Just a guy in Vermont trying to connect all the dots...
Dan York
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Oct 07
Simple DNSSEC Fact Sheet Now Available In English, French and Spanish
Have you ever wished that there was a simple “2-page” document that you could give people explaining DNSSEC and what it is all about? Would you like a DNSSEC “handout” that you can distribute at events or send to colleagues or vendors?
If so, we’ve now added a “DNSSEC Fact Sheet” to our site in the following languages:
We’ll be adding versions in Arabic, Chinese and Russian soon.
Please feel free to download these and use them in whatever way you wish. Email them to people. Print them out and pass them out at a meeting. Distribute them on a conference USB drive… do whatever you want with them!
Because we may update the fact sheets from time to time, we would encourage you to direct people to this simple URL to find the fact sheets:
http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/dnssec/factsheet/
And please let us know any feedback you have on these documents. We’re here to help you get DNSSEC more widely deployed and want to be as helpful as possible. How can we help you get the information you need?
Finally, please do direct people to our Start Here page at https://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/start/ so that they can find DNSSEC resources targeted at their role or type of organization.
P.S. You can expect to see a fact sheet for IPv6 coming soon…
Oct 06
Chris Grundemann At NANOG62 This Week Talking BCOP
Are you at NANOG 62 in Baltimore, MD, this week? If so, look for our Chris Grundemann (see team photo) who is there all week.
Chris is primarily at NANOG for the Best Current Operational Practices (BCOP) Track happening today from 4:30 to 6:00pm US EDT in the “Maryland Suites” room. Chris was very active with this BCOP work in NANOG before joining the Internet Society and remains closely connected to what is going on. As we’ve written about in the past, our team here is working to help facilitate the creation of regional BCOP documentation efforts around the globe and a good bit of what Chris expects to be doing at NANOG 62 is speaking with operators about what other BCOP documents could be written.
He’ll also be speaking with people about all the work we’re doing here to promote IPv6, DNSSEC, TLS and technologies to secure BGP. If you’d like to meet up with him, please drop an email to deploy360@isoc.org and he can connect with you there at the show.
Beyond the BCOP session today, which is unfortunately not being webcast, there is an outstanding agenda of presentations this week, many of which will be webcast / live streamed for remote viewing. Some of the sessions that hit the topics we cover here at Deploy360 include (slides are available for sessions that are already over, and the video recordings should be available soon):
Monday, October 6, 2014
- Detecting and Quantifying IPv6-based SMTP Abuse
- Project Turris (an IPv6-capable and DNSSEC-validating home gateway/router from CZ.Nic)
- Single Pass Load Balancing with Session Persistence in IPv6 Network
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
- DNS Track (unfortunately not webcast)
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
- Adventures in RPKI (non)Deployment
There are a great range of other talks on the NANOG 62 agenda that may be of interest, too. I’m personally interested in the talk on Thursday (right before the RPKI talk) from Tim Stronge at TeleGeography about submarine cables as I just find that whole area intriguing.
All in all it should be a great event – and if you want to learn more about what we are doing and want to provide some feedback about what you could use help with to get started with IPv6, DNSSEC and other technologies, please do find Chris and say hello!
Oct 06
INET Trinidad and Tobago To Cover IPv6, DNSSEC, IXPs and more
This Wednesday and Thursday the INET Trinidad and Tobago event will bring a great amount of technical presentations to the Caribbean region. Starting on October 8, 2014, some of the presentations covering IPv6 and DNSSEC include:
- IPv6: What Is It? Why Is It Needed?
- IPv6 Deployment: Business Cases and Development Options (in the Caribbean)
- Securing the DNS and Internet Routes
The event continues on Thursday, October 9, with a range of sessions related to Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), cybersecurity and trends in the overall industry. It looks like a great event and the excellent news is that you can watch it all live at:
http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/inet-trinidad-and-tobago
Note that Trinidad and Tobago use Atlantic Standard Time (AST) which is UTC-4 and right now the same as US Eastern Daylight Time.
Our colleague Shernon Osepa has more information about the INET Trinidid and Tobago event in a post on our Internet Technology Matters (ITM) blog earlier today.
