Just a guy in Vermont trying to connect all the dots...
Dan York
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Jul 04
First Africa DNS Forum To Be Held July 12-13 In Durban, South Africa
What can African registries and registrars do to grow the domain name business in Africa? What role can the African governments play to empower registries and registrars? What can be learnt from successful registries and registrars operating outside Africa and adapted to strengthen their African counterparts? How can cross-border collaborations be setup to strengthen the African DNS Industry? What policies can be implemented to ensure a robust domain name industry? What are the processes that should be implemented to support a structured ccTLD framework? What are the provisions that should exist in order to ensue trust amongst registrants?
These are some of the many questions that are planned for discussion at the first Africa DNS Forum to be held July 12-13, 2013, in Durban, South Africa, just prior to the ICANN 47 event the following week. The DNS Forum is organized by AfTLD and sponsored by the Internet Society and ICANN and is looking to be quite a good event with a program agenda very focused on how to grow business usage of the Internet within Africa.
I (Dan York) will be there attending the event and am looking forward to speaking with people from the region. I’ll be moderating one of the panels and will also be looking to talk to people informally about DNSSEC and how we can get more African ccTLDs using DNSSEC. I’ll also be encouraging people to attend the DNSSEC workshops that will be part of the ICANN 47 event the following week.
If you are already planning to be in Durban for ICANN 47 I’d encourage you to come a few days early and attend this DNS Forum. Registration is open to all interested.
Jul 02
TDYR #019 – On The Need For Time Offline – And Time For Reflection
In the fast-paced, always-on world of today, how do we carve out time when we disconnect and reflect on how pieces fit together? Do we need to go completely offline, as Baratunde Thurston recently did for 25 days? Do we need to schedule in some time in our regular week? (Or do we not need to?) What do you find works for you?
Jul 02
4 Outstanding IPv6 Transition Videos From RIPE NCC
Want to understand what various IPv6 transition mechanisms are available to help you with the move to IPv6? Interested in understanding the differences between “6in4″, “6RD”, “NAT64″ and “DS-Lite”? (Or what they even are?)
If so, our friends over at the RIPE NCC have put together a set of four IPv6 transition videos that are excellent ways to learn about these technologies. Using animations, these videos provide easy explanations of what each transition mechanism is all about, what a service provider needs to think about and how to go about implementing each mechanism. Perhaps most importantly, the videos explain when you might want to use a certain technique.
The page for each video also includes links to relevant documents for people wishing to learn more. The videos are also all out on YouTube which makes it easy for the videos to be shared or embedded in other websites. They are also viewable on both desktop and mobile devices.
Kudos to the RIPE NCC Training team for creating these excellent videos and we hope they do help people understand what options are out there. Let’s get out there deploying IPv6!
Jul 01
TDYR #018 – Happy Canada Day!
Today, July 1, is Canada Day, a national day of celebration in that country. In this brief episode I record a few brief thoughts about the five years we spent in Canada and the effect it has had on my life - and wish all Canadians a very happy Canada Day!
Jul 01
FIR #710 – 7/1/13 – For Immediate Release
Two interviews posted; Neville's panel discussion coming; Brian Solis in London July 12; IABC update; Ragan promo; Quick News: Introducing NSA-proof font, astroturfing comes to EU, Vine sharing tanks after Instagram video introduced, Second Life turns 10; News That Fits: most employees are emotionally disconnected from their jobs, Michael Netzley's Asia report, why the world of PR is changing, Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop, listener comments, print is not dead, Dan York's report, Yammer and Klout bring social rank to the enterprise; how to comment; music from John Kadelecik; and more.
Jun 27
Telstra Rolls Out IPv6 To Business ADSL Customers
We were very pleased to learn (via ZDNet) that Australia’s largest telecommunications company, Telstra, has just rolled out IPv6 connectivity to all of its business ADSL customers. Using a dual-stack approach of allowing both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity, Telstra’s David Robertson said in their news release:
“As stocks of IPv4 addresses diminish globally, we need to continue moving to the new addressing system. By dual stacking IPv4 and IPv6 in our network, customers can opt into IPv6 in their own time, and according to the lifecycle upgrade of their own equipment. We’re developing the network capability so customers can commence the move to IPv6 as it suits them.”
and noted that they expect to move to a position of always supplying IPv6:
“In coming years we expect that IPv6 will become the norm and customers will need to opt-out if they wish to use IPv4.”
It’s great to see Telstra enabling Australian businesses to use IPv6 and congrats to their technical team for making it all happen.
Jun 25
Video: IP-Spoofing / Routing Best Practices Panel at RIPE 66
Can we stop the spoofing of IP addresses? Is the problem serious enough to warrant high-level attention? Are there best practices for routing that the larger community should be engaging in? What are the real challenges with stopping IP spoofing? These are the questions addressed in a recent post by our colleague Andrei Robachevsky, “Can we stop IP-spoofing in the Internet?” and a corresponding panel at the RIPE 66 event in Dublin, Ireland, in mid-May.
If you are are interested in this topic of how we increase the security and resiliency of routing, we highly recommend both reading Andrei’s article and listening to the panel presentation from Dublin. (Click on the image below to go to the RIPE66 page where you can view the video.)
Slides are also available but they were primarily used to frame the introduction to the panel. The real content is in the panel discussion itself.
Please visit our new Routing Resiliency/Security area to learn more about this general topic of how to make the Internet’s routing infrastructure more resilient and secure.
Jun 24
Missed The VUC Hangout About DNSSEC and VoIP? Watch The Recording…
Interested in learning more about how DNSSEC can potentially work with VoIP? If you missed the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) Hangout in Google+ back on May 3 where I discussed this topic, you can now watch the archive at:
It was a very enjoyable presentation and I do thank VUC host Randy Resnick for having me on the show.
I’ll note that I also have posted a set of slides about DNSSEC and VoIP, and we’ve now set up a “DNSSEC and IP Communications” page here on Deploy360 where we will continue to add resources as we become aware of them.
Jun 24
FIR #709 – 6/24/13 – For Immediate Release
Intro: Shel at IABC conference; Shel, Richard Binhammer, Mark Dollins launch SME2; in memoriam: PRSA's Arthur Yann; new FIR Interview up, more coming; Quick News: What's the cost of a decent press release?, Burberry posts runway show on Vine, Jimmy Wales asks PR people to treat Wikipedia with respect, new DRM for ebooks; Ragan promo; News That Fits: Dachis Social Business Summit in London; Dan York's report; Instagram launches video-recording and -sharing; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; listener comments; Michael Netzley's Asia report; how the hum of a coffee shop can boost your creativity; music by Seventh Epic; and more.
