In prior work, we've studied IPv4 allocation patterns in domestic ISPs. Time has passed, and IPv6 adoption has continued, so in this article we review our current observations on IPv4 and IPv6 assignment practices.… Read more
Reports indicate that the Ugandan government initiated a shutdown of the country's Internet yesterday evening. Here's a look at what we're seeing based on data available from our Routing Information Service (RIS) and RIPE Atlas.… Read more
IETF Hackathons encourage the community to collaborate on running code related to existing and evolving Internet standards. The ongoing pandemic led to a need to find new ways to collaborate when meeting online. The online IETF 109 Hackathon was a recent example. A new Internet-Draft aims to document the evolving practices for running these hackathons. … Read more
Resource Tagged Attestations, or RTAs, are a new type of RPKI object that is being proposed by authors from APNIC and NLnet Labs in the IETF. They allow any arbitrary file to be signed ‘with resources’ by one or more parties.… Read more
On 16 December 2020, the RIPE NCC implemented phase 1 of Numbered Work Item 10 (NWI-10), which applies a consistent interpretation of the Country Code attribute in the RIPE Database and the Extended Delegated Statistics. In this article, we quantify the changes that were made to the latter.… Read more
The Youth IGF is a global movement of young activists, up to the age of 35, who operate as a multi-stakeholder network to lead projects aimed at tackling a wide range of Internet governance issues. In this article, Yuliya Morenets gives an overview of the Youth IGF's recent report on the human face of cybersecurity. … Read more
We examine the Internet landscape in eight different countries in the Gulf region as the next in our series of RIPE NCC Internet Country Reports.… Read more
We are celebrating the completion of yet another community event: a hackathon designed to encourage the wide deployment of RIPE Atlas software probes. Read the detailed report and what we have learned here.… Read more
Almost one hundred days in and the RIPE Chair team is busy working to support all kinds of activities happening in the RIPE community.… Read more
Internet exchange points (IXPs) are among the most popular ways for Internet service providers (ISPs) and content distribution networks (CDNs) to exchange traffic. This article gives an analysis of the distribution of vendors chosen by IXP members to connect to IXPs.… Read more
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