Are you a “content provider,” such as a website operator, seeking to understand how to ensure your content is available over IPv6? If so, the IETF recently published an excellent guide in RFC 6589, “Considerations for Transitioning Content to IPv6“. Written by Comcast’s Jason Livingood the document explains both the issues with moving content to Read more…
Apr 24
Internet Society Launches "Internet Hall of Fame" Celebrating Early Pioneers
One of the very cool announcements coming out of the Internet Society’s Global INET event in Geneva this week was the creation of an "Internet Hall of Fame" that recognizes many of the pioneers who started this amazing journey we’ve…
Apr 24
New Internet-Draft: Security Implications of IPv6 on IPv4 networks
What are the security implications of having native IPv6 support on IPv4-only networks? What are the security implications of the automatic enabling of IPv6 transition mechanisms such as tunneling? In a new Internet-Draft out this week, security researcher Fernando Gont of the UK’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure seeks to explore those very Read more…
Apr 24
IPv6 Training (and Courseware) Available At RIPE NCC
Interested in learning more about IPv6? In Europe, RIPE NCC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the region offers an IPv6 training course for staff of Local Internet Registries – and perhaps more relevantly, they make their course materials and exercises available to all for free. You can see the outline for the RIPE NCC Read more…
Apr 24
Photo: Still Time To Meet The Deploy360 Team at Global INET
If you are at the Internet Society’s Global INET event happening in Geneva right now, you still have a chance to meet Richard Jimmerson and Megan Kruse from the team behind the Deploy360 Programme. Here’s a photo of them (looking sharp!) by the banner for our program. Megan and Richard have been having great conversations Read more…
Apr 23
When Will We Hit 100 DNSSEC-Signed TLDs?
In looking at ICANN’s TLD DNSSEC Report for today, I noticed that the number of top-level domains (TLDs) signed with DNSSEC is creeping very close to 100: 313 TLDs in the root zone in total 94 TLDs are signed; 86 TLDs have trust anchors published as DS records in the root zone Who will be Read more…
Apr 23
WordPress 3.3.2 Out With Security Fixes – Upgrade Now!
If you are a user of WordPress, as I am for several of my sites, you really should update your site to WordPress 3.3.2. If you take a look at the Codex page for the release: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.3.2 You’ll note that…
Apr 20
Want to understand DNSSEC? Watch this excellent 1-hour elearning video.
Want to understand DNSSEC and how it can help secure the Internet? The folks at SIDN, the registry behind the .NL country code top-level domain (ccTLD), have put together a truly excellent 1-hour video e-learning session available in either English or Dutch at: http://www.dnsseccourse.nl/ The course touches on the basics of DNS then explains the Read more…
Apr 20
Civic.io – Mark Headd’s new site on Civic Hacking and Open Government
My friend Mark Headd passionately wants to open up government – and to do so through code. I’ve known him for years as the author of the VoiceInGov / Vox Populi blog where he has been writing about mashups and…
Apr 20
Facebook To Provide IPv6 Access For Developers On May 18th
As of May 18, 2012, developers working on Facebook applications will have access over IPv6 to Facebook’s development platform to test their applications out in preparation for World IPv6 Launch. In a blog post this week, Facebook’s Eric Osgood writes: With the World IPv6 Launch coming on June 6th 2012, Facebook has committed to enabling IPv6 access Read more…
