Recent networking news

Computer networks and the TCP/IP protocol suite continue to evolve. This blog posts highlights some recent news and scientific articles which could be of interest for readers of Computer Networking: Principles, Protocols and Practice.

Email

  • http://emailhistory.org/ provides an interesting set of links and and mailing list on the history of email on the Internet

DNS

TLS

BGP

TCP

  • An interesting paper presented at PAM and entitled MUST, SHOULD, DON’T CARE: TCP Conformance in the Wild analyses the conformance of TCP implementations in the wild by using active measurements. The Linux stack is the most confirming one, but while conducting the study they interacted with devices that were not conforming and crashed during their tests..

IPv6

Ethernet

Cellular networks

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Written on February 23, 2020