Category: ION

Feb 02

Two Great Articles In ArsTechnica And Light Reading About ION Conferences, IPv6, DNSSEC

Ars Technica articleWe were pleased to see two great articles out today about our ION Conferences and our efforts to accelerate the deployment of IPv6 and DNSSEC.  The articles followed on our news release about the 2015 ION conferences and were:

and

Both articles do a great job of explaining what we’re trying to do.  I enjoyed that both writers liked the “broccoli” angle. Here was  Carol Wilson:

“It’s a little like getting people to eat their broccoli,” Grunderman admits. Network operators can’t charge more for services after deploying these standards, but their deployment makes the entire Internet experience better for everyone by adding security and resiliency.

Exactly!

Many thanks to both writers for taking the time to understand what we are doing and to write about it on their respective sites.

And if you would like to get started with IPv6 or DNSSEC, please visit our Start Here page to begin!

Jan 12

In 5 Days, ION Sri Lanka Will Cover IPv6, DNSSEC, DANE, BGP, TLS, BCOP and more

ION Sri Lanka logoComing up in just over 5 days, our ION Sri Lanka event will take place in Kandy, Sri Lanka, on Sunday, January 18, 2015, beginning at 10:00 am India Standard Time (IST, UTC+5:30).  As our agenda shows, we have an ambitious list of sessions covering pretty much all of the topics we cover here at Deploy360. Sessions include:

  •  Welcome from the Internet Society Sri Lanka Chapter, Prof. Gihan Dias (Internet Society Sri Lanka Chapter)
  • Two Years After World IPv6 Launch: Are We There Yet?, Vivek Nigam (APNIC)
  • Why Implement DNSSEC?, Jitender Kumar (Afilias)
  • Deploying DNSSEC: A .LK Case Study, Sashika Suren (LK Domain Registry)
  • DANE: The Future of Transport Layer Security (TLS), Dan York (Internet Society)
  • Lock it Up: TLS for Network Operators, Chris Grundemann (Internet Society)
  • What’s Happening at the IETF? Internet Standards and How to Get Involved, Dan York (Internet Society) and Thilini Rajakaruna (former IETF Fellow)
  • Operators & the IETF, Chris Grundemann (Internet Society)
  • Best Current Operational Practices – An Update, Jan Žorž (Internet Society)
  • IPv6 Success Stories– Network Operators Tell All!, Asela Galappattige (Sri Lanka Telecom); Senevi Herath (LEARN); Matsuzaki Yoshinobu (IIJ)

We have an excellent set of speakers and are very much looking forward to this event!

REGISTRATION IS FREE! If you can get to the Amaya Hills Hotel in Kandy, Sri Lanka, there is no additional cost to attend ION Sri Lanka.  You do need to register by filling out the SANOG registration form.

If you will not be able to get to the ION Sri Lanka location, we’ll be offering a live video stream / webcast of the event via YouTube Live events. Do note that all events happen on Sunday, January 18, starting at 10:00 am India Standard Time (IST).  Given that this is UTC+5:30, the start of ION Sri Lanka may actually be in the late hours of Saturday, January 17, for people in the United States.  Here are some examples:

  • 10:00 am, Sunday, Jan 18 – IST, Kandy, Sri Lanka
  • 5:30 am, Sunday, Jan 18 – CET, central Europe
  • 4:30 am, Sunday, Jan 18 – UTC
  • 11:30 pm, Saturday, Jan 17 – EST, east coast, USA
  • 8:30 pm, Saturday, Jan 17 – PST, west coast, USA

You may find it helpful to use one of the time/date conversion tools to ensure your timing is correct. All the sessions will be recorded for later viewing and the slides will be available online as well.

To stay up-to-date about ION Sri Lanka you can also join:

If you are on Twitter, you can follow @Deploy360 and use hashtag #IONConf for all things ION!

