Challenges and uptake of modern Internet standards (including, but not limited to IPv6, DNSSEC, HTTPS, RPKI) – WS 11 2020

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12 June 2020 | 11:30-13:00 | Studio Berlin | Live streaming | Forum
Consolidated programme 2020 overview / Day 2

Proposals: #107, #146

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Session teaser

Implementing new technologies and changing standards has normally been met with debate and multiple concerns – whether technical, operational, financial, organisational, policy-related or an aversion to change. In this session there will be insightful analysis of the slow uptake or non-adoption of these consensual and agreed upon Internet standards, leading to a discussion on ways to encourage adoption.

Session description

The world is in constant change, and the Internet Community expects new technologies and engineering processes to meet growing demands (on capacity, functionality, security, privacy, etc.).
Internet Standards are normally approved with consensus from the technical community and other stakeholders, although some (like DoH - DNS over HTTPS) are controversial for different reasons.
It stands to reason that "consensual" new Standards implementation / deployment would be beneficial for the Internet Community, but for a multitude of reasons, many Standards have not been deployed as quickly as expected.

Some reasons for delay or deliberate non-adoption:

  • Lack of demand by customers (most non-technical customers don't understand the implications);
  • Decision makers and staff lack information and/or education/training (technical, security and privacy implications, costs versus benefits, capacity to understand the implications, etc.);
  • Resistance to change (e.g. "currently working, changing may fail and put my job or bonus at risk", etc.);
  • Financial reasons;
  • Insufficient human resources to implement change.


Some reasons for forced adoption:


In this session we'll:

  • Identify the "consensual" modern Internet Standards that had / are having implementation problems;
  • Implementation statistics;
  • Critical cases (e.g. points of no return, impossibility to continue to provide services or provide them at reduced functionality/performance, etc.);
  • Case studies for unsuccessful implementation, and respective reasons;
  • Case studies for successful implementation, and how can these positive examples be used in unsuccessful cases;
  • Consider how the strain in Internet and Cloud resources caused by COVID-19 has affected the perception of these problems, both on customer and provider perspectives ("Will this be an awareness turning point?").


The session discussion will feature multiple Key Participants (as well as Org Team members) representative of relevant stakeholders (technical community, Internet providers, political and regulatory, business and individual consumer groups, etc.).
Participation from the audience is encouraged.

Format

Scheduled: 2020-06-12 (Friday), 11:30 - 13:00 CEST (UTC+02)
Duration: 90 minutes

Agenda:

  1. Introduction:Scope of the session, list of standards, key people intro, etc. (moderator) [max.5 minutes]
  2. Statistics of standards adoption (Geoff Huston) [max.5 minutes]
  3. Highlights from "Setting the Standard For a more Secure and Trustworthy Internet" prepared for the IGF (Wout de Natris) [max.5 minutes]
  4. Interactive discussion (key participants + audience)
    • Discussion will focus on case studies, scenarios of successful or unsuccessful implementation of current Internet Standards
    • Q&A (ongoing)
  5. Messages (Ilona Stadnik), feedback and final notes [max.10 minutes]

People

Information about each person in this section is in the respective LinkedIn page.

Focal Point

Organising Team (Org Team) (in joining order)

Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Key Participants

Key Participants are experts willing to provide their knowledge during a session – not necessarily on stage. Key Participants should contribute to the session planning process and keep statements short and punchy during the session. They will be selected and assigned by the Org Team, ensuring a stakeholder balanced dialogue also considering gender and geographical balance.
Key Participants and Org Team members are representative of the relevant stakeholder groups for this workshop (technical community, Internet providers, government, consumer groups, etc.)

Moderator

The moderator is the facilitator of the session at the event. Moderators are responsible for including the audience and encouraging a lively interaction among all session attendants.

Remote Moderator

Trained remote moderators will be assigned on the spot by the EuroDIG secretariat to each session.

  • Lilian Weiche - Policy Fellow at German Informatics Society, Germany

Studio Host

Reporter

Captioner

  • Rochelle H.

Current discussion, conference calls, schedules and minutes

See the discussion tab on the upper left side of this page.
This page includes Org Team and Key Participants meeting information, summaries of relevant mailing list mails and preparatory discussions.

Messages

A short summary of the session will be provided by the Reporter after the event.

Video record

Will be provided here after the event.

Transcript

Will be provided here after the event.

Chat log from the session is also available in the Discussion page.

Further reading

The list below included only some Standards, including respective case studies and comments.