My thoughts from IETF 96
Geoff Huston shares his impressions from sessions he attended at IETF 96, Berlin.
One Second Warning
Have you considered this year’s leap second to be scheduled for midnight UTC 31 December 2016?
Hosts vs Networks
Two BoF sessions at IETF 96 discussed the merits of using UDP as an end-to-end transport service substrate – with different reactions.
Open season
Geoff Huston looks to make sense of what an “Open Internet” means in today’s world.
DNS Privacy
While the current open nature of DNS queries makes third party monitoring, interception, and substitution incredibly easy, there are now some grounds to be optimistic and start to contemplate a DNS environment that preserves privacy and integrity.
Fragmenting IPv6
Geoff returns to the subject of IP packet fragmentation, this time looking at how IPv6 has changed the behaviour of packet fragmentation and discussing the concern of whether IPv6 can handle big packets.
IETF 95: Declaring IPv6 an ‘Internet Standard’
Will it make any difference to declare IPv6 an ‘Internet Standard’ within the definition of the IETF’s standards process?
IPv6 and the Internet of Things
‘Things’ in today’s Internet are not reliant on an IPv6 network, but that won’t always be the case.
Rolling the Root
After five years of operation, where are we with rolling over the Key Signing Key of the DNS Root Zone?
DNS Zombies
It seems that some things just never die, and this includes DNS queries.