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Posted in Tech Matters | Posted on 10.01.13 by Phil Roberts | 0 Comments
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...
Posted in Tech Matters | Posted on 08.01.13 by Andrei Robachevsky | 0 Comments
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...
Posted in Tech Matters | Posted on 01.01.13 by Leslie Daigle | 0 Comments
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/...
Posted in Tech Matters | Posted on 05.12.12 by Mat Ford | 0 Comments
On the occasion of the World Conference on International Telecommunications which is meeting this week and next to revise the International Telecommunication Regulations, it is interesting to note the huge gains that the host nation has made in relation to the quality of Internet connectivity in the United Arab Emirates.
A report from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, in 2009 found...
Posted in Public Policy | Posted on 03.12.12 by Markus Kummer | 0 Comments
Some reflections on the IGF, the Internet and human rights
In a previous blog I argued how important it was holding the 2012 IGF meeting in Baku, as it provided an amplifier for discussing local and global human rights issues.
Further to the relevance of the IGF as a space to foster awareness and enhance discussions on human rights issues, the significant number of IGF sessions related to human...