Issue 14, October 2006
October 30, 2006 New, improved registration service launched for .aero domain names
.aero domain registrars can offer to their .aero customers a one stop shop for registration of .aero domain names. On October 7, 2006 .aero the top level domain of aviation, will launch a new one step registration process for .aero domain names.In the past, all customers had to pass a .aero eligibil...
October 30, 2006 RFID workshop – deployment and implementation
From e-ticketing to the replacement of bar-coded baggage tags with the more robust RFID tags, ID technology is fast becoming a crucial topic for discussion. As an emerging technology there are still many barriers to community-wide adoption, one of them being the risk associated with the deployment o...
October 30, 2006 8 New registrars join the .aero family
Over the past few months, SITA the sponsor of .aero has been actively recruiting new registrars, to join the current group of .aero authorized registrars. This expanded sales channel offers potential registrants, as well as existing registrants, a wider choice of registrar based services in a variet...
October 30, 2006 New policy draft for .aero from the world's air sports federation
Its not only large jets that are flying high. Individuals and organizations working in the burgeoning recreational aviation sector are also valuable members of the aviation community. Founded at the dawn of aviation history in 1905, the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) is today a non-gov...
October 30, 2006 Living the passion .aero
There are already more than 70 domains registered within the recreational aviation registrant groups - comprising air sports clubs and their members, federations, national associations, organizers of competitions linked to air sports, and suppliers of air sports equipment. We hope that the new polic...
October 25, 2006 Germany menaced by 50m insect!
Anyone with a large garage in the small town of Arlesburg in Germany may be able to make a fortune from a different source. According to Google Earth, theres a 50m long earwig threatening the town from the north-east, currently munching its way across a corn field and heading for the cover of a near...
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 ...
