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Fwd: [ih] In loving memory of (Mr. Bufferbloat) Dave Täht <3
by Brian E Carpenter 02 Apr '25

02 Apr '25

I think some people here will remember Dave. He was a powerhouse. Brian -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [ih] In loving memory of (Mr. Bufferbloat) Dave Täht <3 Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 10:47:51 -0700 From: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history <internet-history(a)elists.isoc.org> Reply-To: the keyboard of geoff goodfellow <geoff(a)iconia.com> To: Internet-history <internet-history(a)elists.isoc.org> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Frantisek Borsik <frantisek.borsik(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM Subject: In loving memory of Dave Täht <3 Hello to all, We’re devastated to announce that Dave Täht has passed away. <https://libreqos.io/2025/04/01/in-loving-memory-of-dave/> Dave was an amazing man, helping the world with FQ-CoDel and CAKE, fighting bufferbloat and trying to make the world a better place. Always willing to help, and without him – LibreQoS (and the other QoE solutions out there) wouldn’t exist. Dave was an inspiration, and we all miss him. We’re reaching out to family and close friends to see if there’s anything we can do to help. Dave was an inspiration to us. Dave’s contributions to Linux, FQ-CoDel, and CAKE improved internet connectivity around the world for millions of people. Because of him, millions of people now have access to reliable video calls – and in turn, access to loved ones, healthcare, and community. One of Robert’s ISP customers is a kind paraplegic woman who lives in a far-flung rural Colonia around El Paso, Texas. Her reliable access to her doctors through telemedicine, and to her family through FaceTime, was only made possible because of his algorithms. There are millions of cases like hers, where Dave’s contributions have silently enabled human connection and safety. Everything Dave contributed to the world of technology was free and open source, for the betterment of humanity. Dave is the reason that Starlink was able to tackle its latency issues – enabling a generation of young entrepreneurs across the developing world, such as these young folks pictured in the Phillipines, to start their own ISPs to expand internet access to their communities. Dave started work on FQ-CoDel in part because of his own journey working to expand internet access in Nicaragua, so we know he saw that his work had come full-circle and helped so many. We’re incredibly grateful to have Dave as our friend, mentor, and as someone who continuously inspired us – showing us that we could do better for each other in the world, and leverage technology to make that happen. He will be dearly missed. *PS: *Dave is forever in our hearts and souls, in our routers and...in production! *https://github.com/LibreQoE/LibreQoS/pull/684 <https://github.com/LibreQoE/LibreQoS/pull/684>* All the best, Frank Frantisek (Frank) Borsik https://www.linkedin.com/in/frantisekborsik Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp: +421919416714 iMessage, mobile: +420775230885 Skype: casioa5302ca frantisek.borsik(a)gmail.com -- Geoff.Goodfellow(a)iconia.com living as The Truth is True -- Internet-history mailing list Internet-history(a)elists.isoc.org https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history

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AusNOG 2025 - Call For Papers is open!
by Mark 02 Apr '25

02 Apr '25

Hello! AusNOG 2025 Call For Papers is now open! We are looking for presentations that an audience working predominantly in the network operating space will find interesting and useful. As always, we do not accept marketing or sales material as part of any presentation. The CFP will close on May 30th 2025. This allows time for the Program Committee to review papers and choose the program. Please express your interest and submit a short abstract of the topic you'd like to present, via our portal; https://cfp.ausnog.net/ausnog-2025/ Thank you, and see you in Melbourne, for AusNOG September 2025! Event dates and details here; https://www.ausnog.net/ Regards, Mark Duffell on behalf of the AusNOG PC (Jocelyn, Joe, Phil, James & Michael)

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DNSSEC Root Key Signing Key (KSK) for the Domain Name System
by Christopher Hawker 27 Mar '25

