May 2013
Interisle report on Barnstable County IT & Telecomms survey published
The Cape Cod Economic Development Council published Interisle's report on a 2012 survey of Barnstable County IT and Telecommunications. You can read more about the CCEDC project at their website.
November 2012
Support for the FCC's Open Internet Order
Interisle partner Lyman Chapin is one of the Internet engineers and technologists who have filed a brief amicus curiae supporting affirmation of the FCC's 21 December 2010 Open Internet Order, which has been challenged by Verizon and MetroPCS in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The summary of the argument presented in the brief begins "The Internet's remarkable ability to generate innovation, investment, and economic growth is a product of its openness."
June 2012
Interisle's WHOIS Survey Report Posted
Interisle's report on the WHOIS Proxy/Privacy Reveal & Relay feasibility survey has been posted by ICANN.
April 2012
Interisle Will Evaluate Applications for New Internet Top-Level Domains
ICANN is preparing to add hundreds of new top-level domains (TLDs) to the DNS, and Interisle will be evaluating each one to be sure that the proposed TLD name and registry services don't jeopardize Internet security or stability. Interisle was selected as the Registry Services and DNS Stability evaluator last November, and will begin work on the first batch of applications on June 12. New TLDs that pass all of the evaluations will begin to appear in the DNS in mid-2013.
November 2011
Interisle welcomes Fred Goldstein as a new Principal. Fred has already been working with Interisle for many years. He adds his extensive experience to Interisle, particularly in the telecommunications space.
June 2011
Interisle Consulting Group Selected to Conduct Survey to Identify Potential Participants for a gTLD
Whois “Relay” and “Reveal” Study
June 17 — ICANN has engaged Interisle Consulting Group to survey gTLD domain name registrants, registrars, and privacy and proxy service
providers regarding their willingness and ability to participate in future Whois Relay and Reveal studies. The survey will gauge the
willingness and ability of request originators, privacy/proxy providers, and registrars to participate in future studies, by
identifying factors that would facilitate or inhibit their participation and by developing a list of individuals and
organizations potentially willing to participate. Jim Reid of RTFM Ltd. will collaborate with Interisle on this project.
February 2011
Interisle and Galaxy continue to support the Metro Boston Homeland Security Region in the ongoing evolution
of their regional network to support public safety organizations, or "PSnet."
We are currently working on an extension of PSnet Phase 4 to complete integration with the region's Critical Infrastructure Monitoring System
(CIMS) microwave network, including security hardening and improvements in maintainability. The goals are to continue to
drive down future recurring costs while providing a highly resilient, high capacity network that leverages both fiber optic
and microwave communications in a complementary manner. Network capacity continues to increase as new links are added into
the backbone while overall resilience and survivability improves. Enhancements to network monitoring and management are
being used to improve security and maintainability, while also supporting day-to-day operations and future planning.
October 2008
Phase 3 of the
PSnet project is now under way. Interisle, operating with
partner Galaxy Internet Services, will will be providing
expertise in several technical, policy, and governance areas
related to this effort, under which nine municipalities in
greater Boston are collaborating, together with State and
Federal agencies, universities, and other nongovernmental
organizations, to build and operate a high-quality regional
network supporting public safety applications. PSnet applies
many of the technical and governance principles underlying the
public Internet to create a flexible, dynamic network by
interconnecting existing and planned networks within a unified
policy, operational, and governance framework.
September 2008
Interisle has completed a comprehensive review of the African
Network Operators Group (AfNOG),
a forum for technical coordination and cooperation among African
Internet service providers and network engineers from the
region’s universities, research institutions, and industry. The
review affirms AfNOG's extraordinary success over the past nine
years in fulfilling its core mission: improving the
accessibility and value of the Internet in Africa by training
engineers and nurturing a collaborative community of networking
experts. It also identifies potential impediments to future
growth and effectiveness, and recommends steps that AfNOG's
organizers and supporters could take to avoid them.
March 2008
Chuck
Wade has developed a spreadsheet tool for IP address
planning and inventory tracking. It supports supernetting and
subnetting, and can be used by merely entering CIDR values. It
detects errors, and eliminates the tedium of converting between
binary and dotted decimal notations. You can get more
information and download this tool as an Excel workbook from
this page.
March 2008
The
MIT Kerberos
Consortium has engaged Interisle to develop whitepapers and
technical best practices documentation for the growing community
of Kerberos users and developers. Kerberos is widely used as a
single sign-on authentication solution for both users and
services, and it also plays an important role in several emerging
technologies. As the Kerberos community expands, and more system
administrators work with Kerberos in mixed platform environments,
there is greater need for sound guidance on best practices for
deploying and managing Kerberos-based security solutions.
January 2008
Interisle
will work with
ICANN and Deloitte Audit & Enterprise Risk Services
(Belgium) to develop criteria and procedures for evaluating
applications for
new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs). Existing gTLDs
include .com, .net, and .org; the term "generic" distinguishes
these domains from those based on country codes, such as .br
(Brazil) and .jp (Japan). ICANN's Generic Names Supporting
Organisation (GNSO) approved
policies for the introduction of new gTLDs on 6 September
2007; ICANN is expected to begin processing new gTLD
applications in mid-2008.
August 2007
In cooperation with
The National
Clearing House and
MorSecure,
Interisle principal
Colin
Strutt edited Parts 2 and 3
of the X9AB WG17
ANSI Draft Standard for Trial Use X9.100-172, “Specifications
for the Validation of Interoperable
Check Security Feature (ICSF)”, which was approved by the X9
and ANSI boards on 10
August 2007.
April 2007
Interisle
principal
Lyman
Chapin has served for the past 13 years as the USA and ACM
representative to the communication systems technical committee
of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP
TC6). His
most recent report appears in the April 2007 issue of the
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review.
January 2007
Interisle associate
Joel
Halpern is working in the
Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) on a
Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) protocol,
which defines a standard communication and control mechanism
through which a network Control Element (CE) can control the
behavior of a network Forwarding Element (FE). His latest
Internet Draft is
draft-halpern-forces-lfblibrary-vpn-00.
March 2006
Lyman
Chapin has been appointed to chair a standing technical panel of experts
that will review proposals to the
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn are the 2005
recipients of the computing profession's Nobel Prize, the
Interisle is providing project management and thought
leadership to a number of efforts being conducted under
the auspices of the
