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…
Apr 02
What Is the Potential Business Impact of New gTLDs On Existing TLDs? (Featured Blog)
How will the business of existing top-level domains (TLDs) be impacted by the new gTLDs? Someone asked me this simple question and I was very surprised to see that my online searches couldn’t easily find many detailed articles or research related to th…
Apr 01
DNSSEC Presentations Coming Up at ICANN46 in Beijing
Next week at the ICANN 46 meetings in Beijing, China, there will be a series of DNSSEC-related workshops. I (Dan York) will be there at ICANN 46 and will be participating in these sessions. If you are able to attend in person, the events will be an excellent way to learn more about DNSSEC. NOTE: Read more…
Apr 01
FIR #697 – 4/1/13 – For Immediate Release
Rubel interview and London content marketing panel Speakers and Speeches coming; FIR Book Club with Andrea Weckerle on Friday; Quick News: how Google empowers employees, Google wants native ads out of Google News, BBC survey shows evolving news consump…
Mar 29
Jumper Cables And The Absolutely Awesome Kindness Of Total Strangers
Jumper Cables And The Absolutely Awesome Kindness Of Total Strangers by Dan York
Mar 29
Comcast Publishing Domains Failing DNSSEC Via Twitter
How do you know when a domain is failing DNSSEC validation? What if there was a way to let the broader industry know about these validation failures? The folks over at Comcast’s DNS team have been trying an experiment for a while in posting these DNSSEC validation failures publicly to Twitter at: https://twitter.com/comcastdns If you Read more…
