News & Events and Highlights Archive

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.

13 September 2007
Interisle principal Lyman Chapin is a candidate for election to the Board of Trustees of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the nonprofit corporation responsible for allocating Internet Protocol (IP) resources, including IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, within a service region that includes Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States. Statements of support may be posted prior to the end of the voting period on 26 October 2007.

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.

16 May 2007
Application Performance Management: Best Practices Do Work, co-authored by Interisle associate Rebecca Wetzel, appears in the May 2007 issue of Business Communications Review.

May 2007
Interisle is working with the nine cities and towns in the Metro Boston Homeland Security Region to design and deploy a resilient public safety data network (PSnet). George Fosque, the Cambridge MA Emergency Communications director who is the principal PSnet champion, described the project and what it means for public safety in Massachusetts at the IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security in Woburn, MA on May 16-17.

16 January 2007
The ICANN Board has accepted the recommendations of the first two Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel (RSTEP) reports, denying Tralliance Corporation’s petition to insert a wildcard at the top level of the .travel domain and approving Global Name Registry’s proposal for a limited release of two-character names at the second level of the .name domain. Interisle principal Lyman Chapin chairs the RSTEP.

3 September  2006
Pocket Guide To Application Delivery Systems, co-authored by Interisle associate Rebecca Wetzel, appears in the September 2006 issue of Business Communications Review.

May 2006
A Capability Model for Enterprise Resiliency, co-authored by Chris Owens and Charles Wallen, appears in the Spring 2006 issue of the Disaster Recovery Journal. This brief article summarizes a more extensive project whose goal is to apply thinking from the disciplines of risk management and process quality improvement to the task of assessing and managing the business resiliency of an enterprise. The approach leads to pragmatic decisions that are grounded in mission, degree of risk tolerance, and other strategic fundamentals.

5 April 2006
IT Managers Weigh In On Application Performance, co-authored by Interisle associate  Rebecca Wetzel, appears in the April 2006 issue of Business Communications Review.

15-16 March 2006
Chuck Wade presented the findings and recommendations of the Financial Services Technology Consortium's Better Mutual Authentication project at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Workshop Toward a More Secure Web: Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication, in New York City. The FSTC Position Paper can be downloaded from W3C's Web site here.

1 March  2006
Chuck Wade presented the work of the Financial Services Technology Consortium's Better Mutual Authentication project at the Spotlight On Multifactor Authentication meeting of the NACHA Internet Council in Dana Point, California.

27 February 2006
QoS over MPLS-The Complete Story, co-authored by Interisle associate Rebecca Wetzel, appears in the February 2006  issue of Business Communications Review.

29 January 2006
Lyman Chapin has been nominated to chair a standing technical panel of experts that will review proposals to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for new registry services at the top level of the Domain Name System (DNS).

9 November 2005
Chuck Wade presented during the eCrime Incident Reporting session at the joint meeting of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) and the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group in Montreal.

4 November 2005
Lyman Chapin presented at The Progress & Freedom Foundation seminar:  "Interconnection Without Regulation: Lessons for Telecommunications Reform from Four Network Industries" in Washington, DC.

22 August 2005
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn are the 2005 recipients of the computing profession's Nobel Prize, the ACM Turing Award.  Lyman Chapin moderated their dialogue-format Turing Award Lecture: Assessing the Internet: Lessons Learned, Strategies for Evolution, and Future Possibilities at the University of Pennsylvania. If you were not among the 1000+ attendees, you can view the archived webcast of the historic event.

Highlights

March 2006
Lyman Chapin has been appointed to chair a standing technical panel of experts that will review proposals to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for new registry services at the top level of the Domain Name System (DNS).

November 2005
Interisle is providing project management and thought leadership to a number of efforts being conducted under the auspices of the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC). These projects include:

• Check Image Quality,

• Resilience Maturity Model,

• Interoperable Verification of Image-Survivable Check Security Features, and

• Better Mutual Authentication.

August 2005
The Internet Society (ISOC) was established in 1992 to promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world. Lyman Chapin, who is also one of ISOC's co-founders, recently developed a new Strategic Operating Plan for the Society, which was adopted by the ISOC Board of Trustees on August 5th, 2005.