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| Blog | Age | Hits | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2201d | 219 | Peaceful transfer of power? GNSO’s next chair is a shoo-in Unlike other upcoming democratic processes we could mention, it looks like the transition to a new chair of ICANN s GNSO Council will be peaceful, non-controversial, and probably won t result in widespread looting and... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2201d | 255 | Two American women appointed to ICANN board In a move that will surprise nobody, ICANN s Nominating Committee has maintained the status quo on the ICANN board of directors by reappointing two of its previous selections. NomCom s two picks are Sarah Deutsch and... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2201d | 221 | Europe’s top dogs could decide the future of Whois ICANN is pleading with the European Commission for legal clarity to help solve the two-year-old fight over the future of Whois in the age of GDPR. CEO Göran Marby has written to three commissioners to ask for a... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2202d | 185 | Airports of the world I miss travel, and I miss flying. At the end of March Lufthansa canceled two transatlantic flights I had booked, and that was that; no more flying for me (or for almost anybody else). Is that a reason I’m currently... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2205d | 196 | ICANN playing ping-pong on closed generics controversy ICANN s board of directors has refused to comment on the issue of closed generic gTLDs, bouncing the thorny issue back to the community. In its response to the SubPro working group s draft final report this week, the... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2205d | 216 | Has ICANN cut off its regulatory hands? ICANN may have voluntarily cut off its power to enforce bans on things like cyberbullying, pornography and copyright infringement in future new gTLDs. Its board of directors yesterday informed the chairs of SubPro, the... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2205d | 219 | Authoritative 4.4.0-alpha1 Hello! we are very happy to announce version 4.4.0-alpha1 of the Authoritative Server. This release drops GSS/TSIG support, please see PowerDNS Security Advisory 2020-06. Version 4.4.0 brings a bunch of exciting changes:... |
| PowerDNS Blog | 2205d | 200 | DNSDist 1.5.1 released This release fixes a few issues discovered since 1.5.0: the thread handling responses sent from a backend was not stopped when that backend was removed ; getEDNSOptions() would throw an exception for queries with an... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2205d | 221 | RFC 8915: Network Time Security for the Network Time... Ce nouveau RFC spécifie un mécanisme de sécurité pour le protocole de synchronisation d'horloges NTP. Une heure incorrecte peut empêcher, par exemple, de valider des certificats cryptographiques. Ou fausser les... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2205d | 240 | La question de la 5G mérite-t-elle autant de passions ? Dans une société démocratique, les controverses ne manquent pas. Dans l'espace public, on discute de plein de sujets, et chacun a son opinion, qui est légitime par définition, dans une démocratie. Cette variété... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2206d | 218 | Will you shut up, man? Trump takedown domain on sale for... Proving once again that there s no neologism or emergent catchphrase that won t be registered as a .com, a domainer has put willyoushutupman.com on sale in the wake of last night s ludicrous US Presidential debate. The... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2206d | 198 | MMX revenue down even as sales rise during pandemic New gTLD registry MMX saw its revenue dip in the first half of the year, even as the number of domain names it sold increased. The company today reported a net profit after tax of $1.2 million, down from $1.7 million a... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2206d | 165 | Mikrodystopies Beaucoup de gens sur Twitter ont déjà lu les , ces très courtes histoires d'un futur techniquement avancé mais pas forcément très heureux. Les voici réunies dans un livre (https://cfeditions.com/mikrodystopies/), le... |
| Miek Gieben | 2206d | 51 | Tweets of September 30 2020 I see no reason to change everything, so I use caddy v1, but panic: qtls.ConnectionState not compatible with tls.ConnectionState damnit Wed Sep 30 05:52:54 +0000 2020 Replying to @_francislavoie Probably will do that,... |
| DomainIncite (Kevin Murphy) | 2207d | 189 | This ICANN comment period is a Kafkaesque nightmare With the deadline for commenting on draft new gTLD program rules rapidly approaching, you may be tempted to visit the ICANN web site to peruse the comments that have already been submitted by others. Good bloody luck.... |
| ISC.org | 2207d | 8 | The History of DHCP Development of the DHCP Protocol The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) was first defined as a standards-track protocol in RFC 1531 in October 1993, as an extension to the Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP), a network... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2207d | 186 | Using {{ ansible_managed }} in Ansible templates When we originally contributed the {{ ansible_managed }} feature to the Ansible project it was quite rudimentary: the intention was to have a token which would be templated out to ensure people looking at the remote file... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2209d | 182 | Technologies partout, démocratie nulle part La question de la démocratie face aux choix techniques est une question cruciale pour nos sociétés où la technique joue un rôle si important. À une extrêmité, il y a des gens qui défendent l'idée que le peuple est... |
| Jan-Piet Mens | 2209d | 209 | It used to be simpler to teach When I began teaching Unix around anno 1986, the Unix ls(1) utility printed a list of files to stdout , one per line. It was trivial to explain the concept of not requiring a program which tells you how many files you... |
| Stephane Bortzmeyer | 2210d | 203 | La guerre des russes blancs Une étude détaillée d'un des camps de la guerre civile russe, les blancs. Qui étaient-ils, qu'ont-ils fait, et pourquoi ont-ils perdu ? |
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