Brian Carpenter is the new chair of the IETF
Linux World Australia was the first to mention that Brian Carpenter was elected as the new chair of the IETF, succeeding to Harald Alvestrand. In the current context of the restructuring of the IETF,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Patent Too Close to IPv6
According to this article on E-week, Microsoft has patented an auto configuration technology for the IP stacks in Windows machine. This was apparently inspired by the autoconfig feature of IPv6, which...
View ArticleRay Pelletier Appointed As IETF Administrative Director
ISOC has appointed an administrative director for the IETF. This is an excellent step towards a better organization of the standards body. The informal structure of the IETF has been one of its...
View ArticleSpam and what can be done about it
At WGIG this week, the ambassador of Syria made the observation that “There is no serious intention to stop this spam by those who are the transporters of the spam, because they benefit. The...
View ArticleMicrosoft pushes Sender-ID
Seems like Microsoft wishes to once again push forward its proprietary technologies.From next November its Hotmail and MSN e-mail services will start to tag messages with no Sender-ID as spam....
View Article63rd IETF – Paris, FRANCE
The agenda is here MEETING SITE: Le Palais des Congrès 2, Place de la Porte Maillot 75017 Paris Cedex 17 France The post 63rd IETF – Paris, FRANCE appeared first on The Next Net.
View ArticleAbout the root servers
Karl Auerbach has an interesting piece about the root server operators with regard to WGIG’s comments that they lack a formal relationship. At the ICANN meeting in Luxembourg, Daniel Karrenberg of...
View Article20th anniversary of the IETF
Today, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Society (ISOC) celebrate the 20th anniversary of the IETF, the world’s leading Internet standards development body.The first IETF...
View ArticleNTIA Request for Information for IANA services
The NTIA is requesting information from potential bidders to perform the IANA tasks. The IANA contract expires at the end of March 2006. The timeframe is only surprising in that this should have...
View ArticleThe IETF on the RFI for IANA services
The IETF has written a letter to NTIA regarding the RFI for IANA services. The current contract with ICANN expires this month. The IETF suggests “the DoC separate the technical parameter assignment...
View ArticleCoDoNS: the future of DNS ?
Worth reading and studying: The Cooperative Domain Service (CoDoNS) by Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and Emin Gün Sirer, a paper by two scientists at Cornell on a distributed system to replace our good...
View ArticleHow can the engineering community and the users meet ?
There is currently a discussion going on between Milton Mueller and Patrik Fältström over the deployment of DNSSEC on the root servers. I think the discussion exemplifies the difficult relation between...
View ArticleNew generic Top Level Domains and Internet standards
The recent decision by ICANN to start a new round of applications for new generic Top Level Domains is launching a round of questions on the IETF side about its consequences. One possible issue may be...
View ArticleSoon in a mail box near you: Internationalized e-mail addresses
The EAI working group of the IETF has finished (part of) its work on the interationalization of e-mail addresses. This, together with Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) will make it possible to send...
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This web site now supports HTTP/2 – SPDY
I am happy to report that this web site now supports the new HTTP/2 protocol. HTTP/2 was standardised in RFC 7540. For the most tech savvy, they can turn to the Wikipedia entry that describes the...
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