Stéphane Bortzmeyer

Poste
R&D expert engineer
Biographie
Stéphane Bortzmeyer worked as a system and/or network engineer in several organisations (engineering school, research institute, Internet operator) before joining Afnic. He works on technical standardisation, training, DNS expertise and a number of other topics. Stéphane is the author of the book “Cyberstructure / L'Internet, un espace politique” (“Cyberstructure / The Internet is a political space”) published by C&F Éditions and of three RFCs (“Requests For Comments”, Internet technical standards).
Articles

What happens at the registrar
We’ve already talked here about how a domain name registry ...

New TCP standard, RFC 9293
A new technical standard called “RFC 9293” was published ...

NIST announces the winners of the post-quantum competition
On July 5th, 2022, US standards institute NIST announced the ...

Reorganisation of the technical standards for HTTP
You will certainly be familiar with the HTTP protocol (Hypertext ...

NFTs and domain names, friends and partners?
NFTs are much in fashion. In the context of domains, they have even been cited in an ICANN conflict....

New DNS record types to give more information for client applications
We often read that the DNS “translates domain names into IP addresses”...

The QUIC transport protocol has now been standardised
On 27 May 2021 the technical standards of the QUIC transport ...

What happens when you register a domain name?
The purpose of this article is to set out the various stages of a domain registration....

About the attack on French ISPs’ DNS resolvers
On 1 and 2 September 2020, several French ISPs (Internet Service Providers), including SFR and Bouyg...

Hosting a domain name with compound characters
In a previous article, we saw that it is perfectly possible to use compound characters in a domain...

Can compound characters be used in a domain name?
In the Charlie Hebdo edition No. 1446 of 8 April 2020, the article by Laure Daussy on the increase i...

Functioning of Afnic during lockdown
What will become of Afnic during lockdown? Will all the operational services be running?...

Which Top Level Domains have an IP address?
Does the hyperlink http://dk/ work? Yes. How? Because .dk (Denmark) is one of the rare Top Level Dom...

A brief example of using Afnic Open Data
Which domain names are derived from a first name?