Category: Internet
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Heading to Boston for USENIX LISA 2011 Conference Dec 8 and 9
Continue Reading: Heading to Boston for USENIX LISA 2011 Conference Dec 8 and 9Today I’m driving about 2 hours southeast into downtown Boston to attend the USENIX Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference. As I wrote about on an ISOC blog, the head of my team within the Internet Society, Richard Jimmerson, will be speaking today at 2pm Eastern on the topic of:IPv6, DNSSEC, RPKI, etc.: What’s the Holdup and How Can We Help?
You’re busy. We get it. This industry moves fast and you’ve got your hands full keeping your networks updated and secure from the threat of the day. But why is it taking so long to deploy IPv6, DNSSEC, and other standards coming out of the IETF? These standards are the future of the Internet, but deployment to date has been slow.
He’ll be outlining the new ISOC project of which I am a part that aims to help speed up the deployment of these standards – and asking for feedback and help. I will be there along with another team member, Megan Kruse, to talk with folks about the project and interact with people involved with IPv6, DNSSEC and other technologies.
It’s been a good number of years since I last attended a USENIX conference but I’m very…
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SOPA Updates: Matt Cutts Summary, European Parliament Resolution, Sandia Labs, BSA
Continue Reading: SOPA Updates: Matt Cutts Summary, European Parliament Resolution, Sandia Labs, BSAIn the ongoing debate around the controversial “Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)” bill in the US Congress (that I have covered previously here and here), there are four updates worth reading:
- First, Matt Cutts provided a comprehensive SOPA update last week talking about all the online activism and support against the bill. Great collections of links, and I loved this part at the end:
I thought we’d have to wait 20-25 years before a critical mass of people would defend the net. But SOPA has brought that day a lot closer. SOPA galvanized the tech community, from start-ups to venture capitalists to the largest web companies. SOPA was an unexpected shock and a wake-up call. Well, guess what? Now the internet is awake. And I don’t think it’s going back to sleep any time soon. We might need to rally again in the near future, but we can do that. The internet learns fast.
- Sandia National Laboratories responded to a request from Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren with a letter outlining why SOPA wouldn’t work and would decrease our cybersecurity.
- The European Parliament adopted a resolution that included among its many clauses, one (#25) that spoke…
- First, Matt Cutts provided a comprehensive SOPA update last week talking about all the online activism and support against the bill. Great collections of links, and I loved this part at the end:
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3 Whitepapers You Need To Read To Understand How SOPA Could Damage DNS And Decrease Security
How exactly will the proposed “Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA)” impact the DNS infrastructure of the Internet? What are the technical and engineering problems caused by the proposed bill? How will the bill actually DECREASE our national cybersecurity?
I covered the basics of SOPA (HR.3261) and its companion bill in the Senate, S.968, the “PROTECT-IP Act”, last week and and in the time since I wrote that post the public opposition to SOPA has mounted dramatically as people have come to understand what exactly these bills will do. Like many, I applaud the intent of these bills to protect intellectual property, but am concerned that the mandated mechanism of “DNS filtering” proposed by these bills will have serious negative consequences.
If you want to understand the technical issues with the proposed mechanism, there are three whitepapers I would recommend for reading – and for sharing with your legislators. (I’ve sent the links in to my representatives.) I’d note that the first two documents were prepared back in the spring of 2011 to address the U.S. Senate’s version, the PROTECT-IP Act, but the mechanism proposed in SOPA is essentially the same.
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The US Congress, PROTECT IP, SOPA, E-PARASITES… and the War For the Open Internet
Continue Reading: The US Congress, PROTECT IP, SOPA, E-PARASITES… and the War For the Open InternetIf you are a U.S. citizen and have NOT been paying attention to the madness going on in the US Congress right now with regard to the Internet, you really NEED to take a look…
If you have a website, you need to be paying attention…
If you own a domain name, you need to be paying attention…
Backed by the traditional media industries (and all their lobbying $$$) the U.S. Senate and House are considering legislation that would seriously break the Internet as we know it. Rather than the DMCA “takedown notices” that have been used to date, these new bills would require ISPs to disable access to websites.
Basically it would give corporations the ability to manipulate (through ISPs) the DNS system to block access to content that they feel is objectionable or violates their copyrights, etc.
I think we all can generally agree that stopping online piracy and illegal activities is a good goal. As well as being a consumer of online content, I am also a creator of online content, and sure, I don’t want my content pirated and mis-used by others…
but a “simple” technical solution is NOT the…
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IETF Journal for October 2011 Digs into DNSSEC, Port Control Protocol, Internet Evolution
Want to learn more about what is happening with regard to standards in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)? Want to understand the details about new proposals to offer another way to secure domains using DNSSEC? Never heard of the “Port Control Protocol” before and wonder how it may (or may not) help you? Want to understand some of the latest thoughts from Internet leaders about where the Internet is evolving?
