For more than five years now, the RIPE NCC has been measuring the number of native (no IPv4 transit) versus tunneled (IPv6 traffic whose path includes transit via IPv4 tunnels) IPv6 interconnections in the core of the Internet. These measurements have been conducted using the Test Traffic Measurement network. In this article, we look at the collected data to see whether and how much IPv6 interconnections have improved.

REX, the RIPE NCC's prototype Resource Explainer service has been collecting usage statistics ever since we made the service publicy available. Here's a short analysis on what we've seen so far in terms of usage. Note that we've excluded requests coming from the RIPE NCC's own network, in order to avoid some of the skew our own tests might have introduced.

Related to the article APNIC and Day In The Life (DITL) , please find here a link to a number of animations (15 in total) showing more DITL data for APNIC focusing on other countries, including Portugal, Russia, the US, China, Brazil and Japan. These animations have been produced for the recent RIPE59 meeting. 

Our Resource Explainer, REX for short, is a one-stop-shop for almost all the information you ever wanted to know about Internet number resources. It provides you with an all-inclusive, detailed report about the resources you're interested in. It will provide you with current and historical information from a number of perspectives.  If you want to find out everything about an Internet number resource - REX is the service to try!

The current version (v0.1) knows only about IPv4 address space. We went for the most difficult part first. ASNs and IPv6 address space will follow.

If you're impatient and would like to jump to the tool immediately then go ahead, check it out now!

Inside the RIPE NCC Science Group cauldron we've been cooking something really tasty for a while now - the ultimate number resource database. Inside it one can find many historical data sets from the RIPE NCC and other entities. We've already been using this database for internal purposes such as the Registration Data Quality measurements, and from now on you too can see more and more services based on this technology. Let us give you a demonstration.

RIPE Labs

is a new platform designed by the RIPE NCC for network operators, developers and industry experts to expose, test and discuss innovative Internet-related tools, ideas and analysis that can benefit the RIPE community and RIPE NCC members.

It’s the place to showcase new and interesting things. Anyone can:
 

• Present research
• Showcase prototype tools
• Share operational experience
• Exchange ideas

Even if you don't have any new ideas at the moment, but are interested in reviewing the ideas and tools of others, please dive in.

RIPE Labs is a platform from the RIPE community for the RIPE community.