27 Mar '25

Hello Everyone, As many of you may know, one of the functions of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the global coordination of the DNS Root Zone. One of the core components to DNS is DNSSEC. The Root Key Signing Key (KSK) acts as the trust anchor for DNSSEC for the Domain Name System, and this trust anchor is configured in DNSSEC-aware resolvers to facilitate validation of DNS data. This is how your DNS servers are able to cryptographically validate the authenticity of DNS records they receive and serve. For more information pertaining to DNSSEC, how it operates, the KSK and the relevant policies and procedures, I recommend visiting https://www.iana.org/dnssec for more info. In order to ensure the security of the KSK, IANA utilises Hardware Security Modules (HSM) to generate the KSK pair of public and private keys, which in turn are used to sign the Zone Signing Key (ZSK), that itself is used to sign DNS records (RRsets) within a DNS zone. As it currently stands, both of these HSMs currently reside in high-security Key Management Facilities (KMFs) in the USA, with one facility located in Culpeper VA, and the other in El Segundo CA. Now, while the locations of these HSMs are highly secure, both of them are located on US soil. As most people who are familiar with redundancy, this is not a good idea for a number of reasons (which I won't go into detail here as it's outside the scope of this email). What we as a community MUST DO, is look at the relocation of one of these HSMs to an alternate country such as Singapore or Switzerland (regarded as two safe countries) to ensure the continued integrity of the Root KSK. Unfortunately, section 4.2(b) of the IANA Naming Function Contract (https://pti.cdn.icann.org/resources/151/IANA_Naming_Function_Contract.pdf) between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) that govern how IANA performs its functions prohibits the operation of functions outside of the US. Given that the Internet is one of the most critical pieces of global (and not just US-based) infrastructure, I feel that this section of the contract must be reviewed (and deleted or modified to allow for PTI to perform the functions from Singapore, Switzerland or another safe jurisdiction) to maintain the integrity of the Domain Name System. The Second IANA Naming Function Review Team (IFRT2) have released an initial draft report of its analysis, issues and recommendations which also incorporates a review of the Contract between ICANN and PTI. The IFRT2 have opened a public call for comments on the draft report, before they submit their Final Report to ICANN's Board of Directors which they expect to do before June this year. The Public Comment period closes for submissions on 28 April 2025 at 23:59hrs UTC, and I strongly encourage everyone to read the report and provide input regarding support to relocating one of the Key Management Facilities across the Pacific or Atlantic Oceans. To view the report and submit a comment, please go to https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/second-iana-naming-funct…. In order to submit a comment on the report, you will need an account on https://account.icann.org/. In closing, I cannot stress one thing enough - this is in no way speaks to the professionalism of ICANN's staff. The team at ICANN perform some of the hardest work out there, ensuring the integrity and stability of the Internet as we know it today and for that they cannot be thanked enough. This recommendation to move one of the KMFs overseas is simply to help protect it from potential political instability, bias, and to encourage neutralism. We're already doing it with the operation of the DNS Root Zone, let's take it one step further and strengthen the security of DNSSEC and the Root KSK. If you have any questions, please do feel free to ask, either on-list or off-list. Regards, Christopher Hawker

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InternetNZ - DNSSEC ZSK Standby Chain Rollover
by Felipe Barbosa 10 Mar '25

10 Mar '25

InternetNZ will begin a DNSSEC Zone Signing Key rollover in our current standby chain. This should not affect the active chain used in DNS resolution for .nz. The status and scheduling will be posted to status.internetnz.nz. This will consist of two maintenance windows, in each window we will pause zone distribution to make changes, perform validation, and resume zone distribution for the following zones: nz, ac.nz, co.nz, cri.nz, geek.nz, gen.nz, govt.nz, health.nz, iwi.nz, kiwi.nz, maori.nz, mil.nz, net.nz, org.nz, parliament.nz, and school.nz The first change window is on the following link: https://status.internetnz.nz/incidents/x98psycvxphw For questions or issues please contact registry(a)internetnz.net.nz, for updates please subscribe to the IRS Production > Zone Publish component of status.internetnz.nz -- Ngā mihi Felipe Agnelli Barbosa DNS Specialist InternetNZ | Ipurangi Aotearoa We are the home of .nz and we work for an Internet that benefits all of Aotearoa. www.internetnz.nz GPG: 95C1 8BDC EFA7 9CAC 303D 003E A058 2449 D152 8580

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Internet pioneer David Dix has passd away
by Richard Haakma 25 Feb '25

