Whither DANE?
At the recent DNS-OARC workshop, I gave a short talk on current prospects for DANE adoption. This generated a fair amount of subsequent discusion and comment...
I'm Shumon Huque, a software engineer and technologist. You can read more about me here.
Recent Posts
San Diego Trip
I was in San Diego for a few days. The first day I visited the San Diego zoo, widely considered to be one the best. The second day I rented a car and drove o...
Banff and Jasper Vacation
We visited Banff and Jasper National Parks in the Canadian Rockies earlier this month. It was unusually cool for this time of year, even for the Canadian Roc...
IETF102 and Montreal
I was in Montreal this month to attend IETF102 and several side meetings just before it.
Volunteer Time at Spirit Open Equestrian
With work colleagues, I recently did some volunteering work at a local non-profit, Spirit Open Equestrian, which offers numerous healing programs involving t...
Around London with my brother
I’ve been in London for nearly a week and a half for the IETF 101 meeting, and stayed the weekend after to visit and catch up with my (many) relatives here. ...
Arecibo Observatory
I’m in Puerto Rico for the DNS-OARC Workshop and ICANN 61 meeting. Yesterday, with some conference friends, we visited the world famous Arecibo Observatory. ...
Website reboot
I’ve redone my website, something I’ve been planning to do for quite a while. I’m now using the Pelican static site generator. Over the next few days, I will...
Srimongol Village visit
We visited (completely unannounced) a small village in Srimongol, Bangladesh on this day. The locals (and especially the kids) were delighted to see us. And ...
Singapore Zoo
Photos from the Singapore Zoo, which I visited with some IETF100 colleagues, on Nov 17th 2017.
Photos from Rocky Mountains
We went on vacation earlier this month to visit two US National Parks renowned for their spectacular natural scenery: Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorad...
Photos from Mt Rainier National Park
We went on vacation earlier this month to visit national parks in Washington State.
Talks at Fall 2015 DNS-OARC Workshop
I attended the Fall 2015 DNS-OARC workshop in Montreal, Canada earlier this month. DNS-OARC is the “DNS Operations, Analysis, and Research Center”, and the p...
Qname Minimization talk
Qname Minimization @ DNS-OARC
Key Transparency for DNSSEC?
At the recent IETF meeting in Toronto, there was an interesting discussion in the trans working group on DNSSEC certificate transparency, and there is a (ver...
I’ve left Penn for a new job
After more than 20 years of working at Penn (University of Pennsylvania), I’ve decided to take a new job as Principal Research Scientist at Verisign Labs, th...
An IPv6 Success Story – Galois
The following article was contributed by Paul Heinlein, a systems administrator at Galois. Paul attended my full day IPv6 training course at USENIX LISA 2013...
EDU Top Level Domain statistics
Some DNS Top Level Domain (TLD) operators publish statistics about their DNS zones. Some others have a zone file access program that allows others to examine...
USENIX interviews - IPv6 and DNSSEC
I’m giving full day tutorials on IPv6 and DNSSEC at the upcoming USENIX LISA conference in Washington DC in November. Matt Simmons interviewed me about both ...
ISC DLV registry usage
On a LinkedIn forum, Dan York of the Internet Society recently asked a question about who still uses the ISC DNSSEC Lookaside Validation (DLV) registry. Whil...