Ossification and the Internet
Why IP, transport, routing, and DNS protocols can harden and what that means for the future of the public network.
Tag: protocols
Is ‘Postel’s law’ causing protocol ‘ossification’?
A recent routing incident sparks renewed debate on protocol design, error handling, and whether Postel’s law is helping or hurting the Internet’s evolution.
RESTful Provisioning Protocol: From vision to IETF Working Group
Guest Post: The future of domain name provisioning is being designed now. Get involved!
Network traffic telemetry on modern routers: Part 2
Guest Post: The next generation of network monitoring: sFlow v5, Sampled Port Mirroring, GRE Tunneling, and Inline Monitoring with IPFIX/NetFlow v9.
Network traffic telemetry on modern routers: Part 1
Guest Post: How to implement various network traffic telemetry protocols and handle them in code.
Future-proofing the EPP protocol: RESTful EPP
Guest Post: Adapting the standard domain name registration protocol for use in modern software development architectures.
How SSH got to be on port 22
How SSH was neatly assigned between ports 23 (Telnet) and 20/21 (FTP) — two protocols it was set to succeed.
Forgotten protocol chronicles: Do not underestimate the installed base
Guest Post: The stubborn persistence of legacy technologies.
Towards SSH3: How HTTP/3 improves secure shells
Guest Post: What would the SSH protocol look like if it was made today with recent network technologies?
Evolution has its downsides… but maybe it’s inevitable?
How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution might apply to networking.