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Dan York
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Mar 25
Watch/Listen LIVE To The ICANN 49 DNSSEC Workshop On Wednesday, March 26
Want to learn about DNSSEC from people who have actually deployed DNSSEC in their region? Want to learn about DANE and how it can be used in applications? How can DNSSEC make the Internet more secure? As I mentioned last week, these are some of the topics that will be discussed in the ICANN 49 DNSSEC Workshop that will be streaming live out of Singapore on Wednesday, March 26, from 8:30am – 2:45pm Singapore time. The session will be recorded for those unable to watch live.
[WARNING: Singapore local time is UTC+8, so it is 7 hours ahead of Central European time, 12 hours ahead of US Eastern time and 15 hours ahead of US Pacific time. So if you are on the US East Coast, for example, this workshop will start at 8:30pm TONIGHT (Tuesday, March 25).]
Topics to be discussed include:
- DNSSEC Deployment Metrics
- DNSSEC Activities in the Asia Pacific Region
- Case study of the deployment of DNSSEC at .ee (Estonia)
- Guidance for Registrars in Supporting DNSSEC – and DNSSEC requirements in the 2013 Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA)
- Preparing for DNSSEC Root Key Rollover
- DNSSEC Applications
- Demonstration of DANE applications and tools
A full agenda and all of the available slides can be found on the ICANN 49 DNSSEC Workshop program page. You can watch or listen to the event via:
- Virtual Meeting Room Stream Live (video, audio, slides and chat)
- Audio stream (high bandwidth)
- Audio stream (low bandwidth)
The session should provide excellent information for people interested in DNSSEC and how we can make the Internet more secure. Please do join in!
And if you are interested in deploying DNSSEC, please check out our DNSSEC resource pages to learn more.
Mar 24
TDYR #137 – Travelogue: The Flight To Singapore, Initial Impressions And The First Day At ICANN 49 –
TDYR #137 - Travelogue: The Flight To Singapore, Initial Impressions And The First Day At ICANN 49 - by Dan York
Mar 24
FIR #749 – 3/31/14 – For Immediate Release
Neville's not available, Olivier Blanchard is guest co-host; Quick News: Google Glass in talks with Luxottica, USC to offer a journalism class in Google Glass, Facebook acquires Oculus Rift, will Twitter do away with @ symbol and hashtags?; Neville talks about two upcoming interviews; Ragan promo; News That Fits: a look at sentiment analysis, Michael Netzley's Asia Report, the death of Facebook organic reach, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, Dan York's Tech Report, Igloo Software promo, recap of last week on the FIR Podcast Network, Olivier talks about his new novel; music from Make the Girl Dance; and more.
Mar 24
FIR #748 – 3/24/14 – For Immediate Release
Two interviews coming; Quick News: longer brand videos get popular, Donna Papacosta and Steve Lubetkin working on business of podcasting book, two Augmented Reality campaigns make news, 20 ways to use the Twitter favorite button; Ragan promo; News That Fits: real-time content can make the most of new devices, Michael Netzley's Asia Report, PR at a crossroads, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, the future of social selling, Dan York's tech report, Igloo Software promo, last week on the FIR Podcast Network, social media in B2B; Olivier Blanchard will guest co-host with Shel next week; music from the Kyle Hollingsworth band; and more.
Mar 24
Watch/Listen Live TODAY To The “DNSSEC For Everybody: A Beginner’s Guide”
In just about 1.5 hours from now here at ICANN 49 in Singapore we’ll be part of the “DNSSEC For Everybody: A Beginner’s Guide” session. Running from 17:00 – 18:30 Singapore time, the session will start at the very basic level of why should anyone care about DNSSEC and get into what kind of problem we are trying to solve. This session includes a skit where we visually act out DNS and DNSSEC transactions.
You can listen remotely via an audio stream or listen and view the slides via a a virtual meeting room. Details are on the program page.
The session will be recorded for later viewing, which may be appreciated by any readers in the Western hemisphere (such as those in the USA) for whom Singapore time at UTC+8 will be very early in the morning. 
Mar 23
TDYR #136 – My 3-hour Sunday In London’s Airport
TDYR #136 - My 3-hour Sunday In London's Airport by Dan York
Mar 23
Free DNSSEC Training May 22-23, 2014, in Stockholm, Sweden
Are you in Stockholm, Sweden, (or can easily get there) and interested in learning more about DNSSEC? If so, we’ve learned that the great folks at OpenDNSSEC will be offering a free two-day training class on May 22-23, 2014. More info can be found at:
http://www.opendnssec.org/support/trainings/
The agenda is online as are the study materials. This training is obviously aimed at people who will use OpenDNSSEC as a means of signing their DNS zones and if you haven’t considered that option before you may want to do so.
Given that this is a hands-on workshop, it is not available for remote participants. As the web page notes, the OpenDNSSEC team is open to bringing this training to other locations.
For other training options, please visit our DNSSEC Training page.
Mar 22
TDYR #135 – Why Curling Is So Awesome For Kids
TDYR #135 - Why Curling Is So Awesome For Kids by Dan York
Mar 22
Facebook’s Extremely Impressive Internal Use of IPv6
Wow! At the v6 World Congress this week in Paris (where Chris and Jan were), Facebook’s Paul Saab gave a very impressive presentation about what Facebook has gone through to convert its internal network over to IPv6. Paul has now posted his presentation online (in the IPv6 Group on Facebook, of course) and the story he relays with all the bumps and issues is great to see. Here’s the key slide at the end showing where they are at:
Those statistics are:
- 100% of hosts they care about respond on IPv6 (Hosts that are not IPv6 ready are going away.)
- 75% of internal traffic is now IPv6 with a goal to be at 100% by Q3 2014 or earlier
- 98% of traffic in and out of HHVM is IPv6
- 100% of our memcache traffic is IPv6
- A goal of being 100% IPv6-only in 2-3 years
VERY impressive! Paul’s entire presentation is worth a read as he outlines a good number of the challenges they ran into, from vendors equipment not supporting IPv6 to engineers always writing in IPv6 to some of the problems they had with software. It’s all great info and good to have out there as a case study and for others to learn from.
I love that he ends noting that engineers are asking if they can start writing IPv6-only code today! (I also enjoy that the “solution” to stopping engineers from writing IPv4-only code was simple: take away IPv4 on development systems! )
So… Facebook is going to be out in front of most other companies with having made the transition over to IPv6. What are you waiting for? Check out our IPv6 resources and let us know if there is anything more we can do to help you!
