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As former Chief Information Officer for the RIPE NCC, I was mainly involved with the planning, operation and development of the RIPE NCC's global information services as well as research and development. This included the RIPE NCC's authoritative DNS services as well as K-root infrastructure, data collection and measurement networks such as RIPE Atlas and RIS, data provisioning systems such as RIPEstat, and the RIPE NCC's data analysis efforts. Before the RIPE NCC, I worked for more than 12 years in the Internet services and ISP sectors, mostly in senior technical management positions. I was the engineering founder of one of the largest Iranian ISPs and helped several IT startups with their software and business process implementations. I have a M.Sc. in Software Engineering from the University of Oxford, UK and Lean Engineering/Agile Management training at MIT.
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In this article we explain why we will be using Zoom for the upcoming RIPE 80 and RIPE NCC General Meeting, and we outline the policies and settings we have in place to address concerns about privacy and security.
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We have plans to move some of our technical infrastructure to the cloud in order to achieve greater agility in our technical setup. Here's an overview of our approach.
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Please find below the third part of our technical services update. This time we're focusing on our research activities and a number of tools we are developing.
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This is the second part of the technical services update. In this article we're focusing on our DNS services: providing reverse DNS; providing secondary services for ccTLDs; and maintaining K-root.
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In 2013 and 2015 we provided high-level reports on the status of our plans for our technical services and tools. It is time for an update. In this first article we will focus on RIPE Atlas.
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The RIPE NCC's Chief Information Officer, Kaveh Ranjbar, gives an update on the state of our technical services and tools, and gives readers a heads up about what they can expect in 2015.
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As the new Chief Information Officer at the RIPE NCC, I’d like to take this opportunity to share with you some of my ideas about the future direction of the technical services we offer to the community. This includes focusing on RIPE Atlas as the RIPE NCC’s data collection system, RIPEstat as the R…
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The RIPE NCC proposes improvements to the algorithm used for removing personal data from the bulk provisioning of RIPE Database data.
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In addition to the actual data presented in a RIPE Database object, there is additional data, not directly related to the information contained within an object but still valuable from an operational point of view. The RIPE NCC is proposing a method to optionally display this metadata alongside the…
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Objects are created in the RIPE Database and are updated regularly by their maintainers. However, at the moment there is no mechanism to see the history of changes to an object. There are many cases where RIPE Databases users want to investigate the history of changes to an object. We would like to…
“One issue with cloud services is that they are mostly proprietary offerings. I suggest that the cost of moving off of a particular cloud provider (whether back to self-hosted or to another cloud vendor) be counted as a cost of that solution. For example, if a cloud service offers a particular service that no other company offers, the cost of doing without or building a replacement should be factored in as an additional cost of using that service. Often companies end up locked in because it costs too much to move off of a particular solution, but this is less likely to happen if the cost of "unlocking" a given service is accounted for the entire time.”
Thank you very much Shane. Fully agree with you and that is why we are treating the subject with caution and as small, independent exploratory projects. One of the key findings we are going to look into from each project, before deciding to migrate to the cloud, is changes in the Total Cost of Ownership for a particular service. Inputs to that will include how our in-house IT and OPS can provide monitoring, support and maintenance for each platform as well as effects to portability of each service and their dependencies.
“Thanks for the update. Although it was already discussed in the past and familiar with performance and stability issues, we would be more than happy to have the RIPE Atlas anchors running on our own HW or VM machines. I believe we could reach a wider deployment of RIPE Atlas anchors while running on off-the-shelf systems.”
Thank you for your comment Eli. Sure, as mentioned in the article as well, we will publish our proposal for virtual probes during the course of 2017. Discussions with the community will happen in the RIPE Atlas and MAT-WG mailing lists. Implementation can start right after community's consensus.
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