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DNS privacy will be the main topic at IETF 94 in Yokohama related to the overall theme of "DNS security". The DPRIVE Working Group will be meeting on Monday afternoon to dive into what look like some lengthy discussions about DNS over TLS and DNS over DTLS. Stateless DNS encryption will also be discussed and there will be a general discussion of how to move the DPRIVE work forward.
All of this DPRIVE work is focused on securing the connection between DNS clients and the recursive resolvers that people use (such as those typically at an Internet Service Provider (ISP) or on the edge of a...
Date published 30 October 2015
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Over the next seven days we'll have an Internet Society team on the ground in Dublin, Ireland, at the 54th meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In fact, some of our team members are already in Dublin engaged in the IANA stewardship transition meetings that will occur for much of this weekend. As was the case with ICANN 53 in June in Buenos Aires, we expect the IANA transition to dominate much of the policy discussions all week. Please visit our IANA stewardship transition page for more information about our views.
Beyond IANA, we expect some...
Date published 16 October 2015
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What do bandwidth, beer and bratwurst have to do with each other? Well... it is true that many Internet networking challenges have been worked out over beers between network operators, but in this case the link between the terms came in a tweet from Dyn promoting their TechToberFest event happening this Thursday, October 1, 2015, at their headquarters in Manchester, NH.
I'll be there for what looks like an excellent event focused on security, Internet performance and other Internet infrastructure concerns. My particular role will be as a panelist in the 3:00-4:00 pm US EDT...
Date published 30 September 2015
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Wow! There is a crazy amount of DNS activity happening at IETF 93 next week in Prague! Beyond the usual working groups we follow such as DNSOP and DANE, there are a wide range of other groups where DNS security and privacy are under discussion. It's going to be a VERY busy week for all of us involved with DNS! (And, there's also the IETF 93 Hackathon starting on Saturday and Sunday where several of us will be working on code related to DNSSEC, DANE and more.)
Let's walk through the week...
NOTE: If you are unable to attend IETF 93 in person, there are multiple ways to participate...
Date published 15 July 2015
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This year, the 3rd Africa DNS forum will be hosted by the Kenya Network Information Center (KENIC), from 6-8 July 2015, at the Sarova Panafric Hotel in Nairobi, under the theme: “The future of Africa's Domain Name Industry; Opportunities and challenges”.
The Africa DNS Forum is a yearly event organized under the Internet Society Africa Regional Bureau’s ccTLD and DNSSEC program. The main objective of the ccTLD and DNSSEC program is to improve the technical and governance operation levels in African ccTLD registries. A ccTLD study on African registries is also being carried out under the...
Date published 25 March 2015
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As per usual, DNSSEC, DANE and DNS security in general are all topics of great attention at IETF 92. The major DNS-related working groups, DNSOP and DANE, are both meeting with busy agendas and the DPRIVE working group is back again with a focus on DNS privacy concerns. Here is a rough view of what the week looks like...
NOTE: If you are unable to attend IETF 92 in person, there are multiple ways to participate remotely and listen to these sessions.
DNS PRIVate Exchange (DPRIVE)
Starting out the week on Monday from 15:20-16:50 will be the second meeting of the DPRIVE Working Group that is...
Date published 18 March 2015
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As happens on every Wednesday of an ICANN week, a major focus today will be the 6+ hour DNSSEC Workshop that will bring together some of the greatest DNS-related technical minds from across the industry for a session focused on how we continue to move DNSSEC forward and make the Internet more secure. Attendees will learn about the current state of DNSSEC deployment within the region, about new tools and services and will discuss some of the current challenges and work together to discussion potential solutions. Organized by the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC...
Date published 10 February 2015
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Greetings from Singapore! As the 52nd meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) gets formally underway this morning on Monday, February 9, 2015, we thought we'd give you an idea of what we'll be focusing on today from an Internet Society point of view as well as provide links so that you can join in and follow along remotely.
To understand our public policy interests here at ICANN 52, you need to read what Konstantinos Komaitis wrote in a post last week. As he noted, a great amount of discussion here will be focused on the twin inter-related issues of the IANA...
Date published 08 February 2015
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IETF 91 will once again be busy for those of us interested in DNSSEC, DANE and DNS security in general. Two of the major DNS-related working groups, DNSOP and DANE, are both meeting with busy agenda and a new working group called DPRIVE will be meeting to talk about DNS privacy concerns. There are naturally other items related to DNSSEC and "DNS security" in general scattered throughout the week - here is what the week looks like...
NOTE: If you are unable to attend IETF 91 in person, there are multiple ways to participate remotely and listen to these sessions.
Public Notary Transparency...
Date published 05 November 2014
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How do we increase the security of the Domain Name System (DNS)? How can we expand the usage of DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) and use it to create a higher level of trust on the Internet? How do we make the Internet more secure?
Most of us probably don't think all that much about DNS but yet we use it for almost every interaction we have on the Internet. Whether we are reading the latest news, buying something online, sending email to a friend or joining into whatever the latest social network is, domain names are the tool we use to connect to sites without having to remember long...
Date published 13 October 2014
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