moderator: Dan York, Internet Society
  • Panelists:
    • Jaap Akkerhuis, NLNetLabs – Demonstration on Opportunistic Encryption
    • Wes Hardaker — Presentation on Opportunistic SMTP Encryption
    • Jacques Latour, CIRA — Demonstration of DNSSEC Open PGP Keys and Encryption of Email
    • Danny McPherson, Verisign Labs — Demonstration of Running Code for DANE S/MIME and Practical Tools
    • Paul Wouters, Fedora – Opportunistic IPsec
1445-1500 – Presentation: Deploying New DNSSEC Algorithms

  • Dan York, Internet Society
1500-1515 – Presentation: DNSSEC – How Can I Help?

  • Russ Mundy, Parsons and Dan York, Internet Society

The whole ICANN 53 should be a great event and I’m very much looking forward to it!  Beyond our work with DNSSEC, DANE and DNS security, there will also be a great amount of public policy work happening as well.

If you will be there at ICANN 53 please do say hello – you can find me in these sessions… or drop me a note at york@isoc.org and we can arrange a time to connect.

And … if you want to get started with DNSSEC and DANE, please visit our Start Here page to find resources that can help!

The Directory Dilemma – Why Facebook, Google and Skype May Win the Mobile App War – an updated version of post I wrote in December

The Directory Dilemma - Why Facebook, Google and Skype May Win the Mobile App War - an updated version of post I wrote in December 2014 on a topic I find critical - http://www.circleid.com/posts/20160515_directory_dilemma_why_facebook_google_skype_may_win_mobile_app_war/

The Directory Dilemma – Why Facebook, Google and Skype May Win the Mobile App War (Featured Blog)

As much as I am enjoying the new Wire app, there is a fundamental dilemma that Wire faces... as well as Talko, Firefox Hello, Subrosa and every other Over-The-Top (OTT) or WebRTC application that is seeking to become THE way that we communicate via voice, chat and/or video from our mobile phones and desktops. That is: How do they gather the "directory" of people that others want to talk to? More...

The Directory Dilemma – Why Facebook, Google and Skype May Win The Mobile App War (Featured Blog)

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The Hobson & Holtz Report #812: Algorithms vs. trusted human editors

Intro: Welcome to FIR B2B co-host Paul Gillin, first episode of Digital India has been published.

Quick News: What does Twitter’s future hold with the departure of CEO Dick Costolo?; marketers should follow The New York Times’ lead, which is closing staff access to the desktop version of the newspaper’s home page, forcing them to use mobile devices; training former NFL players provided Paul with some surprises; Harris Poll data reinforces the importance of internal communication; the Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop;

News That Fits: Why marketers are betting big on predictive analytics, tech giants decide what news is when they control the channels for delivering the news, Dan York’s Tech Report: for news organizations, this was the most important set of Apple announcements in years, Medium adds Creative Commons license and introduces “Letters,” Internet Society is hiring a media relations manager; listener comments, live streaming is slowing as on-demand listening is growing for public radio, the Onion’s Clickhole is succeeding a mocking clickbait sites, the last week on the FIR Podcast Network, Igloo Software promo, subscriptions should be a key goal for B2B content marketing;

Music from the U.S. Amy Blues Band, and more.

Links to the content in this episode are on Delicious.

So, until June 22…

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Apple Will Require IPv6 Support For All iOS 9 Apps

Because IPv6 support is so critical to ensuring your applications work across the world for every customer, we are making it an AppStore submission requirement, starting with iOS 9.”  With those words, Sebastien Marineau, Apple’s VP of Core OS, gave a huge boost to IPv6 developer support in Apple’s WWDC Platform State Of The Union (SOTU) address yesterday.

You can watch the Platform SOTU presentation yourself (although you may need the Safari browser to do so). The IPv6 segment begins at 34:16 and Marineau’s statement about the AppStore requirement can be heard at 37:16.

Here, though, is the quick summary.

Why IPv6?

Sebastien Marineau began by talking about IPv6 and why it is important:

Apple IPv6 support

more on IPv6 support

In particular he noted that carriers in several regions of the world are now deploying IPv6-only networks and emphasized the importance of making your application work well for everyone, everywhere.  He reinforced how critical it is to support IPv6:

“If your application doesn’t work properly with IPv6, it will simply not function on those networks, those carriers and for those customers.”

He also explained how Apple has supported IPv6 for over ten years now since early versions of Mac OS X and from iOS 4 onward.

