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ISOC Member Newsletter - March 2010
Internet Society Briefing Panel IPv6 Deployment Momentum at IETF 77
Following the successful lunch-time panels at IETF Meetings in 2009, the Internet Society organized a panel at IETF 77 to explore the reasons for the progress of, and momentum behind, IPv6 deployment. While the number of addresses available under IPv4 is dwindling, it is also clear that decision makers are increasingly motivated by additional reasons to deploy IPv6 – and making the move earlier rather than later. A diverse panel of experts shared their real-life experiences with, and data on, IPv6. Panelists included:
- Geoff Huston, APNIC
- Jason Livingood, Comcast
- David Temkin, Netflix
- Magnus Westerlund, Ericsson Research
All details of the panel, including an archive of the live audiocast, slides, and more information about the panelists, are available at:
http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ipv6momentum/
Chapter update: Kolkata
Contributed by Anupam Agrawal
Internet Society Kolkata Chapter (ISOC-IKOL) has participated in various conferences and workshops in last couple of months. ISOC-IKOL particiapted in the regional conference of Computer Society of India, which was held at Jadvapur University campus in Kolkata. At this meeting, our chair, Anupam Agrawal, presented on Internet Governance and Mr. Niel Hirjee, vice chair of the Chapter took a session on email Security. ISOC-IKOL also participated in the Annual Conference of ISACA Kolkata Chapter. Herein, the session on Internet Governance was taken by Anupam Agrawal. ISOC IKOL was also invited to speak in the workshop organized by Bureau of Police Research in Kolkata wherein a presentation on Internet Governance was done by Anupam Agrawal and session on Banking Security was done by Niel Hirjee.
Internet Society Kolkata Chapter is working currently on Secured WiFi networks and has come up with a “Do’s and Dont’s” guideline. This will be shared with all the stakeholders and ISOC IKOL will participate in a seminar being organized on this subject in April by the local administrative and police authorities.
Chapter update: New York
Contributed by Joly MacFie
18 March, 2010 was registration day for the Harlem Internet Computer Access Program, partly funded by the ISOC Community Grants Programme. There was an excellent turnout with more than 20 enrollees, all seniors, including a vivacious 90-year-old. Classes begin 30 March. http://hicap.blogspot.com/
On 25 March, 2010 ISOC-NY hosted NYU Prof. Jinyang Li in a talk about the use of distributed systems, and particularly the use of the Kaleidoscope Firefox plug-in, in circumventing censorship. http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=1485
On 10 April 2010, an all day symposium is planned for respondents to New York City’s request for proposals to manage a .nyc top level domain on its behalf. Thus far, representatives of CORE and Level Domain Holdings are lined up. We expect to add a session to discuss possible community aspects of .nyc, and, if we have time, an additional session to discuss the still open Vertical Integration issue. This will be of interest to any community contemplating applying for their own TLD. http://isoc-ny.org
NYU has confirmed that the ISOC New York Chapter will be able to once again sponsor a Computers & Society speaker series this fall, as we did two years ago. It’s going to be hard to beat the spectacular line-up we presented then, but we are working on it. Again assisted by ISOC Community Programme funds. Suggestions and nominations for speakers and topics welcome!
http://isoc-ny.org/wiki/Computers_and_Society_2010
ISOC-NY has established ‘user group’ status with technical publisher O’Reilly. This will enable our members to get discounts on books, and we have just received an initial shipment of free samples. If interested in setting up something similar for your own chapter contact David Solomonoff at president@isoc-ny.org.
I would again remind everyone that our open noticeboard is at http://isoc-ny.org/p2 and those with Facebook accounts can get automatic updates via http://www.facebook.com/pages/Internet-Society-New-York-Chapter-ISOC-NY/148919638537
Chapter update: Australia
Contributed by Holly Raiche
This month, the Internet Society Australia Chapter was very pleased that two of our Directors and the Executive Director met with the head of the Regional Bureau for Asia, Rajnesh Singh. After a quick tour of the Sophos offices and explanation of how their systems work (one of our Directors, Rob Forsyth, is MD Aisa Pacific of Sophos) we reviewed ISOC activities in the region, ISOC-AU activities, and the role ISOC-AU can play within ISOC.
