RIPE NCC Membership - 2012 Statistics
• 6 min read
At the start of a new year and four months after we reached the last /8 of IPv4 address space, we looked at our membership statistics again. Have we seen an increase in members or resource requests?
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Rene Wilhelm is a senior research engineer in the R&D department at the RIPE NCC. Coming from a background in particle physics, Rene joined the RIPE NCC in 1996. His interests are in data analysis, routing, Internet measurements and visualisation.
IPv6 Stockpiling: A Trojan Horse in Our Midst?
• 13 min read
The current combination of RIPE policies and rules for RIPE NCC membership enable IPv6 stockpiling. And what might sound like an unlikely activity is not only happening, but is actually on the rise. Here we look at the trends and some of the potential consequences and ask where we go from here.
Advancing Internet Technologies in South East Europe
• 13 min read
On 22-23 April, the South East Europe Internet community will come together in Athens, Greece, to explore trends in the adoption of Internet technologies across the region. In preparation for the discussions to take place, we’ve been examining changes in key Internet tech, such as IPv6 and RPKI.
Palestine Internet Connectivity as Seen in BGP
• 9 min read
What does Internet routing data tell us about how the Internet in Palestine has fared since the outbreak of war in October.
Fulfilling Our Mandate in Wartime
• 8 min read
As part of the RIPE NCC’s commitment to supporting the Ukrainian technical community, we actively research and facilitate discussions about the country's Internet landscape and its resilience in wartime. Recently, we have seen inferences being drawn from changes to country codes in the RIPE Databas…
How Is Russia Connected To The Wider Internet?
• 11 min read
Speculation about Russia disconnecting or being disconnected from the wider Internet abounds. In this article, we look at the connectivity of the Russian Internet to the wider Internet and how this evolved around the Russian invasion into Ukraine and sanctions related around that.
Facebook Down and Out in BGPlay
• 4 min read
Following the Facebook outage that took place on 4 October, we saw people looking to BGPlay to get a better view of what went on. Here's a look at what the RIPEstat visualisation has to show us about the event in question.
IPv6 Adoption in 2021
• 8 min read
As part of our ongoing efforts to chart the rise and rise of IPv6, we’ve been looking into the difference between average IPv6 capability per country over a few days in June 2020 versus the most recent similar averages for 2021.
Looking Inside Outages with RIPE Atlas
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RIPE Atlas probes actively measure Internet connectivity through a variety of measurement types. In this article, we take a closer look at what probes can tell us about outages.
Our First Glance at the Belarus Outages
• 6 min read
On 9 August, Belarus experienced country-wide Internet outages. Here's a first glance at what our tools and datasets have to tell us about the scale of these outages and their impact.
The Debogonisation of 2a10::/12
• 11 min read
We are getting ready to start allocating from 2a10::/12, a new block of IPv6 addresses. In this process we did a couple of 'pre-flight' checks to check the usability of address space in this /12 block.