The RIPE NCC and Juniper Networks co-hosted the first Deployathon on RPKI – a two-day event that brought together network professionals from 7 countries to work on practical aspects of routing security.… Read more
This is the second of two articles in which we present a new attack vector on the routing infrastructure of the Internet using BGP communities.… Read more
This is the first of two articles in which we present a new attack vector on the routing infrastructure of the Internet using BGP communities. … Read more
The Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG) Meeting & Peering Forum will be held on 3-4 April 2019 in Beirut, Lebanon. The Forum brings together key Internet players from all over the world, making this event the largest non-commercial, technical, educational and community-oriented activity in the Middle East. … Read more
This post describes the result of an internship of a month of integrating an experimental data analysis method into RIPE Atlas.… Read more
8 March is International Women's Day - an annual milestone celebrated for more than 100 years to raise awareness on women's rights. This year, the theme is "Balance for Better" - a call-to-action to drive gender balance across all areas of life. … Read more
The long wait for the new RIPE Atlas probes is over. Here's a quick look at the new devices and the work that went in to getting distribution back on track.… Read more
When I look back at 2018, I’m struck by how much activity was going in the RIPE community. In light of the upcoming 30th anniversary of RIPE (which we will celebrate in May during RIPE 78), I thought it was a good idea to provide an overview of some of the discussions and achievements that came out of the past year. If you find this report useful, I will continue to publish one at the start of each year.… Read more
How do you embrace IPv6 in a global enterprise, with tens of thousands of network devices, delivery teams all around the globe and no real shortage of IPv4 space? In this article, I will describe how we introduced IPv6 inside IBM’s own network over the past few years, and look at the challenges we encountered as well as what lies on the road ahead. As enterprises in general seem to lag behind in adopting IPv6 as compared to ISPs or carriers, this article is aimed at helping those who still need to build a case within their own company.… Read more
On Sunday, 17 February 2019, 51 representatives from 37 organisations came together in Cloudflare's San Francisco offices for a roundtable discussion. The aim was to discuss operational aspects of RPKI deployment. RPKI technology is nowadays seen as the best way forward to secure the Internet's routing tables. Participants came from all market verticals: large telecom operators, government agencies, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), and cloud providers.… Read more
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