networks China advances plans for national single-stack IPv6 network, and its own surveillance-friendly version of the protocol IPv6+ could make it easier to censor netizens or block traffic, and Beijing is already exporting it
devops HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST New verb carries request content while remaining safe, idempotent, and cacheable
networks Veteran network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v6 Critics are not convinced this plan to add an ‘area code’ based on ASNs has much merit
on_prem United Nations agrees to persist with multi-stakeholder internet governance World Summit on the Information Society resolves the world needs a permanent forum to discuss how we manage the 'Net
on_prem Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governance
on_prem IETF Draft suggests making IPv6 standard on DNS resolvers - partly to destroy IPv4 Dragging DNS into the modern age. And if that means fewer people need to buy IPv4, so much the better
software Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to develop ideas on how to tell crawlers to go away, or come for a feast
on_prem 250 million-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released – but the internet isn’t built to use them A new chapter in the long saga of the 240/4 block is being written. If you want more and cheaper IPv4, maybe you should help
software China's efforts to influence standards are mostly fake – and flopping But Carnegie Endowment worries a handful are real, and that the ITU is 'susceptible to manipulation'
on_prem UN's ITU election may spell the end of our open internet Russia, China believe in more national control, maybe baked into standards. Resistance is fierce - and was victorious!
security A great day for non-robots: iOS 16 will bypass CAPTCHAs A bot says what? Apple relies on IETF standards to remove annoyance, citing privacy and accessibility
security Ukraine war a sorting hat for cyber-governance loyalties: Black Hat founder Jeff Moss Private orgs that flex with Russian bans may do more harm – to themselves – than good
on_prem China again signals desire to shape IPv6 standards Calls for accelerated adoption as local users pass 700 million
