Member News: Innovative Projects to Help Close the Digital Divide
Vote of Confidence: Voting is open for Chapterthon 2019, the global Internet Society Chapters marathon, where Chapters can develop projects within a timeline and budget to achieve a common goal for the development of the Internet. This year’s theme is Connecting the Unconnected. Twenty-eight Chapters – from Argentina to Zimbabwe – have submitted projects.
Keep the connections: The Venezuela Chapter is among several groups calling for large technology companies to maintain the availability of their services to Venezuelans. While an executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to block support for the government of Nicolás Maduro, the order does not ban the Internet and other technology services from serving the nation, the chapter notes. Access to the Internet and online services is “critical” because it brings access to independent news and allows citizens to express their opinions, the chapter said.
Trading chips: The Washington, D.C., Chapter recently hosted a conference on digital trade, including the impact of some nations’ policies that require data to be stored locally. “Data has become the most traded good and/or service across borders,” the Chapter said. “Meanwhile, many countries have adopted policies that inhibit digital trade, including requirements that Continue reading
IPv6 Buzz 040: What We’re Thankful For With IPv6
From the virtually limitless supply of IPv6 addressing to good vendor support to IPv6-only efforts and beyond, Ed, Scott, and Tom discuss what they’re most thankful for when it comes to IPv6 in this holiday episode of IPv6 Buzz.
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IPv6 Buzz 040: What We’re Thankful For With IPv6
From the virtually limitless supply of IPv6 addressing to good vendor support to IPv6-only efforts and beyond, Ed, Scott, and Tom discuss what they’re most thankful for when it comes to IPv6 in this holiday episode of IPv6 Buzz.Top 5 SD-WAN Takeaways for 2019
SD-WAN has reached an inflection point as enterprises — driven by cost savings, equipment...
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Upcoming Events and Webinars (December 2019)
The registration is still open for the Using VXLAN to Build Active-Active Data Centers workshop on December 3rd, but if you can’t make it to Zurich you might enjoy these live sessions we’ll run in December 2019:
- In the last session of autumn 2019 network automation course (December 5th) we’ll have Jeremy Schulman talking about ChatOps and Slack integration;
- On December 10th Matthias Luft will continue the Cloud Security series with a session focused on identity and access management (IAM);
- Remember the Business Aspects of Networking Technologies idea I started in April? Finally I found time for the second session (on December 12th), this time focused on addressing the business challenges instead of getting excited about technology;
- We’ll conclude the Autumn 2019 webinar season with another session in the EVPN Deep Dive saga on December 17th. This time we’ll have Krzysztof Szarkowicz, the author of MPLS in the SDN Era talk about MPLS-based EVPN.
All webinars I mentioned above are accessible with Standard ipSpace.net Subscription, and you’ll need Expert Subscription to enjoy the automation course contents.
A History of HTML Parsing at Cloudflare: Part 1
To coincide with the launch of streaming HTML rewriting functionality for Cloudflare Workers we are open sourcing the Rust HTML rewriter (LOL HTML) used to back the Workers HTMLRewriter API. We also thought it was about time to review the history of HTML rewriting at Cloudflare.
The first blog post will explain the basics of a streaming HTML rewriter and our particular requirements. We start around 8 years ago by describing the group of ‘ad-hoc’ parsers that were created with specific functionality such as to rewrite e-mail addresses or minify HTML. By 2016 the state machine defined in the HTML5 specification could be used to build a single spec-compliant HTML pluggable rewriter, to replace the existing collection of parsers. The source code for this rewriter is now public and available here: https://github.com/cloudflare/lazyhtml.
The second blog post will describe the next iteration of rewriter. With the launch of the edge compute platform Cloudflare Workers we came to realise that developers wanted the same HTML rewriting capabilities with a JavaScript API. The post describes the thoughts behind a low latency streaming HTML rewriter with a CSS-selector based API. We open-sourced the Rust library as it can also be used Continue reading
Introducing the HTMLRewriter API to Cloudflare Workers
We are excited to announce that the HTMLRewriter API for Cloudflare Workers is now GA! You can get started today by checking out our documentation, or trying out our tutorial for localizing your site with the HTMLRewriter.
Want to know how it works under the hood? We are excited to tell you everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask, about building a streaming HTML parser on the edge; read about it in part 1 (and stay tuned for part two coming tomorrow!).
Faster, more scalable applications at the edge
The HTMLRewriter can help solve two big problems web developers face today: making changes to the HTML, when they are hard to make at the server level, and making it possible for HTML to live on the edge, closer to the user — without sacrificing dynamic functionality.
Since the introduction of Workers, Workers have helped customers regain control where control either wasn’t provided, or very hard to obtain at the origin level. Just like Workers can help you set CORS headers at the middleware layer, between your users and the origin, the HTMLRewriter can assist with things like URL rewrites (see the example below!).
