How did IPv6 Week (Feb 6-12) turn out in Latin America and the Caribbean? The folks over at LACNIC recently posted a note indicating that over 200 websites participated in the IPv6 Week activities. LACNIC also organized two webinars and presented at the Campus Party Brasil event that week. They still have an IPv6 Week contest Read more…
Feb 22
CIRA / .CA Launches DNSSEC Info Center and Draft DNSSEC Practice Statement
DNSSEC is coming soon to the .CA domain! The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) recently announced a draft of their “DNSSEC Practice Statement” (DPS) that provides details around how they will be deploying and managing DNSSEC for the .CA domain. They are seeking comment on the DPS – and are also launching a “DNSSEC Knowledge Read more…
Feb 22
Storify Rolls Out New iPad App That Makes It Super Easy To Curate Twitter, Facebook
While I’ve not yet personally used Storify to a great degree, I’ve been watching what friends have been doing with it and been intrigued by the possibilities. Beyond the "collecting a twitter stream into a story" usage that people commonly…
Feb 21
Internet2 DNSSEC Special Interest Group (SIG) Provides Forum for Research/Education Community
Are you are member of the research or education community interested in connecting with others who are implementing DNSSEC? Or are you interested in monitoring what is happening within the research/education world with regard to DNSSEC? If so, the Internet2 Consortium has a Special Interest Group (SIG) focused on DNSSEC. The SIG has a website Read more…
Feb 21
O’Reilly Offers Free Ebook: "Publishing with iBooks Author"
In an interesting move, O’Reilly Media has made their brand new ebook, "Publishing with iBooks Author", available for free download (assuming you have a free account set up with O’Reilly). As is standard with O’Reilly now, the ebook is DRM-free…
Feb 21
RIPE Labs Reports on IPv4 Address Depletion Per Region
Which regions of the world are depleting their IPv4 addresses the quickest? Our friends over at RIPE Labs published some interesting statistics earlier this month about the growth in IPv4 address allocation per region. The article’s goal is: With the depletion of the IPv4 free pool in the APNIC region and the imminent IPv4 free Read more…
Feb 20
Inspiring Video: LeVar Burton’s TOC Keynote On The Power Of Stories and Storytelling
One of the highlights of attending O’Reilly’s TOCCON last week in New York turned out to be a short but incredibly inspiring keynote presentation by LeVar Burton, who some of us may forever know as "Geordi LaForge" from "Star Trek:…
Feb 20
Fedora Project Requesting Testers of DNSSEC-Trigger
Want to help out a Linux project with DNSSEC? In a recent message to the Fedora Project developers list, Paul Wouters from Red Hat asked for people to help test the recent addition of DNSSEC-Trigger to the “rawhide” distribution of Fedora. As he says in the email: In our efforts to push DNSSEC to the Read more…
Feb 20
Network World Reports on IPv6 Week and World IPv6 Launch – Encourages Participation
Over on Network World in their “Core Networking and Security” area, Scott Hogg recently published a great piece about IPv6 Week and World IPv6 week. He starts out talking about last year’s World IPv6 Day and then describes the IPv6 Week effort focused in Latin America. His conclusion? (my emphasis added) This event ends today Read more…