We’re looking forward to seeing many people at the ION Sri Lanka event and joining in the other SANOG 25 activities happening there.  If you are in Sri Lanka (or can get there), please do join us for ION Sri Lanka!

P.S. And if you want to get started today with IPv6, DNSSEC or other topics, please visit our Start Here page to begin – why wait for ION Sri Lanka?  Why not start now?

Nov 16

Watch LIVE Right Now From Japan: ION Tokyo – IPv6, DNSSEC and BCOP

Want to learn the latest news about IPv6, DNSSEC, and Best Current Operational Practice (BCOP) efforts? Please join us on Monday, 17 November 2014, at 9:30am JST (00:30 UTC / 19:30 EST), when our ION Tokyo event will be streaming live out of Japan via this link:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ion-tokyo

ION Tokyo has just started in Japan and will go for the next 2.5 hours – please join us:

ION Tokyo - Chris Grundemann

The ION Tokyo agenda is packed with great sessions:

  • Keynote: Can We Go Back to the Original? A Return to the End-to-End Principle
    Dr. Shin Miyakawa (NTT Communications)
  • The Business Case for Implementing DNSSEC
    Dan York (Internet Society)
  • Best Current Operational Practices Update
    Chris Grundemann (Internet Society)
  • Panel Discussion – IPv6 in Asia Pacific: Untangling the Web
    Moderator: Tomohiro Fujisaki (Internet Society Japan).
    Panelists: Miwa Fujii (APNIC); Toshio Hiraga (Sony Global Solutions, Inc.); Kaname Nishizuka; Akihiro Tsuru (KDDI Corporation).

Our Sponsors

We would like to once again thank Afilias for supporting ION Tokyo as an ION Conference series sponsor!

In addition, we’re honored to have several co-location partners at this event including IA Japan, the IPv6 Promotion Council, JPNIC, and the ISOC Japan Chapter.

Join Us

Will you be in Tokyo next week for any of the many excellent events happening? Please be sure to let us know! You can respond to the Facebook or Google+ events, drop us a message on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ (using the hashtag #IONConf), or simply email us.

We can’t wait to see you in Japan – or online – as we continue to share real-world deployment experiences and work to better understand your needs to get things like IPv6, DNSSEC, TLS, and secure routing deployed.

Join us Monday for what should be an excellent set of sessions!

And if you want to get started now with deploying these technologies, please visit our “Start Here” page to find resources targeted at your type of organization or role.

Nov 05

12 Days Until ION Tokyo!

ION TokyoION Tokyo is coming up soon on Monday, November 17, 2014!  We’ll be live in the same venue as the Japan IPv6 Summit with an agenda packed full of technical sessions.  To learn more visit our ION Tokyo page at:

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/ion/tokyo2014/

The sessions will include:

  • An IPv6 Case Study from NTT
  • The Business Case for Implementing DNSSEC
  • Best Current Operational Practices Update
  • Panel Discussion – IPv6 in Asia

The event has excellent speakers and we’re looking forward to meeting with network operators, enterprises and many others.

If you are going to be in Tokyo for the Japan IPv6 Summit or for Internet Week Japan, please do join us Monday morning for ION Tokyo!

Oct 28

Watch LIVE Today: ION Santiago – IPv6, DNSSEC, BGP, TLS, BCOP and more…

ION SANTIAGOStarting in just about five hours at 2:00pm CLST (15:00 UTC) our ION Santiago event will be streaming live out of Chile.  We’ll be sharing the very latest news about IPv6, DANE, BGP security, Anti-spoofing, TLS, Best Current Operational Practice (BCOP) efforts, and standards within the IETF.

