July 2015 archive
Jul 24
TDYR 260 – Leaving Prague After A Great IETF 93
Jul 20
The Hobson & Holtz Report #817: Sarcasm poses a challenge in sentiment analysis
Quick News: Facebook and Twitter are increasingly sources of news for US users, why newsrooms should care about virtual reality, are videos going vertical (thanks to Snapchat)?, Apple Pay launches in the UK with 250K stores and 8 banks participating; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop;
News That Fits: Sarcasm poses a challenge for computer algorithms in sentiment analysis; listener comments; social by design: how Ogilvy leveraged the Chinese obsession for naming; Igloo Software promo; Dan York’s Tech Report: IETF93, the future of podcasting; the past week on the FIR Podcast Network;
Music by Diablo Swing Orchestra; and more.
Links to the content in this episode are on Delicious.
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Jul 19
Deploying New DNSSEC Algorithms
In this talk to the IEPG session at IETF 93 in Prague on 19 July 2015, I outlined some of the challenges associated with deploying new crypto algorithms within DNSSEC and what we potentially need to do to address these challenges.
Jul 19
Deploying New DNSSEC Algorithms (IEPG@IETF93 – July 2015)
In this talk to the IEPG session at IETF 93 in Prague on 19 July 2015, I outlined some of the challenges associated with deploying new crypto algorithms within DNSSEC and what we potentially need to do to address these challenges.
Jul 15
Rough Guide to IETF 93: DNSSEC, DANE, DPRIVE and DNS Security
Wow! There is a crazy amount of DNS activity happening at IETF 93 next week in Prague! Beyond the usual working groups we follow such as DNSOP and DANE, there are a wide range of other groups where DNS security and privacy are under discussion. It's going to be a VERY busy week for all of us involved with DNS! (And, there's also the IETF 93 Hackathon starting on Saturday and Sunday where several of us will be working on code related to DNSSEC, DANE and more.)
Let's walk through the week...
Jul 15
This Week: Watch Internet Society President & CEO Kathy Brown Speak About Collaborative Governance And Security
How do Collaborative Governance and Collaborative Security bring about a stronger and more trusted Internet that enables more opportunity for people around the world? What do these approaches mean for the future of Internet governance? What actions can people take as part of our collective responsibility for the future of the open Internet?
Today and tomorrow you will have two opportunities to hear Internet Society President and CEO Kathy Brown speak about these points and more on live video streams.
Jul 14
This Week: Watch Internet Society President & CEO Kathy Brown Speak About Collaborative Governance And Security
How do Collaborative Governance and Collaborative Security bring about a stronger and more trusted Internet that enables more opportunity for people around the world? What do these approaches mean for the future of Internet governance? What actions can people take as part of our collective responsibility for the future of the open Internet?
Today and tomorrow you will have two opportunities to hear Internet Society President and CEO Kathy Brown speak about these points and more on live video streams.
First, today, Wednesday, July 15, 2015, starting at 12:15pm US Eastern (UTC-4), Kathy will be speaking at an event by the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, titled: “Collaborative Governance and Security: A Stronger Internet for the Future“. The Hudson Institute staff indicate the live video stream will be available at:
They also seem to live-tweet many of their sessions using @HudsonEvents on Twitter.
Tomorrow, Thursday, July 16th, Kathy will be at the Internet Governance Forum USA (IGF-USA) giving keynote remarks during the session between 1:00 – 1:50 pm US Eastern. My colleague Paul Brigner wrote about the IGF-USA yesterday outlining what is going on and indicating that the live video streams will be at:
http://www.isoc-dc.org/isoc-dc-tv/
The full agenda can be found on the IGF-USA site, as well as information about how to attend in person.
Both of Kathy’s presentations today and tomorrow will be recorded so that you can view them later.
We hope you do get a chance to watch either (or both) of Kathy’s sessions and learn more about what we are doing with collaborative governance and collaborative security.
If you would like to learn more right now you can visit these links:
- our Public Policy page
- our Internet Governance page
- our Collaborative Security approach to tackling Internet security issues
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Jul 14
IETF 93 Hackathon July 18-19: DNSSEC, DANE, DPRIVE and DNS Security
How can we improve the tools and services that use DNSSEC or DANE? How can we make DNS more secure and private? (And, why spend a beautiful weekend exploring Prague when we could be inside a hotel conference room working on code???) For a number of us, we’re going to be spending this coming weekend, July 18-19, looking to answer those questions through writing code and changing/updating software as part of the IETF 93 Hackathon. More info is at:
https://www.ietf.org/hackathon/93-hackathon.html
As IETF Chair Jari Arkko wrote about on the IETF blog, these hackathons are a way to bring “running code” back into the IETF meetings – and also just a great way to advance the deployment and usage of IETF protocols. They are also just a fantastic way to strengthen the relationships between members of the IETF community.
I’ll be there as one of the “champions” of DNSSEC / DANE / DPRIVE (DNS confidentiality/privacy) along with Allison Mankin, Benno Overeinder, Sara Dickinson and Daniel Kahn Gillmor. A number of others from within the DNS community have also signed up to join in to the effort – and we’re hoping to attract some of the other participants as well.