Oct 06
FIR #776 – 10/06/14 – For Immediate Release
Shel traveling through November 1 but the show will go on; Quick News: Facebook addresses real names and experiments, Windows 10 technical preview released, employees with friends at work are more committed to their employers, Dubai detectives get Google Glass to fight crime; Ragan promo; News That Fits: implications of wearable tech on the workplace, Dan York's Tech Report, it's time to take Snapchat seriously, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, Igloo Software promo, brace yourself for the corporate journalism wave, the last week on the FIR Podcast Network; music from Tasherra Project; and more.
Oct 05
Reflections On Ello – October 5, 2014
First, as I wrote, we have to remember that Ello is not Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc., and we have to just go in with an open mind.
The Ello platform is very definitely still a "beta" with a long list of features that they want to add, but over the past bit there have been some changes of interest:
- The Ello team has now release "muting" and "blocking" so that you can control a bit more of the experience you have on Ello.
- Kevin Marks had some good commentary about how this issue is hard - and how it is also important to the IndieWeb and other activities.
- Cmd+Return on my Mac (Ctrl+Enter on a PC) has now become my favorite keystroke because it lets me rapidly submit comments or posts without using the mouse.
- You can press "f" and "n" to toggle between your "friends" and "noise" lists.
- There are several other quick keys that let you shift between different views.
- The mobile interface works well once you understand that you can swipe left and right to do more.
- Writing with markdown and emoji is fun!
I love the display of photos in Ello, but there's one bit of brokenness that does bother me:
- There are issues posting "portrait" photos from a smartphone, although there is a workaround to make them square first.
I asked the question of why should Ello have to have a mobile app and wondered about how Ello behaved different from other apps... and I learned a bit more about why (and what you can do)
Clay Shirky had two great posts about Ello being a conversational versus annotative medium:
He also had two other good articles and threads:- How he does NOT want a 'reshare' link and why Ello to him is more like LiveJournal and USENET
- How challenging it is to find comments you have left on Ello
Oh, and there's now a parody social network... Owdy! :-)
Please do join me on Ello if you are interested in the continuing experiments... and please feel free to share your own tips and insights!
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Oct 03
Join Me On VUC Today At Noon US EDT To Talk IPv6, IoT, WebRTC and more…
Today at 12 noon US Eastern (in about 3.5 hours), I'll be part of a panel on the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) talking about IPv6, WebRTC, the Internet of Things (IoT) and much, much more... you should be able to watch it live at live.vuc.me or embedded here:
VUC host Randy Resnick had a scheduled guest be unable to attend and so he asked a group of us to come on for what he is calling a "VUC Vision" session. I will be on there, as will, I believe, Tim Panton and a number of others. I expect the discussion should range over good variety of topics. It should be a good time... you're welcome to join in the discussion.
It's probably best to also join the IRC backchannel where links are shared, questions are answered and other comments occur. You also can visit the Google+ event page for the VUC session today where there may be additional links and info.
If you won't be at your computer, you can also call in via:
- sip:200901@login.zipdx.com
- +1 (646) 475-2098
- Skype:vuc.me
The session will of course be recorded so you can listen/watch later.
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Oct 02
CEA Webinar Archive: Making Content Available On IPv6 and Ensuring the Optimal Customer Experience
How can you make your content available over IPv6 and ensure the optimal customer experience? That was the topic of a excellent recent webinar from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) on September 16, 2014, featuring these panelists:
- John Jason Brzozowski, Comcast (and CEA IPv6 Working Group chair)
- Leslie Daigle, TCE
- Vint Cerf, Google
- Jason Fesler, Yahoo!
The session is now available for your listening and viewing at:
https://consumerelectronics.adobeconnect.com/_a89885078/p2d42e4ygya/
The abstract for the session is:
While some mainstream content providers have enabled their content to be available over both IPv4 and IPv6, a large population of the same continues to be available only over IPv4. Join this webinar to learn why making your content available over IPv6 is critical to the IPv6 transition and more importantly to ensure an optimal customer experience. As part of this webinar, manufacturers, service providers and retailers in the consumer electronics industry will learn why support for IPv6 is important as the steps required to ensure popular consumer electronics are enabled to support and actively using the same.
It was great to hear Leslie Daigle again (given that she used to be involved here) and she started out the session providing statistics about IPv6 and speaking about the impressive growth we’ve seen over the past few years.
Vint Cerf spoke next and first talked about Google’s strong commitment to IPv6 and then discussed what is happening with Nest thermometers (owned by Google) and the new “Thread” protocol being advanced by a group of companies as a method of enabling the “Internet of Things (IoT)”. Thread is based on IPv6 using the 6LoWPAN technology and provides a powerful way to interconnect devices and services. (I’ll note that earlier this week there was apparently a gathering at Google’s California campus where many people involved with Thread met and provided an update on the project.)
