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Testing IXP Configurations Without Breaking Production: A Digital Twin Approach

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Tommaso Caiazzi

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Configuration mistakes at an IXP can have immediate impact. Building on the earlier IXP Digital Twin project, this article presents a new dashboard that enables operators to recreate production environments, validate routing state, and test member onboarding off production.

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Ukraine’s Internet has not collapsed under invasion - it has adapted. This article examines what that reveals about the concept of resilience in the context of Internet infrastructure and the people who keep the networks running.

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How Global Digital Cooperation Entered Its Implementation Phase

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With WSIS+20 concluded and the Global Digital Compact adopted, digital policy is moving into an implementation phase. This article traces what changed, what was delivered, and what comes next.

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Maynard Koch

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DNS infrastructure is infamous for facilitating reflective amplification attacks. Countermeasures such as server shielding, access control, rate limiting and protocol restrictions have improved the situation, but DNS-based reflective amplification attacks persist. Focusing on the threat vector intr…

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Peering Market at a Glance: Trends, Transformations, and the Regional Dynamics of Internet Interconnection

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Recent claims that IXPs "aren’t showing significant growth", that more interconnection is happening outside exchanges, and that peering can be more expensive than transit challenge long-standing assumptions about the role of IXPs. But do these claims hold up? A new paper from NAMEX explores the dat…

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Internet Coordination in Times of War

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Periods of armed conflict often lead to renewed scrutiny of how the Internet functions and of the organisations involved in its coordination. In such moments, simplified or incorrect narratives that can frame technical coordination roles as political choices, or assign responsibilities to coordinat…

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