Standardization of IP-based emergency services systems is ongoing for more than 10 years and many of the specifications have been completed already in the IETF, 3GPP, NENA and EENA. Nevertheless, new emergency services standardization efforts are born. One of these newly added activities is the work in the ETSI M493
Design Constraints: Episode #1
When designing new protocols and technologies it is essentially to get the starting point right – the assumptions of what technology can be used and what cannot be used. I just saw a great post by Patrik Fältström on the Apps-discuss IETF mailing list. Here is what he said about
Privacy Features in IPv6 Stacks of Smart Objects & Internet of Things
The Internet Architecture Board is working on a document about ‘Privacy Considerations for Internet Protocols’. The purpose of this document is to provide guidance for engineers with a focus on privacy. It is therefore similar to the guidance engineers have been using for a long time in the area of
A Guide to Make your Research Less Successful
I got invited to speak at the Tivit Future Internet pre-conference, which took place end of May in Helsinki, Finland. I agreed to give a presentation and the agenda for the event can be found at http://www.futureinternet.fi/seminar_2012.htm. Of course I agreed before I decided what I would actually talk about.
Smart Objects Architecture
Jari Arkko, Cullen Jennings, Carsten Bormann, myself and several other IETF folks organized two workshops on smart object related technology: the first workshop was attached to the Prague IETF meeting (March 2011), and the second workshop was attached to the Paris IETF meeting this spring. With both workshops we asked
Emergency Services Architecture for Location Hiding
I have been working on IP-based emergency services for many years also. For a while it looked like the standardization activities would finally come to an end and the industry could deploy the stuff they had been working on in various SDOs. Of course I was naive to think that
IAB / IRTF Workshop on Congestion Control for Interactive Real-Time Communication
Introduction and Scope Any application that sends significant amounts of data over the Internet is expected to implement reasonable congestion control behavior. Although the specific mechanisms depend on the application or protocol, the motivations for congestion control are well understood and documented in RFCs 2914 and 5405: 1. Preventing congestion
EENA publishes Next Generation 112 Long Term Definition standard for emergency services
You may have seen the press release about the publication of the European Next Generation 112 Long Term Definition standard (“NG112 LTD”) flying around last week. The publication of the NG112 LTD document was a big success for us from the EENA NG112 Technical Committee, who had been working on
OAuth Events during IETF#83
There are a couple of OAuth events going on this week. Here is a list: Sunday: OpenID Connect Workshop https://oic-workshop-ietf-83.eventbrite.com Tuesday: ISOC lunch event with the title “Authentication and Authorization: Next steps for OpenID and OAuth” http://www.internetsociety.org/events/isoc-panel-openid-and-oauth-ietf-8 3 OMA IETF MIF API Workshop (18:10-20:00, room 212/213) http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg72651.html Thursday: Harry’s
Smart Object Security Workshop
Last Friday we had our “Smart Object Security” workshop. (Btw, it was not an IAB sponsored workshop.) I am going to talk at the IETF #83 SAAG meeting about the highlights and Jari will go into the details during the IETF LWIG working group meeting. We have received a number