Just a guy in Vermont trying to connect all the dots...
Dan York
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Mar 29
Want To Attend IETF 90 In Toronto? Apply For An IETF Fellowship
Are you interested in attending the next meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Toronto in July 2014? Have you never been to an IETF meeting but would like to participate in the face-to-face aspect of the open standards process of the IETF?
If so, our colleagues who operate the “Internet Society Fellowship to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Programme” have alerted us that the next application window is open and applications will be accepted until April 11, 2014. This “Fellows” program is open to men and women from developing and emerging economies who might not otherwise be able to attend an IETF meeting. The goal is to help bring in more people from various regions of the world so that more voices are heard within the IETF discussions.
The most recent group of Fellows to IETF 89 in London included people from Venezuela, India, Morocco, Argentina, Tuvulu, Ecuador and Ethiopia. At past IETF meetings I’ve had the opportunity to record video interviews with some of the Fellows and it has been amazing and inspiring to learn their stories.
If you are interested to learn more and apply, I would suggest starting with reading through the selection criteria and then down the main page on the Fellows program. The links to apply as well as additional material can be found at the bottom of that main page. As I noted above, the application window closes on April 11 for this upcoming IETF 90 in Toronto. (It will then open up again a few months later for IETF 91 in November.)
If you’re interested in IPv6, DNSSEC, securing BGP… or, well, really any topic covered by the IETF, we’d encourage you to apply! And we look forward to meeting up with some of you at future IETF meetings!
Mar 29
TDYR #142 – Slow Down, You Move Too Fast
TDYR #142 - Slow Down, You Move Too Fast by Dan York
Mar 28
TDYR #141 – Impressed So Far With Duolingo For Learning French
TDYR #141 - Impressed So Far With Duolingo For Learning French by Dan York
Mar 28
Next DNS-OARC Meeting May 10-11, 2014, Before RIPE68 in Warsaw
If you are interested in all matters related to DNS, including DNSSEC, the next meeting of the DNS Operations Analysis and Research Center (DNS-OARC) will take place May 10-11, 2014, in Warsaw, Poland. Sponsored this time by Microsoft, the “OARC 2014 Spring Workshop” is immediately before the RIPE 68 meeting taking place in the same location.
The agenda for the OARC 2014 Spring Workshop is still evolving but already includes a range of what look like excellent presentations related to DNSSEC and other similar topics. The attendee list, too, is also filling up with many people with deep experience from across the industry.
It should be an excellent event for those interested in DNS and DNSSEC!
Meeting registration is free if you can get to Warsaw. If you were already planning to go to the RIPE 68 meeting why not go a couple of days earlier and immerse yourself in DNS? 
Mar 27
TDYR #140 – Travelogue: The Long Journey Home From Singapore
TDYR #140 - Travelogue: The Long Journey Home From Singapore by Dan York
Mar 27
New IETF Mailing List To Discuss Privacy and Confidentiality of DNS
How can we better protect the privacy and confidentiality of DNS queries? While DNSSEC protects the integrity of answers coming back from DNS (i.e. ensuring they aren’t modified in transit), what can be done to protect the confidentiality and privacy of information retrieved from DNS? Particularly against the kind of pervasive monitoring and large-scale network sniffing we’ve become aware of?
We mentioned previously that at IETF 89 this month in London there was the “Encryption of DNS requests for confidentiality” (DNSE) BOF looking at these topics. There was vigorous discussion during that BOF and then at the DNSOP working group meeting. That large amount of interest has now sparked the creation of a new mailing list for all those interested in participating. This “dns-privacy” list is public and open to anyone to subscribe:
List address: dns-privacy@ietf.org
To subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dns-privacy
Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dns-privacy/
As you can see from the mailing list archive, there is already some discussion underway. If you want some background the Internet drafts draft-bortzmeyer-dnsop-dns-privacy and draft-koch-perpass-dns-confidentiality may be useful.
While this doesn’t specifically related to the DNSSEC topic we cover here on Deploy360, it is part of the same overall space of “making DNS more secure” and so I thought it would be useful to point people to this new list.
Working together as an industry and community, we can make DNS more secure! Please do join in and help out.
Mar 26
TDYR #139 – Final Day In Singapore: Running, DNSSEC And Meeting Great People
TDYR #139 - Final Day In Singapore: Running, DNSSEC And Meeting Great People by Dan York
Mar 26
Congratulations to Portugal’s .PT on their DNSSEC growth!
Tonight at the DNSSEC Implementers Gathering at ICANN 49 in Singapore, I was seated next to an attendee from the registry in Portugal that operates the .PT top-level domain and she let me know about some dramatic growth they had recently seen. She also clued me in to their dnssec.pt page that has their statistics and also info about DNSSEC workshops and other events (I’ve now added this to our DNSSEC Statistics page). As noted on the chart below from March 14, 2014, the big jump that happened for them was when their second largest registrar/DNS hosting provider jumped from 200 to 4,000 .PT domain names signed with DNSSEC.
This is compared to the chart from only 11 days earlier showing Flesk at 199 signed domains. In speaking with her this jump was apparently not due to any incentives but rather to a registrar looking to do the right thing and provide more security options to their customers.
Congratulations to the team at .PT for seeing this big jump in second-level domains!
Mar 25
DNSSEC Workshop on March 26 to Be Streamed Live from ICANN 49 in Singapore (Featured Blog)
If you are interested in DNSSEC and how it can make the Internet more secure, the DNSSEC Workshop at ICANN 49 in Singapore will be streamed live for anyone to listen and view. One of three DNSSEC-related technical events at ICANN 49, the DNSSEC Workshop takes place on Wednesday, March 26, from 8:30am - 2:45pm Singapore time. More...
