On Being A Light Amidst The Darkness

There is darkness all around us. This week, of all weeks, that is clear. Young black men shot by police thousands of mile apart – and then five police officers killed in an ambush by an angry assailant seemingly intent on vengance. Police officers, in this case, who were doing their jobs of protecting a peaceful protest against those earlier shootings. Just a week earlier a bomb exploded at an airport in Istanbul, Turkey killing over 40 people and injuring hundreds more… a terrorist attack at a bakery claimed over 20 lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh… a weekend bombing in a…

Final Day to Give Input on “Future of the Internet” Survey (Featured Blog)

Today, June 26, is the final day that you can help the Internet Society with its “Future of the Internet” survey. It takes about 20-25 minutes and will help my colleagues at the Internet Society develop a number of scenarios about the possible future o…

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ICANN 56 in Helsinki – Schedule of DNSSEC Activities (Featured Blog)

The ICANN 56 meeting takes place in Helsinki, Finland, from June 27-30 and while it is a smaller “policy forum” style of meeting, there will still be some activities related to DNSSEC, DANE and DNS security in general. DNSSEC Workshop The DNSSEC Worksh…

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Schedule of DNSSEC Activities at ICANN 56 in Helsinki

Starting on Monday, 27 June 2016, the ICANN 56 meeting will take place in Helsinki, Finland. This is the first meeting in ICANN’s new shorter “B” format of a “policy forum”. As a result, there have been some changes to the schedule of DNSSEC activities (which are expected to return to their regular format for […]

DNSSEC Activities At ICANN 56 In Helsinki – 27-28 June 2016

Next week is the 56th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in Helsinki, Finland, and while it is a smaller “policy forum” style of meeting, there will still be some activities related to DNSSEC, DANE and DNS security in general.  Unlike the larger meetings, there will not be the “DNSSEC Read more…

ISOC@OECD, Day 3: Walid Al-Saqaf on Blockchain; IETF Chair Jari Arkko on Network Convergence

It’s the final day of the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy here in Cancun, Mexico, and there are just two more sessions blocks followed by the Closing Ceremony. Here below is where our attention will be focused today – and to understand the broader questions around why we are here, please read our OECD Ministerial Background Paper (All times are local to Cancun – UTC-5.)

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ISOC@OECD, Day 3: Walid Al-Saqaf on Blockchain; IETF Chair Jari Arkko on Network Convergence

It’s the final day of the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy here in Cancun, Mexico, and there are just two more sessions blocks followed by the Closing Ceremony. Here below is where our attention will be focused today – and to understand the broader questions around why we are here, please read our OECD Ministerial Background Paper.  […]

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ISOC@OECD, Day 2: Kathy Brown’s speech about trust, Hiroshi Esaki speaking about innovation

Today is the first day of the “Ministerial Conference” section of the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy.  Yesterday was for the very successful “Stakeholder Forums” and my colleague Nicolas Seidler wrote about the ITAC Forum that discussed Internet policies, IPv6, IoT, open standards and Collaborative Security.

Dan York