Another of our Directors, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, who is also Chair of ALAC within the ICANN structure, participated in the ICANN meeting in Nairobi. We are still participating in the ICANN team looking at possible amendments to the Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA), and the Executive Director attended another of the auDA meetings on possible net 2TLDs within the .au space.
We also participated in policy discussions within ACCAN – the peak telecommunications consumers organization, talking about Australia’s planned national broadband network, how it will improve access to the Internet, and some the issues it raises for users.
We will be holding our next IPv6 Summit workshop on 18 October, and the 2 day conference on 19-20 October, in Melbourne. The theme of this year’s summit is “IPv6: You are Standing In It” – in other words, it’s time to stop talking about when it is coming, and recognise that IPv6 is here and everyone needs to climb on board.
Chapter update: Nigeria
Contributed by Giandomenico Massari
A Internet Society Nigeria Chapter, Nigerian Society of Engineers, NEPAD, and Rivers State government team traveled to South Africa in February 2010 for the implementation of an ICT and Agriculture project. Recently, this team also held several meetings on how to implement the ICT/Earth Box/Growing Connection concept in the southern part of Nigeria. The pilot project is targeted to be implemented in June 2010.
In the course of the meetings the following issues were resolved:
- The pilot project of the Growing Connection will be sited at Ubima in Rivers State.
- A second site will be at the Rivers State University of Science & Technology, Port Harcourt.
- Contacts were made with the makers of Rural Internet Kiosk (RIK) in Kenya. The RIK is an independent Internet facility that is made up of three computers, a solar panel and a VSAT dish. The RIK is a fully independent solar-powered, mobile Internet kiosk that can easily be relocated in case the Growing Connection facility needs to be relocated.
- The acquisition of the land for the project is almost concluded.
- The people that will take care of the ICT in agriculture farms will be identified and educated on the project before attending the training.
- A train-the-trainer programme will be organized for the personnel that will oversee the project. The team is in high spirits and ready to implement the Growing Connection as soon as possible.
The team is billed for another meeting in the next two weeks to ascertain the progress made so far.
Call for Nominations: 2010 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award
The Internet Society (ISOC) announces a call for nominations for the 2010 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award. This annual award is presented to an individual or organization that has made outstanding contributions in service to the data communications community. This year the award will be presented during the 78th Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting in Maastricht, Netherlands, 25-30 July 2010. The award includes a presentation crystal and a prize of USD 20,000. The Internet Society requests nominations of qualified candidates.
About the Award
The Jonathan B. Postel Service Award was established by the Internet Society to honor a person who has made outstanding contributions in service to the data communications community. The award is focused on sustained and substantial technical contributions, service to the community, and leadership. With respect to leadership, the committee places particular emphasis on candidates who have supported and enabled others in addition to their own specific actions.
The award is named for Dr. Jonathan B. Postel to recognize and commemorate the extraordinary stewardship exercised by Jon over the course of a thirty year career in networking. He served as the editor of the RFC series of notes from its inception in 1969 until 1998. He also served as the ARPANET “numbers Czar” and Internet Assigned Numbers Authority over the same period of time. He was a founding member of the Internet Architecture (nee Activities) Board and the first individual member of the Internet Society, where he also served as a Trustee. More information on Jon Postel’s life and contributions is available here.
Award Nomination Procedure
Nominations will open on 31 March, via an online form and will be accepted until the deadline of 28 May 2010. More information on the nomination process will soon be published here.
Thank you in advance for your support,
- The Jonathan B. Postel Service Award 2010 Nominating Committee
Young people using Internet and Mobiles to get action on UN MDGs!
WSYA 2010 calls ISOC for Ambassadors and Contest-Registration
- Contributed by the World Sumit Youth Awards
Members of the Internet Society are invited to support young people using Internet and Mobiles to get Action on UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by becoming a World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) Ambassador for 2010.
By promoting the WSYA and thus the Internet use for MDGs within their network, ISOC members demonstrate the good use and benefits of an open and global Internet to be a platform for innovation and creativity, openness and democracy.
For more information on how to become an Ambassador, please find the invitation document here: http://cms.icnm.net/upload/web/3/medien/wsya10_ambassadors_me_100304.pdf
Online Registration for contest 2010!
The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) invites young people under the age of 30 to participate in an international competition and to address in an inspiring manner the MDGs using Internet and mobile contents.
