I'm Shumon Huque, a software engineer and technologist. You can read more about me here.

Recent Posts

ISOC ION Panel - Advancing the Network

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“I tend to think of IPv6 & DNSSEC both a little bit like global warming … something that is developing kind of slowly … they’re both inevitable, it’s a j...

Philadelphia Skyline Photos

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My colleague Deke Kassabian posted an older photo of the Philly skyline (that I’d taken a number of years ago) on his Facebook page. So I thought I’d post a ...

Internet2 IPv6 Panel recap

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A few notes from last month’s IPv6 deployment panel at the Fall Internet2 Member Meeting in Philadelphia, which I moderated (October 2nd 2012). Watch the ent...

DNSSEC and Certificates

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DNSSEC is a system to verify the authenticity of DNS data using public key signatures. With increasing deployment of DNSSEC comes the possibility of applicat...

Stanford Linear Accelerator Tour

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At the recent Joint Techs conference, our host Stanford University arranged a lunch time tour of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) for a small gr...

A Look at World IPv6 Launch Traffic

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The World IPv6 Launch website has compiled a set of measurements at http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/. I’ll take a quick look at some of them here...

IPv6 at Penn

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World IPv6 Launch (June 6th 2012) is fast approaching, so I thought I’d share some details about IPv6 deployment at the University of Pennsylvania and what w...

Penn’s DNS Zone

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Some data from a quick analysis of the contents of the University of Pennsylvania’s primary DNS zone (upenn.edu):

IPv6 and DNS Classes I’m Teaching

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I’m teaching two half day classes on IPv6 and DNS/DNSSEC at the LOPSA PICC conference (Professional IT Community Conference), being held May 11-12, 2012 in N...

A Start

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A colleague on her office door, has a picture of a famous New Yorker cartoon, in which one dog says to another, “I had my own blog for a while, but I decided...