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My IETF 106
The 106th meeting of the IETF was in Singapore in November 2019. As usual for the IETF, there were many Working Group meetings, and this report is definitely not an attempt to cover all of these meetings or even anything close to that. Here I’ve been highly selective and picked out just the items that I found interesting from the sessions I attended.Compute Express Link Eyes Hardware Push in 2021
CXL has big beneficial implications for a wide range of industries, including high-performance...
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OS X: TimeMachineEditor App (Free)
Hugely useful tool because Time Machine runs way too often on my machine.
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Verizon, Ericsson, and Qualcomm Boast DSS Advancements
The technology is still, at least partially, theoretical because it remains under development and...
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Harnessing the Power of the People: Cloudflare’s First Security Awareness Month Design Challenge Winners
Grabbing the attention of employees at a security and privacy-focused company on security awareness presents a unique challenge; how do you get people who are already thinking about security all day to think about it some more? October marked Cloudflare’s first Security Awareness Month as a public company and to celebrate, the security team challenged our entire company population to create graphics, slogans, and memes to encourage us all to think and act more securely every day.
Employees approached this challenge with gusto; global participation meant plenty of high quality submissions to vote on. In addition to being featured here, the winning designs will be displayed in Cloudflare offices throughout 2020 and the creators will be on the decision panel for next year’s winners. Three rose to the top, highlighting creativity and style that is uniquely Cloudflarian. I sat down with the winners to talk through their thoughts on security and what all companies can do to drive awareness.
Eugene Wang, Design Team, First Place
Sílvia Flores, Executive Assistant, Second Place
Scott Jones, e-Learning Developer, Third Place
Security Haiku
Wipe that whiteboard clean
Visitors may come and see
Secrets not for them
No tailgating please
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Gelsinger’s Greatest Hits on VMware’s Q3 Earnings Call
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said he expects Carbon Black combined with VMware’s “security-driven...
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Day Two Cloud 025: The KubeCon 2019 Wrap-Up
KubeCon 2019 is a wrap. In today's Day Two Cloud podcast, Ethan Banks and Ned Bellavance share their impressions of the event and dive into why Kubernetes is so complex, what that means for enterprises considering Kubernetes, the role of community, and more.Day Two Cloud 025: The KubeCon 2019 Wrap-Up
KubeCon 2019 is a wrap. In today's Day Two Cloud podcast, Ethan Banks and Ned Bellavance share their impressions of the event and dive into why Kubernetes is so complex, what that means for enterprises considering Kubernetes, the role of community, and more.
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Winners of the 2019 Chapterthon To Be Announced On 11 December – Voting Is Open Now!
We’re thrilled to showcase this year’s creative, innovative and impactful projects aimed at ‘Connecting the Unconnected’. These short-term projects were run by twenty-eight of our Chapters that participated in the 2019 Chapterthon. We highly encourage you to take a few minutes to view the amazing work accomplished by your peers, and vote for your favorite project.
The winners of the 2019 Chapterthon will be announced during the upcoming Community Forum on 11 December, 13:00 UTC. Please join us in celebrating the amazing projects. The winning Chapters will be rewarded with a 1st prize of 3000 USD, 2nd prize of 2000 USD, and 3rd prize of 1000 USD.
Make your vote count before 6 December: vote now.
Find out who the winners are on 11 December: register here.
Image credit: © Internet Society / Nyani Quarmyne / Panos Pictures
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Deep Dive: A Look at Top Retailers’ Security Practices
In April 2019 the Internet Society’s Online Trust Audit released its 10th Online Trust Audit and Honor Roll. One of the longest-running sectors covered in the Audit is online retailers. In this blog post we will look at the top 500 online retailers in the US based on online sales and how they fare in security best practices advocated by OTA.
Overall 65% of online retailers in the top 500 made the honor roll this year, a marked improvement over 2017 when just over half (51%) did. With the upcoming holidays many consumers will be doing much of their shopping online, therefore it is more important than ever that any online retailer practices good email and site security. After all, consumers are sending highly-sensitive data like credit cards and addresses at a much higher rate during the holidays.
In site security retailers fared well, as did most sites. Fully 92% of the top 500 online retailers has AOSSL/HSTS on their sites (virtually the same as 91% of sites overall). The good news this year is that this is a significant increase over the the 38% that had AOSSL/HSTS in 2017. The bad news is that the fact that this is Continue reading
Heavy Networking 489: Is BBR Too Unfair An Algorithm For The Internet?
BBR is a congestion control algorithm (CCA) that's growing in use on the Internet. However, a design element in BBR starves competing CCAs for bandwidth on shared links, allowing BBR to consume more than its fair share. On today's Heavy Networking we speak with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University who have measured BBR's unfairness. We discuss the research, learn how BBR differs from legacy algorithms such as Cubic and Reno, and explore impacts to the Internet. Our guests are Ranysha Ware, Ph.D. student; and Justine Sherry, Associate Professor of Computer Science.
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