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Time for another annual roundup from the world of IP addresses. What happened in 2015 and what is likely to happen in 2016? This is an update to the reports prepared at the same time in previous years, so let’s see what has changed in the past 12 months in…
What’s in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet;Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II What’s the difference between .local and .here? Or between .onion and .apple? All four of these labels are capable of being represented in the Internet’s Domain Name…
The RIPE 71 meeting took place in Bucharest, Romania in November. Here are my impressions from a number of the sessions I attended that I thought were of interest. It was a relatively packed meeting held over 5 days so this is by no means all that was presented through…
Every so often I hear the claim that some service or other does not support IPv6 not because of some technical issue, or some cost or business issue, but simply because the service operator is of the view that IPv6 offers an inferior level service as compared to IPv4, and…
One of the early refinements in the Internet protocol model was the splitting of the original Internet protocol from a single monolithic specification [1] into the Internet Protocol (IP) and a pair of transport protocols. The Internet Protocol layer is intended to be used by the internal switches within the…
I attended the ARIN 36 meeting that was held in Montreal in October, immediately following NANOG 65. The logistics of the meeting were up to ARIN’s high standards: the agenda, the discussion guides, the information provided to attendees was well executed, as usual. The agenda included a number of policy…
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…
