May 03
Sooooo… the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), of which I am a member, sends out a promotional video for their Coders’ Rights Project that involves… kittens???
While I support the Coders’ Rights Project and applaud their creativity, this video feels a bit forced… kind of like “everyone loves kitten videos, so we just …
May 03
Our friends over at the DNSSEC Deployment Initiative have noted that ICANN issued a Call for Participation for their upcoming DNSSEC Workshop on June 27, 2012, in Prague, Czech Republic, as part of the ICANN 44 meetings happening there. This is a similar workshop to the excellent DNSSEC workshop at ICANN 43 that I attended Read more…
May 03
Very early this morning, I submitted a range of updates to the book to O’Reilly’s production team. As this is the first formal update I’ve made, I’m not sure of the exact process from here, but at some point soon the updated …
May 02
Today over on Cisco’s “Borderless Networks” blog, Jim Bailey had a great post up tackling the issue around how you create a plan for your IPv6 address space: “Integrating IPv6 Into Your Network: Five Steps for Building Your IPv6 Address Plan“. Guidance on planning your IPv6 addressing is definitely a topic I have in our Read more…
Apr 30
What is Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) all about?[1] What are the problems associated with using it? What role, if any, should it play in networks during the transition from IPv4 to IPv6? At the recent North American IPv6 Summit, Chris Grundemann of Cable Labs addressed exactly these points – and now has published a blog Read more…
Apr 27
Yes, “IPv6: The Internet for Generations to Come,” is a slickly produced Cisco marketing video… but hey, it’s well-done and talks about World IPv6 Launch on June 6, 2012! We need more videos out there with messages like this one… …and I mean, really, you have to love the passion of Cisco Fellow Mark Townsley Read more…
Apr 27
Looking for news about DNS and DNSSEC that is happening around the Internet? If so, check out: dnssexy.net DNSsexy is a news aggregation site built and maintained by Jan-Piet Mens that pulls together DNS-related items from a variety of blogs and news sources. Do note that this is DNS in general… so it covers a Read more…
Apr 27
Today at noon US Eastern on the VoIP Users Conference (VUC) Call for Friday, April 27th, the group will discuss the brand new "FreeSWITCH Cookbook "[1] published by PACKT Publishing. The four authors of the book, who are also leaders…
Apr 26
This is huge! In a pair of blog posts today Comcast formally launched its IPv6 “Home Networking Pilot”: IPv6 Home Networking Pilot Market Launch Begins, by Jason Livingood IPv6 Home Networking Pilot Market Deployment Technical Details, by John Jason Brzozowski As I explained in an earlier post about this impending launch, support for home networks Read more…
Apr 26
The FreeBSD Foundation posted this week about the completion of a “IPv6 Performance Analysis Project” that had as its main goal closing the gap between IPv4 and IPv6 in terms of performance. Bjoern Zeeb was awarded a grant to perform this work earlier this year and has maintained a “Benchmarking and results” page showing his Read more…