You can watch the event using the LACNIC 22 webcasting page. Here is the full ION Santiago agenda:

2:00 PM

Opening Remarks

Chris Grundemann (Internet Society)
2:10 PM

What’s Happening at the IETF? Internet Standards and How to Get Involved

Alvaro Retano (Cisco)

What’s happening at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)? What RFCs and Internet-Drafts are in progress related to IPv6, DNSSEC, Routing Security/Resiliency, and other key topics? We’ll give an overview of the ongoing discussions in several working groups and discuss the outcomes of recent Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions, and provide a preview of what to expect in future discussions, including bringing the IETF to Latin America in 2016.
2:40 PM

Operators & the IETF

Chris Grundemann (Internet Society)

The Internet Society is seeking to foster a larger and more engaged network operator community around the IETF and protocol development work. We conducted a widespread survey of network operators from January to July 2014 and are now analyzing and synthesizing the results. In this session, we’ll discuss the initial survey results and our next steps to create a report and IETF Internet-Draft that outlines the challenges to greater operator engagement in the IETF and a summary of potential solutions.
2:55 PM

Beyond the Tipping Point: Global Connectivity Two Years After World IPv6 Launch

Arturo L. Servin Niembro (Google) and Carlos Martinez Cagnazzo (LACNIC)

6 June 2014 marked the 2nd anniversary of World IPv6 Launch, when thousands of Internet Service Providers, home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world came together to permanently enable IPv6 on their products and services. Where are we now on the path to full global IPv6 adoption? We’ll provide a global update and then focus on the current state of IPv6 adoption in South America, including a brief tour of the resources available from the Internet Society to help networks of all sizes get IPv6 up and running for good. We will also explore how those who have already deployed IPv6 can help the larger community by adding even more content to the repository.
3:25 PM

Best Current Operational Practices Update

Jan Zorz (Internet Society)

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standardizes the protocols and services that vendors implement and network operators are supposed to deploy and use. We believe there is an opportunity to better identify, capture, and promote best current operational practices emerging from various regional network operators’ groups. We believe sharing these documents across the globe would benefit the wider Internet community and help more operators deploy new technologies like IPv6 and DNSSEC faster and easier. Deploy360’s Jan Zorz will give an update on this progress, discuss the status of BCOP efforts across the world, and give an overview of some of the documents in the process so far.
3:35 PM

BREAK
4:00 PM

Panel: Routing Around Catastrophe – Securing BGP, Anti-spoofing, and More

Moderator: Christian O’Flaherty. Panelists: Rodrigo Arenas (NIC CL); Wes Hardaker (PARSONS); Max Larson Henry (Transversal); Gerardo Rada (LACNIC).

How do we improve the resilience and security of the Internet’s underlying routing infrastructure? While Internet routing has worked well over the years, there have been instances where errors and misconfigurations have caused stability issues. Malicious attackers have also created denial of service attacks and other issues by spoofing IP addresses and manipulating routing tables. What are the best practices we can use to help mitigate these kind of attacks?

In this session, our panel of experts will address technologies such as BCP 38, anti-spoofing, and BGP security efforts that can help secure the routing infrastructure. They will also consider the Internet Society’s new Routing Manifesto, which aims to introduce a minimum set of security measures which, if deployed on a wide scale, could result in visible improvements to the security and resilience of the global routing system.
5:00 PM

Lock it Up: TLS for Network Operators

Chris Grundemann (Internet Society)

Transport Layer Security (TLS), the successor to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), can be used in many applications other than Web browsers. In order to make the Internet more secure, TLS needs to be widely deployed by all kinds of applications across the Internet. In this session, we will help network operators understand how best to support the use of TLS-encrypted applications across their networks and address how operators can best support their networks and users once everything is encrypted.
5:30 PM

DANE: The Future of Transport Layer Security (TLS)

Wes Hardaker (PARSONS)

If you connect to a “secure” server using TLS/SSL (such as a web server, email server or xmpp server), how do you know you are using the correct certificate? With DNSSEC now being deployed, a new protocol has emerged called “DANE” (“DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities“), which allows you to securely specify exactly which TLS/SSL certificate an application should use to connect to your site. DANE has great potential to make the Internet much more secure by marrying the strong integrity protection of DNSSEC with the confidentiality of SSL/TLS certificates. In this session, Wes will explain how DANE works and how you can use it to secure your websites, email, XMPP, VoIP, and other web services.
6:00 PM

Closing Remarks

Chris Grundemann (Internet Society)

Join us TODAY for what should be an excellent set of sessions!

