The 46th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) takes place this week in Beijing, China, and will bring together leaders from all over the world to discuss and debate a wide range of issues related to domain names an…
Apr 06
On Reclaiming The Original Positive Meaning Of “Hacker”
On Reclaiming The Original Positive Meaning Of “Hacker” by Dan York
Apr 05
Heading to Beijing For ICANN 46
Tomorrow morning I’m starting a trip to Beijing for the 46th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a.k.a. "ICANN". ICANN is the organization at the heart of the Domain Name System (DNS) and I’ll be there…
Apr 05
IPv6 Workshop at ICANN 46 in Beijing on April 10
In addition to the DNSSEC sessions next week at ICANN 46 in Beijing, there will also be an IPv6 Workshop on Wednesday, April 10, from 14:45 – 16:45 Beijing time. Coordinated by APNIC and ICANN, it looks like an interesting agenda: IPv6 on LTE (Li Haijun, China Mobile) Enabling IPv6 in last miles (Shinichi Read more…
Apr 04
Video: T-Mobile’s Cameron Byrne Explains Challenges (And Success) Around Enabling IPv6 For Mobile Networks
Following up on our recent post about the live demo of how 464XLAT can enable IPv4-only apps to work on IPv6-only networks, T-Mobile’s Cameron Byrne explains some of the challenges of enabling IPv6 for mobile networks and how 464XLAT came about. Cameron is one of the co-authors of RFC 6877 that documents this approach. P.S. Read more…
Apr 04
Report: Signed Root Deployment – Framing the Issues (DNSSEC Industry Coalition, 2009)
In April 2013, Steve Crocker circulated this report with the following comment: In June 2009, a year before the root was signed, the DNSSEC Industry Coalition, led by PIR, and the DNSSEC Deployment Initiative, held a symposium, Signed Root Deployment: Framing the Issues, to look at possible consequences of signing the root and the next Read more…
Apr 03
U.S. DHS Warns of TDoS (Telephony Denial of Service) Attacks
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently issued a bulletin titled “TDoS Attacks on Public Safety Communications” and while it was “Law Enforcement Use Sensitive/For Official Use Only” a copy was obtained by Brian Krebs who wrote about it on his site and also published the DHS bulletin publicly. This resulted in a small flurry […]
Apr 02
ICANN Seeking Comment on DNSSEC Root Key Rollover Process
When should ICANN roll over the root Key Signing Key (KSK) that is at the core of the DNSSEC global chain of trust? How often should it do a rollover? What kind of notifications should be made in advance? What else should be considered? These are some of the questions for which ICANN is seeking Read more…
