Watch Live – Thursday, March 17 – Sally Wentworth Testifying at US Congressional Hearing on Privatizing IANA

On Thursday, March 17, 2016, our VP of Global Policy Development, Sally Shipman Wentworth, will be testifying before the U.S. Congress on the topic of “Privatizing the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority” (IANA) starting at 10:15am US EDT (UTC-4).  You can learn about the hearing at:

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Sally’s written testimony is available in advance from our site at:

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Instagram Embraces The Algorithm – Switches From Showing Newest First

Some big news in the social media world this morning was that Instagram is embracing the algorithm. Instead of seeing posts from Instagram accounts you follow in "reverse chronological order" (newest updates first) you now will see them in an…

DNSSEC Workshop Streaming Live from ICANN 55 in Marrakech on Wednesday, March 9, 2016 (Featured Blog)

What is the current state of DNSSEC deployment around the world and also in Africa? How can you deploy DNSSEC at a massive scale? What is the state of using elliptic curve crypto algorithms in DNSSEC? What more can be done to accelerate DNSSEC deployme…

DNSSEC Workshop Streaming Live From ICANN 55 In Marrakech On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 (Featured Blog)

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TDYR 296 – Can You #ShineTheLight On Great Women Using The Internet? #IWD2016

On International Women’s Day, can you shine the light on great examples of women using the Internet and technology to change lives? Can we provide great examples to inspire the next generation of women?
Read more: https://www.internetsociety.org/sh…

WATCH LIVE Today – DNSSEC For Everybody: A Beginner’s Guide, from ICANN 55

Want to learn about DNSSEC and how it helps add a layer of trust to DNS? Puzzled by how this all works?   If so, please join us today from 16:45 to 18:15 UTC for “DNSSEC for Everybody: A Beginner’s Guide” streaming live out of Marrakech, Morocco, in both audio and video on links found off Read more…

TDYR 295 – On The Road To Marrakech

I’m on the road to Marrakech, Morocco, where I will be in the ICANN 55 and Africa DNS Forum meetings over the next week. In this episode I talk about what is going on…
Read more: http://www.danyork.com/2016/03/heading-to-marrakech-for-icann-55-and-af…

Heading to Marrakech for ICANN 55 and Africa DNS Forum 2016

At about noon today I’ll head out of Keene, NH, towards Boston’s Logan airport to start what will be about 23 hours of travel bringing me to Marrakech, Morocco. I land tomorrow (Friday, 4 March) around 4:00pm local time and then after getting settled in that evening will dive directly into the Africa DNS Forum at 8:30am Saturday morning. It’s going to be a crazy week! I wrote about all the activities I’ll be part of in this post: DNSSEC and DANE Activities at ICANN 55 and Africa DNS Forum in Marrakech March 5-10 I will be giving five different…

Next Monthly DNSSEC Coordination Call On March 24, 2016

For those who participate in the monthly “DNSSEC Coordination” calls where we discuss activities around accelerating the deployment of DNSSEC, there will NOT be a call tomorrow, March 3, as there would normally be (the first Thursday of the month). On our last call in February we noted that: on March 3rd, many of us […]

Decoding the Cellular IoT Acronym Alphabet Soup (Featured Blog)

Do you know what all these acronyms and abbreviations mean related to cellular networks and the Internet of Things (IoT)? MTC, Cat-0, Cat-1, Cat-M1, LTE-M, NB-IoT, EC-GSM, LPWA, eDRX, PSM… I certainly didn’t, but Tuomas Tirronen at Ericsson Research …