Category: News
- Egypt’s Submarine Cable Stranglehold ()
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/egypts-submarine-cable-stranglehold/
- Tech firms, telcos in India urge central govt to control internet shutdowns ()
Internet shutdowns cost the country more than $580 million in 2021, with 59 million people impacted. https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/tech-telco-firms-seek-federal-oversight-to-control-internet-shutdowns-122090700496_1.html
- TLS 1.3: A Story Of Experimentation And Centralization ()
https://blog.apnic.net/2022/08/17/tls-1-3-a-story-of-experimentation-and-centralization/
- How To Shut Down The Internet And How To Fight Back ()
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/29/how-to-shut-down-the-internet-and-how-to-fight-back
- Older versions of TLS deprecated by Amazon ()
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/tls-1-2-required-for-aws-endpoints/
- Outage in Egypt impacted AWS, GCP and Azure interregional connectivity ()
https://www.kentik.com/blog/outage-in-egypt-impacted-aws-gcp-and-azure-interregional-connectivity/
- HTTP RFCs have evolved: A Cloudflare view of HTTP usage trends ()
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-view-http3-usage/
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- Internet Outages: What’s in a measurement? ()
Mozilla Foundation hosted a Twitter Spaces audio chat related to Mozilla’s new open dataset on Internet outages with Berhan Taye, Doug Madory, Maria Xynou, Alberto Dainotti and Alessio Placitelli. The recording is online now if you wish to listen or share further. It was a wide-ranging conversation about technical outage measurements, why they matter and […]
- Internet in Fiji impacted by DNSSEC errors ()
https://blog.cloudflare.com/dnssec-issues-fiji/
- Mozilla Opens Access to Dataset on Network Outages ()
- Kazakhstan’s Internet Shutdown Leaves Millions in the Dark During Unrest – The National Post, 10 Jan 2022 ()
Kazakhstan’s Internet Shutdown Leaves Millions in the Dark During Unrest – The National Post, 10 Jan 2022
- M-Lab Research Fellows Announced ()
M-Lab is pleased to share our selection of Research Fellows for Spring 2022, generously supported by Internet Society. The fellows were selected for the merit, rigor, and feasibility of their proposed project as well as their research’s relevance to improvement for end-user Internet performance. Read more …
- When the Internet Goes Dark – New Statesman, 22 Nov, 2021 ()
When the internet goes dark: How states are weaponising digital shutdowns to stifle dissent
- Open Call for M-Lab Research Fellows – due November 30 ()
Measurement Lab is seeking three Research Fellows to expand Internet performance research beyond the measurement and optimization for bandwidth. Fellows will utilize M-Lab’s longitudinal, open dataset and/or platform to identify under-recognized Internet performance metrics that can be used to improve end user performance. See https://www.measurementlab.net/blog/research-fellowship-call/
- Asia Pacific IPv6 Deployment Gets Funding Boost ()
For the first time ever, ISIF Asia is supporting IPv6 uptake via a USD 800,000 direct grants program for IPv6 deployments. Grants available range between USD 30,000 and USD 250,000 and applications are now open. They will remain open until funds are exhausted. Who can apply? To be eligible for the grants, organizations must hold IPv6 address space […]
- Facebook Has Good MANRS. Mistakes Still Happen – MANRS ()
Facebook Has Good MANRS. Mistakes Still Happen – MANRS, 6 October 2021
- Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet – Cloudflare ()
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet – Cloudflare, 4 October, 2021
- Facebook Outage Analysis – ThousandEyes ()
Facebook Outage Analysis – ThousandEyes, 4 October 2022
- The Open Internet on the Brink: Economic and Social Costs of Restrictions – The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change ()
The Open Internet on the Brink: Economic and Social Costs of Restrictions – The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, September 2021.
- The Battle for control of Afghanistan’s Internet – Wired ()
The Battle for control of Afghanistan’s Internet – Wired, 7 September, 2021
- The Draconian Rise of Internet Shutdowns – Wired ()
The Draconian Rise of Internet Shutdowns – Wired, 2 September, 2021
- What’s Next for the Internet in Afghanistan – Kentik ()
Kentik’s Doug Madory asks What’s Next for the Internet in Afghanistan?, 31 August, 2021
- The Current 004: Internet Shutdowns – Jigsaw ()
The Current 004: Internet Shutdowns, Jigsaw, August 2021
- The Irrationality of Deploying IPv6 – CircleID ()
Marco Hogewoning, Manager of Public Policy and Internet Governance at the RIPE NCC, has written about the Irrationality of Deploying IPv6 – August 3rd, 2021
- Working With Those Who Protect Human Rights Around the World – Cloudflare ()
Working With Those Who Protect Human Rights Around the World – 29 July, 2021
- Increasing https Adoption – Chromium ()
Increasing https Adoption – Chromium 14 July, 2021
- When Governments Turn the Internet Off – Reboot ()
When Governments Turn the Internet Off – Reboot, 8 July 2021
- The Deeper Root Cause of the Fastly and Akamai Outages – CircleID ()
The Deeper Root Cause of the Fastly and Akamai Outages – CircleID, 28 June, 2021
- Why the Internet Is Vulnerable to Outages – LifeWire ()
Why the Internet Is Vulnerable to Outages – LifeWire, 22 June, 2021
- Ethiopian Resources for Open Access and Digital Safety ()
Responding directly to a request for easy to share information about circumvention tools during a shutdown, Localization Lab has created short animations in 4 local languages and a video overviewing how to download and use a VPN when one is no longer able to use messaging applications or access content online. Localization Lab has also […]
- Free My Internet: A Graphic Journey From Infrastructure to Shutdowns ()
https://freemyinternet.info
- Accelerate networking with HTTP/3 and QUIC ()
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10094/
- India signs G7 statement condemning “politically motivated Internet shutdowns” ()
- NIXI unveils three new initiatives to create awareness about IPv6 ()
Read more at:https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-bytes/nixi-unveils-three-new-initiatives-to-create-awareness-about-ipv6/articleshow/82102938.cms
- Twitter and Internet Society hold lectures for journalism students ()
https://www.telecompaper.com/news/twitter-and-internet-society-hold-lectures-for-journalism-students-at-american-university-in-dubai–1376634
- Why faster connectivity means faster economic growth for Kenya ()
- Mind the Gap: Understanding tech bans and outages in the Middle East ()
Read more at: https://www.zdnet.com/article/mind-the-gap-understanding-tech-bans-and-outages-in-the-middle-east/
- Digital Safety: Internet shutdowns ()