Vesna Manojlovic
Vesna Manojlovic is Community Builder at RIPE NCC. Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. In 2003, she took responsibility for developing and delivering advanced courses, such as RPSL, Routing Registry, DNSSEC and IPv6. In 2008, she lead efforts to establish IPv6 RIPEness as a measure of IPv6 deployment among LIRs. In 2011, she joined the Science Division as Manager of the Measurements Community Building team; in 2015 she moved to Communications Department as Senior Community Builder, with a focus on organising hackathons. Vesna gives presentations at many technical conferences and workshops, and enjoys visiting hackerspaces. Vesna received a Batchelor of Sciences Degree in Computer Science and Informatics from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. She has three children.
Session
Whois is one of the historic internet protocols. There are two types of whois databases on the Internet: domain names, and internet numbers (IP addresses, autonomous system numbers). In this talk, we introduce the history of the whois databases for Internet numbers and explain how they are used (and what is ongoing to replace this way of accessing this information).
Spoiler: yes, people still use MD5 to authenticate updates, and still put policy derived from data retrieved over unauthenticated protocols in their router configurations.