The October 2011 edition of the IETF Journal gets into all of that and more. Here’s the Table of Contents (a PDF is also available for printing or ebook reading):/
And So It Begins… Comcast Starts Rolling Out IPv6 Production Network
Continue Reading: And So It Begins… Comcast Starts Rolling Out IPv6 Production NetworkFor those of us wanting to see IPv6 deployed, yesterday brought the great news that Comcast has started rolling out its IPv6 production network to customers.
Now, granted, the initial rollout was to only 100 homes in San Francisco’s East Bay. It is also restricted to a single computer directly connected to a Comcast cable modem. This initial rollout did not support home routers which are typically found for WiFi in many/most homes these days.
Still… it’s a start!
The experience Comcast gains with this initial rollout will only help them with wider rollouts and the inclusion of home routers.
Kudos to Comcast for this start of their IPv6 rollout… I’m looking forward to hearing of other service providers starting their IPv6 deployments! (Time Warner, I’m talking about you! 🙂
UPDATE: Comcast has now come out with two of their own blog posts on this topic:
- Deployment of IPv6 Begins by Jason Livingood
- Technical Details for Our IPv6 Deployment by John Brzozowski
Notice in particular this great part to the technical piece:
It is also important to note that we are deploying native dual stack, which means a customer gets both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses. That means we are…
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Want to Learn About Deploying IPv6, DNSSEC? Attend the ION Conference in Toronto on Nov 14th
Continue Reading: Want to Learn About Deploying IPv6, DNSSEC? Attend the ION Conference in Toronto on Nov 14thWould you like to learn about how to deploy IPv6? Would you like to hear from people who are already using IPv6 within their networks? Would you like to learn a bit about DNSSEC and how it can help you secure your online presence?
If so, please join us in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, for our next “Internet ON” (ION) Conference on Monday, November 14, 2011, starting at 12:30pm and sponsored by the Internet Society (my new employer). The sessions on the agenda include:
- New ISOC Initiative – Bridging the Divide Between IETF Standards and Industry-wide Deployment
- Panel Discussion: Challenges and Opportunities in Deploying IPv6, DNSSEC, and Other Key Technologies
- World IPv6 Day Recap (my presentation)
- Ask the Expert: Next Steps to Implementing IPv6
- Closing Remarks and Q&A
We’re looking forward to providing a great session for people to ask questions and talk about how to get these technologies actually deployed in networks today.
The ION conference is part of the larger 2011 Canadian ISP Summit that takes place on the following two days and is included as part of the registration for the Canadian ISP Summit.
However, registration for the ION conference is FREE if you just want to attend…
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Looking for a New Gig? Consider a Job at the Internet Society!
Continue Reading: Looking for a New Gig? Consider a Job at the Internet Society!Interested in a new work role? Looking to make a change from what you are doing now?
If you have a passion for the Internet – and for protecting the openness of the Internet – then please consider applying for one of open positions at the Internet Society. We have several new positions open, including:
- Sr. Manager, Next Generation Leaders Programme
- Internet Development Manager for Africa
- Application Development Specialist
- Sr. Director of Business Development and Resource Mobilization
I’m excited about joining the Internet Society and would love to welcome others onboard!
If you found this post interesting or useful, please consider either:
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The Economist Asks: Who Should Run The Internet?
Continue Reading: The Economist Asks: Who Should Run The Internet?Who should run the Internet? Should it continue in the “multi-stakeholder” way it has operated so far? Or should governments have more of a say in how it is run?The Economist captures that argument in a piece out today entitled “A plaything of powerful nations” that reports on the meeting this week in Nairobi of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). The article rather succinctly covers some of the tension and challenges around public policy issues I briefly mentioned in my recent post about joining the Internet Society.
A key point for me is this (my emphasis added):
The multi-stakeholder approach dates from the beginnings of the internet. Its founding fathers believed that more openness would be both more secure and better for innovation. What is more, since the internet is a network of independent networks, it is hard to construct a form of governance that allows anyone to dictate things from the top.
Yet as the article notes, many governments would like to try – and the power struggle is really only beginning.
There are definitely going to be some interesting times ahead…
NOTE: While I am now employed by the Internet Society, I am NOT involved with…
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Ch-changes – Taking A New Job At The Internet Society To Join The Fight For The Open Internet
Continue Reading: Ch-changes – Taking A New Job At The Internet Society To Join The Fight For The Open InternetIn the end, my impending job change is perhaps best explained by two quotes: this prescient quote from the 1992 film Sneakers:
“There’s a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it’s not about who’s got the most bullets. It’s about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think… it’s all about the information!”
and this quote from poet Mary Oliver:
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
For a longer explanation, read on… but perhaps not on a mobile phone… this one’s a bit on the lengthy side…
Bleeding “Voxeo Blue”
Just shy of four years ago, I wrote here about joining this incredibly remarkable company, Voxeo, that probably none of you had ever heard of.
I hope I changed that a wee bit. 🙂
Around a thousand blog posts later, a hundred videos, too many speaking engagements and webinars to count, many articles, a ton of analyst briefings and media interviews … and countless tweets, Facebook posts and other updates later… it has been truly an amazing journey.
Along the way I have come to truly love the company -…