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4320d464ARI: digital archery is a lottery and we can prove it
ARI Registry Services has tested ICANN s digital archery system and concluded that it s little better than a lottery . The company today released the results of a network latency test that it conducted earlier this...
4320d453Three more digital archery services launch
Surely the market must be saturated by now? With a little over a week left before ICANN shuts down its digital archery new gTLD batching mechanism, three more companies are vying for applicants business. We ve received...
4320d479Delays likely as governments demand gTLD timetable rethink
If you think you ll be able to launch your new generic top level domain in the first quarter of 2013, you can pretty much forget it. The Governmental Advisory Committee told ICANN yesterday that it does not think it will...
4321d421Les chinois vont-ils diviser le DNS, laquer les canards et..
Pour du buzz, ça c'est du buzz. Trois employés d'opérateurs réseau chinois ont réussi à faire beaucoup parler d'eux, du DNS et de la Chine, en publiant un Internet-Draft intitulé « DNS Extension for Autonomous Internet...
4321d448The TLD Song: an instant classic
I may not agree with all of Lauren Weinstein s views on ICANN s new generic top-level domain expansion, but damn, the man can spoof a Gilbert Sullivan song. Kudos, sir. No related posts. No related posts.
4321d438ICANN CEO to be announced Friday
ICANN will reveal the identity of its new CEO at a press conference this coming Friday. But there s a rumor going around that he or she is not expected to actually join the organization until September. ICANN has just...
4321d433Enforcer NG alpha-3 snapshot
We have now released a third alpha snapshot of the upcoming version of Enforcer. This version should only be used for testing, but we welcome feedback on it. Enforcer NG Key Features: Support for a large number of zones...
4321d401OpenDNSSEC 1.3.9
Version 1.3.9 of OpenDNSSEC has now been released: OPENDNSSEC-277: Enforcer: Performance optimisation of database access. Bugfixes: SUPPORT-27: ods-ksmutil: simplify zone delete so that it only marks keys as dead (rather...
4321d434China proposes to split up the DNS
A trio of Chinese techies have proposed a new IETF standard to enable governments to break up the Domain Name System along national borders. Named DNS Extension for Autonomous Internet (AIP) , the spec describes a way to...
4322d404RFC 6548: Independent Submission Editor Model
Si vous n'aimez pas les RFC de procédure, et que vous ne voulez que de la technique, rassurez-vous, ce document est court : il spécifie le rôle et les qualités de l'ISE (Independent Submission Editor), celui (ou celle)...
4322d487RFC 6647: Email Greylisting: An Applicability Statement...
La lutte contre le spam est un domaine où les certitudes (souvent assénées avec conviction) sont plus fortes que les faits. Prenez n'importe quel forum, en ligne ou ailleurs, où on discute des mesures qui pourraient...
4322d622RFC 6672: DNAME Redirection in the DNS
Depuis sa normalisation dans le RFC 1034, le DNS a suscité le développement d'innombrables extensions, plus ou moins réalistes, plus ou moins utilisées. L'enregistrement DNAME, sujet de ce RFC, semble encore très peu...
4322d426ICANN apologizes for gTLD privacy snafu
ICANN s top brass have sent personal apologies to the people whose home addresses were exposed when it published their new gTLD applications last week. The organization blamed human error and said it is now conducting an...
4322d474RFC6672: DNAME redirection in the DNS
The DNAME record provides redirection for a subtree of the domain name tree in the DNS.
4322d463RFC6635: RFC Editor Model (2)
This document describes the the RFC Series functions: the RFC Series Editor, the RFC Production Center, and the RFC Publisher.
4322d455RFC 6605: ECDSA for DNSSEC
This document describes how to specify Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) keys and signatures in DNS Security (DNSSEC).
4322d356OpenDNSSEC 1.3.9 released
Bugfix release. For downloads and more information about future release plans, visit the OpenDNSSEC website.
4322d441The stupidest gTLD applications I’ve seen so far
Who the hell advised these guys? Mitek USA, a maker of prefabricated building components (hinges, brackets, etc), has applied for four new generic top-level domains with the shoddiest applications I ve seen so far. For...
4322d455The registry back-end market numbers are in
The top five registry back-end providers account for almost 72% of all new generic top-level domain applications, according to DI s preliminary numbers. Neustar, Demand Media, Afilias, Verisign and ARI Registry Services...
4323d420Exposé politique « Le geek, le technocrate et le politique..
Le 16 juin, au festival Pas Sage en Seine (http://www.passageenseine.org/pses-2012), j'ai eu le plaisir de faire un exposé sur la politique, notamment sur ses rapports avec la technique. Carl Sagan disait (dans son livre...
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