And if you want to get started now with deploying these technologies, please visit our “Start Here” page to find resources targeted at your type of organization or role.

 

Oct 28

Watch LIVE Today: ION Santiago – IPv6, DNSSEC, BGP, TLS, BCOP and more…

ION SANTIAGOStarting in just about five hours at 2:00pm CLST (15:00 UTC) our ION Santiago event will be streaming live out of Chile.  We’ll be sharing the very latest news about IPv6, DANE, BGP security, Anti-spoofing, TLS, Best Current Operational Practice (BCOP) efforts, and standards within the IETF.

You can watch the event using the LACNIC 22 webcasting page. Here is the full ION Santiago agenda:

2:00 PM

Opening Remarks

Chris Grundemann (Internet Society)
2:10 PM

What’s Happening at the IETF? Internet Standards and How to Get Involved

Alvaro Retano (Cisco)

What’s happening at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)? What RFCs and Internet-Drafts are in progress related to IPv6, DNSSEC, Routing Security/Resiliency, and other key topics? We’ll give an overview of the ongoing discussions in several working groups and discuss the outcomes of recent Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions, and provide a preview of what to expect in future discussions, including bringing the IETF to Latin America in 2016.
2:40 PM

Operators & the IETF

Chris Grundemann (Internet Society)

The Internet Society is seeking to foster a larger and more engaged network operator community around the IETF and protocol development work. We conducted a widespread survey of network operators from January to July 2014 and are now analyzing and synthesizing the results. In this session, we’ll discuss the initial survey results and our next steps to create a report and IETF Internet-Draft that outlines the challenges to greater operator engagement in the IETF and a summary of potential solutions.
2:55 PM

Beyond the Tipping Point: Global Connectivity Two Years After World IPv6 Launch

Arturo L. Servin Niembro (Google) and Carlos Martinez Cagnazzo (LACNIC)

6 June 2014 marked the 2nd anniversary of World IPv6 Launch, when thousands of Internet Service Providers, home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world came together to permanently enable IPv6 on their products and services. Where are we now on the path to full global IPv6 adoption? We’ll provide a global update and then focus on the current state of IPv6 adoption in South America, including a brief tour of the resources available from the Internet Society to help networks of all sizes get IPv6 up and running for good. We will also explore how those who have already deployed IPv6 can help the larger community by adding even more content to the repository.
3:25 PM

Best Current Operational Practices Update

Jan Zorz (Internet Society)

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standardizes the protocols and services that vendors implement and network operators are supposed to deploy and use. We believe there is an opportunity to better identify, capture, and promote best current operational practices emerging from various regional network operators’ groups. We believe sharing these documents across the globe would benefit the wider Internet community and help more operators deploy new technologies like IPv6 and DNSSEC faster and easier. Deploy360’s Jan Zorz will give an update on this progress, discuss the status of BCOP efforts across the world, and give an overview of some of the documents in the process so far.
3:35 PM

BREAK
4:00 PM

Panel: Routing Around Catastrophe – Securing BGP, Anti-spoofing, and More

Moderator: Christian O’Flaherty. Panelists: Rodrigo Arenas (NIC CL); Wes Hardaker (PARSONS); Max Larson Henry (Transversal); Gerardo Rada (LACNIC).

How do we improve the resilience and security of the Internet’s underlying routing infrastructure? While Internet routing has worked well over the years, there have been instances where errors and misconfigurations have caused stability issues. Malicious attackers have also created denial of service attacks and other issues by spoofing IP addresses and manipulating routing tables. What are the best practices we can use to help mitigate these kind of attacks?

