It’s 2018. IPv6 has been around for 20+ years (*) and global adoption is above 20% (**). Among those who have not yet deployed the modern version of the IP protocol, one particular category stands out: enterprise networks.… Read more
At RIPE 76, everyone's been talking about hackathons, so we want to remind you of two events that the RIPE NCC is organising with our partners, iNOG and TU Delft - the first in June in Dublin and the second in October in Amsterdam. … Read more
In this article we're looking at amendments that will be needed to the RIPE Database in order to ensure GDPR compliance. … Read more
We’ve open-sourced and documented some of the tools we use at our events. You can download and reuse these tools for your own event. We hope you find them useful.… Read more
We launched a pilot program to explore the pros and cons for involving Virtual Machines in the pool of RIPE Atlas anchors. Here's a short progress report on this activity. … Read more
There are changes being made to the way out-of-region objects are managed and represented in the RIPE Database. The following information is important to all database users. … Read more
After the success of the first RIPE NCC::Educa, we promised we'd arrange a second, one-day, online learning event aimed at training anyone who wished to be trained in a topic of paramount importance to the Internet community. And so we did! … Read more
The five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) are asking their communities for guidance on how they should participate within ICANN in the future. In this article, we provide some much-needed context around this issue. … Read more
tdns is part of the 'hello-dns' effort to provide a good entry point into DNS. tdns is small enough to read in one sitting and shows how DNS packets are parsed and generated.… Read more
On 17 April 2018, we allocated the last available block of 1,024 addresses in 185/8 - the last /8 we received from IANA back in 2011. This article looks at how this address space was allocated and how it is used today. It's important to keep in mind that while 185/8 is finished, we still have around nine million recovered IPv4 addresses in our available pool. Under current policy and growth rates, we expect these to last a further two years.… Read more
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