ISOC regularly organizes panels at IETF meetings (and elsewhere). At the upcoming IETF 83 meeting there will be a panel on Tuesday, 27 March, 11:45am-12:45pm (local time). The topic is Authentication and Authorization: Next steps for OpenID and OAuth As the IETF-developed OAuth nears draft standard status, and with the
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***DRAFT*** Agenda for Constrained Node/Network related events during IETF 83 in Paris
Carsten Bormann [cabo AT tzi.org] send a good summary of smart object relevant activities happening at the IETF#83 meeting to various mailing lists. ***Subject to change*** — don’t plan travel around this FRIDAY, March 23, 2012: Workshop on Smart Object Security SATURDAY, March 24, 2012 and SUNDAY,
Workshop on Smart Object Security
I have just distributed the announcement for a workshop on Smart Object Security on the 23rd March 2012 in Paris (attached to the IETF meeting). We are seeking input from participants to share their thoughts about the ability to utilize existing and widely deployed security mechanisms for smart objects. In
Progress on Privacy in the IETF
Last week the IETF held their face-to-face meeting in Tapei, Taiwan and privacy was on the agenda for discussion (among many other topics, of course). As reported earlier I am involved in two meta-documents that should help others in writing about privacy properties of Internet protocols. The first document is
How do we address some of the Web security problems?
The National Strategy for Trust Identifies in Cyberspace (NSTIC) project effort inspired me to think about the problems with Internet and Web security and what could be done about them. The NSTIC strategy document claims that there are three main problems, namely passwords usage leads to identity theft and fraud,
IAB Privacy Update
A couple of privacy reviews have been conducted by the IAB during the last 6-9 months and they can be found here. Among these reviews is one on IPv6. The purpose of these reviews was to determine what design decisions were made that had an impact to privacy and how
What’s wrong with the Internet?
Listening to a talk at the 2nd International Conference on Mobile Internet Architecture Evolution of Post-LTE (MIRACLE 2011) conference one of the speakers complain about 7 challenges with the Internet. In addition to these Internet problems he says that IP has not changed for such a long time. He concludes that
NAT and Firewall Communication Protocols
In a presentation by Dave Thaler he illustrated the negative effects of energy consumption of keep alive messages that have to be sent regularly to keep state at middleboxes (NATs and firewalls) alive. He concluded that the PCP protocol will solve this issue and asks for market adoption of it.
IPv6 Privacy
Tara Whalen and I recently gave a talk to the International Working Group on Data Protection in Telecommunications (IWGDPT) about IPv6 privacy. The slides are available here. With the increasing IPv6 deployment the concerns about potential privacy problems re-surface again. In the presentation we tried to highlight two aspects: It
IAB Technical Plenary on ‘Interconnecting Smart Objects with the Internet’
I was put in charge for putting the next IAB technical plenary for IETF#82 together. Here is the announcement text: The desire to connect almost anything to the Internet is greater than ever. There are many reasons for incorporating IP into every day devices and for some they may be