In mid April, 2010 the Online Registration will start: Any e-Content projects creating awareness of the MDGs and showing action towards reaching those goals can be submitted in six categories at www.youthaward.org until mid of June 2010.
WSYA Winners Events in NY!
The results and winning youth projects of this years contest will be presented at the WSYA Winners Events at UN Review Summit next September in New York City, where the leaders of the world will meet to take stock and chart a new course on the MDGs.
World Summit Award newsletter available
The latest issue of the World Summit Award newsletter is now available, featuring news on:
- World Summit Youth Award in New York
- Success Story about Participatory 3D Modeling – WSA 2007 Winner
- Presentation of WSA Winners 2009: Category e-Learning & Education
- Special about WSA 2009 Winner Genomics Digital Lab (GDL)
The WSA “Four Minute Review” is available here…
The Internet Society is a partner of the WSA and is a proud sponsor of the WSA Youth Awards, held in conjunction with the main Awards.
Internet Society Fellowship to the IETF – 2009 Year in Review
With the completion of its third full year, the Internet Society (ISOC) Fellowship to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) continues to engage technologists from developing countries and to enrich the Internet development community, both internationally and on the local level. As an integral part of ISOC’s Next Generation Leaders Programme, the Fellowship fosters a greater understanding of and participation in the Internet standards-setting process among individuals who might otherwise be unable to contribute to and benefit from the work of the IETF. In 2009, the Fellowship supported 30 individual participants from 19 countries.
The full Year in Review report is available here…
Chapter update: Finland
Contributed by Tommi Karttaavi
ISOC Finland organized an event on Youth and the Internet on 10 February, 2010. The event was organized by ISOC Finland in cooperation with the Finnish Information Processing Association and the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities. The event was funded by ISOC under the event funding programme. The purpose of the event was to educate parents and teachers on the issues relating to youth and the Internet. The event was attended by approximately 100 participants and resulted in establishing the Facebook group “Nettivanhemmat” (”Net Parents”) which has 40 members at the moment. The event was recorded on video and the lectures can be watched online (in Finnish): http://www.ttlry.fi/koulutus/nuoret_ja_internet/
Chapter update: Ghana
ISOC Ghana Chapter and ghNOG organize ghNOG-2 Unix systems administration workshop and public meeting
Contributed by: Vera Doku
The Ghana Network Operators’ Group (ghNOG), in collaboration with the Internet Society Ghana Chapter (ISOC Ghana) and the Ghana Telecom University College (GTUC) held the ghNOG-2 Unix Systems Administration Workshop from 15-19 March, at the GTUC in Accra, Ghana. The workshop is an initiative of Internet Society, in partnership with AfNOG to build ICT capacity at the country level. The workshop, which is targeted at technical staff now providing Internet services or those who will be involved in establishing or providing basic Internet services in the country.
Participants in the workshop will be able to install, upgrade, secure, and competently manage the UNIX operating system on standard PC hardware, and use it to provide essential Internet services on a network. It is aimed at participants who are technically competent, but may have had little or no prior exposure to the UNIX environment.
The first ghNOG workshop (E0 Localization Unix System Administrative Workshop) in Ghana took place at the University of Cape Coast, in July 2009 and was organized by Internet Society Ghana Chapter. The Internet Society (Global), the proponent of the E0 localization workshops, AfNOG, and NSRC supported the workshop and meeting.
A public meeting will be held on Friday, March 19, under the theme: Towards an Enhanced Internet Infrastructure, where Internet technical community will make updates on their activities. A panel discussion on the ITU’s proposal to become an Internet Address Registry is scheduled to be on the programme. The general public is invited. For details of the programme, please go to http://www.isoc.gh/ghnog2/meeting.html.
ISOC’s Rough Guide to IETF 77’s Hot ics
IETF 77, the first IETF meeting of the year, will be held in Anaheim, California, USA, from 21-26 March 2010. Newcomers’ training and technical tutorials take place on the Sunday, with the working group, BoF, and plenary sessions happening during the week.
Once again, the Internet Society’s Standards and Technology team, with help from the Trust and Identity team, is pleased to bring you our regular rough guide to the sessions most relevant to our current work.
