Frankfurt

A few days after returning from Zürich I got another request for a presentation regarding the marketing advantages of DNSSEC as a registrar. This time around it was DENIC, the registry for .de.

Still, doing presentations, meeting new people and networking is somewhat my style so with no further a due I confirmed my interest and started planning the trip.

With all the feedback from my latest run trough the presentation I had to give it some tender lovin’n'care but aside from that they got the same shebang! (Thanks Francesco for the last minute suggestions).

Arriving to Frankfurt I was surprised to see that they actually have skyscrapers! In Europe! Did not think that existed at all. Well, with the city having the nickname “Mainhattan” I was foolish not to figure it out earlier!

The event started with a dinner during the evening before the actual meeting at a restaurant called Vinum. They served the regional speciality Äpfelwine (almost like a dry apple cider) and some typical German food. During the dinner I sat down besides some of the people I know from the RIPE-meetings and the discussion was on! No flavours of DNSSEC was left untouched!

Due to the fact that the almost entire (very technical) meeting was done in German I was glad to find that Shane Kerr from ISC was scheduled to speak about BIND10 (in english). As Bind is my personal name server of choice I was of coarse very glad to hear some of the goodies that the new version will bring!

I was surprised to see that my presentation actually stirred up a lot of questions from the otherwise quite calm crowd. I hope that was a good sign! As always when giving a presentation I hope that someone learned something new about DNSSEC that will make them more eager to start working with the essential DNS extension!

If you want to know what I was actually saying during the presentation then grab the slides!

Regards,

LG