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Dan York
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Mar 12
On The 25th Anniversary Of The Web, Let Us Keep It Open And Make It More Secure
Can we even begin to count the ways the “Web” has affected all of our lives? Today is the 25th Anniversary of the proposal that led to the creation of the World Wide Web. Over at Webat25.org, Tim Berners-Lee, the W3C and the World Wide Web Foundation are celebrating this milestone with greetings from people all around the world, including Internet Society President and CEO Kathy Brown, who recorded a video greeting, as well as IETF Chair Jari Arkko and IAB Chair Russ Housely. The WebAt25 effort is also promoting an active campaign on Twitter using the #web25 hashtag and is encouraging people everywhere to get more involved with efforts to ensure the Web remains an open platform for creativity, innovation and collaboration.
As our Leslie Daigle wrote in an excellent Internet Technology Matters post today, the Web is a prime example of how “permission-less innovation” enables the creation of new services that run on the Internet and also of both the global nature of the Internet and the value of open standards.
For us here at the Deploy360 Programme, our use of the Web is the critical cornerstone of our efforts to accelerate the deployment of key Internet technologies… even as most of the protocols (IPv6, DNSSEC, BGP) we promote are actually part of the underlying Internet infrastructure that makes services like the Web possible. Without the Web, we would not be able to bring you all the resources and news we bring you here, nor would we be able to share it with you through web-based social media. It is critical for our work.
On this day, we join with the W3C, World Wide Web Foundation and so many others in celebrating this 25th anniversary and the amazing success of the Web. As we do so, though, we know that for the Web and other Internet services to prosper they need to not only continue to be as open as they have been in the past, but they also need to be more secure to protect the privacy and security of information. That is why we’ve worked so hard getting DNSSEC deployed more widely, recently opened our new “TLS for Applications” topic area, and why we’re looking for your help to build more content to help application developers, website designers and many more people understand how to make the Web and other services more secure.
Thank you, Tim Berners-Lee, for the proposal 25 years ago that led to the creation of the World Wide Web, and for everything you’ve done to keep the Web open to all. We look forward to joining with people around the world to continue to keep the Web – and the Internet – open for all!
Mar 12
TDYR #126 – I Remember Info.cern.ch – Celebrating 25 Years Of The World Wide Web
Back in 1991 or so, I was running an IT training team and developed a class on "Navigating The Internet", which, at the very end, had one page mentioning that there was this thing called the "World Wide Web" that you could see by telnetting to info.cern.ch.... we've come a LONG way since then! Happy 25th Anniversary to the Web! #web25 In this episode I reflect on how the Web has profoundly impacted my life and career... and what we need to do to ensure it remains open for all in the future!
See:
http://www.webat25.org/
http://webwewant.org/
and follow the "#web25" hashtag on Twitter.
(Note: In full disclosure I work at http://www.internetsociety.org/ where we are active on these type of issues for the broader Internet.)
Mar 11
DNSSEC Training In Rwanda For The .RW ccTLD
I was very pleased to learn via a series of tweets this morning of a two-day DNSSEC training seminar that happened in Kacyiru, Rwanda, sponsored by the Rwanda Information and Communication Technology Association (RICTA) in partnership with ICANN. The seminar took place over the last two days and the agenda looks quite good.
It seems they got some good news coverage on two local sites, complete with other photos of the event: IGIHE and UMUSEKE. Unfortunately, as I cannot read Kinyarwanda, and neither, it seems, can Google Translate, I don’t have any idea what the articles are saying beyond the technical acronyms.
The attendance is great to see as Africa is one region where it would be great to see more ccTLDs signed with DNSSEC. At this moment Rwanda’s .RW is not appearing on either our DNSSEC deployment maps nor on ICANN’s DNSSEC Status Report as signed with DNSSEC… but hopefully with a workshop like this that status will be changing soon!
P.S. To that end, I note that the seminar invitation reads “Adoption event for the .RW country code top-level domain name”. If anyone reads this from RICTA and could email us info about when they are planning to sign the .RW ccTLD, we’d love to add that information to our DNSSEC deployment maps.
