TDYR #054 – On The Passing Of Nelson Mandela

Some thoughts on the passing of Nelson Mandela and reflections on both my youth growing up in the 70s and 80s with apartheid a global issue and also my trip this past summer to South Africa for the first time. Links referenced in the episode include:

FIR #733 – 12/9/13 – For Immediate Release

FIR’s RSS feeds; Asia Report available as FIR Cut; Age of Context review is up; three interviews coming; LinkedConversations debuts; Thought Leadership podcast to premiere; FIR On Strategy promo; Quick News: Upworthy success breeds imitators, best prac…

Want To Quickly Create A TLSA Record For DANE / DNSSEC?

Would you like to use the DANE protocol to secure your SSL/TLS certificate via DNSSEC?  If so, the first step is to generate and publish a “TLSA record” in DNS – and that record generation can be a stumbling block for some people.  While there are command-line tools such as just the basic “openssl” or […]

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Want To Quickly Create A TLSA Record For DANE / DNSSEC?

Would you like to use the DANE protocol to secure your SSL/TLS certificate via DNSSEC?  If so, the first step is to generate and publish a “TLSA record” in DNS – and that record generation can be a stumbling block for some people.  While there are command-line tools such as just the basic “openssl” or Read more…

Can You Help With A Quick Survey About The ICANN DNSSEC Workshops?

If you have ever attended – either in person or remotely – one of the DNSSEC Workshops that have taken place at ICANN meetings, could you please take just a couple of minutes to complete this survey about the workshops? https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KGZKLLC After a great DNSSEC Workshop at ICANN 48, the program committee (of which I Read more…

Don’t Miss Friday’s Live VUC Call! – Martin Geddes on "Rethinking Broadband and Voice"

What are you doing tomorrow, Friday, December 6, 2013, at 12noon US Eastern (1700 UTC)? Would you like to join in to what should be an excellent conversation about the future of broadband networks, IP communications, telecom, etc.? If so,…

TDYR #053 – Of Hard Drives, Space Gremlin And Native IPv6

Yesterday was an “IT day” where I had to take care of home office IT issues. Along the way I learned of a VERY cool tool for analyzing disk space usage on Mac OS X – and also got native IPv6 connectivity for my home network. Some links:
http://www.int…

Going Native IPv6 In My Home Office!

Today was a great day for me on a personal front – I finally have native IPv6 in my home office!  I am no longer using an IPv6 tunnel! To give some context, I live in the small city of Keene in the southwestern corner of New Hampshire, quite close to the neighboring U.S. states Read more…

WMUR To Showcase Curling In NH At 7pm Tonight on NH Chronicle

WMUR logoTonight (Dec 2) at 7:00pm WMUR’s “New Hampshire Chronicle” will feature a segment on the growth of the sport of curling in New Hampshire.  As they say:

A new ice sport is gaining traction and you don’t need skates, just some heavy …

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Afnic Publishes Issue Paper: “Securing Internet Communications End-to-end Using DANE Protocol”

Last week, the great folks over at Afnic released an outstanding issue paper about how the DANE protocol and DNSSEC can bring a higher level of trust and security to Internet-based communications.  The issue paper, “Securing End-to-end Internet communications using DANE protocol“, is available in PDF (direct link) and walks through how DANE can be Read more…