Developing a common interface between transport and application layers
Guest Post: There is a better way to interface between the application and the transport layer that can be consistent across multiple transport protocols.
Tag: IETF
Event Wrap: Connections 2020
Paul Wilson provided opening remarks on the importance of IPv6 deployment at Connections 2020, held online from 7 to 11 December 2020.
Event Wrap: IETF 109
APNIC participated in IETF 109, held online from 16 to 20 November 2020.
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.