Just a guy in Vermont trying to connect all the dots...
Dan York
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Nov 05
12 Days Until ION Tokyo!
ION Tokyo is coming up soon on Monday, November 17, 2014! We’ll be live in the same venue as the Japan IPv6 Summit with an agenda packed full of technical sessions. To learn more visit our ION Tokyo page at:
http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ion/tokyo2014/
The sessions will include:
- An IPv6 Case Study from NTT
- The Business Case for Implementing DNSSEC
- Best Current Operational Practices Update
- Panel Discussion – IPv6 in Asia
The event has excellent speakers and we’re looking forward to meeting with network operators, enterprises and many others.
If you are going to be in Tokyo for the Japan IPv6 Summit or for Internet Week Japan, please do join us Monday morning for ION Tokyo!
Nov 05
A Great Amount of DNSSEC / DANE / DNS Activity At IETF 91 Next Week
What is happening next week at IETF 91 in Honolulu with regard to DNSSEC, DANE and other “DNS security” topics?
A great amount of activity, it turns out!
So much that my “Rough Guide to IETF 91: DNSSEC, DANE and DNS Security” turned into quite a lengthy article. Please read that article for the full description, but a quick summary can be:
- DNSOP will have discussions around “Negative Trust Anchors”, “DNS Cookies” and more.
- DANE will discuss using DANE for email, and specifically S/MIME, as well as SRV records and a discussion led by me about what we can learn from current deployments of DANE.
- A brand new DPRIVE working group will be exploring challenges around privacy and confidentiality of DNS queries.
- TRANS will look at applying Certificate Transparency (CT) mechanism to DNSSEC keys.
- EPPEXT will discuss how to move a draft forward about secure transfer of DNSSEC-signed domains between registrars.
- HOMENET and DNSSD will both be looking at different aspects of using DNS with small networks or “Internet of Things” (IoT) environments – and the question of course is how this usage gets secured.
… and again you’ll want to read the full article to understand more. The key point is that it will be busy for those of us interested in DNS-related issues! If you are going to be out at IETF 91, please do contact us or find me there. Odds are pretty good you’ll find me in either the DNS or IPv6 sessions!
And if you want to get started today with DNSSEC, please visit our Start Here page to learn how!
Nov 04
Chinese Translations Of IPv6 And DNSSEC Fact Sheets Now Available For Download
No sooner had I announced that our IPv6 Fact Sheet and our DNSSEC Fact Sheet are both now available in Russian than I learned that the Chinese versions are also now available:
… and I should be able to publish the Arabic versions tomorrow. All great news for people wanting to make more information about IPv6 and DNSSEC available to people all around the world.
As we noted in our earlier posts about the IPv6 Fact Sheet and about the DNSSEC Fact Sheet, these simple documents are available for you to use in whatever way you wish. Please feel free to download them and share them widely.
Please do let us know any feedback you have on these documents. Our goal is to help you get IPv6 and DNSSEC deployed within your organizations and networks. Please let us know how we can help.
And if you want to get started with IPv6 or DNSSEC, please visit our Start Here page to find resources to help you get started!
Nov 04
New MANRS Graphic Available For Usage (And Do You Have A Better Suggestion?)
Given that it is useful to have a graphic that can be used in articles about this initiative, we created a basic MANRS graphic that you are free to download and use however you see fit under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. The graphic is available as a JPEG image in the following formats and sizes:
Rectangle:
Square:
Please note – IF YOU HAVE A BETTER SUGGESTION for a graphic / logo that we can use to promote the MANRS initiative, we’d love to hear from you! We created this one because we needed something … but we’re definitely open to other ideas. Ideally we’d like to have a variety of badges and logos along the lines of what was created for the World IPv6 Launch so that supporters can show their support for the MANRS initiative on their websites, blogs, social media, etc.
Nov 03
The Many Colors Of Blue
Here is a quick table of shades of Blue taken from the old X11 color names:
| Blue | HTML code |
|---|---|
| SkyBlue | #87CEEB |
| Navy | #000080 |
| LightSteelBlue | #B0C4DE |
| PowderBlue | #B0E0E6 |
| Blue | #0000FF |
| LightSkyBlue | #87CEFA |
| DeepSkyBlue | #00BFFF |
| CornflowerBlue | #6495ED |
| LightBlue | #ADD8E6 |
Nov 03
Video: Andrei Robachevsky Introduces MANRS At RIPE 69
At the RIPE 69 meeting today in London, Andrei Robachevsky gave a lightning talk about “How Can We Work Together to Improve the Security and Resilience of the Global Routing System?” where he introduced the MANRS document and asked people to join the initiative. You can view his slides and watch the video of his presentation:
If you are interested in being added to the growing list of participants, please sign up!
