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the seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security
by Jim Reid 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Sigh. Just sigh. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/28/seven-people-keys-worldwi… Well at least the article has a photo of Rick Lamb in a suit and tie, so it's not all bad... :-)

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Re: [dns-wg] the seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security
by Michele Neylon - Blacknight 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

Jim Yeah - I'm shocked that the expenses aren't covered already. I assumed that they were Regards Michele -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Domains http://www.blacknight.co/ http://blog.blacknight.com/ http://www.technology.ie Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Locall: 1850 929 929 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Fax. +353 (0) 1 4811 763 Twitter: http://twitter.com/mneylon ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,Ireland Company No.: 370845 -----Original Message----- From: Jim Reid [mailto:jim@rfc1035.com] Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 2:59 PM To: Michele Neylon - Blacknight Cc: RIPE DNS WG Subject: Re: [dns-wg] the seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security On 3 Mar 2014, at 14:52, Michele Neylon - Blacknight <michele(a)blacknight.com> wrote: > Doesn't ICANN / IANA cover their expenses?? No. The TCRs must pay their own way or get their employer to pick up the travel costs. IMO this should change.

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Re: [dns-wg] the seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security
by Michele Neylon - Blacknight 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

What? Doesn't ICANN / IANA cover their expenses?? -- Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Domains http://www.blacknight.co/ http://blog.blacknight.com/ http://www.technology.ie Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 Locall: 1850 929 929 Direct Dial: +353 (0)59 9183090 Fax. +353 (0) 1 4811 763 Twitter: http://twitter.com/mneylon ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,Ireland Company No.: 370845 -----Original Message----- From: dns-wg-bounces(a)ripe.net [mailto:dns-wg-bounces@ripe.net] On Behalf Of Lutz Donnerhacke Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 2:40 PM To: dns-wg(a)ripe.net Subject: Re: [dns-wg] the seven people who hold the keys to worldwide internet security * Kim Davies wrote: > I actually think the story does a great job of making a deathly boring procedure interesting and accessible. It's not only boring. It's expensive, too. The participants have to pay for the fame.

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FYI, new ICANN SSAC advisories
by Jaap Akkerhuis 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

Dear All, Please note that two new SSAC Reports have been released in the last few days. They are: SAC064: SSAC Advisory on DNS "Search List" Processing and SAC065: SSAC Advisory on DDOS Attacks Leveraging DNS Infrastructure Both reports can be downloaded from <http://www.icann.org/en/groups/ssac/documents>. jaap

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Call for Presentations: RIPE 68, 12-16 May 2014 in Warsaw, Poland
by Benno Overeinder 14 Jan '14

