Stories about: Internet Engineering Task Force

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    Google aims for faster Web downloads with SPDY protocol 16/11/2009 08:09:00

    Google is hoping to make Web pages download up to twice as quickly using SPDY, a new application-layer protocol it's experimenting with, the company said in a blog post.
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    iPhone app predicts IPv4 doomsday 23/07/2009 09:31:00

    If you're the kind of person who walks down the street worrying about the depletion of IPv4 addresses, the iPhone can now tell you how long you have until that happens.
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    Fatal flaw for IPv6: It's not backwards compatible 26/03/2009 08:09:00

    The Internet engineering community says its biggest mistake in developing IPv6 - a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol - is that it lacks backwards compatibility with the existing Internet Protocol, known as IPv4.
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    No business case for IPv6, survey finds 23/03/2009 09:50:00

    Business incentives are completely lacking today for upgrading to IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, according to a survey of network operators conducted by the Internet Society (ISOC).
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    Antiphishing group develops e-crime reporting tool 12/03/2009 08:28:00

    A group dedicated to fighting phishing scams has developed a way for police and other organizations to report e-crimes in a common data format readable by a Web browser or other application.
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    Detecting Internet routing 'lies' 21/01/2009 12:12:00

    Australian Geoff Huston is one of the foremost authorities on Internet routing and scaling issues. We sent Huston, a former Chief Scientist, Telstra Internet, a few questions about the U.S. government's plan to bolster R&D to secure the Internet's core routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). Here are excerpts of from what Huston had to say:
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    U.S. plots major upgrade to Internet router security 19/01/2009 11:53:00

    The U.S. federal government is accelerating its efforts to secure the Internet's routing system, with plans this year for the Department of Homeland Security to quadruple its investment in research aimed at adding digital signatures to router communications.
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    Countdown to IPv6 - it’s time to plan for migration 15/12/2008 10:30:00

    Questions surrounding Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) have been debated for the past decade, beginning with when and why to deploy. The network address space problem on the Internet, which IPv6 is expected to solve, also has been disquieting for organisations planning ahead for their future network growth.
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    12 myths about how the Internet works 21/11/2008 14:10:00

    Thirty years have passed since the Internet Protocol was first described in a series of technical documents written by early experimenters. Since then, countless engineers have created systems and applications that rely on IP as the communications link between people and their computers.
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    ITU plan to stop DoS attacks could end Net anonymity too 15/09/2008 08:40:00

    Finding ways to limit DoS attacks and SMS spam by making it harder to spoof the origin of electronic communications is on the agenda at a telecommunications standards meeting this week -- but civil rights advocates worry it could put an end to anonymity on the Internet.
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    Much-maligned feature being added to IPv6 24/07/2008 11:40:50

    In a high-tech twist of irony, the Internet engineering community is adding a feature to IPv6 that the upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol was supposed to eliminate.
 
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