Nov 03
IPv6 Statistics Show Continued Growth – Have You Migrated Your Apps Yet?
It is fun to watch the various IPv6 statistics sites because they continue to show the amazing growth of IPv6 around the world. The World IPv6 Launch measurements now show Verizon Wireless’ network at 59% IPv6, T-Mobile USA at 43%, AT&T at 25%. Google’s IPv6 statistics show that traffic into Google web sites globally is about to hit 5%. And then today Akamai launched new IPv6 trend charts that show IPv6 traffic out of Belgium at 29.2%, from Germany 12% and from Luxembourg and the USA right at 10% with Peru not far behind.
All of this shows that IPv6 deployment is very real! If you haven’t started migrating your applications so that they will work over IPv6 in addition to IPv4, why not?
Obviously I’d encourage you to buy the book to help understand what you need to do… but you can also view the many IPv6 resources out there on the Internet to learn more! The key point is that you need to get started NOW! IPv6 is being deployed globally – will your application work over IPv6?
Nov 03
IPv6 Statistics Show Continued Growth – Have You Migrated Your Apps Yet?
It is fun to watch the various IPv6 statistics sites because they continue to show the amazing growth of IPv6 around the world. The World IPv6 Launch measurements now show Verizon Wireless’ network at 59% IPv6, T-Mobile USA at 43%, AT&T at 25%. Google’s IPv6 statistics show that traffic into Google web sites globally is about to hit 5%. And then today Akamai launched new IPv6 trend charts that show IPv6 traffic out of Belgium at 29.2%, from Germany 12% and from Luxembourg and the USA right at 10% with Peru not far behind.
All of this shows that IPv6 deployment is very real! If you haven’t started migrating your applications so that they will work over IPv6 in addition to IPv4, why not?
Obviously I’d encourage you to buy the book to help understand what you need to do… but you can also view the many IPv6 resources out there on the Internet to learn more! The key point is that you need to get started NOW! IPv6 is being deployed globally – will your application work over IPv6?
Nov 03
BCOP Session At RIPE 69 Streaming Live Now
Right at this moment at the RIPE 69 meeting in London, the RIPE Best Current Operational Practices (BCOP) Task Force is holding its meeting and reviewing a number of different draft BCOP documents. You can watch live on the RIPE 69 live stream but the session is close to finishing up. The good news is that all of the slides and video archives are appearing on the RIPE69 BCOP Task Force page almost as soon as they are presented.
The agenda for the meeting is:
A. Opening – Jan Zorz
B. BCOP Around the World – Aaron Hughes
C. Euro-IX IXP BCOPs – Bijal Sanghani
D. IPv6 Troubleshooting for Helpdesks – Sander Steffann and Jen Linkova
E. BCP38 + Enterprise and IX Filtering – Aaron Hughes
F. BGP BCOP – Guillaume Valadon
G. Deaggregation by Large Organizations – Iljitsch van Beijnum
H. MANRS (aka Routing Resilience Manifesto) – Andrei Robachevsky
Our team member Jan Žorž is there facilitating the meeting and actively participating as part of our overall efforts to help create more BCOP documents globally.
Nov 03
Russian Versions of IPv6 and DNSSEC Fact Sheets Now Available
Здравствуйте! We are very pleased to announced that our IPv6 Fact Sheet and our DNSSEC Fact Sheet are both now available in Russian in addition to English, French and Spanish. The documents are available directly at:
As we noted in our earlier posts about the IPv6 Fact Sheet and about the DNSSEC Fact Sheet, these simple documents are available for you to use in whatever way you wish. Please feel free to download them and share them widely.
Please do let us know any feedback you have on these documents. Our goal is to help you get IPv6 and DNSSEC deployed within your organizations and networks. Please let us know how we can help!
The Arabic and Chinese versions of these documents will be coming soon. And if you want to get started with IPv6 or DNSSEC, please visit our Start Here page to find resources to help you begin!
