Okay, fine – the title is a clickbait. However, we have some awesome project proposals and indeed really good reasons to join the upcoming IoT hackathon in Rotterdam on 12 - 13 October - right before RIPE 79!… Read more
The community met in Reykjavik for RIPE 78 over 20-24 May 2019. In keeping with the idea of better reporting, here are some of the key events and discussions from the meeting week. A lot goes on at a RIPE Meeting, so not everything is mentioned here. Topics are ordered roughly according to when they took place during the meeting, rather than by importance. … Read more
DNS Flag Day was the result of a collaborative effort and agreement of DNS implementers and DNS resolver operators to commit to no longer providing workarounds for non-standards-compliant authoritative nameservers as of 1 February 2019. In the lead up to DNS Flag Day, and as part of the outreach, the focus for measurements has been the authoritative nameservers that needed to be fixed. In this post, we will take the other perspective and look at resolvers and resolver implementations — what was resolver behaviour on the Internet before DNS Flag Day, and how does the uptake of dropping workarounds disseminate in the wild?… Read more
ARTEMIS is a defense approach against BGP prefix hijacking attacks. It is (a) based on accurate and fast detection operated by the AS itself, by leveraging the pervasiveness of publicly available BGP monitoring services, and it (b) enables flexible and fast mitigation of hijacking events. In this article, we analyse the ARTEMIS open-source tool that our team developed with the support of the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund.… Read more
Following earlier publications, Radiocommunications Agency Netherlands asked if we could perform an analysis of the Dutch market – in particular, the routing arrangements between networks.… Read more
We take on the Quantum Internet simultaneously in five nodes across Europe on 5-6 November 2019. Join us in Delft, Dublin, Padua, Paris or Sarajevo!… Read more
We investigate commercial CDNs performance by analysing their latency to end-users worldwide.… Read more
It’s 1990: the Internet has a few million users and the first commercial companies have recently embraced this new distributed infrastructure.… Read more
While 2018 has no doubt been another big year in the world of the Internet, it often pays to look at how it compares to previous years to understand and forecast growth or decline trends. … Read more
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