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Cloudflare Introduces Support for ASPA, an Emerging Internet Routing Security Standard
Cloudflare recently announced support for ASPA (Autonomous System Provider Authorization). The new cryptographic standard helps make Internet routing safer by verifying the path data takes across networks to reach its destination and preventing traffic from traversing unreliable or untrusted networks.
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How CNAME Ordering in RFC Specs Caused Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Outage
In a recent article titled "What came first- the CNAME or the A record?" Cloudflare explains how an unclear RFC specification caused the popular Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 service to break. After identifying the breakage and the ambiguity in older DNS standards regarding record order, Cloudflare proposes a clarified specification.
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Google Formalizes Robots Exclusion Protocol in Effort to Make It an Internet Standard
The Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) has governed the rules defining how to prevent crawlers from accessing a website since 1994. Now, Google has submitted a draft to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to make it an Internet Standard. In addition, Google has open sourced its implementation of the protocol.
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HTTP/2 Specifications Approved for Publication
HTTP/2 specifications have been approved for publication, according to the IETF. 15 years after the launch of HTTP/1.1, IETF have gone through over 200 design issues, 17 drafts, and 30 implementations to get the specification approved to be published as standards-track RFCs.