TDYR #061 – Beginning 2014 With A New Internet Society CEO

It’s my first work day in 2014 and in this episode I talk about 3 reasons why today is significant, one of which is that the organization for which I work, the Internet Society, has a new CEO. More info at these links:
http://www.internetsociety.org/ne…

No Jitter: IPv6 Impact on VoIP

How well do voice-over-IP (VoIP) and unified communications (UC) systems work with IPv6?  That’s a topic that has long been a personal passion of mine – and we maintain a page here on Deploy360 specifically about IPv6 and VoIP/UC systems. So naturally I was very pleased when right before the holidays on December 20, 2013, Read more…

FIR #737 – 1/6/14 – For Immediate Release

Our 10th year begins; FIR on Technology debuts; Linked Conversations episode 5 is up; Bryan Person creates an FIR host graphic; Shel and Joe Thornley host 8-week IABC workshop; Quick News: philosophers in the boardroom, a real-time hit and a miss, Barc…

DNSSEC Deployment Statistics For TLDs (Rick Lamb)

Recently DNSSEC advocate Rick Lamb made available publicly a site he’s maintained for some time offering statistics about what top level domains (TLDs) are signed with DNSSEC.  The interesting aspect is that his scripts list the TLDs in reverse chronological order and so right now you can easily see when the “new generic TLDs” (newgTLDs) Read more…

TDYR #060 – Facebook, Twitter And Google+ Are NOT The Open Internet!

Recently Mitch Joel at TwistImage talked about why the content created by many companies is not being seen on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks:
http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/almost-no-one-is-seeing-your-content/
In this episode I e…

Weekend Project: Find Out If Your Domain Name Registrar Supports DNSSEC – And Request It If They Don’t

Looking for a quick weekend project that could help make the Internet more secure? Find out if the registrar you use for your domain name(s) supports DNSSEC – and if not, file a bug report or feature request asking them when they will support DNSSEC.  We have some information about some of the registrars that support Read more…

TDYR #059 – Serendipity, Discovery And The Role Of Big-Box Book Stores

A trip today to a “big box” bookstore reminded me of the power of bookstores to help us discover authors and books… and overwhelmed me a bit in the process…

TDYR #058 – How Do iPhone GPS Running Apps Work On A Treadmill?

TDYR #058 – How Do iPhone GPS Running Apps Work On A Treadmill? by Dan York

Whitepaper: Balancing IP Address Distribution and Decentralization

Have you ever wondered about how IP addresses get distributed to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and other network operators to give out to you in your home or office?  Regardless of whether for IPv6 or legacy IPv4 addresses, would you like to know more about how that process actually works? In April 2013, some of our Read more…

Cancer – The Scourge That Keeps On Taking

Today the terrible beast that is cancer once again rears its ugly head in our life. My sister-in-law begins her chemotherapy today at our local cancer center – and our thoughts are certainly with her and her family as they begin this unwelcome process. My wife’s brother, Scott, has rather eloquently written his thoughts online in his own unique style: The Bad News; It’s Cancer. For me, I just remember the tedious and endless monotony of chemo – and then, of course, all of the effects on my wife… some of which she still suffers from two years after ending…