What is happening with DNSSEC in the Asia-Pacific region? What are DNSSEC and DANE all about, anyway? What challenges are large DNS operators encountering when deploying DNSSEC? All of these questions and many more will be discussed next week at ICANN 52 in Singapore. Here is the quick guide – please note that all times are Singapore Time which is UTC+8. (So, for instance, the 8:30 am SGT start time of the DNSSEC Workshop on Wednesday, 11 Feb, will be 1:30am Wednesday in Central European Time and 7:30pm Tuesday evening in US Eastern time.)
DNSSEC For Everybody: A Beginner’s Guide
The week starts off on Monday, 9 February, 2015, with the regular “DNSSEC For Everybody: A Beginner’s Guide” session from 17:00 – 18:30 SGT where we’ll be explaining what DNSSEC is all about and also putting on our “skit” dramatizing what happens with DNS and DNSSEC. I don’t know if we’ll be awarded an Emmy anytime soon for our performance… but we have a good bit of fun with it and people have commented that it has really helped them understand how DNS and DNSSEC work.
You can follow along remotely (or watch it later) at:
http://singapore52.icann.org/en/schedule/mon-dnssec-everybody
Oh, and you get to see me talk about DNSSEC and blue smoke…
DNSSEC Implementers Gathering
As we noted previously, on Monday evening from 19:30-21:30 some number of us will be heading to a nearby pub for the “DNSSEC Implementers Gathering” where we’ll be talking informally amongst ourselves and figuring out how we can work together to accelerate DNSSEC and DANE adoption. For perhaps obvious reasons, there is no remote participation available, but if you are in Singapore you are welcome to join us – we just ask for your RSVP by the end of the day tomorrow, Thursday, February 6, 2015. Thanks to Comcast, NBC Universal and the MPAA for making this gathering possible, as they also did at ICANN 51 in L.A.
DNSSEC Workshop
The BIG event for the week is of course the DNSSEC Workshop on Wednesday, 11 February 2015, starting at 8:30 and ending at 14:45 SGT. It will be streamed live and you can join in at this address:
http://singapore52.icann.org/en/schedule/wed-dnssec
The slides and other information will be up soon, but I can tell you the agenda will be this:
- Introduction and DNSSEC Deployment Around the World
- 10th Anniversary of DNSSEC Workshops
- DNSSEC Deployment in the Asia Region
- Reverse DNS and DNSSEC in Japan
- ccTLD Deployment Experiences
- The Operational Realities of Running DNSSEC
- When Unexpected DNSSEC Events Occur
- DNSSEC and DNS Operators
As a member of the Program Committee, I am very pleased with the presentations and speakers we have and I’m very much looking forward to the event. The last panel, in particular, is of interest to me as it will involve a number of DNS operators, including CloudFlare, talking about challenges they have encountered while rolling out large-scale DNSSEC and looking to identify solutions within the community. It should be a very interesting session. I also always enjoy the DNSSEC case studies from the regional panels.
There will be a number of other side meetings and other discussions going on, but these are the main sessions. I also understand there will be some DNSSEC activity happening at Tech Day on Monday, 9 February, but the agenda has not yet been posted. We’ll publish an update once we know more.
If you are at ICANN 52 in Singapore please do find me at one of the events and say hello, or drop me an email message and we can arrange a time to connect. You will of course find info on our Deploy360 social media channels during the events next week. You can also follow along with our ICANN 52 blog posts as we publish them next week.
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