We have turned our attention to the following broad categories:
- Common and Open Internet
- Global Addressing
- Security and Stability
- Trust and Identity
Of course, with more than 100 working groups, there are many other important technologies under discussion. So for full details of the IETF 77 agenda, see:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/77/agenda.html
(All times below are local US Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-7)
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Common and Open Internet
As P2P and VoIP technologies become more prevalent, and network usage patterns sometimes deviate from their architects’ expectations, managing bandwidth to allow best use for customers becomes an increasingly important topic.
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alto (Application-Layer Traffic Optimization) WG
The alto WG is occupied with designing a service to provide applications with information from the network that enables them to perform better-than-random peer selection. In this context, there are various definitions of “better” (such as maximum throughput, minimum cross-domain traffic, and lowest cost to the user).
Full charter: http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/alto-charter.html
Agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/alto/agenda
(22 March, 17:40-19:40)
conex (Congestion Exposure) BOF
Congestion Exposure (ConEx) is a proposed new IETF activity to enable congestion to be exposed along the forwarding path of the Internet. By revealing expected congestion in the IP header of packets, congestion exposure provides a generic network capability which allows greater freedom over how capacity is shared. Such information could be used for many purposes, including congestion policing, accountability and inter-domain SLAs. It may also open new approaches to QoS and traffic engineering.
This will be the second ConEx BOF, with discussions aiming to tighten up the intent and scope of the work plan for a proposed charterable WG activity.
Proposed charter: http://www.ietf.org/iesg/evaluation/conex-charter.txt
Related drafts:
- http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-moncaster-conex-problem-00
- http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-tschofenig-conex-ps-02
Agenda: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/10mar/agenda/conex.txt
(24 March, 15:10-16:10 and 25 March 15:10-16:10)
decade (Decoupled Application Data Enroute) BOF
This BOF has been formed to investigate ways to define a standard way for P2P applications to make use of in-network storage.
Draft charter: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/decade/current/msg00175.html
This BOF expected to become a working group.
Agenda: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/10mar/agenda/decade.txt
(26 March, 13:00-15:15)
ledbat (Low Extra Delay Background Transport) WG
This Working Group is working on defining a congestion control algorithm that enables bandwidth intensive, background file-transfer applications (such as P2P) to automatically get out of the way when real-time, conversational, or interactive applications (such as VoIP or Web browsing) need service from the network.
Full charter: http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/ledbat-charter.html
Agenda: Not yet available.
(22 March, 09:00-11:30)
mptcp (Multipath TCP) WG
This working group is developing mechanisms that add the capability of simultaneously using multiple paths to a regular TCP session. The primary output of the group will be the protocol extensions needed to deploy MPTCP, and adaptations to congestion control to safely support multipath resource sharing. This work has the potential to greatly improve robustness and resilience of Internet connectivity for multihomed sites.
Full charter: http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/mptcp-charter.html
Agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/mptcp/agenda
(23 March, 15:20-17:20)
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Global Addressing
There is steadily increasing momentum to deploy IPv6 as the IPv4 address pool approaches depletion. While much work is ongoing to support interoperability in coexisting IPv4 and IPv6 network environments, there are also interesting developments in emerging IPv6 environments.
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behave (Behavior Engineering for Hindrance Avoidance) WG
While behave was chartered to create mechanisms for transiting NATs in reliable ways, most of its activity is now focused on protocol translation from IPv4 to IPv6 in a number of different scenarios. Of particular interest in these scenarios is how the proposed mechanisms deal with DNS operation across the two protocol realms (and whether it is possible to maintain any kind of reasonable operation of secure DNS in such a scenario).
Full charter: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/behave-charter.html
The IETF and 3GPP held a joint workshop on IPv6 deployment strategies for 3GPP networks on 1 and 2 March. Dan Wing has produced a summary meeting report of that meeting, which will be published in the forthcoming IETF Journal. There may also be a discussion of this meeting during the INT area meeting at IETF (at time of writing, an agenda has not yet been posted). One of the important outcomes seemed to be a recognition that there is not community support for PNAT based proposals. The first session is set aside to close out the remaining comments on the 6to4 protocol translation documents (address format, dns64, v6v4 framework, 64 translation).
Agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/behave/agenda
(25 March, 13:00-15:15)
core (Constrained RESTful Environments) WG
(formed from 6lowapp (Application Protocols for Low-power v6 Networks) BOF
The 6lowapp BOF has indeed been chartered as a working group, called CoRE. CoRE is providing a framework for resource-oriented applications intended to run on constrained IP networks. A constrained IP network has limited packet sizes, may exhibit a high degree of packet loss, and may have a substantial number of devices that may be powered off at any point in time but periodically “wake up” for brief periods of time.
Full charter: http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/core-charter.html
CoRE will hold its first working group meeting at IETF 77. The 6lowapp BOF has been considering whether different protocols, or modifications to existing protocols, are needed for very low power devices that may proliferate for sensor type networks.
Agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/core/agenda
(25 March, 09:00-11:30)
intarea (Internet Area)
A request has been made to present draft-ford-shared-addressing-issues (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ford-shared-addressing-issues-02) at this meeting and to request adoption as a working group work item. This work was co-authored and edited by ISOC staff.
Agenda: not available
v6ops (IPv6 Operations) WG
The IPv6 Operations Working Group (v6ops) develops guidelines for the operation of a shared IPv4/IPv6 Internet and provides operational guidance on how to deploy IPv6 into existing IPv4-only networks, as well as into new network installations.
Full charter: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/v6ops-charter.html
Agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/v6ops/agenda
(26 March, 09:00-11:30)
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Security and Stability
Securing the DNS and greater assurance in routing is critical for the ongoing expansion and evolution of the Internet in all areas of our societies and economies.
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dnsop (Domain Name System Operations) WG
The dnsop WG works on various operational aspects of the Domain Name System.
Full charter: http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/dnsop-charter.html
Yahoo! has a proposal for improving the behavior of recursive name resolvers for IPv6. There is no draft for this yet, but there is a planned discussion of this in the DNSOP working group. Yahoo has presented this proposal in NANOG and this is an opportunity for a wider audience review.
Agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/dnsop/agenda
(24 March, 13:00-15:00)
karp (Keying and Authentication for Routing Protocols) WG
Many routing protocol deployments, if they use authentication at all, are using older (possibly deprecated) cryptographic algorithms and missing some modern security mechanisms, like replay protection, algorithm agility, or key rollover. In addition, many use the same key permanently. This needs to be fixed. Additionally, key management for routing protocols needs to be added to easily address the terminated-employee problem of compromised shared secrets. Such key management needs to work over multicast media, and needs to work directly over the link layer in some cases (since routing depends upon it).
Full charter: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/karp/charters
This recently chartered working group will address a package of framework docments drawn from the work of the original BOF participants
Agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/karp/agenda
(23 March, 09:00-11:30)
RRG (Routing Research Group)
The Routing Research Group (RRG) is chartered to explore routing and addressing problems that are important to the development of the Internet but are not yet mature enough for engineering work within the IETF.
Group charter: http://www.irtf.org/charter?gtype=rg&group=rrg
The RRG has been considering a number of proposals for solving the route scaling “problem” in the routing infrastructure. During the meeting on Friday these proposals will be reviewed and discussed. The RADIR produced an Internet draft that may be used as input to this discussion, available here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-narten-radir-problem-statement. One of the key issues is to what extent the problem has been analyzed since the IAB workshop on routing and addressing in October, 2006.
Agenda: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/irtf/trac/wiki/RRGagendaAnaheim
(26 March, 09:00-11:30)
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Trust and identity
As public concerns increase about security of infrastructure, privacy, trust, and identity on the Internet, these themes recur in several working group discussions.
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Applications Area Open Meeting
At this session, two new SASL related drafts of interest to identity providers will be covered.
- A SASL Mechanism for SAML http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wierenga-ietf-sasl-saml-00
This memo specifies a SASL mechanism for SAML 2.0 that allows the integration of existing SAML Identity Providers with applications using SASL. - A SASL Mechanism for OpenID http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lear-ietf-sasl-openid-00
This memo specifies a SASL mechanism for OpenID that allows the integration of existing OpenID Identity Providers with applications using SASL.
Participants at this meeting can expect some cross-over with the Moonshot Bar BOF participants.
