Just a guy in Vermont trying to connect all the dots...
Dan York
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Mar 28
Video Interview: Emil Ivov about how the Jitsi softphone works with IPv6 and DNSSEC
How does the Jitsi softphone work with IPv6? And what role could DNSSEC play with VoIP? At IETF86 earlier this month, I sat down with Emil Ivov, project leader of the Jitsi Project to talk about a wide range of topics including how Jitsi got started and why it does so much with IPv6 (interesting reason!), what they are looking to do with Jitsi now, the role of DNSSEC and why they added that support to Jitsi... and much, much more...
I quite enjoyed talking to Emil and the Jitsi project is certainly one that I will continue to watch - and use!
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Mar 27
Live Webcast Thursday March 28 of ION Singapore IPv6 and DNSSEC Sessions (Featured Blog)
For those of you interested in IPv6 and/or DNSSEC, we'll have a live webcast out of the Internet Society's ION Singapore conference happening tomorrow, March 28, 2013, starting at 2:00pm Singapore time. More...
Mar 27
APNIC Offering DNSSEC Training in Mongolia April 1-3
We noticed that our friends over at APNIC are offering DNSSEC training in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, from April 1-3 and since, well, we’ve never written anything about Mongolia on this site before, we figured we ought to do so!
The course is APNIC’s DNS/DNSSEC workshop and sounds like an excellent offering. Given that APNIC was recently tweeting about this event we are assuming there is still space available.
The training session is one in a whole series of training workshops APNIC is offering on topics including DNS/DNSSEC, IPv6, Routing and more.
Given that Mongolia’s .MN TLD is signed with DNSSEC (as shown in the list of signed TLDs), we’re looking forward to seeing more signed .MN domains and more usage of DNSSEC in Mongolia after this workshop!
Mar 27
Video: Emil Ivov about Jitsi, a VoIP softphone supporting IPv6 and DNSSEC
The Jitsi audio/video softphone and messaging client supports both IPv6 and DNSSEC. How did it get started with IPv6 support? Why did it add DNSSEC? What value does DNSSEC add to VoIP and IP communications? We first wrote about Jitsi’s DNSSEC support almost a year ago, but earlier this month at IETF86 I had a chance to sit down with Jitsi project lead Emil Ivov and ask him these questions and much more:
Jitsi is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from: http://jitsi.org/ It used to be called the “SIP Communicator” but when they added support for XMPP (Jabber) and XMPP/Jingle back in 2011 they changed the name to be Jitsi.
Given my own personal interest in VoIP / IP communications, I’m planning to write a bit more about Jitsi as I get a chance to do so. If any of you use Jitsi and create any screencasts about its IPv6 or DNSSEC support – or write up any articles about those capabilities – please do let us know as I’d like to include more on our site about this great project.
Mar 26
What Is Singapore Like When You Arrive After Midnight? Some Initial Observations
What Is Singapore Like When You Arrive After Midnight? Some Initial Observations by Dan York
Mar 26
Video: What are “Negative Trust Anchors” for DNSSEC?
What are “negative trust anchors” for DNSSEC? What function do they perform? Why do we need them? In this video, Dan York interviews Jason Livingood about his Internet-Draft on this topic and answers these and other questions:
The Internet-Draft can be found at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-livingood-negative-trust-anchors
Jason and his co-author are seeking comment and would appreciate feedback from people about this draft – does it make sense? Would you use it? Do you see any ways to improve their ideas? Their email addresses can be found at the end of the document and they are definitely open to feedback.
Jason Livingood is Vice President of Internet & Communications Engineering at Comcast and is one of the co-authors of this draft.
More information about DNSSEC can be found at the Deploy360 website at:
http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy…
This interview was recorded at the 86th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in March 2013 in Orlando, Florida, USA.
Mar 26
Skip Tuesday and Go Directly To Wednesday
Skip Tuesday and Go Directly To Wednesday by Dan York
Mar 25
Slides: DANE, the next big thing after DNSSEC
What is the DANE protocol all about? How does it protect Internet communication? How does it relate to SSL/TLS certificates? What is wrong with the Web’s public key infrastructure (PKI), anyway?
At a recent cybersecurity conference in the Netherlands, Marco Davids of SIDN gave a presentation titled, “DANE, the next big thing after DNSSEC,” that covers these and other questions – and does so with a good degree of detail. His slides are available:
We, too, agree that DANE has a great potential to make the Internet much more secure by marrying the strong integrity protection of DNSSEC with the confidentiality of SSL/TLS certificates. We would encourage you to look at our DANE resources and start looking at what you can do today!
Mar 25
Video: The Mobile Business Case for IPv6
At the World IPv6 Congress in Paris last week, Cisco’s Mark Townsley gave this great interview about the business case for IPv6 in mobile networks:
It was great to hear his mention that Verizon is sending 30% of its traffic to Google over IPv6 as well as the mention of IPv6 growth on other mobile networks.
Hat tip to Cisco’s blog, where we first spotted mention of this video.