In this session, our panel of experts will address technologies such as BCP 38, anti-spoofing, and BGP security efforts that can help secure the routing infrastructure. They will also consider the Internet Society’s new Routing Manifesto, which aims to introduce a minimum set of security measures which, if deployed on a wide scale, could result in visible improvements to the security and resilience of the global routing system.
5:00 PM

Lock it Up: TLS for Network Operators

Chris Grundemann (Internet Society)

Transport Layer Security (TLS), the successor to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), can be used in many applications other than Web browsers. In order to make the Internet more secure, TLS needs to be widely deployed by all kinds of applications across the Internet. In this session, we will help network operators understand how best to support the use of TLS-encrypted applications across their networks and address how operators can best support their networks and users once everything is encrypted.
5:30 PM

DANE: The Future of Transport Layer Security (TLS)

Wes Hardaker (PARSONS)

If you connect to a “secure” server using TLS/SSL (such as a web server, email server or xmpp server), how do you know you are using the correct certificate? With DNSSEC now being deployed, a new protocol has emerged called “DANE” (“DNS-Based Authentication of Named Entities“), which allows you to securely specify exactly which TLS/SSL certificate an application should use to connect to your site. DANE has great potential to make the Internet much more secure by marrying the strong integrity protection of DNSSEC with the confidentiality of SSL/TLS certificates. In this session, Wes will explain how DANE works and how you can use it to secure your websites, email, XMPP, VoIP, and other web services.
6:00 PM

Closing Remarks

Chris Grundemann (Internet Society)

Join us TODAY for what should be an excellent set of sessions!

And if you want to get started now with deploying these technologies, please visit our “Start Here” page to find resources targeted at your type of organization or role.

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Oct 27

ION Santiago Streaming Live From Chile Tomorrow

ION SANTIAGOWant to learn the latest news about IPv6, DANE, BGP security, Anti-spoofing, TLS, Best Current Operational Practice (BCOP) efforts, and standards within the IETF?

For all of this information, please join us tomorrow, Tuesday, October 28, 2014, at 2:00pm CLST (15:00 UTC), when our ION Santiago event will be streaming live out of Chile.

You can watch the event using the LACNIC 22 webcasting page. The ION Santiago agenda is packed with great sessions:

  • What’s Happening at the IETF? Internet Standards and How To Get Involved
  • Operators & the IETF
  • Beyond the Tipping Point: Global Connectivity Two Years After World IPv6 Launch
  • Best Current Operational Practices Update
  • Panel: Routing Around Catastrophe: Securing BGP, Anti-spoofing and More
  • Lock It Up: TLS for Network Operators
  • DANE: The Future of Transport Layer Security (TLS)

Join us tomorrow for what should be an excellent set of sessions!

And if you want to get started now with deploying these technologies, please visit our “Start Here” page to find resources targeted at your type of organization or role.

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Oct 27

ION Santiago Streaming Live From Chile Tomorrow

ION SANTIAGOWant to learn the latest news about IPv6, DANE, BGP security, Anti-spoofing, TLS, Best Current Operational Practice (BCOP) efforts, and standards within the IETF?

For all of this information, please join us tomorrow, Tuesday, October 28, 2014, at 2:00pm CLST (15:00 UTC), when our ION Santiago event will be streaming live out of Chile.

You can watch the event using the LACNIC 22 webcasting page. The ION Santiago agenda is packed with great sessions:

  • What’s Happening at the IETF? Internet Standards and How To Get Involved
  • Operators & the IETF
  • Beyond the Tipping Point: Global Connectivity Two Years After World IPv6 Launch
  • Best Current Operational Practices Update
  • Panel: Routing Around Catastrophe: Securing BGP, Anti-spoofing and More
  • Lock It Up: TLS for Network Operators
  • DANE: The Future of Transport Layer Security (TLS)

Join us tomorrow for what should be an excellent set of sessions!

