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Rough Guide to IETF 88: Scalability and Performance
The public policy world is full of discussions of appropriate (and inappropriate) management of bandwidth in the face of growing network usage. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Internet...
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Rough Guide to IETF 88: All About IPv6
The Internet relies on a single addressing framework to have global reach and integrity. IPv4 address space is insufficient, and IPv6 has been developed by the IETF as its successor. IPv6 recently...
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Rough Guide to IETF 88: DNSSEC, DANE and DNS
On the Internet, the Domain Name System (DNS) performs the critical role of translating human-readable domain names into the underlying IP addresses needed by computers to connect. The challenge is...
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Rough Guide to IETF 88 – Feedback Welcome!
The technology teams at the Internet Society are quite busy at every Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting, participating in a wide array of Working Groups and Birds of a Feather (BoF)...
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IPv6: What Does Success Look Like? – ISOC Briefing Panel at IETF 88
Tomorrow at IETF 88 in Vancouver, we’re holding our traditional Briefing Panel where we discuss a topic that is relevant to IETF attendees but somewhat beyond the normal realm of discussion in the...
View ArticleAnti-spoofing at the Edge – the SAVI WG at IETF
The anti-spoofing mechanisms first outlined in BCP38 have seen low adoption rates for two main reasons: (1) lack of a business case and (2) the fact that proposed mechanisms become more fragile and...
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Cloud Storage Dissected - A View Inside How Dropbox Works
Idilio Drago gave a masterclass in reverse engineering recently when he presented to the Internet Research Task Force on 'Inside Dropbox: Understanding Personal Cloud Storage Services'. Idilio has...
View ArticleNew Internet Society Project Aims to Learn: Is Your Internet Routing Secure...
You might have seen a recent analysis by Renesys of some sophisticated prefix hijacking increasingly happening in the Internet. I think many of us heard about the Pakistan-YouTube incident and similar...
View ArticleHappy 30th Birthday, DNS!
In November 1983, two RFCs, RFC 882 and RFC 883, authored by Paul Mockapetris, defined the Domain Name System, the DNS. For some details on the history of the DNS, you can read yesterday's Deploy360...
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Security Workshop Videos - Broadband World Forum
Internet security is increasingly important - and increasingly linked to our economic and social prosperity. A secure and resilient network and application infrastructure is vital to continuing our...
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Resilience of the Commons: Addressing Routing Security Challenges
Why do some innovations take off like wildfire, while others take ages to reach widespread deployment? What makes for a successful protocol? How can we detect a protocol failure ahead of time and...
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Key Internet Technology Challenge Areas for 2014
As we put 2013 behind us and welcome 2014, it seems appropriate to pause and consider what it is that we want to see in the coming years. When I think five years out, and what I'd like to see for the...
View ArticlePrediction: IPv6 Adoption Hits Double Digits in 2014
Last week, I had the opportunity to provide some predictions for 2014 to the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley. I have mixed feelings about predicting the future when it comes to the Internet – the...
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Rough Guide to IETF 88: Routing Resilience
Security is an important topic for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in general and at IETF 88 next week in Vancouver in particular. Not for nothing, all RFCs are required to have a ‘Security...
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A Close Encounter of the Standards Kind -- Internet Society Rough Guide to...
In ten or so days, more than a thousand Internet engineers will descend on Vancouver to spend a week discussing the latest issues in Internet protocol engineering at IETF 88. It's no secret that we are...
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