Jason Fesler then spoke about the business case for deploying IPv6 for content providers. His number one reason was that companies need to “ensure the best possible user experience for our customers.” He noted that it is not a matter so much of what IPv6 brings us, but rather what is the future of IPv4. He talked about the challenges of carrier-grade NAT (CGN) and how it limits the ability of a content provider to optimize content for an individual user. He also spoke of the dangers of CGN in potentially blocking an entire network due to a single bad actor. Jason then discussed how Yahoo! is preparing to make its web sites and content available to IPv6-only networks, as they do expect to see more of such networks in the years ahead.
After the presentations there was a lengthy Q&A session and more ongoing discussion.
This CEA Webinar was the second in a series of webinars about IPv6. The first was last month and focused on IPv6 and broadband. My colleague Phil Roberts wrote about that session (and participated in it) and provided the link to the archive of that session.
It’s great to see these sessions coming from the CEA and we look forward to future webinars!
If you want to get started making your content available over IPv6, please visit our Start Here page to find resources available to help you. In particular, the IPv6 information for website owners and content providers may be of great help.
Sep 30
Just testing that status updates do appear as they are expected to do.
Just testing that status updates do appear as they are expected to do.
Sep 30
R.I.P. Orkut, The First "Social Network" Many Of Us Used
Orkut was quietly launched in late January 2004 ... ten years ago ... and I can dive back into Advogato where I used to write in those days and see that:
- I got an invite on Feb 1, 2004, and wasn't really sure what it was all about.
- On Feb 2, 2004, I wrote that there were a ton of rants against Orkut. (Gee, sounds familiar given the current rants against Ello.)
- On Feb 5, I set up a "community" on Orkut related to DocBook.
And... then that's pretty much all I seem to have written about Orkut... outside of a post in 2008 about Orkut planning to use OpenSocial (remember OpenSocial?).
And that's somewhat symptomatic of what happened to Orkut... other sites and social networks emerged that captured more of our attention. As the Wikipedia article about Orkut notes, the site became for a while a huge community for users in Brazil and also India... so huge in Brazil, in fact, that the site wound up ultimately being managed by Google's office in Brazil (and this is undoubtedly why the "community archive" appears in Portuguese).
But for many of us outside those regions, we moved on. Some to Friendster and MySpace... then to Twitter in 2006... Facebook... and tens of other social networks that are now lost to history... (ReadWrite has a nice timeline about the rise and fall of Orkut, including how Facebook overtook Orkut in Brazil in 2012.)
When Google announced back in June that Orkut would be shutting down today, it had been so many years that I couldn't even easily find my account on Orkut. With all of Google's various "accounts", there were a bunch of "Dan York" accounts... and my Orkut account wasn't among them. Obviously I'd missed that point in time when Orkut users were supposed to link their Orkut accounts to their Google accounts.
Still, it's worth pausing for a moment to remember Orkut. It was the first time that many of us dealt with "friends" and "fans". It's instructive to read this rant from danah boyd, venting my contempt for orkut... the whole "social networking" thing was so brand new in those days. Friendster was around, and a few others, but not many. Danny Sullivan's piece from that time is a good read, too.
And sadly, we never really got the "protocol for networking the social networks" that David Weinberger thought might arise (although there have been many attempts (recent example, the "IndieWeb", although that is more about linking publishing sites than true "social networks", but there is a 'social' aspect to it)).
R.I.P., Orkut ... you had a good run... and you helped introduce many of us to the concepts that would become simply part and parcel of the "social" world in which we live today.
UPDATE 1 Oct 2014 - Interesting infographic about the history of Orkut: Bye bye Orkut – A Look back into the History of Orkut
You can hear an audio commentary on this topic on SoundCloud:
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Sep 30
TDYR #175 – R.I.P, Orkut
As many of us play with Ello, the newest social network to attract attention, I take a moment to remember Orkut, the first "social network" many of us used way back in 2004... and that was shut down today, September 30, 2014, by Google...
Read more: http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2014/09/rip-orkut-the-first-social-network-many-of-us-used.html
Also posted on Ello, of course: https://ello.co/danyork/post/kF7_SrLsE-ThvqLFmB79Mw