25 Feb '25

Hi all. New Zealand Internet pioneer David Dix has passed away today, the 22nd of February 2025. David was the founder and owner of the KCBBS bulletin board system and KC Internet Company in the late 1980s. KC stands for Kappa Crucis, which is the tenth brightest object in the Southern Cross constellation, actually a star cluster also called the "Jewel Box" and came from David's other hobby, astronomy. David was involved with the Auckland Observatory and could get you a good deal on a telescope. KCBBS was built on 386BSD Unix which was a natural choice as the Unix operating system already had drivers for serial ports and multitasking which meant that it could support more than one user simultaneously. This was at a time when conventional BBS's running on MS-DOS supported one user only. Later the BBS was upgraded to a Sun workstation running SunOS. David wrote the BBS code himself in the C computer language. Unfortunately I believe the code was lost some years ago. The early Internet came to New Zealand via Waikato University and made its way to Auckland University, where KC first got a connection at 2400 bps. This was soon upgraded to 9600bps when David and friends discovered how to modify an asynchronous PC serial port to work on a synchronous data circuit. Curious KCBBS users could start to use email, but this was before hypertext and HTTP websites came in to use. Upgrades in speed and the change to actual router hardware, which was DEC hardware using licensed Cisco firmware, meant that the costs were growing. KC Internet was started to provide internet access to a few of David's mates in tech businesses for a fee to cover the budget. More customers were found and KC Internet became a commercial internet provider. Users of the KCBBS BBS program continued to use it for free. KC dropped the connection to Auckland University and became directly connected to Waikato University. When the universities wanted to get out of the chain of commercial internet activity the international service was handed over to a branch of Telecom and KC Internet became a customer of Telecom. David became interested in solar and wind power so installed a wind turbine and solar system which was large enough to run the ISP equipment 24/7 and no mains power. For a time KC Internet was the greenest ISP in New Zealand. The mains power would go off all up and down the street and David's place still had the lights on, making his neighbours curious. This was around the time of the great electricity crisis of Auckland CBD and KC internet was not affected. Getting data services installed to David's suburban basement became a problem and the core was moved to the CBD and away from the solar system, which meant that KC Internet was no longer the greenest ISP. Eventually health problems meant that David needed to step back from KC Internet and David had a quieter life and continued to benefit from that solar power system at home which is still working now. David passed away comfortably in North Shore Hospital. Regards, RH.

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Re: Internet pioneer David Dix has passd away
by Richard Haakma 25 Feb '25

25 Feb '25

Hi. David's ashes will be scattered at Eucalyptus Grove Waikumete Cemetery at 11am 27 February, which is tomorrow. Regards, RH. On Tue, 2025-02-25 at 12:41 +0000, Stephen wrote: > Hi Richard, > > My condolences, is there a service planned? > > I did not know David personally, but have known of him for nearly 30 > years now. > > Thanks > > Stephen > > > On Saturday, February 22nd, 2025 at 6:58 PM, Richard Haakma via NZNOG > <nznog(a)lists.nznog.org> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all. > > > > New Zealand Internet pioneer David Dix has passed away today, the > > 22nd > > of February 2025. > > > > David was the founder and owner of the KCBBS bulletin board system > > and > > KC Internet Company in the late 1980s. > > > > KC stands for Kappa Crucis, which is the tenth brightest object in > > the > > Southern Cross constellation, actually a star cluster also called > > the > > "Jewel Box" and came from David's other hobby, astronomy. David was > > involved with the Auckland Observatory and could get you a good > > deal on > > a telescope. > > > > KCBBS was built on 386BSD Unix which was a natural choice as the > > Unix > > operating system already had drivers for serial ports and > > multitasking > > which meant that it could support more than one user > > simultaneously. > > This was at a time when conventional BBS's running on MS-DOS > > supported > > one user only. Later the BBS was upgraded to a Sun workstation > > running > > SunOS. > > > > David wrote the BBS code himself in the C computer language. > > Unfortunately I believe the code was lost some years ago. > > > > The early Internet came to New Zealand via Waikato University and > > made > > its way to Auckland University, where KC first got a connection at > > 2400 > > bps. This was soon upgraded to 9600bps when David and friends > > discovered how to modify an asynchronous PC serial port to work on > > a > > synchronous data circuit. > > > > Curious KCBBS users could start to use email, but this was before > > hypertext and HTTP websites came in to use. > > Upgrades in speed and the change to actual router hardware, which > > was > > DEC hardware using licensed Cisco firmware, meant that the costs > > were > > growing. KC Internet was started to provide internet access to a > > few of > > David's mates in tech businesses for a fee to cover the budget. > > More > > customers were found and KC Internet became a commercial internet > > provider. > > > > Users of the KCBBS BBS program continued to use it for free. > > KC dropped the connection to Auckland University and became > > directly > > connected to Waikato University. When the universities wanted to > > get > > out of the chain of commercial internet activity the international > > service was handed over to a branch of Telecom and KC Internet > > became a > > customer of Telecom. > > > > David became interested in solar and wind power so installed a wind > > turbine and solar system which was large enough to run the ISP > > equipment 24/7 and no mains power. For a time KC Internet was the > > greenest ISP in New Zealand. The mains power would go off all up > > and > > down the street and David's place still had the lights on, making > > his > > neighbours curious. This was around the time of the great > > electricity > > crisis of Auckland CBD and KC internet was not affected. > > > > Getting data services installed to David's suburban basement became > > a > > problem and the core was moved to the CBD and away from the solar > > system, which meant that KC Internet was no longer the greenest > > ISP. > > > > Eventually health problems meant that David needed to step back > > from KC > > Internet and David had a quieter life and continued to benefit from > > that solar power system at home which is still working now. > > > > David passed away comfortably in North Shore Hospital. > > > > Regards, > > RH. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NZNOG mailing list -- nznog(a)lists.nznog.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to nznog-leave(a)lists.nznog.org

