Modern service discovery mechanisms increasingly allow services to run on arbitrary ports, yet DNS may remain the one protocol that cannot fully escape its dependency on the long-established convention of port 53.
Guest Post: At IETF 126, discussions highlighted how AI is beginning to shape the future of Internet infrastructure. Participants identified IPv6 as a critical foundation for large-scale AI ecosystems and explored new approaches.
SpaceX and Starlink’s valuation, reality, and the limits of connectivity economics.
AI eats the world, geolocation, measuring IPv6, and the cost of SSH from NANOG 97.
LEO satellite networks are returning to the mobile market, this time shaped by lower launch costs and changing industry economics, with lessons from Iridium still looming.
Are IP addresses the right tool for determining location? Examining location from the perspectives of geolocation providers, CDNs, content intermediaries, RIRs, satellite operators, and other stakeholders.
Marc Blanchet’s presentation about deep space networking imagines a future where the Internet works well for people on the moon, and those they are connected to back on Earth.
Network operations, BGP, post-quantum cryptography, and more from AusNOG 2025.
ICANN is accepting public comments on the Functional Model for Root Server System Governance until 22 September 2025.
DS automation, Domain Control Validation, .internal and delegation, and more from the DELEG and DNSOP Working Groups at IETF 123.
