SAVE us from DDoS
Paul Vixie discusses Source Address Validation Everywhere (SAVE) as an approach to mitigating bad traffic problems.
Success of Vanuatu’s Internet Exchange (VIX)
George Michaelson outlines a brief history of the Vanuatu Internet Exchange from the Pacific Industry Workshop at APNIC 38.
IPv6 in the Pacific Island Communities: New Caledonia goes fibre to the home
George Michaelson summarizes the plans by OPT-NC for a nationwide FTTP and 4GLTE deployment from the Pacific Industry Workshop at APNIC 38.
CrypTech.is and why it matters
CrypTech is attacking the fundamental roots of the “trust” problem.
DNSOP at IETF90
Warren Kumari (Google) and Paul Hoffman (VPN Consortium) discussed their draft to permit recursive DNS resolvers to fetch the signed root zone, and serve it.
WEIRDS Interop
At IETF90 tech staff from the RIR and ccTLD/gTLD communities held an all-day RDAP interop test. RDAP is the protocol and data specification in JSON which hopefully can replace WHOIS in the long term.
IPv6 at IEPG
Jen Linkova and Fernando Gont at IEPG presented a brief summary of IPv6 Extension Headers (EH).
RSSAC Caucus meets at IETF90
The Root Server Stability Advisory Committee (RSSAC) meets every IETF, as a side activity (not on the IETF agenda).
The end of the internet predicted, news at 11.
The internet is full!
It’s a great headline, but really, its not quite true. There is a problem, and its not going to go away, but what happened this week was a symptom of ageing equipment …
The IETF90 Technical Plenary
At IETF90, the technical plenary session discussed geographic and location issues as a panel session, looking into how traffic flows can be seen to cross borders because of network topology.
Jane …