Event Wrap: IETF 109
APNIC participated in IETF 109, held online from 16 to 20 November 2020.
Tag: IETF
Thoughts from IETF 109
Geoff Huston shares his thoughts from IETF 109, including on AS Prepending, Community Networks, DNS centrality, IPv6, and TCP.
PCE, SDN, and their entanglement: A personal journey!
Guest Post: An interest in Path Computation Element is all it took to get one budding engineer in 2005 to get hooked on the RFC process, a journey he hopes will inspire others to get involved.
ALTO: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization protocol
Guest Post: The ALTO protocol provides network information that applications use for modifying network resource consumption patterns while improving their performance.
RFC 8890: The Internet is for End Users
Guest Post: The IETF should ultimately ground its decisions in what’s good for people who use the Internet.
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?
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.
Solving the expiring Root CA certificate-mageddon; partly at least
Guest Post: There are problems brewing with Root CAs reaching their end of life.
Why inter-domain multicast now makes sense
Guest Post: A group within the IETF think the time has come to give inter-domain multicast another try.
Getting IPv6 private addressing right
Guest Post: Unique Local Unicast Addresses are another example of IPv6 being treated similarly as IPv4.