TDYR 316 – Cyber Monday sale at O’Reilly offers 50% off all ebooks, including 2 of mine

Today is a great day to buy ebooks and videos at 50% from O’Reilly and associated publishers – http://oreil.ly/CyberMonday16 . Two of my books are included in the sale: http://migratingappstoipv6.com/ and http://www.7ducattacks.com/ – the sale goes u…

For Immediate Release #62: A Real Episode About Fake News

First-time panelist Liz Scherer joined Howard Greenstein and David Spark for a deep dive into fake news. The panel also looked at two new “State of Social Media” reports and Dan York reports on Instagram’s adoption of QR codes and Facebook Live’s apparent roll-out of two-person streaming to non-verified users.
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Twitter Launches QR Codes on iOS App – But…. Why?

Apparently seeking to keep up with Snapchat’s Snapcodes and Facebook’s Messenger Codes, Twitter has launched QR codes in at least the iOS app. Here are two examples of how the codes look for me (it seems to change color each…

TDYR 315 – In Tokyo on May way home from IETF97

Some brief thoughts on the way home from Seoul, South Korea, where I was for IETF 97. This was recorded in Narita airport in Tokyo.

For Immediate Release #61: The Election Episode

There’s a lot that communicators and marketers can take away from the 2016 U.S. presidential election — about data and data analytics, about traditional campaigning vs. bottom-up campaigns, about planning for one outcome and having to deal with another. This week’s FIR panel — Christine Perkett, Augie Ray, and Lynette Young — unpack it all, along with some (gasp!) non-election topics.
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The Best Blue Bumper Sticker

This was the best blue bumper sticker I saw during this election season…

IAB Warns That Internet Standards Will No Longer Be Based on IPv4, only IPv6

This month the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) provided another reason for organizations to think more about migrating their applications and services to IPv6. In a strong statement, the IAB warned other standards development organizations (SDOs) that future standards from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) may no longer support IPv4: The IAB expects that the […]

IAB Warns That Internet Standards Will No Longer Be Based on IPv4, only IPv6

Internet architecture boardThis month the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) provided another reason for organizations to think more about migrating their applications and services to IPv6. In a strong statement, the IAB warned other standards development organizations (SDOs) that future standards from the Internet Engineering …

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Rough Guide to IETF 97: DNSSEC, DANE and DNS Privacy and Security

DNS privacy will get a good bit of focus at the IETF 97 meeting in Seoul with a special tutorial as well as a meeting of the DPRIVE working group and activity in the IETF 97 Hackathon. DNS privacy will also come up in the DNSSD group this time, too. The DNS Operations working group will meeting and a new DNS BOF will take place. In contrast to the past few meetings, the Using TLS in Applications (UTA) working group where DANE has been discussed will not meet as their work is moving along on the mailing lists. SImilarly, the DANE working group felt that work was moving along and no physical meeting was needed.

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IAB Warns That All Networking Standards Need To Fully Support IPv6

This week the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) issued a strong statement warning that any networking standards developed by Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) need to fully support IPv6. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is of course the major SDO developing networking standards for the Internet, but many other standards organizations base their standards on IETF standards.  For instance, any Read more…