14 Jan '14

Call for Presentations A RIPE Meeting is an open event where Internet Service Providers, network operators and other interested parties get together. Although the meeting is mostly technical, it is also a chance for people to meet and network with others in their field. RIPE 68 will take place from 12-16 May 2014 in Warsaw, Poland. The RIPE Programme Committee (PC) is now seeking content proposals from the RIPE community for the plenary session presentations, BoFs (Birds of a Feather sessions), panels, workshops, tutorials and lightning talks at RIPE 68. The PC is looking for presentations covering topics of network engineering and operations, including but not limited to: * IPv6 deployment * Managing IPv4 scarcity in operations * Commercial transactions of IPv4 addresses * Data centre technologies * Network and DNS operations * Internet governance and regulatory practices * Network and routing security * Content delivery * Internet peering and mobile data exchange Submissions RIPE Meeting attendees are quite sensitive to keeping presentations non-commercial, and product marketing talks are strongly discouraged. Repeated audience feedback shows that the most successful talks focus on operational experience, research results, or case studies. For example, presenters wishing to describe a commercial solution should focus on the underlying technology and not attempt a product demonstration. The RIPE PC accepts proposals for different presentation formats, including plenary session presentations, tutorials, workshops, BoFs (Birds of a Feather sessions) and lightning talks. See the full descriptions of these formats at https://ripe68.ripe.net/submit-topic/presentation-formats/. Presenters who are proposing a panel or BoF are encouraged to include speakers from several (perhaps even competing) companies and/or a neutral facilitator. In addition to presentations selected in advance for the plenary, the RIPE PC also offers several time slots for "lightning talks", which are selected immediately before or during the conference. The following general requirements apply: - Proposals for plenary session presentations, BoFs, panels, workshops and tutorials must be submitted for full consideration no later than 2 March 2014, using the meeting submission system at https://ripe68.ripe.net/submit-topic/guidelines/. Proposals submitted after this date will be considered on a space-available basis. - Lightning talks should also be submitted using the meeting submission system (https://ripe68.ripe.net/submit-topic/submission-form/) and can be submitted just days before the RIPE Meeting starts or even during the meeting week. The allocation of lightning talk slots will be announced in short notice---in some cases on the same day but often one day prior to the relevant session. - Presenters should indicate how much time they will require. See more information on time slot allocations per presentation format at https://ripe68.ripe.net/submit-topic/presentation-formats/. - Proposals for talks will only be considered by the PC if they contain at least draft presentation slides (slides may be updated later on). For panels, proposals must contain a clear description, as well as the names of invited panelists, presenters and moderators. - Due to potential technical issues, it is expected that most, if not all, presenters/panelists will be physically present at the RIPE Meeting. If you have any questions or requests concerning content submissions, please email pc [at] ripe [dot] net. -- Benno J. Overeinder NLnet Labs http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/

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Framework for DNSSEC audits
by Matthijs Mekking 07 Jan '14

07 Jan '14

Hi all, This might be of interest to you. In collaboration with SWITCH, we have developed a DNSSEC audit framework: http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/publications/dns-audit-framework-1.0.pdf The scope of the framework is largely based on the documents RFC 2870, RFC 6841, RFC 6781 and the Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment Guide from NIST. Having this publicly available we believe it will improve the deployment of DNSSEC. Best regards, Matthijs Mekking NLnet Labs

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Fake Conferences CSCI and WORLDCOMP of Hamid Arabnia
by rickardbrown＠hushmail.com 25 Dec '13

25 Dec '13

Fake Conferences CSCI and WORLDCOMP of Hamid Arabnia Hamid Arabnia from University of Georgia is well known for his fake WORLDCOMP conferences https://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf This website has an open challenge posted sometime in 2012 and it also has comments from several well-known researchers on WORLDCOMP. Hamd Arabnia never responded to these because his conferences are bogus. Hamid Arabnia (the money hungry professor) has recently started 2014 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI'14) http://www.americancse.org to deceive researchers further. CSCI'14 is started under the title of “American Council on Science and Education” which is a dummy corporation (does not exist anywhere in the world). Hamid Arabnia buried his name in the list of names of other innocent steering and program committee members of CSCI’14 to avoid any special attention. He knows that if his name is given any special attention then researchers immediately notice that the conference is fake due to his “track record” with WORLDCOMP. Hamid Arabnia (Guru of Fake Conferences and champion of academic scam) spoiled the reputations and careers of many authors who submitted papers to his infamous WORLDCOMP for more than a decade and he is now ready to do the same using CSCI. Interestingly, CSCI is scheduled to be held at the same venue where WORLDCOMP was held until 2012. CSCI has no general chair. It has no physical person’s name or physical address or phone number to contact. Only contact address is an email address. Hamid Arabnia and his puppets answer the emails, if needed, using fake names. Do not spoil your resume by submitting your papers in this bogus conference CSCI which will not be held beyond 2014. CSCI will not be indexed by DBLP. Recently, Hamid Arabnia paid money and published few “news articles” claiming him a victim of online harassment and cyber bullying. Now he started posting (using fake names and through his puppets) in various emails, blogs and forums, referring to those “news articles” and trying to get back sympathy and trust of the research community to make his CSCI successful. Hamid Arabnia is a Wolf in a Sheep’s skin. We challenge Hamid Arabnia to openly publish the names and affiliation details of the reviewers for thousands of research papers submitted to WORLDCOMP for the last thirteen years. We also challenge Hamid Arabnia to openly publish all the reviews (after removing authors identification details) for all the thousands of research papers submitted to WORLDCOMP for the last thirteen years. There are more challenges at https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1 We know that he never accepts these challenges because there were no reviews and no reviewers and he simply cheated the research community for all these years. We are not surprised if he comes out tomorrow claiming that his computer crashed and he lost the reviews and reviewers’ details. He can play any deceiving trick. See the important website https://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 for more information on WORLDCOMP, including links to DBLP stop indexing WORLDCOMP proceedings. See http://worldcomp-fake-bogus.blogspot.com for Hamid Arabnia and his puppet’s Anti-Christmas Greetings campaign. We ask Hamid Arabnia and his puppets to address the above issues and challenges before posting any other message. Do not spoil your resume by publishing in the fake conferences of Hamid Arabnia. Sincerely, Many researchers cheated by the conferences of Hamid Arabnia

