Subject: [Newsclips] IETF SYN-ACK Newspack 2021-06-21

From: "David Goldstein" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 22:22:40 +1000

The IETF SYN-ACK 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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Peak DDoS Traffic Up 100%, Researchers Report

... "There are also some existing recommendations made by IETF [Internet Engineering Task Force], such as the use of network ingress filtering - RFC2827 or BCP38 - and MANRS [Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security] that we expect to gain additional traction," he says.

< <https://www.govinfosecurity.com/peak-ddos-traffic-up-100-researchers-report-a-16904> https://www.govinfosecurity.com/peak-ddos-traffic-up-100-researchers-report-a-16904>

Experts Doubt Ethical AI Design Will Be Broadly Adopted as the Norm Within the Next Decade ... 5. About this canvassing of experts

... Among those invited were researchers, developers and business leaders from leading global organizations, including Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon universities; Google, Microsoft, Akamai, IBM and Cloudflare; leaders active in the advancement of and innovation in global communications networks and technology policy, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Internet Society (ISOC), International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Invitees were encouraged to share the survey link with others they believed would have an interest in participating, thus there may have been somewhat of a “snowball” effect as some invitees invited others to weigh in.

< <https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/06/16/ethical-ai-design-about-this-canvassing-of-experts/> https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/06/16/ethical-ai-design-about-this-canvassing-of-experts/>

Peak DDoS Traffic Up 100%, Researchers Report

... Nokia’s Pavlovic calls for more coordinated efforts to exchange security-related information -such as the top domains from which DDoS traffic originates - among service providers and cloud builders. "There are also some existing recommendations made by IETF [Internet Engineering Task Force], such as the use of network ingress filtering - RFC2827 or BCP38 - and MANRS [Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security] that we expect to gain additional traction," he says.

< <https://www.databreachtoday.com/peak-ddos-traffic-up-100-researchers-report-a-16904> https://www.databreachtoday.com/peak-ddos-traffic-up-100-researchers-report-a-16904>

< <https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/peak-ddos-traffic-up-100-researchers-report-a-16904> https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/peak-ddos-traffic-up-100-researchers-report-a-16904>

Guest Post by Prof. Contreras: Shepardizing Patents

... Standards Declarations – has the patent been declared essential to a technical standard? If so, the patent holder may have committed to license it on royalty-free or fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) terms. While some SDOs have searchable public databases of declared essential patents (e.g., ETSI and IETF), and some academic projects have consolidated some of this information, it is not generally linked to individual patent records.

< <https://patentlyo.com/patent/2021/06/contreras-shepardizing-patents.html> https://patentlyo.com/patent/2021/06/contreras-shepardizing-patents.html>

Ecco il progetto della Cina per Internet sovranista / La Cina ha un obiettivo: internet [Here's China's sovereignist Internet project / China has a goal: internet]

... Il fatto che Huawei abbia preferito il contesto multilaterale non è una sorpresa, anche se la giurisdizione dell’Itu non include l’architettura di internet. Quando si tratta di governance di internet, il Partito comunista cinese e altri regimi autoritari già da tempo favoriscono le istituzioni internazionali multilaterali, come l’Itu appunto, rispetto a quelle multistakeholder, come l’Ietf o l’Icann.

< <https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/ecco-il-progetto-della-cina-per-internet-sovranista/> https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/ecco-il-progetto-della-cina-per-internet-sovranista/>

< <https://www.lavoce.info/archives/87938/la-cina-ha-un-obiettivo-internet/> https://www.lavoce.info/archives/87938/la-cina-ha-un-obiettivo-internet/>

< <https://www.lapiazzarimini.it/2021/economia-la-cina-ha-un-obiettivo-internet/> https://www.lapiazzarimini.it/2021/economia-la-cina-ha-un-obiettivo-internet/>

融云CTO任杰：强互动，RTC下一个“爆点”场景 [Rongyun CTO Ren Jie: Strong interaction, RTC's next "burst" scene]

