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News & Events

23 October 2008
As part of its program to expand the Domain Name System (DNS) by adding new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) alongside the familiar .COM, .ORG, and .NET, ICANN has published a draft Applicant Guidebook entitled "How to Apply for a New Generic Top-Level Domain." The Guidebook will be available for public comment for 45 days, and will be the topic of several meetings and workshops during the upcoming ICANN meeting in Cairo. ICANN expects to begin accepting applications to operate new gTLDs in mid-2009. Interisle worked with ICANN to develop the technical criteria and procedures for evaluating applications.

5 March 2008
Interisle Associate Fred Goldstein has published his latest article on the current controversy over network management practices and peer throttling—“The Dismal Reality of Internet Management”—in which he discusses the controversial practice of rate-limiting or blocking some forms of application traffic that put Comcast in the hot seat at FCC en banc hearings on Broadband Network Management Practices in Cambridge, MA on February 25 and Palo Alto, CA on April 17.

7 January 2008
Frontline Wireless has decided not to bid in the upcoming FCC auction of 700 MHz band radio spectrum. Interisle partner Lyman Chapin is a member of Frontline’s Open Access Advisory Council.

29 November 2007
Interisle associate Fred Goldstein was on NECN last night talking about Verizon's announcement that it will adopt some of the open access features required by the FCC for part of the new 700 MHz band spectrum to be auctioned in January on its existing cellular network.

24 October 2007
Interisle Consulting Group delivered the report from its independent review of the ICANN Nominating Committee. The report can be read and public comments can now be posted via the website at ICANN. The NomCom review workshop took place during the ICANN public meeting, Wednesday 31 October 2007; a transcript is available.

28 June 2007
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has chosen Interisle Consulting Group to conduct an independent review of its Nominating Committee and process. The objective of the review is to determine whether the nominating committee has a continuing purpose in the ICANN structure, and if so, whether any change in structure or operations is desirable to improve its effectiveness. Interisle’s review team will include the two principals of Options for Change.

Highlights

October 2008
Phase 3 of the PSnet project is now under way. Interisle, operating with partner Galaxy Internet Services, will will be providing expertise in several technical, policy, and governance areas related to this effort, under which nine municipalities in greater Boston are collaborating, together with State and Federal agencies, universities, and other nongovernmental organizations, to build and operate a high-quality regional network supporting public safety applications. PSnet applies many of the technical and governance principles underlying the public Internet to create a flexible, dynamic network by interconnecting existing and planned networks within a unified policy, operational, and governance framework.

September 2008
Interisle has completed a comprehensive review of the African Network Operators Group (AfNOG), a forum for technical coordination and cooperation among African Internet service providers and network engineers from the region’s universities, research institutions, and industry. The review affirms AfNOG's extraordinary success over the past nine years in fulfilling its core mission: improving the accessibility and value of the Internet in Africa by training engineers and nurturing a collaborative community of networking experts. It also identifies potential impediments to future growth and effectiveness, and recommends steps that AfNOG's organizers and supporters could take to avoid them.

March 2008
Chuck Wade has developed a spreadsheet tool for IP address planning and inventory tracking. It supports supernetting and subnetting, and can be used by merely entering CIDR values. It detects errors, and eliminates the tedium of converting between binary and dotted decimal notations. You can get more information and download this tool as an Excel workbook from this page.

March 2008
The MIT Kerberos Consortium has engaged Interisle to develop whitepapers and technical best practices documentation for the growing community of Kerberos users and developers. Kerberos is widely used as a single sign-on authentication solution for both users and services, and it also plays an important role in several emerging technologies. As the Kerberos community expands, and more system administrators work with Kerberos in mixed platform environments, there is greater need for sound guidance on best practices for deploying and managing Kerberos-based security solutions.

January 2008
Interisle will work with ICANN and Deloitte Audit & Enterprise Risk Services (Belgium) to develop criteria and procedures for evaluating applications for new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs). Existing gTLDs include .com, .net, and .org; the term "generic" distinguishes these domains from those based on country codes, such as .br (Brazil) and .jp (Japan). ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organisation (GNSO) approved policies for the introduction of new gTLDs on 6 September 2007; ICANN is expected to begin processing new gTLD applications in mid-2008.

August 2007
In cooperation with The National Clearing House and MorSecure, Interisle principal Colin Strutt edited Parts 2 and 3 of the X9AB WG17 ANSI Draft Standard for Trial Use X9.100-172, “Specifications for the Validation of Interoperable Check Security Feature (ICSF)”, which was approved by the X9 and ANSI boards on 10 August 2007.


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