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NZNOG 2025 Registration and CFP
by Richard Nelson 24 Feb '25

24 Feb '25

Registration is now open for NZNOG2025 at https://nznog-2025.lilregie.com/booking/attendees/new. Also, remember the CFP is open. Thanks to those who submitted papers already but we definitely need more. https://www.nznog.org/conferences/nznog-2025/call-for-papers Richard

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NZNOG Conference Call for Presentations
by Richard Nelson 09 Feb '25

09 Feb '25

** *NZNOG 2025 Call for Presentations* * The NZNOG Trustees invite presentation proposals for the 22nd NZNOG conference, to be hosted at the Napier War Memorial Centre on April 10 and 11, 2024. Conference objective: The NZNOG conference, workshops and tutorials are an opportunity for individuals and organisations involved in Internet operations to meet and share the latest in Internet operations, technologies, practices and receive high quality training. The event is unique in New Zealand and attracts technical, skilled individuals with a genuine interest in Internet operations and Internetworking technologies. Submissions on any aspect of networking are welcome however we are particularly interested in presentations that involve real world operational experience, particularly in New Zealand. Conference registration for accepted presenters will be free. Submit a proposal: Presenters are invited to submit presentation proposals for consideration by 10 March, 2025. Talks maybe accepted as they are received. Please provide your talk title, a short presenter bio and a description of the proposed presentation. Description should be no more than one page long and provide a summary of your networking related subject matter. Normally presentations are 30 min long, are video streamed live and slide decks are posted to the NZNOG website. If you want a different duration or other arrangements please let us know at submission time. To submit your proposal please e-mail: talks(a)nznog.org <mailto:talks@nznog.org> If you have any ideas that you would like to discuss informally first, we are happy to have a discussion. www.nznog.org *

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InternetNZ - DNSSEC ZSK Standby Chain Rollover
by Felipe Barbosa 28 Jan '25

28 Jan '25

InternetNZ will begin a DNSSEC Zone Signing Key rollover in our current standby chain. This should not affect the active chain used in DNS resolution for .nz. The status and scheduling will be posted to status.internetnz.nz. This will consist of two maintenance windows, in each window we will pause zone distribution to make changes, perform validation, and resume zone distribution for the following zones: nz, ac.nz, co.nz, cri.nz, geek.nz, gen.nz, govt.nz, health.nz, iwi.nz, kiwi.nz, maori.nz, mil.nz, net.nz, org.nz, parliament.nz, and school.nz The first change window is on the following link: https://status.internetnz.nz/incidents/185cfqrcq00m For questions or issues please contact registry(a)internetnz.net.nz, for updates please subscribe to the IRS Production > Zone Publish component of status.internetnz.nz -- Ngā mihi Felipe Agnelli Barbosa DNS Specialist InternetNZ | Ipurangi Aotearoa We are the home of .nz and we work for an Internet that benefits all of Aotearoa. www.internetnz.nz GPG: 95C1 8BDC EFA7 9CAC 303D 003E A058 2449 D152 8580

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InternetNZ - DNSSEC NSEC3PARAM Change
by Felipe Barbosa 10 Jan '25

10 Jan '25

InternetNZ will change some NSEC3 parameters in the current standby chain. To be explicit, we will change two parameters, <Iterations> and <Salt length>, both to zero(0). These changes will be reflected in all our 16 zones. The status and scheduling will be posted to status.internetnz.nz. We will pause zone distribution to make changes, perform validation, and resume zone distribution for the following zones: nz, ac.nz, co.nz, cri.nz, geek.nz, gen.nz, govt.nz, health.nz, iwi.nz, kiwi.nz, maori.nz, mil.nz, net.nz, org.nz, parliament.nz and school.nz The change window is on the following link: https://status.internetnz.nz/incidents/yvwv7sm636gf For questions or issues please contact registry(a)internetnz.net.nz, for updates please subscribe to the IRS Production > Zone Publish component of status.internetnz.nz -- Ngā mihi Felipe Agnelli Barbosa DNS Specialist InternetNZ | Ipurangi Aotearoa We are the home of .nz and we work for an Internet that benefits all of Aotearoa. www.internetnz.nz GPG: 95C1 8BDC EFA7 9CAC 303D 003E A058 2449 D152 8580

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