RFCs
Celebrating 50 Years of the RFCs That Define How the Internet Works
Technology
7 April 2019
Celebrating 50 Years of the RFCs That Define How the Internet Works
50 years ago today, on 7 April 1969, the very first “Request for Comments” (RFC) document was published. Titled...
BGPSec – A reality now
Deploy360
16 October 2017
BGPSec – A reality now
The Secure Inter Domain Routing (SIDR) initiative held its first BoF at IETF 64 back in November 2005, and...
RFC 8215: Local-Use IPv4/IPv6 Translation Prefix published
Deploy360
25 August 2017
RFC 8215: Local-Use IPv4/IPv6 Translation Prefix published
RFC 8215 “Local-Use IPv4/IPv6 Translation Prefix” was recently published, reserving the IPv6 prefix 64:ff9b:1::/48 for local use within domains enabling...
RFC 8140 – A Masterpiece of 2017
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26 May 2017
RFC 8140 – A Masterpiece of 2017
The IETF’s (Internet Engineering Task Force) official products are documents, published free of charge as RFCs. “RFC” stands for...
RFC 7908 Defines BGP Route Leaks. Now, How Do We Prevent Them?
Building Trust
23 June 2016
RFC 7908 Defines BGP Route Leaks. Now, How Do We Prevent Them?
RFC 7908, “Problem Definition and Classification of BGP Route Leaks,” has been just published. While “route leak” was a...
Blocking and Filtering: RFC 7754 in a Collaborative Security Context
Building Trust
4 March 2016
Blocking and Filtering: RFC 7754 in a Collaborative Security Context
The other day, I planned to take my 15-year-old son to the movie theatre to see “Hateful Eight” in...
DNSSEC Algorithm Roll-over
Deploy360
7 November 2015
DNSSEC Algorithm Roll-over
RIPE Labs have just published an interesting article about their experiences of rolling over the algorithm used to sign...
46 Years of RFCs (Celebrating The Anniversary of RFC 1)
IETF
7 April 2015
46 Years of RFCs (Celebrating The Anniversary of RFC 1)
By way of a tweet from @IETF this morning, it was fun to note that it was 46 years...
New RFC 7381: Enterprise IPv6 Deployment Guidelines
Deploy360
24 October 2014
New RFC 7381: Enterprise IPv6 Deployment Guidelines
Would you like guidelines for how IPv6 can best be deployed in an enterprise environment? Yesterday the IETF published...
A Very Useful New RFC 7059 – A Comparison of IPv6-over-IPv4 Tunnel Mechanisms
Deploy360
27 November 2013
A Very Useful New RFC 7059 – A Comparison of IPv6-over-IPv4 Tunnel Mechanisms
If you can’t get a native IPv6 connection for your network from your local Internet Service Provider (ISP), what kind of...
Want To Make Your Web Content Available over IPv6? Check Out The Excellent RFC 6589
Deploy360
25 April 2012
Want To Make Your Web Content Available over IPv6? Check Out The Excellent RFC 6589
Are you a “content provider,” such as a website operator, seeking to understand how to ensure your content is...