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FWD: Call for Presentations - DNS-OARC Spring Workshop, May 2014
by Peter Koch 20 Dec '13

20 Dec '13

FYI, this is the weekend before the Warsaw RIPE meeting. We'll talk to each other re: topics and presentations, as with prior adjacent events. There will be a call for presentations for the RIPE DNS WG early Jan 2014. Season's Greetings, Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Presentations - DNS-OARC Spring Workshop, May 2014 Next OARC Spring Workshop will take place in Warsaw, Poland on May 10th and 11th, the weekend before RIPE68. OARC is requesting proposals for presentations, with a preference for DNS privacy and confidentiality work and ideas, and DNS over alternative (non UDP) transports. This workshop continues OARC's tradition of having meetings include a strong operational component. Presentations from DNS operators are particularly welcome. We'll also gladly accept talks from DNS researchers, as well as any other DNS-related subjects such as tools, visualizations and data analysis. If you are an OARC member, and have a sensitive topic you would like to present for members-only, we will accommodate those talks too. Adopting practice from other conferences, a section of lightning talks will be added for short presentations. Workshop Milestones * 20 December 2013, Call for Presentations posted * 6 January 2014, Open for submissions * 1 March 2014, Deadline for submission * 28 March 2014, Final Program published * May 9 2014, Final deadline for slideset submission Details for abstract submission will be published here: https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/workshop-2014-05 at the beginning of January 2014. If you consider submitting a presentation, please let the Programme Committee know in advance to help us organize the presentations tracks. You can contact the Programme Committee: https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/programme via submissions(a)dns-oarc.net if you have questions or concerns. Sebastian Castro, for the OARC Programme Committee (Please note that OARC is run on a non-profit basis, and is not in a position to reimburse expenses or time for speakers at its meetings.)

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RIPE NCC Authoritative DNS service degraded
by Anand Buddhdev 15 Nov '13

15 Nov '13

Dear colleagues, The RIPE NCC's authoritative DNS infrastructure is experiencing a very high query rate at the moment. This query rate is more than our routers can handle, and as a result, responses from our name servers are sporadic. We are working on mitigating this denial-of-service event. Please check our service outages page for updates. http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/service-announcements Regards, Anand Buddhdev RIPE NCC

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New on RIPE Labs: New gTLD Concerns: Dotless Names and Name Collisions
by Mirjam Kuehne 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Dear colleagues, We published a new article by Geoff Huston on RIPE Labs: New gTLD Concerns: Dotless Names and Name Collisions https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gih/dotless-names In the long discussions about the new generic Top level Domains (gTLD), there were two technical topics that were the subject of many assertions and little in the way of observed data. The first concerned the viability of a so-called "dotless" name, where the gTLD label itself contains an IP address in the DNS, and the second concerns the concept of "name collisions" between existing local use of a name and the same name being delegated as a new gTLD. This article explores these two topics, and adds some data to the debate in the way of observed behaviours of the way common operating systems and browsers handle names. Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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