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When discussing and comparing on-premise and cloud deployment patterns a decade ago, there would have been a straight line drawn from the first to the second: On-premise was the past and cloud computing was the future, even if people weren’t entirely sure what “cloud computing” was at the time.

 


Internet governance bodies are likely to accelerate work to prepare the domain name system (DNS) so it can remain secure once quantum computers can challenge conventional encryption.

 


Brodsky’s account points to a structural shift in global Internet infrastructure: traffic continues to grow, but investment and operational control are concentrating in a small number of hyperscalers.

 


As with any Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) fabric, you have almost certainly encountered a MAC/IP route or dealt with a MAC mobility event. MAC mobility events are not unusual. A busy virtual machine (VM) can trigger one, and they are a normal part of VM operations.

 


A policy intended to combat sports piracy is leading a nonprofit cybersecurity provider to stop serving users in France. That outcome should concern anyone who wants both effective enforcement against copyright infringement and a safer Internet.

Best of the Hedge 19: Optional Security is Not


 
Brian Trammell joins Alvaro Retana and Russ White to discuss his IETF draft Optional Security Is Not An Option, and why optional security is very difficult to deploy in practice. Brian blogs at http://trammell.ch and also writes at APNIC.
 
https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-019.mp3
 
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The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is usually presented as a protocol upgrade. In a lab, that’s roughly true. You enable the address family, you advertise a prefix, you ping something, you move on.

 


Most of us have never heard of longtermism, the view that we should consider the interests of those who will live in the far future more than those of current humans.

 


In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston reflects on the economic consequences of the surge in artificial intelligence (AI) investment and the associated data centre build-out.

 


The Public Suffix List (PSL) is a security liability limping along as a vestigial artifact from a bygone age. Downstream consumers such as browsers, certificate authorities and RFC7489 DMARC receivers, to name a few, all read from this nearly 20-year-old text file for calculating domain boundaries.

 


No matter how much money anyone throws at it, the GenAI boom can only continue to grow as fast as datacenters are built and powered up to accept machinery.

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