Protocol design & standardization

News and Updates

NIST Releases DRAFT Revisions to USGv6 Program for Public Comment

July 12, 2018

DRAFT USGv6 Revision 1 Specifications Available for Public Comment The first version of the of the USGv6 standards...

New Network Security Standards Will Protect Internet’s Routing

October 03, 2017

Electronic messages traveling across the internet are under constant threat from data thieves, but new security...

NIST Develops Test and Measurement Tools for Internet Routing Security

May 14, 2014

The NIST-developed RPKI-Monitor ( http://rpki-monitor.antd.nist.gov/ ) provides continuous test and measurement of the...

Publications

Protecting the Integrity of Internet Routing: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Route Origin Validation

June 28, 2019

Author(s):

William A. Haag Jr., Douglas C. Montgomery, Allen Y. Tan, William C. Barker

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the default routing protocol to route traffic among internet domains. While BGP performs adequately in identifying viable...

Transitioning to the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Version 2

September 10, 2018

Author(s):

David A. Waltermire, Jessica Fitzgerald-McKay

The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) version 2 (v2) automates endpoint posture information collection and the incorporation of that information into...

In-Vehicle Software Defined Networking: An Enabler for Data Interoperability

June 27, 2018

Author(s):

Khalid Halba, Charif Mahmoudi

Future transportation systems evolve new in-vehicle network designs are required to handle the heterogeneous data generated by different Electronic Control...

Wireless Infrastructure M2M Network For Distributed Power Grid Monitoring

October 01, 2017

Author(s):

Hamid Gharavi

With the massive integration of distributed renewable energy sources (RESs) into the power system, the demand for timely and reliable network quality...

Projects & Programs

Internet Infrastructure Protection

ITL’s Internet Infrastructure Protection (IIP) program, led by the Advanced Network Technologies Division (ANTD), works with industry to develop the...

USGv6 Program

NIST is Working with other USG agencies and industry to develop and maintain the standards, test program, deployment guidance and test and measurement tools...

High Assurance Domains

The Domain Name System (DNS) is the ubiquitous naming infrastructure for the global Internet. The DNS provides a distributed worldwide directory services for...

Robust Inter-Domain Routing

We live in a network-centric society that increasingly relies on the Internet’s routing infrastructure to facilitate human communication, connect users to...

Protocol design & standardization

News and Updates

NIST Releases DRAFT Revisions to USGv6 Program for Public Comment

New Network Security Standards Will Protect Internet’s Routing

NIST Develops Test and Measurement Tools for Internet Routing Security

Publications

Protecting the Integrity of Internet Routing: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Route Origin Validation

Transitioning to the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Version 2

In-Vehicle Software Defined Networking: An Enabler for Data Interoperability

Wireless Infrastructure M2M Network For Distributed Power Grid Monitoring

Projects & Programs

Internet Infrastructure Protection

USGv6 Program

High Assurance Domains

Robust Inter-Domain Routing

Software

Modeling tools to evaluate Device-to-Device Communication (D2D) in Long Term Evolution (LTE)

BGP Secure Routing Extension (BGP‑SRx) Prototype

NIST RPKI Deployment Monitor and Test System

BRITE - BGPSEC / RPKI Interoperability Test & Evaluation System