Pawel KowalikMay 12

The day the German internet ground to a halt.

This was supposed to be a post about the CENTR Jamboree in Berlin, hosted by DENIC. Instead, it's a post about the night the .de zone stopped resolving — and an event with two faces.

The event was unlike any CENTR Jamboree before, and one I hope won't be repeated any time soon. I had very little sleep — not because of great social events, but because of the amount of work in the crisis team.

#dns #dnssec #denic #centr

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The programme was packed with excellent presentations. I barely saw any of them, jumping from one emergency task to the next, with crisis meetings every few hours. Even my own talks — on DENIC's NIS2 implementation and the CENTR Task Force on the Domain Security Scorecard — had to be squeezed in between other things.
May 12 at 7:12amBuffer
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It was a week of intense learning, and I am genuinely proud of the whole DENIC team, who worked hard on every front — from the technical response to communications. We will draw many conclusions from what happened and come out stronger for it.

Special credit to the DENIC Marketing team, who organised the Jamboree with the same quality and engagement as if no crisis were happening.

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.de for a responsible internet — that is our claim, and we really mean it. Even, or especially, when things go wrong.

#dns #dnssec #denic #centr

Show threadtaketwoMay 12
@paulok hopefully by pushing for route validation and DNSSEC for all parties. I still hope for more Dane usage as secondary anchor in the ecosystem.
Having regular key rollovers in the TLD feels wasted if the other layers don't make use of it.