(22 March, 09:00-11:30)
httpstate (HTTP State Management Mechanism) WG
The HTTP State Management Mechanism (aka Cookies) was originally created by Netscape Communications in their informal Netscape cookie specification (”cookie_spec.html”), from which formal specifications RFC 2109 and RFC 2965 evolved. The formal specifications, however, were never fully implemented in practice; RFC 2109, in addition to cookie_spec.html, more closely resemble real-world implementations than RFC 2965, even though RFC 2965 officially obsoletes the former. Compounding the problem are undocumented features (such as HTTPOnly), and varying behaviors among real-world implementations.
Full charter: http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/httpstate-charter
This working group will create a new RFC that:
- obsoletes RFC 2109,
- updates RFC 2965 to the extent it overlaps or voids RFC 2109, and
- specifies Cookies as they are actually used in existing implementations and deployments.
Agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpstate/agenda
(23 March, 17:40-19:40)
The Moonshot Bar BOF
This Bar BOF (outside the formal agenda) will discuss federated authentication beyond the web.
Description: http://www.painless-security.com/blog/2010/02/12/moonshot1
Related:
- A GSS-API Mechanism for the Extensible Authentication Protocol, http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-howlett-eap-gss-00.txt
- “Project Moonshot: Community briefing paper for the TF-EMC2 & TF-Mobility meetings, Vienna, 16-18 February 2010″, 5 February 2010, Josh Howlett, JANET(UK), http://www.terena.org/mail-archives/mobility/pdfEKnl2kkFsw.pdf
(20 March, 21:00, Manhattan Room)
newprep (Stringprep after IDNA2008) BOF
The handling of non-ASCII strings in Internet protocols is a difficult problem that has still not been solved in a generalized way. In 2002, the IETF defined a method for preparation and comparison of internationalized strings that could be re-used by various applications. This method, stringprep (RFC 3454), has been re-used in several Internet protocols that have defined “profiles”.
In completing revisions to the IDN technology, the IETF’s IDNAbis WG decided to move away from the use of stringprep in domain names, instead defining sets of allowed and disallowed characters based on Unicode character properties (often called an “inclusion approach”) rather than defining explicit mappings of Unicode characters as in stringprep (an “exclusion approach”).
However, any move away from stringprep by existing profiles would introduce backward compatibility issues and migration challenges, which need to be weighed against the benefits of a new string preparation technology.
Draft charter: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/area/app/trac/wiki/NewPrep
Agenda: Not yet available
(23 March, 15:20-17:20)
oauth (Open Authentication Protocol) WG
OAuth allows a user to grant a third-party Web site or application access to their resources, without necessarily revealing their credentials, or even their identity.
Full charter: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/oauth/charters
Current topics include a discussion of signatures. The focus is on “signing requests” not on “signing tokens” Requests signing secures the direct communication between two parties (consumer and authorization server / consumer and protected resource). In contrast, signed tokens are used in stateless authorization server designs to protect token contents from modification thus establishing trust between authorization server and protected resource. http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/oauth/trac/wiki/SignaturesWhy
Also on the agenda is the disposition of OAuth Web Resource Authorization Profiles (WRAP) http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hardt-oauth-01.
There will also be a discussion of use cases (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/oauth/trac/wiki/OauthUseCases) as well as work on the OAuth 2 specification.
Agenda: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/oauth/agenda
(22 March, 13:00-15:00)
rydeirde (Registry Data Escrow/Internet Registration Escrow) BOF
In the context of domain name registries, registration data escrow is a requirement for the current generic top-level domains and it is expected to be for new registries. Some country code top-level domain managers are also interested in implementing registration data escrow for themselves. There is also such a requirement for ICANN’s generic top-level domain accredited registrars.
The desired outcome of this BOF is to have a mutually agreed specification of the contents and format of the deposits, allowing extensions for new services and objects.
Draft charter: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/area/app/trac/wiki/IRDE
Agenda: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/area/app/trac/wiki/IRDE
(24 March, 10:30-11:30)
Charting the course for future Internet leaders
[Geneva, Switzerland and Washington, DC, USA, 15 March 2010] As the importance of the Internet grows in all aspects of modern life, so too do the challenges of those in positions of leadership and responsibility.
Responding to the need for well-qualified leadership, the Internet Society is now accepting applications from people seeking to join the new generation of Internet leaders to address the critical technology, policy, business, and education challenges that lie ahead.
Successful candidates in the Internet Society’s Next Generation Leaders programme will gain a wide range of skills in a variety of disciplines, as well as the ability and experience to work with people at all levels of society.
