RIPE Labs

In this post I'll cover why it is important to take care of RPKI misconfigurations, what the impact of ignoring them is, how network operators can easily determine whether they are affected by a specific RPKI misconfiguration and how significantly the amount of RPKI unreachable IP space changed over the course of just a few weeks.… Read more

IPv6 SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) is an extension to countermeasure the security threats in IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP). SEND provides address ownership proof, message protection, and router authorisation capabilities. The current lack of robust implementations of SEND at the end user devices limits its deployment and leave the door open for the attacks against NDP. The main goal of iSEND project is to provide an open source implementation of SEND for Linux-based operating system especially for Android devices.… Read more

The RIOT Summit is the yearly get-together of the community around the RIOT operating system for the Internet of Things (IoT). It aims at bringing together RIOTers, beginners and experts, as well as people interested in the IoT in general. We also welcome decision makers who plan to deploy RIOT in the future. After two successful events, the RIOT Summit moved out of Berlin for the first time. With the kind assistance and sponsorship of the RIPE NCC we were able to host this year's event in Amsterdam in September 2018. As always, the event combined plenary talks, hands-on tutorials, break-out sessions for community discussions and demos spread over two days. … Read more

If you had the opportunity to re-imagine the DNS, what might it look like? Normally this would be an idle topic of speculation over a beer or two, but maybe there’s a little more to the question these days. We are walking into an entirely new world of the DNS when we start to think about what exactly might be possible when we look at DNS over HTTPS, or as it’s become more commonly known, DOH.… Read more

In this article, we investigate the various relationships between MPLS tunnels and standard probing techniques (i.e., ping and traceroute). We investigate several possible MPLS configurations and explain how they interact with measurement techniques. We also provide an external link to an online platform allowing users to test their MPLS configuration.… Read more

At the RIPE NCC we’re busy working out a process so we can start validating approximately 70,000 abuse contact email addresses in the RIPE Database. Read on to see how we will approach this.… Read more

Within the RIPE community, it’s easy to take for granted that Internet policy will continue to be developed by the technical community for the benefit of all Internet users – but the open, inclusive, bottom-up model of Internet governance is one that needs to be explained and, at times, defended on the world stage. Read more about how we do that as a Sector Member of the ITU’s Standardization (T) and Development (D) Sectors, and our role as a liaison between the RIPE community and the ITU.… Read more

Based on existing studies and research about the digital environment in Serbia, its legal and technical features, usage and habits among Internet users, the SHARE Foundation aims to produce tools and materials designed to inform, educate and encourage project target groups understand Internet infrastructures and their influence on digital rights.… Read more

Network measurements are an important tool in understanding the Internet. Due to the expanse of the IPv6 address space, exhaustive scans in IPv4 are not possible for IPv6. The best practice when conducting IPv6 measurements is to use so called IPv6 hitlists.… Read more

Based on community input, including a plenary session at RIPE 76 and a discussion on a dedicated mailing list, here is the final version of the RIPE Chair selection process. … Read more