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NANOG 65 was once again your typical NANOG meeting: a set of operators, vendors, researchers and others for 3 days, this time in Montreal in October. Here’s my impressions of the meeting. Keynote The opening keynote was from Jack Waters from Level 3, which looked back over the past 25…
The DNS Operations, Analysis and Research Centre holds a 2 day workshop twice a year. These are my impressions of the Fall 2015 workshop, held at the start of October in Montreal. At the outset I note that there was less of an emphasis on the coopting of the DNS…
I’m sure we’ve all heard about “the Open Internet.†The expression builds upon a rich pedigree of term “open†in various contexts. For example, “open government†is the governing doctrine which holds that citizens have the right to access the documents and proceedings of the government to allow for effective…
Measuring the Root KSK Keyroll A little over five years ago the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS) was signed using the DNSSEC name-signing framework. The approach used to sign the root zone is a conventional one, using two keys. The root zone has a “working key”, the…
Today’s Internet is undoubtedly the mobile Internet. Sales of all other forms of personal computers are in decline and the market focus is now squarely on tablets, “smart†phones and wearable peripherals. In 2014 these providers sold 1.5 billion such devices into the global consumer market, and doubtless 2015’s numbers…
It has been said often enough that its easy to make predictions; the tough part is getting them right! And in trying to predict the manner that APNIC will exhaust its remaining supply of IPv4 addresses I’m pretty sure that I did not get it right in the most recent…
In 2010 the Asia Pacific Regional Address Policy community adopted a policy that permitted address holders in the region to transfer address registration records, enabling an aftermarket in IPv4 addresses to operate with the support of the APNIC registry function. While APNIC was still able to allocate addresses to meet…
It has been over 4 years since APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific Region handed out its last “general use†allocation of IPv4 addresses. Since April 2011 APNIC has been restricted to handing out addresses from a “last chance†address pool, and has limited the amount of…
A few weeks ago I wrote about Apple’s IPv6 announcements at the Apple Developers Conference. While I thought that in IPv6 terms Apple gets it, the story was not complete and there were a number of aspects of Apple’s systems that were not quite there with IPv6. So I gave…
For some years at APNIC Labs we have been conducting measurement experiments concerning the extent of use of IPv6 using a technique of embedding the measurements within the advertisement using Adobe Flash. The results of this measurement are fed into a set of measurement web resources at http://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6. The use…
