emileaben's blog

You probably heard it before: "This year is going to be the year IPv6 takes off". You probably won't hear it that much more, because with the imminent IPv4 address space exhaustion either IPv6 needs to be deployed, we figure out something else, or we'll face stagnation of growth of the Internet. There isn't too much time to figure out something else so that bodes well for IPv6 deployment. And fortunately there are some encouraging signs of progress.

Triggered by a post to anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net I decided to look into how our Resource Explainer tool can help find data and form an opinion on, in this case, correlation between specific netblocks and spam activity.

At RIPE59 we presented the Resource Explainer prototype (REX for short). Our goal for REX is to be a one-stop-shop for information you want to know about Internet number resources, so a use case provides a good opportunity to see if we meet our goal.