Just a guy in Vermont trying to connect all the dots...
Dan York
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Nov 19
Nominations For Board of Public Interest Registry (Operator of .ORG) Close Nov 24 (Featured Blog)
Would you be interested in helping guide the future of the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the non-profit operator of the .ORG domain? If so, the Internet Society is seeking nominations for three positions on the PIR Board of Directors. The nominations deadline is Monday, November 24, 2014. More information, qualification requirements and the submission form can be found here. More...
Nov 19
TDYR 185 – Lessons Learned About Public Speaking With Japanese Translation
At our ION Tokyo event this week, I learned a good bit from talking with Japanese translators who then translated my talk...
More info about the event: http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ion/tokyo2014/
Nov 19
Congrats to FreeBSD On Their $1 Million Donation
Wow! Many congratulations to the folks at the FreeBSD Foundation for receiving a generous $1 million donation from Jan Koum, CEO and Co-Founder of WhatsApp.
And of course many, MANY thanks to Jan Koum for giving back in this way! As he states in his Facebook post (reprinted in that link above), the FreeBSD operating system helped him get started in his career and got him to where he is today. This is a wonderful recognition of the power of open source operating systems – and it is wonderful that Jan Koum made this donation.
While most of the UNIX-related work in my life has been focused around Linux versus FreeBSD, I’ve used FreeBSD on a number of projects and found it quite good. From a strategic point of view, I’m glad to see this donation to the FreeBSD Foundation to help advance its own plans. Much of the world’s attention to “open source” matters focuses around Linux – and Linux receives the majority of corporate support and donations. But the Internet thrives on diversity and it is great to have a strong set of operating systems out there. This donation is good for the health of the overall Internet and the open source ecosystem.
Kudos to Jan Koum for making this donation now that he has risen to such a successful point in his life where he can make a donation like this. I hope he will inspire others who are in such situations to do so as well!
Nov 18
Norway’s .NO ccTLD Now Signed With DNSSEC
Norway’s .NO became the latest country-code top-level-domain (ccTLD) to be completely integrated into DNSSEC’s global chain of trust with the publication of their DS record in the root zone of DNS over the weekend. As noted in the tweet below (and an earlier one), the team in Norway is rather excited about this event!
#DNSSEC cake, no lie! pic.twitter.com/ejHRIPuNv3
— Unni Solås (@unniquity) November 11, 2014
I don’t know that I’ve seen anyone bake a cake before to celebrate the signing of a top-level domain, but this is pretty cool!
Congratulations to the team at .NO that made this happen! We’ve updated the DNSSEC deployment maps with the info so that Norway now shows up in a “green” status.
On a page about DNSSEC on the Norid web site, they indicate that they will start accepting DNSSEC records on 9 December 2014. This means that .NO domain registrants will very soon be able to experience the higher security of DNSSEC and DANE!
If you would like to learn more about how you can secure your domain with DNSSEC, please visit our Start Here page to find resources targeted at your type of organization.
Nov 17
FIR #782 – 11/17/14 – For Immediate Release
FIR is in a new podcast directory; please rate us in iTunes; Quick News: Google Glass's clouded future, beware of domain laundering, is YouTube the new television?, troubling results from popular podcast; Ragan promo; News That Fits: why does nobody ask what could go wrong?, Dan York's Tech Report, study reveals privacy say-do gap, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, Facebook organic reach is not dead yet, Igloo Software promo, the past week on the FIR Podcast Network; music from Adri-Anne Ralph; and more.
Nov 16
Watch LIVE Right Now From Japan: ION Tokyo – IPv6, DNSSEC and BCOP
Want to learn the latest news about IPv6, DNSSEC, and Best Current Operational Practice (BCOP) efforts? Please join us on Monday, 17 November 2014, at 9:30am JST (00:30 UTC / 19:30 EST), when our ION Tokyo event will be streaming live out of Japan via this link:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ion-tokyo
ION Tokyo has just started in Japan and will go for the next 2.5 hours – please join us:
The ION Tokyo agenda is packed with great sessions:
- Keynote: Can We Go Back to the Original? A Return to the End-to-End Principle
Dr. Shin Miyakawa (NTT Communications) - The Business Case for Implementing DNSSEC
Dan York (Internet Society) - Best Current Operational Practices Update
Chris Grundemann (Internet Society) - Panel Discussion – IPv6 in Asia Pacific: Untangling the Web
Moderator: Tomohiro Fujisaki (Internet Society Japan).
Panelists: Miwa Fujii (APNIC); Toshio Hiraga (Sony Global Solutions, Inc.); Kaname Nishizuka; Akihiro Tsuru (KDDI Corporation).
Our Sponsors
We would like to once again thank Afilias for supporting ION Tokyo as an ION Conference series sponsor!
In addition, we’re honored to have several co-location partners at this event including IA Japan, the IPv6 Promotion Council, JPNIC, and the ISOC Japan Chapter.
Join Us
Will you be in Tokyo next week for any of the many excellent events happening? Please be sure to let us know! You can respond to the Facebook or Google+ events, drop us a message on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ (using the hashtag #IONConf), or simply email us.
We can’t wait to see you in Japan – or online – as we continue to share real-world deployment experiences and work to better understand your needs to get things like IPv6, DNSSEC, TLS, and secure routing deployed.
Join us Monday for what should be an excellent set of sessions!
And if you want to get started now with deploying these technologies, please visit our “Start Here” page to find resources targeted at your type of organization or role.
Nov 16
TDYR 184 – Initial Thoughts On Landing in Tokyo (And Fun With Dinner Menus)
I landed in Tokyo, Japan, last night and just reflect here on my first impressions on my first visit to Japan...
Nov 15
TDYR 183 – Reflections on IETF91, Hawaii and Travel
Thoughts from Honolulu where I was for IETF 91.
Nov 14
Soo… if I want to comment on Jon Udell’s post on Known from my own Known site… do I just put in a link to
Soo... if I want to comment on Jon Udell's post on Known from my own Known site... do I just put in a link to his post: http:/