And if you want to get started now with deploying these technologies, please visit our “Start Here” page to find resources targeted at your type of organization or role.

 

Sep 09

Watch ION Belfast Live TODAY To Learn About IPv6, DNSSEC, BGP and more

ION Belfast LogoWant to learn the current state of IPv6 deployment? DNSSEC? Securing BGP and more? If so you can watch LIVE today our ION Belfast event at:

http://uknof.bogons.net/uknof29.html

Today’s ION agenda begins at 1:45 pm British Summer Time (UTC+1) and is packed with information about our topics. Sessions include:

  • Two Years After World IPv6 Launch: Are We There Yet?
  • Why Implement DNSSEC?
  • IPv6 Success Stories – Network Operators Tell All!
  • IETF Update
  • Panel: Routing Around Catastrophe
  • Securing BGP

There are an outstanding set of speakers and we’re very excited to hear their sessions and the conversations that will emerge out of them.

All the sessions will be streamed live and will be recorded for later posting on our Deploy360 YouTube channel.

Please join us as it should be a great event!

NOTE: As we mentioned yesterday, there are also what look to be some excellent sessions happening in the morning UK time as part of the UKNOF agenda.  In particular, these two sessions should be of interest to those concerned about IPv6:

  • 11:30 BST – What went wrong with IPv6?
  • 12:00 BST – IPV6-only Data Centres: What happens when you turn off IPv4

They, too, will be webcast on the same live stream link and will be recorded for later viewing.

Again, it should be an outstanding day at the combined UKNOF / ION Belfast event – we do hope you will join us!

P.S. And if you are motivated to deploy these technologies such as IPv6 and DNSSEC, please visit our Start Here page to find resources to help you get started!

Sep 08

Watch UKNOF Today To Learn About IPv6, IXPs, Internet Connectivity

UKNOF 29 - ION BelfastWant to learn about IPv6, Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) and some of the latest connectivity ideas in the United Kingdom? If so, you can watch the live webcast of UKNOF 29 starting today, September 8, 2014, at 13:30 British Summer Time (BST, which is UTC+1). The critical links to know are:

Today’s sessions are mainly focused on network operations and Internet connectivity and include:

  • HEAnet’s Optical Backbone & School’s Connectivity
  • Watery Wireless
  • Options for Metro 100Gig
  • Network Function Virtualisation, bringing virtualised network infrastructure into the cloud
  • Broadcast editing and delivery over IP (from the BBC)
  • LINX’s UK regional peering strategy
  • An overview of BT’s network infrastructure in Ireland and Northern Ireland including connectivity to the the rest of the UK
  • UKNOF Status Update

Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 9, 2014, the morning sessions include some that may be of interest to our readers and then the afternoon will be our ION Belfast event.  Here’s the current UKNOF agenda going from 09:30-12:35 BST:

  • Latest Internet Plague: Random Subdomain Attacks  (about DNS security)
  • Tales of the unexpected – handling unusual DNS client behaviour
  • Using 100 Billion DNS Queries to Analyse the Name Collision Problem
  • What went wrong with IPv6?
  • IPv6-only Data Centres
  • Introduction of UK IPv6 Council

In particular I would point your attention to the “What went wrong with IPv6?” talk at 11:30 BST by Dave Wilson from HEAnet. He recently gave a version of this talk at RIPE 68 and both the video and the slides from that talk are available. He asks some great questions and, I think, has some great ideas for we can advance IPv6 deployment – definitely worth listening to!

ION Belfast LogoAfter a lunch break, our ION Belfast event will then begin with a packed agenda talking about IPv6, DNSSEC and securing BGP.  That, too, will be webcast live for all to see!

All in all it will be two days of outstanding sessions talking about the Internet’s infrastructure and how we can make it work better, faster and more secure!

I hope you will join me in tuning in to watch!