.aero development news
October 25, 2006 How .aero can help leverage the benefits of removing paper tickets
On 31 December 2007, the deadline will be kept - and IATAs current issuance of 300 million tickets a year will become history. Within little more than 400 days, there will no longer be industry standards for the use of paper tickets. IATA will cease to issue them. Travel agents will no longer be abl...
October 25, 2006 RFID – community lookup services for more efficient use of RFID technology
In our last edition of the .aero newsletter we talked about the challenge set by RFID community services. This time, we will look more closely at community lookup services needed for efficient systems integration between multiple business partners We know that today RFID applications can process and...
October 25, 2006 Securing the Internet with DNSSec
Some 10 percent of servers in the network today are vulnerable to domain name system (DNS) attacks, and many experts expect a serious attack on the underlying infrastructure within the next decade. The DNS Security Extensions (DNSSec) Deployment Coordination Initiative is part of a global effort to ...
May 24, 2006 DNSSec Workshop explores future air transport usage
The air transport community increasingly relies on the Internet to transmit business messages, yet the risk that a message will be altered when passed between servers ranks high among the top security challenges faced by the Internets domain name system. This is one of the conclusions made in a pre-...
May 23, 2006 Internet governance - a view from the world's first community-sponsored domain.
Many of the broadly spread governance issues that have been discussed during the past couple of years have been addressed within this community environment. On 17 March 2002, .aero the first top level Internet domain to be sponsored and introduced by a specific community sector, opened its doors for...
May 23, 2006 SITA's Voice Exchange and .aero
The imminent introduction of the SITA Voice Exchange will add a further incentive to customers to move towards convergence of voice and data. The technology at last brings together the strengths of IP VPN, the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and the Internet - and it originated in the early...
February 02, 2006 DNSSec set to change the landscape
In News from .aero issue 10, we discussed the work that was being done to provide greater security for domain access through the security protocol DNS Security Extensions - otherwise known as DNSSec. Eight months on, progress may be tentative, but the landscape is changing. DNSSec is one of those ab...
October 17, 2005 Domain hijacking - be prepared
The International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently published a report on domain hijacking and its consequences. It should be essential reading for all .aero domain owners. The report, Domain Name Hijacking: Incidents, Threats, Risks, and Remedial Actions , provides a succi...
