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I wrote the articles collected here during my time as community builder of the RIPE NCC and the maintainer and editor of RIPE Labs. I have since taken on a new role serving as the Chair of the RIPE Community. You can reach my new profile via the website link below.
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We attended the Digital Campus online event that went on for 24 hours over 3 days in more than 30 countries simultaneously. The aim is to connect young innovators around the globe using technology to support society.
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Olamide Omolola and Tobias Fiebig are studying the degree to which email systems are configured securely. And they need your help: they want to receive emails from as many different mail providers around the world as possible.
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Kim Davies, President of PTI and Vice President of IANA Services for ICANN describes recent and new challenges when managing the DNS trust anchor.
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"For well over a decade I have been concerned about the blind trust that exists in the technical world." Merike Kaeo, a global expert in information security, explains why and what we should do about it.
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"Business is one of the most effective forms of activism. Business is one of the most expressive forms of art." Melanie Rieback, CEO and Co-founder of Radically Open Security, the world’s first not-for-profit computer security consultancy company, explains what she means by this and why post-growth…
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In this guest post Drikus Brits describes some results and take-aways from the RPKI Deployathon that took place during APRICOT 2020.
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The headlines are raising awareness about the plastic soup that's clogging up our oceans but there's another problem much closer to home for much of the RIPE community: e-waste (aka 'dead electronics'). E-waste is a massive contributor to environmental pollution globally. We want to keep the conver…
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Based on community input, including a plenary session at RIPE 76 and a discussion on a dedicated mailing list, here is the final version of the RIPE Chair selection process.
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Following up from an earlier article, Veronika McKillop, network architect at Microsoft, describes how the organisation is making progress towards an IPv6-only network.
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I was about to publish another RIPE Labs article when someone pointed out that this would be RIPE Labs article #1,000. So, I decided to take the opportunity to look back to when it all began.
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What it took to send the RIPE NCC's staff home while remaining fully operational.
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The 14th annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will be running from 25-29 November 2019 in Berlin. Our staff at the event will be sharing key moments and takeaways from the sessions they attend. Check this page each day for the latest issues, arguments and ideas as they arise at the…
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The tenth RIPE NCC hackathon took on the Internet of Things (IoT). Over two days, community members experimented with possible IoT solutions.
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Guido van Rossum sent me an email saying: "I'm glad you're taking up this subject. I like that you wrote up some of the negative responses you received -- I've seen those too, and I think it's pretty normal to see a range of responses. But that doesn't mean you can't make progress! We can't fix our biases if we're not aware of them, and sometime you have to start by over-compensating just to end up in the right place eventually."
“Never heard of a DNS query type AAA before. Is that IPv5 protocol?”
Haha. Thanks, for pointing this out. It's fixed now.
“Where can I find the IPv4 space amount that RIPE hold ?”
Yi, If you go to this page https://labs.ripe.net/statistics/?tags=ipv4 and scroll all the way to the bottom, you will see the number of remaining IPv4 addresses. If you click on the title of the graph, you wil see another pge with more information about the RIPE NCC's available IPv4 address pool. Please let us know if you have any more questions.
“What is a stroopwafel?”
Hi Serge, a stroopwafel is a typical Dutch caramel waffle. See here for a picture and some more information: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroopwafel
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