... 2021年初，W3C（万维网联盟）和IETF（互联网工程任务组）宣布WebRTC成为官方标准，任杰认为WebRTC被标准化组织接纳认可，但并不代表着RTC的技术已经成熟。“一个行业如果在持续爆发和持续高发展阶段，我们很难说它的技术是成熟的，因为场景越来越多，运用的设备技术也越来越多。音视频编码在不断变化，新场景下的网络对抗、机器学习、降噪技术，都在持续井喷的发展过程中。”任杰如是说。

< <https://www.sohu.com/a/472751051_104421> https://www.sohu.com/a/472751051_104421>

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SECURITY & PRIVACY

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EU Telecom Security Authorities discuss the challenges of Over-the-top Communications Services Supervision

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity hosted the 34th meeting of the European Competent Authorities for Secure Electronic Communications (ECASEC).

< <https://www.enisa.europa.eu/news/enisa-news/eu-telecom-security-authorities-discuss-the-challenges-of-over-the-top-communications-services-supervision> https://www.enisa.europa.eu/news/enisa-news/eu-telecom-security-authorities-discuss-the-challenges-of-over-the-top-communications-services-supervision>

The US Cyber Games Launch First-Ever US Cybersecurity Team

Many of you might know me as the director of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE). NICE, it is a public-private partnership between academia, industry, and government that is promoting and energizing a community working together to advance an integrated ecosystem of cybersecurity education, training, and workforce development. Therefore, it should not be surprising that NICE is partnering with Katzcy, a SWaM (Small, Women-owned, and Minority-owned Business) certified Virginia firm, and others to standup the first-ever US Cyber Games competition and national team.

< <https://www.nist.gov/blogs/cybersecurity-insights/us-cyber-games-launch-first-ever-us-cybersecurity-team> https://www.nist.gov/blogs/cybersecurity-insights/us-cyber-games-launch-first-ever-us-cybersecurity-team>

The race is on for quantum-safe cryptography

With her team of mathematicians at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, Chen reached out to academic and industry cryptographers around the world to find algorithms that could resist new threats posed by quantum computers. Five years later, the project is almost complete. After three rounds of elimination, Chen and her team have now narrowed the 69 submissions down to a final seven algorithms, with several winners to be named at the end of the year. If things go according to plan, the result will be a new set of NIST-certified algorithms — and a new measure of protection against the chaos of a fully operational quantum computer. 

< <https://www.theverge.com/22523067/nist-challenge-quantum-safe-cryptography-computer-lattice> https://www.theverge.com/22523067/nist-challenge-quantum-safe-cryptography-computer-lattice>

< <https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-race-is-on-for-quantum-safe-cryptography/ar-AAKWKug> https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/the-race-is-on-for-quantum-safe-cryptography/ar-AAKWKug>

eu: Pandemic urges strong measures to address risks on the security of personal data

Privacy goes hand in hand with security. This is what is aimed to be achieved with the EU’s Cybersecurity Strategy of December 2020. A harmonised approach in security and data protection is also evident to the recent proposal on European Digital Identity and the EU Regulation for Digital COVID-19 Certificates, which aim to ensure a high level of both cybersecurity and data protection.

< <https://www.enisa.europa.eu/news/enisa-news/pandemic-urges-strong-measures-to-address-risks-on-the-security-of-personal-data> https://www.enisa.europa.eu/news/enisa-news/pandemic-urges-strong-measures-to-address-risks-on-the-security-of-personal-data>

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INTERNET OF THINGS

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Smart Farming using AI and IoT

Abstract: To survive in this world the occupation of farming plays an important role as it provides maximum needs for human beings to live in this world. But in the advancement of the technologies with the invention of the Internet of Things, Automation (Smarter technologies) is replacing the traditional methodologies which in cause resulting in wide range improvement of the Fields. Now we are in the state of automation where the upgradation of smarter technologies is improving day by day in maximum sectors starting from smart homes, waste management, vehicles, industries, Farming, health, grids, and so on. In the field of Farming, the improvement with the implementation of Automation is also taking place with the invention of the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, etc. Applications related to precision agriculture and technologies related to farm management and robotic automation etc. will benefit the environment a lot and will increase the overall efficiency. This system measures a number of different physical parameters to help in decision making like type of soil, irrigated, or non-irrigated land using IoT with the help of sensors. The data collected from the sensors will be monitored and further, the farmers will be able to know which crop is in demand, the availability of fertilizers and insecticides for that crop, climatic conditions using AI. Further, using IoT our system will provide automated maintenance of humidity/water level and automated maintenance of the fertility of the soil.

