At IETF 89 next week in London there is a huge amount of activity related to DNSSEC, DANE and DNS security in general, largely due to three brand new working groups and two new birds-of-a-feather (BOF) sessions.
Dan York
Feb 26
Papers Now Available Publicly for W3C/IAB “Strengthening the Internet” Workshop (Featured Blog)
Want to read a wide range of views on how to strengthen the security and privacy of the Internet? Interested to hear how some of the leaders of the open standards world think we can make the Internet more secure? As I wrote about previously here on Cir…
Feb 26
TDYR #112 – Getting Ready For IETF 89 Next Week In London
Next week is IETF 89 in London and in this episode I talk about the craziness of getting everything ready for the trip where I leave on Friday morning…
Feb 26
6 Sessions About IPv6 At IETF 89 Next Week In London
As you might expect, IETF 89 next week in London will be filled with activity related to IPv6. My colleague Phil Roberts writes today in “Rough Guide to IETF 89: All About IPv6“: While the standard for IPv6 has long-since been finished, there are ongoing discussions in the IETF of maintenance issues in the protocols, Read more…
Feb 25
TDYR #111 – New Report Out About Protecting Against DDoS Attacks On DNS
How can we best protect the Domain Name System (DNS) against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks? There’s a new report from ICANN’s SSAC on this issue:
http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2014/02/ssac-issues-new-report-on-ddos-attac…
Feb 25
What Devices And Software Support The Opus Audio Codec? Here Is A List
What devices support the Opus audio codec? What softphones? hardphones? call servers? Obviously given that Opus is the "mandatory to implement" audio codec for WebRTC, it will be in many web browsers… but what other I was asked this question…
Feb 25
SSAC Issues New Report On DDoS Attacks Against DNS
What can be done to prevent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against the DNS infrastructure? What can individuals or organizations who operate DNS servers do to their own systems to help reduce the threat of DDoS attacks? ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) took on this issue recently and released a new Read more…
Feb 24
TypePad To Start Using Akismet To Fight Blog Comment Spam
Yes! The folks at TypePad announced today they going to start using Akismet to fight blog comment spam! As a user of TypePad since 2005-ish, I’ve long been frustrated with how poorly TypePad’s anti-comment-spam mechanisms have worked and have written…
Feb 24
TDYR #110 – The Power Of Hacker News And Reddit To Drive Attention To Your Content
Today I reflect on the power of sites like Hacker News and Reddit to drive a large amount of attention to an article or other piece of content. I discovered today that a post I wrote last week:
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20140219_anyone_who_still_t…