This programme, under the patronage of the European Commission, blends course work and practical experience to help prepare young professionals (aged from 20 to 40) from around the world to become the next generation of Internet technology, policy, and business leaders.
“The Internet Society’s Next Generation Leaders programme is a unique opportunity to identify potential Internet leaders and help them accelerate their careers,” said Bill Graham, responsible for strategic global engagement at the Internet Society.
The key to the Internet’s success lies in the “Internet model” of decentralized architecture and distributed responsibility for development, operation, and management. That model also creates important leadership opportunities, especially in those spaces where technology, policy, and business intersect.
“We have designed the Next Generation Leaders programme to prepare young professionals for leadership, bridging the boundaries between business, technical development, policy, and governance on local, regional, and international levels,” said Graham.
Applications for the eLearning component – compulsory for those that wish to graduate from the programme – will be accepted from now until 5 April.
Full details of the Next Generation Leaders programme are available here.
Also opening today are applications for the ISOC Ambassadorships to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) and ISOC Fellowships to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Applicants of all ages are invited to apply for the Fellowships to the IETF.
Full details are available at:
IGF: http://www.isoc.org/pubpolpillar/igfambassadors/
IETF: http://www.isoc.org/educpillar/fellowship/
The Internet Society’s Next Generation Leaders programme is sponsored by Nominet Trust.
The Internet Society Fellowships to the IETF are also sponsored by Afilias, Google, Microsoft, and Intel.
For more information on how to become a programme partner, visit http://www.isoc.org/leaders or e-mail leader-sponsor@isoc.org.
Irish IPv6 Summit 2010
Following on a very successful event in January 2009 (videos and slides of the sessions are still available), which was supported by funding from the ISOC Community Grants Programme, the Irish National IPv6 Task Force is hosting another all-day summit in Dublin Castle, Ireland on Wednesday, 19 May 2010.
This year’s event is designed to increase awareness amongst both public and private sectors on the merits and issues related to the depletion of the IPv4 address space, and the economic impact this has on the Irish Economy. Discover why it is a matter of necessity for Ireland to embrace the early adoption of IPv6.
The keynote speakers are Brian Carpenter (University of Auckland) and Geoff Huston (APNIC). A distinguished panel of speakers and panellists includes: Dennis Jennings (ICANN), Daniel Karrenberg (ISOC and RIPE), Mat Ford (ISOC). The talks will provide global perspectives on IPv6 adoption and challenges, with some localisation to specific issues in Ireland. Mícheál Ó Foghlú who is Executive Director Research at the TSSG, Waterford IT will chair the event.
This event is supported by the TSSG in Waterford IT, HEAnet, DCENR, Science Foundation Ireland, and the Irish National IPv6 Centre.
For more information about the event, visit the summit website.
ISOC grant funds solar rural Internet kiosk in Kenya
[Ukunda, Kenya, February 27, 2010] For the first time, a Rural Internet Kiosk (RIK) has been installed for rural youth empowerment in Africa. Voices of Africa for Sustainable Development (VOA4SD) is building the capacity of local youth to empower themselves through the Internet and social enterprise. The community based organization, Voices of Diani will own and operate the Rural Internet Kiosk with training, support, and volunteers from VOA4SD. The Rural Internet Kiosk is a product of Intersat Africa, Ltd. who has generously provided the first year of bandwidth at no cost. The funding for this project has been provided by the Internet Society through their Community Grants Programme.
The Rural Internet Kiosk Launch was organized by the youth of Ukunda to share their excitement over being the first RIK location and to usher in a new age of information and communications in rural Sub Saharan Africa. The RIK will allow the Voices of Diani to train the local youth in ICT skills and Web 2.0 including local content generation at the rate of 1 Shilling per minute. The “duka” portion of the kiosk will sell products previously unavailable in the local market such as small solar powered lanterns and nutritional porridge. The project seeks to create local employment for youth and to provide solutions for community issues utilizing social enterprise models. Profits from the RIK will be continually reinvested into developing new social enterprises leading to local economic development. Previously many youth in the area were unable to use ICTs due to the high prices and rigid schedules of the few training centers in the area.
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Applications open for Community Grants Programme
ISOC is now accepting applications for its Community Grants Programme. The application cycle will be open until 26 March 2010.
Full details about the programme, available here.
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