Internet Engineering Task Force
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Putting 'hijack' of IP addresses in the clear
Insight newsmaker APNIC's Resource Certification program won't deter hijacking of IP addresses but will at least make the event detectable, says center's chief scientist.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, IPv6, Certification, Security, Resource Certificate, Use, Attestation, IP, IP Address
Cisco offers open source alternative to Soap
News The networking equipment maker has developed its own messaging protocol Etch as an alternative to the Soap standard, and made it open source.
Tags: Web services, Open source, Security, Cisco Systems Inc., GPL, W3C, CIO, performance, software, networking equipment company
Storage technology clears key hurdle
News A technology that promises to bridge the worlds of data storage and networking has passed a key point on its path to becoming a usable standard.
Shuttleworth: Amazon will win cloud battle
News EC2 is the only strong contender to eventually emerge as the leading cloud platform because it has open-source implementations, according to the Canonical chief.
Tags: Cloud computing, Web 2.0, Open Source, Citrix Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Web 2.0, Amazon EC2, British Telecommunications, Savvis Communications
Gmail users protected from fake eBay, PayPal e-mail
News Google is using the DomainKeys e-mail authentication technology to block phishing e-mail messages ostensibly from eBay and PayPal.
Tags: Domain names, Spam and phishing, Security, E-mail servers, E-mail clients, Phishing, PayPal, Google Inc., DomainKeys, eBay Inc.
Use RFC 2606 example domains for example e-mail
Techguide Example e-mail domains were created specifically for use in examples, so that people with real e-mail accounts that happen to coincide with your examples don't suffer the fallout of an unfortunate choice of example.
Tags: Security implementation/standards, Security Management, E-mail Address, Security, Domain Name, Domain, CompTIA, Chad Perrin, RFC, e-mail
File sharing spec to go before IETF
News The Direct Access File System will be submitted to the Internet Engineering Task Force shortly, paving the way for final adoption next year.
Open encryption to combat spam and phishing
News Two separate initiatives around open encryption standards could help improve e-commerce security and reduce online fraud.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Authentication and encryption, PKI (public key infrastructure)
Group seeks base-station standard
News A new alliance of telephone equipment makers is working on a standard way to build cellular base stations, a change that could save manufacturers money.
Terra Lycos, IBM team on messaging
News The Internet giant plans to introduce a new instant messaging service built on IBM Lotus Sametime technology by the end of the year.
Microsoft criticized for 'IPv6-like' patent
News Software giant comes under fire for "yet another example of how patents can kill or inhibit standards."
Tags: Software engineering/development, Patents
ISO rules out code fee plan
News A key standards organization distanced itself from a controversial proposal to charge for commonly used country, language and currency codes, following an uproar over the potential fees.
Microsoft proposes Net software specification
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Intel steps up push for iSCSI spec
News Intel Corp. is making a push to help get the iSCSI protocol adopted in the data storage industry.
Microsoft wants to meld antispam proposals
News The software giant says the spam-blocking proposal backed by America Online should be combined with Microsoft's to more rapidly create a single, industrywide standard.
Tags: Spam filtering
