Christian Kaufmann: To Serve the Board
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What it means to serve as a RIPE NCC Executive Board member has changed dramatically in the 12 years since Christian Kaufmann first took on the role. With recent years having seen organisational change, the pandemic, sanctions and war - the board is increasingly called upon to make decisions that i…
“It was really helpful; thanks for sharing this information. While Iran and Turkey were mentioned in the Routing Incidents statistics, it would have been even better to see insights and data on these countries in other areas, such as ROA, ROV, and IPv6 adoption. Considering that Iran and Turkey are significant parts of the Middle East, including these details would provide a more comprehensive view of the region’s Internet landscape...”
Hi Milad, thank you for the comment. As we had already focused on Iran as part of our earlier analysis ahead of CAPIF 3 (you'll find the link in the 'related articles' section above), this time we decided to focus our attention on the Arabic-speaking countries of the region. We apologise for not making this clearer in the article. The good news is that we'll be producing more of these reports and we'll definitely take your feedback into consideration!
“In the diagram, why are the IPv6-related options rendered in orange, suggesting danger, while the IPv4-related options are all rendered in green, despite their generally higher cost and/or longer lead times?”
Hi Simon - thanks for the comment. The choice of colours wasn't intended to indicate a difference in the properties of the options listed. The colours were picked because they were a clear contrasting pair from our branding palette. We take your point though and we'll take this feedback on board for future reports.
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