Plenary - Main Room (Tue, 14:00)
Since RFC3901 from 2004, it is clear that in the DNS IPv4 is a MUST. IPv6, however is a MAY IF YOU FEEL LIKE IT YOU KNOW IF IT VIBES. Since 2023, work was ongoing in the IETF DNSOP working group to change that with a 3901bis document. This document has passed the IESG in February, and is now in the RFC editors queue, bound to be the new Best Current Practice for "doing DNS". This time with IPv6.
In this talk, we will go over what this document now recommends, what operators should do to follow …
In high-performance optical communication systems transceiver health and efficiency are critical to network reliability and energy consumption. This presentation explores the powerful capabilities of Versatile Diagnostics Monitoring (VDM) features found in modern optical transceivers (beyond the speed of 100G) with a particular focus on the Thermoelectric Cooler (TEC) current metrics. By analysing TEC current alongside temperature and cable length data we should be able to identify the optimal …
Childlight, based at the University of Edinburgh, is a research centre dedicated to uncovering the scale, prevalence, and nature of global child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA). Its inaugural Global Index focuses specifically on technology facilitated CSEA, recognising the central role that digital systems, platforms, and connectivity infrastructures play in enabling or interrupting harm.
This May, Childlight will publish updated global data on technology facilitated CSEA. The report highl…
Security researchers equipped with LLMs are finding security issues in various software components at an unprecedented pace, and open-source projects are scrambling to fix them all. The old “enterprise” model of carefully deciding whether to upgrade or delay each software release is becoming problematic.
Encrypted Client Hello (ECH, RFC9849, March 2026) is now supported in OpenSSL v4.0.0.
Proposed presentation briefly explains ECH; motivates its use; identifies support in a number of libraries, as also in client and server codes; and lists resources to support deployment.