Subject: [Newsclips] IETF SYN-ACK Newspack 2021-02-22

From: "David Goldstein" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:22:14 +1100

The IETF SYNACK Newspack collects IETF-related items from a variety of news outlets and other online publications. They do not represent the views of the IETF and are not checked for factual accuracy.

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IETF IN THE NEWS

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Tech experts predict the “new normal” by 2025: Experts predict the “new normal” by 2025 – in the wake of COVID-19 – will be far more tech-driven, presenting more big challenges

A plurality of experts predict that sweeping societal change will make life mostly worse for most people as greater inequality, rising authoritarianism and rampant misinformation take hold in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a new report by Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center and Pew Research Center. Still, a portion believe life will be better in a ‘tele-everything’ world where workplaces, health care and social activity improve.

< <https://www.elon.edu/u/news/2021/02/18/tech-experts-predict-the-new-normal-by-2025/> https://www.elon.edu/u/news/2021/02/18/tech-experts-predict-the-new-normal-by-2025/>

Experts Say the ‘New Normal’ in 2025 Will Be Far More Tech-Driven, Presenting More Big Challenges

A plurality of experts think sweeping societal change will make life worse for most people as greater inequality, rising authoritarianism and rampant misinformation take hold in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. Still, a portion believe life will be better in a ‘tele-everything’ world where workplaces, health care and social activity improve

< <https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/02/18/experts-say-the-new-normal-in-2025-will-be-far-more-tech-driven-presenting-more-big-challenges/> https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/02/18/experts-say-the-new-normal-in-2025-will-be-far-more-tech-driven-presenting-more-big-challenges/>

WebRTC is now a global standard – how do users benefit today and in 5G?

Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) recently became an official standard. A number of companies have worked with developing this technology over the past years, and the W3C and IETF standardization bodies announced on 26 January 26, 2021, that it is now an official standard.

< <https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2021/2/5g-voice> https://www.ericsson.com/en/blog/2021/2/5g-voice>

Spacetime Software: Time-Based Geospatial Data Clocks In

... “In this [above] case, GPS doesn’t work well - since accessing this shared memory of the road around you won’t work well for such driver applications. To make the world algorithmically addressable, Nexar is driving a new iETF standard that would reflect the number of dynamic conditions and variables affecting the road.

< <https://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2021/02/15/spacetime-software-time-based-geospatial-data-clocks-in/?sh=128888392266> https://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2021/02/15/spacetime-software-time-based-geospatial-data-clocks-in/?sh=128888392266>

Magic Leap's Latest Lumin OS & SDK Releases Focus on Features for Enterprise Customers

... WebRTC, which works as a Javascript API that enables connected devices on any network to serve as a communications node, was recently adopted as a standard by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), making the Lumin update fairly timely.

< <https://magic-leap.reality.news/news/magic-leaps-latest-lumin-os-sdk-releases-focus-features-for-enterprise-customers-0384357/> https://magic-leap.reality.news/news/magic-leaps-latest-lumin-os-sdk-releases-focus-features-for-enterprise-customers-0384357/>

Was ist Hashing? [What is Hashing]

... Die IETF empfiehlt in einem aktuellen Entwurf für die Speicherung von Passwörtern den Einsatz folgender Hashing-Algorithmen:

< <https://www.computerwoche.de/a/was-ist-hashing,3550630> https://www.computerwoche.de/a/was-ist-hashing,3550630>

< <https://computerwelt.at/news/was-ist-hashing/> https://computerwelt.at/news/was-ist-hashing/>

25 Jahre nach Barlows "Unabhängigkeitsdeklaration des Cyberspace" [25 years after Barlow's "Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace"]

... Vor allem für die "Youngsters" von der US-Westküste wurde in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren dieses Forschungsprojekt zu einem Werkzeug, mit dem sie eine völlig neue und zwar virtuelle Welt aufbauten. Diese basierte auf bis dato unbekannten Protokollen und Codes: RFCs, TCP/IP, IPv4, DNS, ccTLDs, gTLDs, GIFs, das "@", die "Dot's" und vieles mehr, einschließlich der Netzwerk-Institutionen wie IETF und IANA, wurden zu Eckpfeilern einer Welt, die damals außerhalb dieser "Community" kaum einer verstand.

< <https://www.heise.de/tp/features/25-Jahre-nach-Barlows-Unabhaengigkeitsdeklaration-des-Cyberspace-5054608.html> https://www.heise.de/tp/features/25-Jahre-nach-Barlows-Unabhaengigkeitsdeklaration-des-Cyberspace-5054608.html>

IETF รองรับ HTTP/3 เข้าเป็นมาตรฐานเสนอแนะ (Proposed Standard) [IETF supports HTTP/3 as a proposed standard]

IETF รองรับร่างมาตรฐาน draft-ietf-quic-http-34.txt หรือ HTTP/3 เข้าเป็นมาตรฐานเสนอแนะ (Proposed Standard) หลังจากแก้ไขมาหลายสิบครั้งตั้งแต่ปี 2016

< <https://www.blognone.com/node/121307> https://www.blognone.com/node/121307>

스마트시티 앱 수요 증가…‘와이-선 얼라이언스’ 파워 업! [Increased demand for smart city apps...'Wai-Sun Alliance' power up!]

