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Ramil Mastiyev

Based in Baku, Azerbaijan

Ramil Mastiyev is an IT executive and solution architect with 20+ years of experience in data center design, systems engineering, and technical project management across banking, academic, telecom, and public-transport infrastructure. He is the sole developer of MarinaDNS, a free DNS and network diagnostics toolkit, and NODA, a dual-axis DNS health and best-practice assessment methodology built in the spirit of SSL Labs and Tranco. He writes here from that intersection: enterprise infrastructure experience applied to measuring how well real-world DNS is actually configured.

Spiro Stathakis

Based in United Kingdom

An architect with a developer background, building on open source. My interest is networking and IPv6 adoption specifically. I run isp6, a RIPE NCC member LIR (ORG-SCL103-RIPE).

Andrian Visnevschi

Based in Chisinau, Moldova

Andrian Visnevschi is a network enthusiast, CEO, CTO and founder of ITcare, and holds JNCIE-SP #2975. He has spent over 15 years in telecommunications and IT, starting hands-on in routing, switching and service provider networks, and has worked in both Operations and Engineering across nationwide and Tier 1 ISPs, data center operators, cloud and hosting providers, voice carriers and enterprises spanning multiple continents. His work covers IP/MPLS integrations and transformations, next-generation MVPN, Anycast RP in PIM-SM, EVPN-VXLAN data center fabrics, subscriber management, network automation, DDoS protection tooling, and large-scale monitoring across Juniper, Cisco, Arista, Nokia and many others. He is a founder of MDNOG, Moldova's first Network Operators Group, and works on HORA, an AI NetOps platform built and run inside ITcare's own NOC as well as for ITcare's customers.

Artem Berezin

Artem Berezin runs the email infrastructure measurement project at Live Direct Marketing, where he maintains a daily DNS scan of the Tranco top-1M domains based on OpenINTEL data. The project tracks mailbox provider market share, ESP usage, and the adoption of SPF, DMARC, MTA-STS and BIMI across the Internet, with open historical data going back to 2016. He is based in Russia.

Christian Teuschel

Based in Amsterdam

Christian Teuschel joined the RIPE NCC in 2010 and was System Architect in the Research and Development department before leaving in 2024. In his role, he was responsible for the development and operation of RIPEstat, a widely used, web-based interface that provides data on Internet address space and related information for countries and hostnames. He also contributed to RIPE Atlas and other services provided by the RIPE NCC. Christian is co-author of the RIPE Document "Sources of Abuse Contact Information for Abuse Handlers" (ripe-658).

Antonio Prado

Based in ITALY

Antonio Prado holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, with a research focus on Internet Routing Security. His doctoral work focused on tools and methodologies for the automated verification of BGP configurations. He is co-author of BGP from Theory to Practice, a book aimed at both technical and academic audiences, and of the outreach volume Parlami di TEch, designed to make technology accessible to a broader readership. His latest book, Crescere con l’intelligenza artificiale (2026), helps adults understand how AI is reshaping children’s everyday lives. He also holds a second-level Master’s degree in Innovation and Digital Transformation in Public Administration, with a specialization in the use of Artificial Intelligence in public-sector processes and services, addressing both opportunities and ethical-organizational implications. Since 2022, he has been a member of the RIPE Programme Committee, contributing to the review and selection of scientific presentations for European community conferences. He has delivered seminars and lectures on Internet and Network Architectures for the Academia, and has taught DNS, Internet Governance, and BGP at the Namex School of Advanced Networking, helping to train the next generation of network professionals. At the time of writing, he is also an External Researcher at the University of Padova, Italy.

Ties Dirksen

Based in Nijmegen

My name is Ties Dirksen, I am doing my masters at Radboud University in Nijmegen. I did my internship at SIDN labs which is the research team of SIDN. SIDN maintains the .nl-domain. I am currently on the way to start my thesis and finishing up my masters!

Oliver Hohlfeld

Based in Kassel

Oliver Hohlfeld is a professor at the University of Kassel, Germany. His research focuses on Internet Measurement with a focus on understanding and improving network operation and Internet Resilience.

Remco van Mook

Based in The Netherlands

Technology executive with a passion for Internet and how the pieces come together - going down that rabbit hole for 25+ years. Prolific policy author, former chair of the Connect working group in the RIPE community and board member of RIPE NCC from 2010 to 2025.

Greg Wood

Greg Wood is Senior Director of Communications and Operations for the IETF Administration LLC. He previously served as Director of Communications at the Internet Society (ISOC) and, before joining ISOC, was the Director of Communications for Internet2. Greg first encountered the Internet in 1992 while working at start up university in Lithuania. He currently is based in the Washington, D.C. area.