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IANA Stewardship Transition Completed
On 1 October 2016, the IANA functions contract that the United States Government had with ICANN was allowed to expire. This represents the final step in the community-led IANA stewardship transition process that began in 2014.
From today, 1 October 2016, the IANA functions contract officially expired. As a result, the coordination and management of the Internet’s unique identifiers is now privatized and in the hands of the volunteer-based multistakeholder community.
The five Regional Internet Registries have a Service Level Agreement (SLA) in place with IANA that defines our expectations moving forward. A community-selected IANA Numbering Services Review Committee will assist the NRO Executive Council when it conducts periodic reviews of IANA’s services.
Users of the internet will not see any operational difference.
CiviCon London 2015 Session Videos Now Available
IETF approves HTTP error code 451 for Internet censorship
Source: IETF approves HTTP error code 451 for Internet censorship
The 451 HTTP error code, first proposed in 2012 as a tribute to Ray
Bradbury's classic novel is now an IETF standard and is the preferred
error message for a server to send to a browser when content is
blocked for legal reasons.
Top 10 Most Common Mistakes That Java Developers Make – guest post
Dominant in many ways, Java offers a lot for developers: strict object-oriented paradigm, architecturally agnostic virtual machine, garbage collection – all are there to aid developers. However, like any other programming language, it is still susceptible to developer mistakes.In this article Toptal freelance software engineer Mikhail Selivanov discusses ten common mistakes that Java developers make and how to avoid them.
Read more: Top 10 Most Common Mistakes That Java Developers Make | Toptal