As of this blog posting, exactly 900 days remain until the end of the Internet, or at least the exhaustion of IPv4 registry allocations. And you don’t have to take my word for it, even the normally staid London Times and Fox News proclaimed, “Internet meltdown… The world is heading for a digital doomsday”. Heady [...]
The clashes between Russia and Georgia over the region of South Ossetia have been shadowed by attacks on the Internet. As we noted in July, the Georgia presidential website fell victim to attack during a war of words. A number of DDoS attacks have occurred in the region, and often do when tensions flare. We [...]
At the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) meeting in Dublin, Ireland last week follow-on work from the P2P Infrastructure Workshop held in late May @MIT continued. Specifically, two birds of a feather (BoF) sessions were held, with the aim of each focusing on different areas of the P2P problem spaces. The primary areas under study [...]