RFCs

Celebrating 50 Years of the RFCs That Define How the Internet Works
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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
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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
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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
Deploy360 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?
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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
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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)
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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...