Two groups of students from NITK discuss the work they did at the IETF 122 Bangkok hackathon, and afterwards in their WG. Professor Mohit Taliani is seeking to encourage new entrants to join IETF protocol and standards development.
Cloudflare looks at TCP flows as a ‘man-in-the-middle’ on your behalf, using a 1% global traffic sample to reveal session behaviour, congestion control, and surprising quirks of modern Internet connections.
When DNS breakage occurs and takes down your services, it points to an inadequate understanding of the interdependencies of your own complex systems.
Geoff Huston discusses protocol privacy, RFC 7258 and how APNIC Labs measures in a world of secure protocols.
Eight long held and common beliefs about the network have been shown, time after time, to be false. What are they, and what do they mean?
Firefox has implemented fast UDP I/O in Rust. Why does it matter?
Emile Aben from RIPE NCC discusses AS Hegemony, and Internet outage analysis using BGP data from RIPE’s RIS and Atlas with novel visualization techniques.
A new IETF draft proposes allocating 44::/16 to Amateur Radio Digital Communications, echoing the original 44/8 IPv4 block. The idea has triggered debate about ham-radio networking and how global IPv6 space is delegated under today’s IANA, RIR, and ICP-2 processes.
Geoff Huston discusses the complex strategic and political issues in submarine cables.
Shumon Huque discusses how greasing — testing unused protocol values — can keep extensible protocols flexible and prevents future extensions from breaking.
