Live Webcast Thursday March 28 of ION Singapore IPv6 and DNSSEC Sessions (Featured Blog)

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APNIC Offering DNSSEC Training in Mongolia April 1-3

We noticed that our friends over at APNIC are offering DNSSEC training in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, from April 1-3 and since, well, we’ve never written anything about Mongolia on this site before, we figured we ought to do so! The course is APNIC’s DNS/DNSSEC workshop and sounds like an excellent offering.  Given that APNIC was recently Read more…

Video: Emil Ivov about Jitsi, a VoIP softphone supporting IPv6 and DNSSEC

The Jitsi audio/video softphone and messaging client supports both IPv6 and DNSSEC.  How did it get started with IPv6 support?  Why did it add DNSSEC? What value does DNSSEC add to VoIP and IP communications?   We first wrote about Jitsi’s DNSSEC support almost a year ago, but earlier this month at IETF86 I had a Read more…

What Is Singapore Like When You Arrive After Midnight? Some Initial Observations

What Is Singapore Like When You Arrive After Midnight? Some Initial Observations by Dan York

Video: What are “Negative Trust Anchors” for DNSSEC?

What are “negative trust anchors” for DNSSEC? What function do they perform? Why do we need them? In this video, Dan York interviews Jason Livingood about his Internet-Draft on this topic and answers these and other questions: The Internet-Draft can be found at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-livingood-negative-trust-anchors Jason and his co-author are seeking comment and would appreciate feedback Read more…

Skip Tuesday and Go Directly To Wednesday

Skip Tuesday and Go Directly To Wednesday by Dan York

Slides: DANE, the next big thing after DNSSEC

What is the DANE protocol all about? How does it protect Internet communication? How does it relate to SSL/TLS certificates? What is wrong with the Web’s public key infrastructure (PKI), anyway? At a recent cybersecurity conference in the Netherlands, Marco Davids of SIDN gave a presentation titled, “DANE, the next big thing after DNSSEC,” that Read more…

Video: The Mobile Business Case for IPv6

At the World IPv6 Congress in Paris last week, Cisco’s Mark Townsley gave this great interview about the business case for IPv6 in mobile networks: It was great to hear his mention that Verizon is sending 30% of its traffic to Google over IPv6 as well as the mention of IPv6 growth on other mobile Read more…

FIR #696 – 3/25/13 – For Immediate Release

Steve Rubel interview coming; FIR discount to London conference; Neville on March 27 panel; Quick news: Klout opens business dashboard, implications of AP’s win vs. Meltwater, NYT attempts structured comments, Amazon launches Send to Kindle button; Rag…

Google Clarifies DNSSEC Support – Opt In Now, Full Validation Coming Soon

After Google’s announcement earlier this week of DNSSEC validation support in their Public DNS service, there was some concern and discussion in various DNSSEC mailing lists about the fact that DNSSEC validation was not being performed by default and required a client to request validation.  Folks at Google clarified that this was just part of Read more…