... 한편 와이-선 얼라이언스는 글로벌 비영리 회원 기반 협회로서 IEEE802, IETF, TIA, TTC 및 ETSI와 같은 개방형 글로벌 표준을 사용하여 스마트시티, 스마트 그리드 및 기타 IoT 애플리케이션에서 사용할 상호운용 가능한 무선 솔루션의 세계적 확산을 촉진하는 기구다.

< <http://www.smartcitytoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=20323> http://www.smartcitytoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=20323>

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SECURITY & PRIVACY

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2020: A Record Year for MANRS

Over the past year, COVID-19 underlined the importance of a secure and resilient Internet to ensure we stay connected online. For MANRS, this meant even more incentive to work with network operators, Internet exchange points (IXPs), and content delivery network (CDN) and cloud providers to ensure data went where it was supposed to go via secure paths.

< <https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2021/02/2020-a-record-year-for-manrs/> https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2021/02/2020-a-record-year-for-manrs/>

DDoS Attacks Wane in Q4 Amid Cryptomining Resurgence

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks dropped significantly at the end of 2020, down 31 percent in the fourth quarter, according to researchers. The reason? Cybercriminals have switched their efforts (and their botnets) to cryptomining.

< <https://threatpost.com/ddos-attacks-q4-cryptomining-resurgence/163998/> https://threatpost.com/ddos-attacks-q4-cryptomining-resurgence/163998/>

A matter of profit: DDoS attacks in Q4 2020 dropped by a third compared to Q3, as cryptomining is on the rise

As people began to spend more time online in 2020, it resulted in a boom of DDoS attacks. And in the fourth quarter, attacks on educational institutions continued: several schools in Massachusetts and Laurentian University in Canada experienced such incidents. Online gaming services also suffered DDoS attacks.

< <https://www.kaspersky.com.au/about/press-releases/2021_a-matter-of-profit-ddos-attacks-in-q4-2020-dropped-by-a-third-compared-to-q3-as-cryptomining-is-on-the-rise> https://www.kaspersky.com.au/about/press-releases/2021_a-matter-of-profit-ddos-attacks-in-q4-2020-dropped-by-a-third-compared-to-q3-as-cryptomining-is-on-the-rise>

us: CISA Warns More Critical Flaws Found in Open Source TCP/IP Stacks

The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released an alert, which details further critical vulnerabilities found in a range of open source TCP/IP stacks, which could allow an attacker to take control of connections, among other malicious activities.

< <https://healthitsecurity.com/news/cisa-warns-more-critical-flaws-found-in-open-source-tcp-ip-stacks> https://healthitsecurity.com/news/cisa-warns-more-critical-flaws-found-in-open-source-tcp-ip-stacks>

An analysis of a large-scale HTTPS interception

On 17 July 2019, many Internet subscribers in Kazakhstan received an SMS message from their ISPs, asking them to install (and trust) a government-issued certificate on all of their Internet-connected devices for ‘security’ purposes.

< <https://blog.apnic.net/2021/02/15/an-analysis-of-a-large-scale-https-interception/> https://blog.apnic.net/2021/02/15/an-analysis-of-a-large-scale-https-interception/>

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OTHERWISE NOTEWORTHY

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6G internet? Internet pioneer Vint Cerf isn’t buying the hype

Vint Cerf has seen a lot of upgrades to online access since he cowrote the internet’s core Transmission Control Protocol in 1974. So you’ll have to forgive him for a certain glibness in the recap he recently shared of the last 15 years of wireless connectivity: “2G to 3G to 4G to 5G and whatever the heck 6G is.”

< <https://www.fastcompany.com/90604796/6g-internet-vint-cerf-starlink-satellite-undersea-cables> https://www.fastcompany.com/90604796/6g-internet-vint-cerf-starlink-satellite-undersea-cables>

< <https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/6g-internet-internet-pioneer-vint-cerf-isn-e2-80-99t-buying-the-hype/ar-BB1dPexJ> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/6g-internet-internet-pioneer-vint-cerf-isn-e2-80-99t-buying-the-hype/ar-BB1dPexJ>

Telesat to build a $5 billion global satellite network to bring fiber-like internet to businesses

Canadian telecommunications satellite operator Telesat announced on Tuesday that French-Italian space hardware manufacturer Thales Alenia Space will build its next-generation broadband satellite network called Lightspeed.

< <https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/09/telesat-building-5-billion-lightspeed-global-satellite-internet.html> https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/09/telesat-building-5-billion-lightspeed-global-satellite-internet.html>

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