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28.01.13 by Robin Wilton
Topics: Tech Matters
Well, the annual Data Privacy Day  is upon us again: if I've timed this right, your New Year's resolutions have lost some of their appeal, and you're starting to have second thoughts about that gym membership fee or the wisdom of trying to get through a whole working week without a glass of wine. So, in my supportive way, I'd like to encourage you to ditch those resolutions in favour of some...
16.01.13 by Megan Kruse
Topics: Tech Matters
Our technology team is very involved in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which is an organized activity of the Internet Society. We work to facilitate the smooth operation of and growing participation in Internet standards through the IETF, organize briefing panels at IETF meetings, and publish the IETF Journal three times a year just before each IETF meeting.  The IETF Journal...
10.01.13 by Phil Roberts
Topics: Tech Matters
Tags: IPv6
  If you've been working on IPv6 for awhile, 2012 should have given you encouragement that IPv6 is starting to have enough significant deployment in enough places that it is really finally happening. In 2012, we witnessed access networks around the world turn up IPv6 for regular end users and saw major websites turn up IPv6 permanently. This combination increased the flow of IPv6 throughout the...
08.01.13 by Andrei Robachevsky
Topics: Tech Matters
  On many occasions when I talk to network operators about routing security a question of risk comes up. Quite a few well-known and analyzed incidents, like the YouTube prefix hijack or the China Telecom traffic detour, clearly demonstrate vulnerabilities in the routing system that can be exploited and that present a real threat. But while everyone agrees there are vulnerabilities, the real...
01.01.13 by Leslie Daigle
Topics: Tech Matters
January 1, 1983, was an official 'flag day' for the ARPANET, which became what we know as the Internet. On that day, the collaborative operators of the existing networking hardware turned off the old networking protocol, NCP (network control protocol), and the TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)-based Internet became the norm. This had been several years in the making -- TCP/...