Issue 13, June 2006
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 24, 2006 RFID & ENUM Deployments promise to slash Costs and strengthen airline's strategic future
CIOs today in the air transport industry must make wise spending decisions and provide strategic direction that improve productivity, efficiency and deliver better customer service. The .aero domain, with its strong policy framework, versatility and focus on the aviation community provides excellent...
May 24, 2006 The challenge set by RFID community services
RFID (radio frequency identification devices) technology can bring substantial benefits to the Air Transport Community in the form of cost reductions, improvements in productivity, customer services and safety, but also as a means to generate new revenues. As an emerging technology there are still m...
May 23, 2006 .aero announces reduction in domain name registration fees
Following successful transition of registry services to Afilias, the new registry operator for .aero, a number of enhancements have been made to the name registration process, which includes a reduction in registration fees. The .aero registry now operates on the world-standard Extensible Provisioni...
May 23, 2006 New policy to protect names of states, provinces and geographical areas
Following recommendations from the Dot Aero Council (DAC), SITA has introduced a new .aero policy reserving domain names relating to states, provinces and geographical areas, effectively removing these as registration options. The names join the existing list of reserved country names. Names that ha...
May 23, 2006 More than just the provision of a domain name
Whilst the air transport community is working hard to save billions in annual costs through initiatives such as IATAs Simplifying the Business programme, focused on five core projects: e-ticketing, common use self-service (CUSS), bar-coded boarding passes, RFID and e-freight. Areas which depends on ...
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...
May 22, 2006 Industry Events 13
Mark your agenda with the dates of these upcomming industry events. Airline IT Summit 2006: Thursday 22 June, Brussels, BelgiumBusiness simplification is a way for all airlines to transform their organizations - reducing their cost base and gaining efficiencies. Now carriers also need to increase th...
May 22, 2006 Industry acronyms spelled out
Confused by industry acronyms? Or maybe you just need to know more about a particular industry term such as PBX, ENUM DNSsec. What is DNSSec?DNSSec (short for DNS Security Extensions) is a technology that adds security to the Domain Name System. It is a hierarchy of cryptographic signatures that ass...
May 21, 2006 aero at EBACE
The .aero team took on a new hospitality role in early May, when they hosted the Internet cafe at the sixth Annual European Business Aviation Convention Exhibition in Geneva - the only major European event focused solely on business aviation. Jointly organized by the US-based National Business Aviat...
May 21, 2006 ICANN SSAC Advisory SAC008: DNS Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
In early February 2006, name servers hosting top level domain zones were the repeated recipients of extraordinary heavy traffic loads. Analysis of traffic by TLD name server operators and security experts at large confirmed that DNS packets comprising the attack traffic exhibited characteristics ass...
May 21, 2006 ICANN SSAC Report SAC009: Alternative TLD Name Systems and Roots – Conflict, Control and Consequences
This report examines alternative root server systems and alternative TLD name system administrators generically, i.e. according to the characteristics SSAC associates with a class of operator rather than by the characteristics of individual operators. By elevating our examination to this level, we c...
