My thoughts from IETF 96
Geoff Huston shares his impressions from sessions he attended at IETF 96, Berlin.
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Event Wrap: IETF 96, Berlin
The Internet Engineering Task Force recently held their 96th meeting, IETF 96, in Berlin, Germany from 17 to 22 July 2016.
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.
Happy Eyeballs – promoting a healthy IPv4 and IPv6 coexistence
A recent study to measure the impact of the Happy Eyeballs (HE) algorithm has shown that 18% of Alexa’s top 10,000 websites are faster over IPv6 than IPv4.
Lessons from establishing a national CERT
Guest Post: Andrew Toimoana discusses the two year effort to launch the Pacific’s first national Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT.to.
Podcast: Tonga launches Computer Emergency Response Team
Klée Aiken and Adli Wahid discuss the recent launch of the first national Computer Emergency Response Team in the Pacific, CERT.to.
Can You Make IPv6 Work Commercially?
Guest Post: Does IPv6 really come with a positive business case? Marco Hogewoning from RIPE NCC wants to find out via a short poll.
Scaling the Internet of Things? Not a Problem!
Guest Post: Shane Kerr from Beijing Internet Institute looks at the basic approaches to scaling and how these apply to the fundamental technologies on the Internet.
vizAS: Measuring IPv6 from the Internet’s core
By measuring the Internet core, we can get an idea of the mindset of many economies’ IPv6 deployment plans.