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RPKI ARIN Agreement Update

In December of 2014 I wrote an article about  a legal agreement that was discouraging network operators from implementing an important Internet security function.  I am happy to report, the situation has improved: ARIN no longer requires operators explicitly accept a click-through agreement in order to access the Trust Anchor Locator (TAL). Resource Public Key […]

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RPKI ARIN Agreement Update

In December of 2014 I wrote an article about  a legal agreement that was discouraging network operators from implementing an important Internet security function.  I am happy to report, the situation has improved: ARIN no longer requires operators explicitly accept a click-through agreement in order to access the Trust Anchor Locator (TAL). Resource Public Key […]

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Entropy, vacuums, and visibility…

In the vacuum of two network engineers arguing, there are non-existent ideal situations where networks are built, grow or shrink congruently, and never have bugs.  In perpetuity.  Forever and ever.  Amen. The Forces of Evil From the moment we conceive of a network and through the end of it’s life, there are numerous competing forces […]

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Entropy, vacuums, and visibility…

In the vacuum of two network engineers arguing, there are non-existent ideal situations where networks are built, grow or shrink congruently, and never have bugs.  In perpetuity.  Forever and ever.  Amen. The Forces of Evil From the moment we conceive of a network and through the end of its life, there are numerous competing forces […]

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Cisco Enterprise NFV, DNA, IWAN and a bunch of other acronyms

So Cisco had some big announcements today. Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA).  Ohhh, sounds fancy. Let me put on something a little more formal before I get too involved in the post. So what are all these awesome acronyms, you may be wondering? Well basically we start with DNA, which is the overall ecosystem that […]

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