Signing the root in public: The foundations of trust
Inside the ceremony that safeguards global DNSSEC, and why community oversight still matters.
Everyone, everywhere, all the time — Nepal’s push for rural broadband inclusion
In his npNOG 11 keynote presentation, WorldLink’s Dileep Agrawal explores the challenges and opportunities in reaching Nepal’s most remote communities with Internet services.
[Podcast] Downloading the root
Geoff Huston discusses the DNS root zone and how query load at the root could be reduced by using trusted local copies of the zone.
Is ‘Postel’s law’ causing protocol ‘ossification’?
A recent routing incident sparks renewed debate on protocol design, error handling, and whether Postel’s law is helping or hurting the Internet’s evolution.
[Podcast] Evolving GCA’s honeynet project
Leslie Daigle discusses AIDE and GCA’s work to analyse malicious traffic collected via honeynets.
[Podcast] DELEG: Changing the DNS engine in flight again
Geoff Huston discusses the new IETF DELEG Working Group activity, which is looking to change how zones are delegated in the DNS protocol.
[Podcast] DFOH, MVP, and GILL: New ways of looking at BGP
Professor Cristel Pelsser discusses GILL, a new model for BGP data collection, and the application of Machine Learning to BGP analysis.
Certificate lifetimes are getting shorter, and that’s a good thing!
Digicert now issues 47-day certificates, while Let’s Encrypt has dropped to just six. What’s behind the shift?
[Podcast] The multiple ways of multiple paths
Geoff Huston discusses how to get more bandwidth by adding together smaller chunks, in links or in the protocol.
40 years of .com — from HOSTS.TXT to global infrastructure
The evolution of domain name services and Verisign’s role in shaping the modern Internet.