Speaking at Broadband World Forum (BBWF) in Amsterdam this week, our CITO Olaf Kolkman was quoted as saying a key point we’ve been emphasizing throughout our work: “There is no magic solution to any cyber security or internet security type of threat. But there are a number of building blocks that are promising.” They include Read more…
Oct 24
New RFC 7381: Enterprise IPv6 Deployment Guidelines
Would you like guidelines for how IPv6 can best be deployed in an enterprise environment? Yesterday the IETF published a new informational RFC 7381, “Enterprise IPv6 Deployment Guidelines” available at: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7381 The abstract for the document reads: Enterprise network administrators worldwide are in various stages of preparing for or deploying IPv6 into their networks. The administrators face Read more…
Oct 23
T-Mobile USA Hits 43% IPv6, Verizon Wireless at 59%, AT&T at 25% in Oct 2014 Measurements
More great IPv6 news this month with the October 2014 World IPv6 Launch measurements. As our colleague Mat Ford notes, T-Mobile USA entered the “top 10″ networks this month and has grown from 5% to 43% IPv6 within the last 12 months! Congrats to the whole team there at T-Mobile USA! Verizon Wireless’ relentless increase Read more…
Oct 21
DPRIVE – New IETF Working Group On DNS Privacy
How can we ensure the confidentiality of DNS queries to protect against pervasive monitoring? What kind of mechanisms can be developed to increase the privacy of an individual’s DNS transactions? After holding a BOF session (DNSE) at an earlier IETF meeting, the IETF has now chartered a new Working Group called DPRIVE (DNS PRIVate Exchange) to Read more…
Oct 21
Interesting IPv6 Address Planning Discussion on NANOG Mailing List
Earlier this month there was an interesting discussion on the public NANOG mailing list about IPv6 subnetting that I thought might be of interest to our readers. The very lengthy discussion thread began back on October 9, 2014, when Erik Sundberg asked this question: I am planning out our IPv6 deployment right now and I Read more…
Oct 20
New DNSSEC Deployment Maps – Now Corrected And Updated
If you have been receiving our DNSSEC deployment maps by email or just using the maps from our web page, you need to know an important fact: The maps we’ve been publishing recently have had the incorrect status set for several countries. The maps published last week on October 14, 2014, (and the ones distributed via email today) have Read more…
Oct 20
TDYR 176 – The Aftermath Of The Keene Pumpkin Festival Riots
We had an awesome day at the Keene Pumpkin Festival this past Saturday, October 18, 2014. It was an amazing, wonderful event… but you wouldn’t know that from the media coverage that focused on the rioting of a large mass of college students and othe…
Oct 20
FIR #778 – 10/20/14 – For Immediate Release
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Oct 16
Root DNSSEC KSK Rollover Workshop Streaming Live Today From ICANN 51
Today (Oct 16, 2014) from 9:00 am to 12 noon US Pacific, a special public workshop about implications of a “rollover” of the “Root Key Signing Key (KSK)” that serves as the ultimate “trust anchor” for DNSSEC will be streamed live from ICANN 51 in Los Angeles. Information about how to participate remotely can be Read more…
Oct 15
Watch LIVE Today – DNSSEC Workshop at ICANN 51
Starting in just a few minutes will be the large DNSSEC Workshop from 08:30-14:45 PDT in the Pacific Palisades room at ICANN 51. This is the BIG session of the week related to all things about DNSSEC and DANE. The full agenda, slides and remote participation information can be found at: http://la51.icann.org/en/schedule/wed-dnssec (Slides and detailed agenda are not online Read more…