3 Steps For Developers

He went on to explain three steps all developers can take to make sure their applications work over IPv6 networks:

3 steps to make an app work with IPv6

Those steps are:

  • Use the networking frameworks (for example, “NSURLSession”)
  • Avoid use of IPv4-specific APIs
  • Avoid hard-coded IP addresses

Essentially, if app developers are using the higher level APIs and frameworks and aren’t hacking around at the IP layer, their apps should probably “just work” on top of either IPv4 or IPv6.

Testing Your App Over IPv6

However, Martineau addressed the question of “how do you test your app over IPv6?“, particularly when many app developers may not have access to a native IPv6 Internet connection.  He indicated that in an upcoming release of Mac OS X there will be a new feature to help with this:

IPv6-only personal hotspot

What I understood Martineau to say was that you will be able to set up a “personal WiFi hotspot” on your Mac and check an “IPv6-only” box.  Your iPhone/iPad with your app could then connect to that specific WiFi network to work in an IPv6-only mode.  The Mac would then provide the gateway to the legacy IPv4 Internet so that the app on the IPv6-only network could connect out to services on IPv4 servers.

THIS IS HUGE! One of the struggles many application developers have had is to easily create an “IPv6-only” network in which to test systems.  Even those of us who are IPv6 advocates/enthusiasts have struggled with making this work well.  It typically involves bringing up a second access point (which you are effectively doing with this new configuration) and then turning off all IPv4 services on that access point, which some access points make difficult to do.

Whenever this feature rolls out in Mac OS X, it will greatly help all of us who are working on apps and systems and want to test them in an IPv6-only environment.

An Important Step

Now, to be clear, most iOS app developers probably won’t have to do all that much to support IPv6.  If they are already using the higher level APIs and networking frameworks they should be all set.  The exact mechanisms of IP address handling are not a concern of theirs.  However, some app developers will have to make some changes, particularly if they are directly using IPv4 addresses as any kind of identifier or in logging.

More importantly, the requirement for AppStore submission will require app developers to test their applications with IPv6 networks, and that alone will suddenly cause the millions of iOS app developers out there to have to learn at least something about IPv6 (if nothing else, the fact that it exists).

Most significantly, though, this step by Apple means that all the iOS apps that run on iOS 9 will work well over the IPv6-only networks that are starting to be deployed.  Even in dual-stack (IPv6/IPv4) networks, this should mean that iOS 9 apps will work better in those environments when, for instance, IPv6 may be faster. (More needs to be understood here about the specifics of the IPv6 support.)

And… this also will help take away the argument used by some network operators who are still not moving ahead with IPv6 that “why should we deploy IPv6 when apps don’t support it?”

Apple’s answer is that, as of iOS 9, all iPhone/iPad apps will support IPv6!

Kudos to Apple for taking these steps, creating this new AppStore submission requirement, and also providing what sounds like a new and easy way to create IPv6-only networks!

We’re looking forward to iOS users being able to use ALL their favorite applications on an IPv6-only network!


P.S. If you want to get started with IPv6, please visit our Start Here page to find resources tailored for your role or type of organization.  The time to make the move to IPv6 is TODAY!

Also, hat tip to Adam Iredale on Twitter, who first brought this new requirement to my attention, and to Borja Reinares who provided some more information.

Will iOS 9 Make My iPad2 Usable Again?

Massive Glacier

I have one very simple question amidst all the media hype about Apple's WWDC announcements yesterday:

Will iOS 9 make my iPad2 usable again?

Yes, all that other stuff announced yesterday sounds cool... but I have this more basic question.

You see, I made a mistake.

I believed Apple when they said that iOS 8 would run on an iPad2. I mean, the device is from 2011 - it was "only" three years old when iOS 8 came out last year. It was still working very well with iOS 7 and I was excited to try out iOS 8.

To be crystal clear, Apple is correct - iOS 8 does "run" on an iPad2. But...

... it... r...u...n...s... s... o... o... o... o.... o.... o... o... ... g... l... a... c... i... a... l... l... y... ... s... s... l... l... o... o... o... w... w... w... l... l... l... y... y... y...

... that it's hardly worth using. It takes a long time to open up applications, to bring up the keyboard, to switch between applications, etc. It is so slow that I've really stopped using it for almost everything but occasionally reading documents when traveling.

Yes, I do realize this is a very definite "first world problem" in that much of the world doesn't have access to even a device such as an iPad2. So who am I to complain about how slow a device is?

