Why do we need “more crypto” everywhere? How can we get more people using TLS (SSL) in applications and services?     If you are interested in this topic and want to discuss it with others, please do join the “VoIP Users Conference (VUC)” conference call this Friday, May 2, 2014, at 12 noon US Read more…

I’ve made a couple of updates recently to our DNSSEC Deployment Maps section of the site. First, I updated the page to display the most recent deployment maps from yesterday, April 28, 2014.  The big change from previous maps is that Australia now appears in blue as the folks there have signed the .AU top-level Read more…

On 14-15 April, we held the SEE3 RIPE Regional Meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria with 229 attendees from 19 different countries. The agenda was packed with good content – kudos to the SEE3 program committee for all the good work in shaping such a great agenda. I co-chaired the opening Plenary with Paul Rendek and also Read more…

Today, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) – the Regional Internet Registry for most of North America and parts of the Caribbean – announced it “is down to its final /8 of available space in its inventory and has moved into Phase Four of its IPv4 Countdown Plan.” That means, in essence, there’s a Read more…

Is it time to “dump the plain text Internet” and encrypt everything everywhere? That’s the main thrust of an article by Klint Finley in Wired last week: “It’s Time to Encrypt the Entire Internet“. As he writes: The Heartbleed bug crushed our faith in the secure web, but a world without the encryption software that Read more…

Buried in a post last month about Martin Levy joining CloudFlare was this gem: CloudFlare is enabling IPv6 by default for ALL of their customers! If you are not aware of CloudFlare, the are a “content delivery network” (or “content distribution network”… either way it is “CDN”) that takes your website and makes it available through their Read more…

Are you planning to attend the ICANN 50 meeting in London in June?  If so, would you like to share your experience with deploying DNSSEC?  As noted below, we are seeking proposals for presentations to be given during the DNSSEC Workshop that will happen on Wednesday, June 25, 2014, during the ICANN week. The full Read more…

Have you already deployed IPv6 in your network? Have you migrated your application to work over IPv6? Have you made your website or online service available over IPv6? If so, WE WANT YOUR EXAMPLE AS A CASE STUDY! Friday, 6 June 2014, marks the 2-year “Launchiversary” of World IPv6 Launch, the day when sites and networks Read more…

The latest World IPv6 Launch measurements of network operators were published yesterday and among the charts available for the top 10 networks was this great one showing Verizon Wireless’ network as almost hitting 50% IPv6 deployment: The actual measurement this month was 48.71% but on that growth path I expect we should see it climb Read more…

What lessons can application developers take from the Heartbleed bug?  How can we use this experience to make the Internet more secure?  Unless you have been offline in a cave for the past few days, odds are that you’ve seen the many stories about the Heartbleed bug (and many more stories today) and, hopefully, have taken Read more…