Photo credit: RICTAInfo on Twitter
Mar 11
TDYR #125 -Voting In NH Today, And The Frustration Of Not Knowing What Is On The Ballot
Today is "Town Meeting Day" in New Hampshire when people across the state vote on local issues, municipal/school budgets and other major spending issues. The frustrating part is that at least for our city it is hard to get information about what exactly we are voting on today...
Mar 11
TDYR #124 – Anyone Used The New Getty Images Embedding Yet?
TDYR #124 - Anyone Used The New Getty Images Embedding Yet? by Dan York
Mar 10
Crossing 300,000 Views Of My CircleID Articles
As I wrote about back in November 2012 and have also spoken about on past FIR podcast episodes, CircleID is one of the sites that I watch to keep up on what is happening with the infrastructure that powers the Internet, as well as Internet policy issues and, in recent years, the evolution of the "new generic top-level domains (newgTLDs)". I enjoy reading many of the people who write there - and have learned a good bit in the process. There are a lot of contributors to the site (and anyone can sign up to contribute) and so you get to hear many different voices, including some, of course, with whom you may not agree - but that is good and helpful.
Beyond simply visiting the CircleID website, you can follow the site as @circleID on Twitter and via the CircleID Facebook page as well as good old RSS.
I'd highly recommend CircleID for people interested in the evolution of the Internet!
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Mar 10
FIR #746 – 3/10/14 – For Immediate Release
Neville and Dan in London; Quick news: Omnicom's $100 million deal with Instagram, Greenpeace's campaign against Procter and Gamble, the Church of England's new Twitter account, Digg vs. Reddit for PR pros; Ragan promo; News That Fits, Michael Netzley's Asia Report, social visual in the enterprise, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, 02's Twitter-based customer service, Dan York's tech report; last week on the FIR Podcast Network, volunteer PR pros come to Ukraine's aid; music from Drive-By Truckers; and more.
Mar 10
The Intersection of Github… and Babylon 5?
Back in the 1990’s I was a huge fan of the show “Babylon 5” for a great number of reasons. It remains, to this day, one of the best series I’ve ever watched on TV and I greatly admire the creator/writer, J. Michael Straczynski, for the narrative arc he used over the five year run of the series as well as the overall “universe” he created.
One of the web sites that those of us who enjoyed Babylon 5 frequently used was “The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5“. The pages there helped in the understanding of how all the pieces fit together and frequently offered glimpses of what was coming ahead. It was a great tool and reference source.
Today a Google search brought me back to that site although I hadn’t been there in years. And in visiting I learned that as of this past December the entire source for the website is now available on Github at:
It’s very cool that site creator Steven Grimm has made his site publicly available via Github. As he notes, others can now fork the code, send him updates via pull requests, etc.
It is also a great example of how I’ve told people that Github, and git in general, can be used for so much more than simply “source code” and that you don’t need to be a programmer to use it.
Plus… if you wander through some of the pages, like this one, it’s kind of fun to see references to how we used to get our information: “Stay caught up with the Usenet B5 discussions, which are often a great source of material.” 🙂
Cool stuff!
Mar 09
TDYR #123 – “123” Occurrences, Jet Lag, Time Zones And An Interview About The Evolution Of The Internet
TDYR #123 - "123" Occurrences, Jet Lag, Time Zones And An Interview About The Evolution Of The Internet by Dan York
Mar 09
Free DNSSEC Training In Singapore March 19-21
Are you going to be in Singapore March 19-21 and would be interested in some DNSSEC training?
We’ve been alerted by our friends at ICANN and the NSRC that they have a few open seats in the DNSSEC training classes they are offering on March 19-21 in cooperation with the Singapore NIC (operators of the .sg ccTLD). Rick Lamb, one of the instructors, notified us that the training is free if people can get there – and that people who hold ISC2 certifications such as the CISSP credential can earn Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits for attending the course.
The training agenda looks excellent and having worked a good bit with Rick I can very definitely say he is incredibly knowledgable with everything related to DNSSEC. I’ve also heard great things about the other instructor, Phil Regnauld, and of NSRC training in general.
Rick said it would be best if people contacted him directly via email to see if there is still space in this course. I’ll note that this training is happening right before the ICANN 49 meeting in Singapore, and so if you are already going to ICANN 49 perhaps you can adjust your schedule and go a few days early to check out this training!