On the wiki page listing the technologies, we wrote this for some of the ideas:
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Contribute to access of end-systems to new developments in DNS
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Protocols: DANE support for webmail, DNS-over-TLS (application uses), DNS-over-DTLS (stack and uses), TLSA client certs, client privacy election for EDNS client-subnet, getdns language bindings, etc.
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Tools: portable tool for creating and adding DANE RR’s to zones, changes to existing tools to support new crypto algorithms, etc.
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Measurement: New tools or sites for measuring DNSSEC or DANE deployment
We’ve had some other ideas, too… we’ll see what we come up with! (And you’re welcome to send me your ideas for tools you’d like to see!) I’m personally interested in expanding some of the metrics… and I’m also interested in anything that expands the usage or support of the ECDSA algorithm (I’m thinking more about … what interfaces could be extended to add ECDSA support?)
I’ll post a report back here on the site once the hackathon is over. If you are going to be at the Hackathon at IETF 93, please do consider joining with us!
P.S. And if you want to get started with DNSSEC and DANE, please see our Start Here page!
Jul 13
The Hobson & Holtz Report #816: How Reddit and Subway have handled their crises
Quick News: The Apple Watch and the rise of the personal cloud, chat apps continue to grow: New York Times delivers Papal visit news via WhatsApp; BBC considers move to make news channel online only, ALS plans to bring back the Ice Bucket Challenge; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop;
News That Fits: How Reddit and Subway have handled their crises; Dan York’s Tech Report: Pan Am Games and linking, Reddit, Facebook news feeds, Internet Society’s latest Global Internet Report; the past week on the FIR Podcast Network; listener comments; the corporate mission statement and Microsoft’s communication of theirs: hit or miss?; Igloo Software promo;
Music from Cold Beat (from SF); and more.
Links to the content in this episode are on Delicious.
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Jul 08
There Was Power In What Happened Last Night (At InterCommunity 2015)
There was an amazing power in what happened last night. There was a "magic" ... that I can't quite explain.
I sat in a room in Ottawa, Canada... but yet for 2.5 hours I was connected into a global meeting that brought me together with people all around the world... sitting in their homes, offices... or wherever. And gathered in large groups in New Zealand... Tunisia... El Salvador... Uruguay... New York... DC... the Dominican Republic... more...
The event was the Internet Society's InterCommunity 2015 ... something I wrote about on Circle ID, wrote about here, and talked about twice in my TDYR podcasts: episodes 258 and 259.
For that 2.5 hours we talked about how we are collectively working to bring the opportunities of the Internet to the 50% of the world that doesn't yet have access... we heard stories about the amazing work people are doing... we heard about our new 2015 Global Internet Report that highlights the rise of the "mobile Internet" and both the awesome potential - and pitfalls - that we are seeing... we talked about "Collaborative Governance" and how we need to work together to address the changes the Internet has brought to governance - and how governments adapt to the Internet... we heard from people in different parts of the world about the work they are doing... we talked about Internet security and how our "Collaborative Security" approach can be applied to activities people are doing... we had excellent questions about encryption and open vs closed systems... we talked about needing to speak in clear simple voices to explain these challenges... about the need for a stronger identity for the Internet Society... and so, so, so much more.
But it was FAR more than just the conversations... which were excellent.
It was the CONNECTION that I could feel...
Over 2,300 people registered for the event and some % of those folks were online for the first session last night...
There was power in seeing the faces of all the people around the world.
There was power in hearing the voices of the all the people around the world.
There was power in reading the text comments in the chat or on Twitter and social networks.
For that period of time... geography didn't matter... nationality didn't matter... race didn't matter... gender didn't matter...
We were just people ... connecting ON the Internet... and for the Internet.
Exploring together how we could truly bring about the "Internet of opportunity" that would be available to everyone, everywhere, and that could be trusted for our communication... our conversations... our commerce... and indeed our connections.
Talking really NOT about the technology, but rather the impacts of the Internet on our society... and on our daily lives.
It was a remarkable event.
And this was just the first session! While we in the Americas timezones were getting some sleep, another group of participants was having a second session bringing together even more people across Europe and Asia.
I woke up to see a steady stream of outstanding tweets using the #icomm15 hashtag - as well as email from colleagues and others - showing that the second session was equally amazing.
There was power in what happened last night.
The challenge now, of course, is to move what happened last night from beyond just conversation into the action that we need to truly realize the potential of the Internet.
That will be our task in the days, weeks, months and indeed years ahead...
For me, as I get ready now to make the 7-hour drive back home from Ottawa to New Hampshire, I'm still processing in my mind what it was all about. It may take some time - and reflection - to truly understand.
Yes, on one level it was "just" a meeting of different people tied in via video connections all across the Internet and streaming out to individuals via the Internet. No big deal, right? We can do this all the time, right?
But it was also something more...
There was power in what happened last night.
P.S. Here are some more photos taken by Glenn McKnight of the Ottawa node ...