< <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3866432> https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3866432>

What Is IoT Architecture, and How Does It Enable Smart Cities?

It may seem obvious now — as smart cities proliferate and mature across the country and around the world — but without the Internet of Things, smart cities simply wouldn’t be all that smart. They would not deliver value to residents or to city governments.

< <https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2021/06/what-iot-architecture-and-how-does-it-enable-smart-cities-perfcon> https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2021/06/what-iot-architecture-and-how-does-it-enable-smart-cities-perfcon>

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NEW TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS

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The QUIC transport protocol has now been standardised

On 27 May 2021 the technical standards of the QUIC transport layer network protocol were published. In due course QUIC could replace many of the uses of the old TCP protocol, particularly on the Web.

< <https://www.afnic.fr/en/observatory-and-resources/expert-papers/the-quic-transport-protocol-has-now-been-standardised/> https://www.afnic.fr/en/observatory-and-resources/expert-papers/the-quic-transport-protocol-has-now-been-standardised/>

Cross-protocol Unfairness between Adaptive Streaming Clients over HTTP/3 and HTTP/2: A Root-Cause Analysis

Abstract: With the introduction of HTTP/3, whose transport is no longer the traditional TCP protocol but the novel QUIC protocol, research for solutions to the unfairness of Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (HAS) has become more challenging.

< <https://europepmc.org/article/PPR/PPR357064> https://europepmc.org/article/PPR/PPR357064>

Stéphane Bortzmeyer se penche sur les potentiels problèmes de vie privée posés par QUIC [Stéphane Bortzmeyer looks at the potential privacy issues posed by QUIC]

L’ingénieur est revenu dans un billet de blog sur les problèmes de vie privée que pourrait entraîner une généralisation de QUIC, ce qui n’est a priori qu’une question de temps. Le protocole est depuis deux semaines environ un standard de l’Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), sous la référence RFC 9000.

< <https://www.nextinpact.com/lebrief/47437/stephane-borzmeyer-se-penche-sur-eventuels-problemes-vie-privee-poses-par-quic> https://www.nextinpact.com/lebrief/47437/stephane-borzmeyer-se-penche-sur-eventuels-problemes-vie-privee-poses-par-quic>

QUIC, el estándar que busca una internet más rápida, estable y segura [QUIC, the standard that seeks a faster, more stable and safer internet]

Seguridad, estabilidad y velocidad. Estos son los requisitos primarios que todos los usuarios de internet demandan. Especialmente los dos últimos, porque el primero todavía tiene muchos agujeros en cuanto al uso de la red de redes.

< <https://www.radiocaibarien.icrt.cu/2021/06/19/quic-el-estandar-que-busca-una-internet-mas-rapida-estable-y-segura/> https://www.radiocaibarien.icrt.cu/2021/06/19/quic-el-estandar-que-busca-una-internet-mas-rapida-estable-y-segura/>

Aceptar las cookies podría desaparecer con el cambio que proponen para las webs [Accepting cookies could disappear with the change they propose for websites]

... De momento, esta es una propuesta llevada a cabo por un grupo de activistas en la red, pero es bastante firme y fiable. En el caso de que decidan implementarla, podrían pasar años hasta que pudiéramos verla forma parte del estándar de Internet. No hay más que ver lo que han tardado, por ejemplo, en aprobar QUIC, el nuevo estándar seguro que sustituirá a TCP/IP.

< <https://www.adslzone.net/noticias/internet/adios-aceptar-cookies-cambio-adpc/> https://www.adslzone.net/noticias/internet/adios-aceptar-cookies-cambio-adpc/>

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