I acknowledge that.

But the iPad2 did work very well with iOS 7 ... and the cynical view is that iOS 8 seemed to be a way to make all of us iPad2 users get frustrated enough to buy new devices. And sure, that's perhaps great for Apple's revenue (assuming we don't buy an Android device instead) ... but it's not great for all the electronic waste of discarded devices. I'd like to continue using what is otherwise a perfectly fine device.

In the WWDC announcement yesterday, Apple's Craig Federighi mentioned that iOS 9 was slimmed down to be able to be upgraded easier over-the-air. He said that it was to help make sure it would run on all devices.

My request to Apple would be simply that - please make iOS 9 truly run on the iPad2!

If Apple is going to claim to still "support" the iPad2, they should do so in a way that lets you use the device in the manner in which we used it when we purchased it.

Or... they should simply be truthful about it and drop the iPad2 from the list of supported devices. Then we all who have them can at least know and not bother upgrading iOS. (And we can figure out what we want to do with the device...)

Will iOS 9 make my iPad2 usable again? I don't know... but I'll definitely be upgrading when it is released because at this point I don't know that Apple can make the device worse than it is running iOS 8. :-)

UPDATE: - On September 30, 2015, I wrote about my own experience with an iOS 9 upgrade and pointed to some of the comments here on this post.

Photo credit: an image of a massive glacier by David Stanley on Flickr

The Hobson & Holtz Report #811: The State of Internal Communication

Intro: Neville’s first show off, welcome Rachel Miller — host of All Things IC — as guest co-host, new interview with Netvibes’ CEO and head of marketing has been published, Digital India will join the FIR Podcast Network lineup;

Quick News: BBC inadvertently tweets about the Queen’s ill health during an “obituary rehearsal,” JPMorgan is dumping voicemail, theme park criticized for horrific roller coast crash, US Federal Trade Commission will hold publishers accountable for deceptive native advertising, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop;

News That Fits: The state of internal communication: Is it still viable as an independent function? Will it ever go mobile? Why isn’t small business embracing it? What values should be at internal communication’s core?; listener comments from the FIR Podcast Community on Google+; the end of the manel (all-male panel)? as IBM’s Andrew Grill gives up his seat on a conference panel to a women who asked why no women were on stage; Dan York’s Tech Report: linking FIR’s Book Reviews to a Pinterest board, EuroDIG, Google+ Collections; Igloo Software promo; the last week on the FIR Podcast Network; a look at Social Media Examiner’s 2015 Social Media Marketing Industry Report;

Music from Mr. Blotto; and more.

Links to the content in this episode are on Delicious.

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Celebrating The 3rd “Launchiversary” Of World IPv6 Launch

World IPv6 Launch logoThree years ago today, on June 6, 2012, the Internet fundamentally changed as IPv6 became “the new normal” for thousands of websites, hundreds of Internet service providers, many device manufacturers and in so many other systems and services.  This was all part of “World IPv6 Launch” where all those participants came together to permanently enable IPv6 for their networks, websites and devices.

Every since that time, we’ve continued to chronicle the ongoing growth of IPv6 both here on the Deploy360 blog and also on the World IPv6 Launch blog.  The ongoing World IPv6 Launch measurements continue to show the momentum happening on networks all around the world. Here’s that fantastic chart we saw last month from Verizon Wireless’ network coming in over 70% IPv6:

Verizon Wireless IPv6 measurements

The momentum keeps on building and building…  we see it in all the different IPv6 statistics sites.  Look at this chart from Google’s IPv6 stats:

Google IPv6 statsGrowing from under 1% in June 2012 to now right around 7% just three years later!

The growth in IPv6 deployment IS happening.   The supply of IPv4 addresses IS running out (see ARIN’s note that they will officially be all out shortly for North America). Companies ARE having to pay higher prices to obtain existing IPv4 addresses.

It’s happening. NOW.

If you haven’t joined with the thousands of other companies that turned on IPv6 three years ago today, NOW IS THE TIME TO BEGIN! Please visit our Start Here page to find resources focused on your role or type of organization.

Congratulations to all the companies and organizations that made the move 3 years ago and in the time since. We look forward to celebrating more “Launchiversaries”… until that time when it won’t matter any more because IPv4 will no longer be the default.

It’s time to make the move to IPv6! Please do it today!

P.S. And after you do, if you are a network operator, why not sign up with the World IPv6 Launch measurements project and we’ll start measuring the IPv6 traffic from your networks, too!