"Internet Engineering Task Force" news, interviews, and features

News about Internet Engineering Task Force

• Yahoo email anti-spoofing policy breaks mailing lists

  Yahoo moved to a more aggressive DMARC policy that creates email delivery issues on mailing lists for yahoo.com users, email experts said

• The security industry found its dream enemy in 2013 -- and new technical challenges too

  Revelations about mass surveillance will fuel encryption adoption in the next year, but implementing it will take care, security experts say

• Mass surveillance prompts IETF work on SSL deployment guidelines

  A new IETF working group will develop best practices for deploying and using SSL/TLS with several Internet communication protocols

• Internet infrastructure groups move away from US gov't over spying

  ICANN and other groups call for an accelerated globalization of Internet domain name functions after NSA surveillance leaks

• Google's chances to obtain dotless 'http://search' domain are shrinking

  Dotless Internet domains are likely to confuse users, ICANN-affiliated committees say

• HTTP Strict Transport Security becomes Internet standard

  The technology to prevent some types of attacks against HTTPS connections is now mature, but adoption is low

Features about Internet Engineering Task Force

• An insider's guide to the private IPv4 market

  What you can do to ensure a supply of IPv4 addresses while you're readying your IPv6 network.

• iWARP update advances RDMA over Ethernet for data center and cloud networks

  The iWARP protocol is the IETF standard for RDMA over Ethernet, and offers an alternative to specialized fabrics such as InfiniBand.