Do you know of someone who has made the Internet better in some way who deserves more recognition? Maybe someone who has helped extend Internet access to a large region? Or wrote widely-used programs that make the Internet more secure? Or maybe someone…
May 13
Know Someone Who Has Made the Internet Better? Postel Service Award Nominations Deadline May 15 (Featured Blog)
Do you know of someone who has made the Internet better in some way who deserves more recognition? Maybe someone who has helped extend Internet access to a large region? Or wrote widely-used programs that make the Internet more secure? Or maybe someone…
Apr 07
Celebrating 50 Years of the RFCs That Define How the Internet Works

50 years ago today, on 7 April 1969, the very first “Request for Comments” (RFC) document was published. Titled simply “Host Software”, RFC 1 was written by Steve Crocker to document how packets would be sent from computer to computer in what was then the very early ARPANET. [1] Steve and the other early authors […]
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Mar 30
TDYR 361 – Reflections on IETF 104 in Prague
I was in Prague for the 104th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and in this episode I talk about some of what went on there…
Mar 18
TDYR 360 – What was the Internet like before the Web? Celebrating 30 years of the Web – #Web30
What was the Internet like before the Web? How did the Web change our online communication so dramatically? Last week (March 12) was the 30th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee starting the World Wide Web, and in this episode I reflect on what the Interne…
Mar 12
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web

Back around 1991, I was traveling throughout the eastern USA teaching an “Introduction to the Internet” course I had written. The students were mainly from telecom, financial, and software companies wanting to know what this Internet thing was all about. I taught about IP addresses and DNS, using email, sending files with FTP, using archie […]
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Jan 30
Call for Proposals: ICANN 64 DNSSEC Workshop in Kobe, Japan (March 2019) (Featured Blog)
Will you be at the ICANN 64 meeting in March 2019 in Kobe, Japan? If so (or if you can get to Kobe), would you be interested in speaking about any work you have done (or are doing) with DNSSEC, DANE or other DNS security and privacy technologies? If yo…
Jan 30
Call for Proposals: ICANN 64 DNSSEC Workshop in Kobe, Japan (March 2019) (Featured Blog)
Will you be at the ICANN 64 meeting in March 2019 in Kobe, Japan? If so (or if you can get to Kobe), would you be interested in speaking about any work you have done (or are doing) with DNSSEC, DANE or other DNS security and privacy technologies? If yo…
Jan 29
Call for Participation – ICANN 64 DNSSEC Workshop in Kobe, Japan – March 2019
The DNSSEC Deployment Initiative and the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme, in cooperation with the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC), are planning a DNSSEC Workshop during the ICANN64 meeting held from 09-14 March 2019 in Kobe, Japan. The DNSSEC Workshop has been a part of ICANN meetings for several years and has provided a […]
