Security Round Up (April-June 2020)
APNIC staff participated in several virtual security-related events, sharing information on topics including RPKI, security attack mitigation and CERT capacity building.
Limiting the power of RPKI authorities
Guest Post: Proposal seeks to change RPKI to a distributed model, preventing unilateral takedown of IP prefixes by Regional Internet Registries.
Event Wrap: pkSIG 2020
Paul Wilson gave a keynote speech at the pkSIG 2020, held online from 17 to 20 August 2020.
Netflix over IPv6: a longitudinal study
Guest Post: Three year study of Netflix content delivery shows IPv6 performance has improved to be roughly on par with IPv4.
Opinion: The making of an RFC in today’s IETF
Opinion: Why is it taking an average of two years for the IETF process to take an idea to a published RFC?
Online voting for NRO NC election 2020 opens today
Online voting opens today, Monday, 24 August 2020 for the NRO NC election at APNIC 50.
Event Wrap: INNOG 3 and IRINN OPM 2020
APNIC participated in INNOG 3 and the IRINN OPM 2020, held online from 6 to 7 August 2020.
A brief history of recent advances in IPv6 security, Part I: Addressing
Guest Post: Securing IPv6 Stateless Address Auto-configuration (SLAAC) has been ongoing since 2011.
Chromium’s impact on root DNS traffic
Guest Post: With 70% of market share, Chromium has had a significant impact on the total root DNS traffic.
What is the role of IXPs in Oceania?
A recent panel discussion highlighted debates over the role of IXPs.