ICANN is engaged in an effort for the Internationalization of Domain Names — that is, making them available in languages other than English. Thıs ınvolves fıgurıng out what new symbols must be used, of course. But also figuring out which of the new symbols are easily confused with each other, or with existing symbols. Just by way of example, the Latin alphabet contains 26 basic letters, but those can be combined with some 20 diacritic marks (little dots and lines above or below the letter), giving a total of some 220 symbols. Some are only distinguishable if you know the language they happen in. For example, in a domain name suppose you encounter a Dotless I ( ı in lower case, this occurs in Turkish) when you are expecting a regular I, will you notice. In my observation, no — especially if you have never even heard of a Dotless I. (Did you notice when they got used in one sentence above?)
The domain name which is malformed in this way will most likely take you somewhere other than where you expected. This is called a “homographic attack”. Homographic attacks can be used for phishing and pharming with the end goal of introducing viruses or for defrauding the consumer. You may wish to understand these risks. You may also want to have some input into what limits get put on new names. We will tell you how you may get involved at ICANN.
Bill Jouris has been working in the computer industry since his college days, before the Internet was even thought of. His early career in industry was dealing with performance analysis and tuning of mainframe systems for financial and healthcare firms. He is Chief Operating Officer at Inside Products.
In addition, Bill has been active in the Computer Measurement Group, which is the professional organization for the computer performance field for decades, and served two terms on its Board of Directors. He is on the ICANN Latin Generation Panel which is a part of ICANN’s effort to expand the range of possible domain names.
This talk will focus on the Path Computation Element (PCE) work in the Routing Area of the IETF. Dhruv will give a quick introduction to the technology and how it is being used to enable efficient path computation and traffic engineering of the network. It will also cover how the PCE work relates to the Software defined Networking (SDN) and some of the future work taken up the working group (WG).
Dhruv has been working in the networking domain for last 16 years with Huawei Technologies. His current designation is the Lead Architect for the Data Communications Business in India. Over the years, he has worked hands on the Huawei’s Routing Platform and controller. He is currently working with the research & standards team for various emerging technologies such as PCE, Segment Routing (SR) and Network Slicing.
He is an active IETF contributor in the area of Path Computation and Traffic Engineering with 26 RFCs as co-author and contributor. He is also serving as the PCE WG co-chair at IETF. He is also part of Routing Directorate and sergeant-at-arms for the IETF mailing list. He is a founding member and secretary for India Internet Engineering Society (IIESoc) & Industry Network Technology Council (INTC).
The vision of a quantum internet is to fundamentally enhance Internet technology by enabling quantum communication between any two points on Earth. While the first realizations of small scale quantum networks are expected in the near future, scaling such networks presents immense challenges to physics, computer science and engineering. In this session, Wojciech provides a gentle introduction to quantum networking and surveys the state of the art. He proceeds to discuss key challenges for computer science in order to make such networks a reality.
Wojciech Kozlowski received his MSci degree in theoretical quantum physics from the University of Cambridge in 2012 and a DPhil degree in theoretical quantum optics and many-body systems from the University of Oxford in 2017. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at QuTech, an advanced research institute for quantum computing and networking in the Netherlands.
After his doctoral thesis on the competition between weak quantum measurement and many-body dynamics, Wojciech left academia to work as a software engineer in the network protocols unit at Metaswitch Networks in London, UK. As of 2019, he is combining his new expertise in networking technologies with his prior research experience developing a network architecture for the quantum internet.
This session is funded with a grant from ARIN. It is a two-hour webinar.
Dual Stack and Transition Mechanisms
Enterprises rarely switch over from IPv4 to IPv6 in one step. Generally, companies will run dual-stack for a time, where both IPv4 and IPv6 are available on devices. This doesn’t solve most of the problems IPv6 was designed to solve, so we will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of:
- Dual-stack
- NAT44
- Dual-stack Lite
- NAT64/DNS64
- 464xlat
- MAP-T
- MAP-E
- IPv6-Only
DHCPv6Although IPv6 provides new addressing possibilities (SLAAC), most enterprises will want to continue using DHCP — which is now DHCPv6. We will describe how a client finds a DHCPv6 server, what information it can request and expect back. We will compare DHCPv6 to SLAAC. We will discuss:
- DHCPv6 Solicit Advertise, Request, Reply
- DHCPv6 multicast addresses
- IA_NA, IA_PD
- Prefix “hints” to request the same prefix, or any prefix of a certain size
- Additional information (DNS, transition mechanism, etc.)
Nalini Elkins is the President of the Industry Network Technology Council.
She is also the CEO and Founder of Inside Products, Inc. Nalini is a recognized leader in the field of computer performance measurement and analysis. In addition to being an experienced software product designer, developer, and planner, she is a formidable businesswoman. She has been the founder or co-founder of three start-ups in the high-tech arena.
Bob Hinden will talk about how and why IPv6 was developed in the IETF, the state of the deployment of iPv6 on the Internet, and what he thinks the future looks like.
Bob Hinden is a Check Point Fellow at Check Point Software, and co-chairs the IPv6 working group in the IETF. He is the co-inventor of the Internet Protocol Version 6 Protocol (IPv6).
Bob Hinden was the Chair of the Internet Society Board of Trustees from 2013 to 2016, and a member of the Board of Trustees from 2010-2016. Previously at Nokia, he was a Nokia Fellow, Chief Internet Technologist at Nokia Networks, and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at the Nokia IP Routing Group.Bob Hinden was one of the early employees (i.e., employee number 4) of Ipsilon Networks, Inc. Ipsilon was acquired by Nokia on December 31, 1997. He was previously employed at Sun Microsystems where he was responsible for the Internet Engineering group that implements internet protocols for Sun’s operating systems. Prior to this he worked at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc. on a variety of internetwork related projects including the first operational internet router and one of the first TCP/IP implementations.Bob Hinden was co-recipient of the 2008 IEEE Internet Award for pioneering work in the development of the first Internet routers.
Bob Hinden has been active in the IETF since 1985 and is the author of forty two RFCs, including three April 1 RFCs. He served as the chair of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) from 2009 through 2013. Prior to this he served on the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), was Area Director for Routing in the Internet Engineering Steering group from 1987 to 1994, and chaired the IPv6, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol, Simple Internet Protocol Plus, IPAE, the IP over ATM, and the Open Routing working groups. He is also a member of the RFC Editorial Board and the RFC Series Oversight Committee.Bob Hinden holds an B.S.E.E., and a M.S. in Computer Science from Union College, Schenectady, New York.