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3108d297Panic stations as Europe plays hardball on Whois privacy
Hopes that Whois records will continue to be available to broad sections of the internet community appeared dashed this week as European data protection heads ripped holes in ICANN s plan for the industry to comply with...
3108d252101domain founder Wolfgang Reile dies at 67
Wolfgang Reile, founder and former CEO of the registrar 101domain, has died, according to his former business partner and other sources. He died unexpectedly at 67, April 6, according to Anthony Beltran, who took over...
3113d218DNSSEC localized validation
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3113d313ICANN confirms GoDaddy Whois probe
ICANN is looking into claims that GoDaddy is in breach of its registrar accreditation contract. The organization last week told IP lawyer Brian Winterfeldt that his complaint about the market-leading registrar throttling...
3113d259Grumpier Aussies call for more blood on the auDA boardroom..
A group of pissed-off members of the Australian domain name industry are calling for the heads of auDA s CEO, its new chair, and two other members of its board. A triumvirate of long-time participants in the auDA...
3114d263À propos d'une tribune « Contre le numérique à l’école »
Dans Libération daté du 5 avril 2018, on a pu lire une tribune d'« un collectif d'enseignants » s'opposant vigoureuresement au numérique à l'école. Quels étaient leurs arguments ?
3115d223RFC 8352: Energy-Efficient Features of Internet of Things...
Les objets contraints, engins connectés ayant peu de capacités (un capteur de température dans la nature, par exemple), ont en général une réserve d'énergie électrique très limitée, fournie par des piles ou batteries à...
3116d240RFC 8360: Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI)...
La RPKI est un ensemble de formats et de règles pour certifier qui est le titulaire d'une ressource Internet, une ressource étant un préfixe d'adresses IP, un numéro de système autonome, etc. La RPKI est utilisée dans...
3117d296Afilias scraps plan to scrap Whois
Afilias has temporarily suspended its plan to migrate its TLDs to an essentially thin Whois model. In what appears to be an effort to roll back some GDPR-related gun-jumping, the registry said it will instead wait and...
3117d283auDA role “could have killed me” says resigning domainer
Domainer and activist blogger Ned O Meara has resigned from the auDA board of directors, about four months after being elected. He said in an apologetic blog post that the negative stress caused by being on the .au...
3118d258Whois policy group closes down in face of GDPR
An ICANN working group devoted to crafting Whois policy has closed down until further notice in light of the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The Registration Data Service Policy Development Process Working Group...
3118d263Marby ponders emergency powers to avoid fragmented Whois
ICANN could invoke emergency powers in its contracts to prevent Whois becoming fragmented after EU privacy laws kick in next month. That s a possibility that emerged during a DI interview with ICANN CEO Goran Marby...
3121d264ICANN heads to Mar-a-Lago for budget crisis talks
Cash-strapped ICANN has invited select community members to emergency budget talks at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, DI has learned. The three-day summit next week will address how best to spend the organization s...
3122d94Tweets of March 31 2018
Replying to @TonKersten and @jpmens The Go Programming Language is good as well. Sat Mar 31 11:23:39 +0000 2018 Replying to @jpmens and @TonKersten...
3123d285dnsdist 1.3.0 released
We are very happy to announce the 1.3.0 release of dnsdist, with a huge emphasis on privacy and scalability. Privacy A lot of users were interested in DNS over TLS support in dnsdist, to protect the privacy and integrity...
3124d259PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.2 Released
This release improves the stability and resiliency of the RPZ implementation and fixes several issues related to EDNS Client Subnet. The full changelog looks like this: New Features #6344: Add FFI version of gettag()....
3124d230RFC 8354: Use Cases for IPv6 Source Packet Routing in...
Le sigle SPRING signifie « Source Packet Routing In NetworkinG ». C'est quoi, le routage par la source (source routing) ? Normalement, la transmission de paquets IP se fait uniquement en fonction de l'adresse de...
3125d287Registrars will miss GDPR deadline by a mile
Registries and registrars won t be able to implement ICANN s proposed overhaul of the Whois system in time for the EU s General Data Protection Regulation coming into effect. That s according to an estimated timetable...
3125d246ICANN chief begs privacy watchdogs for Whois advice
ICANN CEO Goran Marby has written to the data protection authorities of all 28 European Union states, along with the European Data Protection Supervisor, to ask for guidance on how to implement new privacy laws. Marby...
3125d239My comments on the ICANN root DNSSEC key rollover
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