This Year's Internet and Technology Conference Under The Auspices Of LinuxDays 2023

The Internet and Technology (23) conference will take place on October 7 at the Faculty of Information Technology of the Czech Technical University (FIT CTU) in Prague-Dejvice, in lecture room 111. The IT 23 conference will be part of the LinuxDays 2023 community event, which will take place at the same venue on the first weekend in October.

Updates from the world of domain names, including optimization of some services, interesting DNS news, the upcoming redesign of the MojeID service, the fight against phishing in the .CZ domain zone and current developments in key projects of the Association, such as Turris, BIRD or Knot DNS - these and other topics will feature at this year’s Internet a Technologie (23) conference, which will take place on October 7 at the Faculty of Information Technology of the Czech Technical University (FIT CTU) in Prague-Dejvice, in lecture room 111. This year, the Internet and Technology conference will be part of the LinuxDays 2023 community event, which will take place at the same venue on the first weekend in October. Those interested in attending can register at https://www.linuxdays.cz/2023/registrace/.

The IT 23 conference will be kicked off by the technical director of the CZ.NIC Association, Zdeněk Brůna, who will recap all the features of the FRED registration system available to domain holders. Tomáš Hála, IT Director of the Czech National Domain Administrator, will present the new DNS anycast for the .CZ national TLD. Lukáš Vacek from the CZ.NIC Administrators Department will take up the topic of anycast and give a presentation on anycast optimization. His colleague Jan Hroten will talk about preparing for performance testing of production infrastructure. Next, Michal Hrušecký, Head of Hardware Development at CZ.NIC, will present a digest of the latest news and the future of the Turris project. Lukáš Jelínek will follow with a presentation on server virtualization using LXC technology in the Turris project, powered by Ansible.

The afternoon section of the conference will feature a presentation by Maria Matějka, R&D programmer for the BIRD project, who will not just recap the news about this project, but also speak about its further development. This will be followed by presentations dedicated to the MojeID service. Adam Beneš's talk will cover the pitfalls and potential problems with implementing MojeID in third-party applications, and the head of development, Tomáš Pazderka, will present a significant redesign and change in the architecture of the MojeID service. Next, programmer Aleš Mrázek will present major news and changes in the Knot Resolver project, including the transition to declarative configuration and automated management of individual processes. Libor Peltán, programmer of the Knot DNS project, will introduce the creation of RFC 9432 and the implementation of catalog zones.

The end of the conference will be dedicated to the fight against phishing in the Czech domain zone, with Pavel Bašta, CSIRT.CZ team leader, sharing his experience and procedures in cases of domain abuse for this type of attack. The day will culminate with a lecture by Jaromír Talír, technical partner of the CZ.NIC association, on the current state of the European Digital Identity Wallet project.

The registration form along with the event’s program can be found at https://www.linuxdays.cz/2023/.