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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.
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You read that right. The RIPE NCC is running out of IPv6... Luckily, we've also received our second /12 IPv6 allocation – becoming the first Regional Internet Registry (RIR) to do so! Let’s take a look back at how we’ve distributed our first /12 allocation.
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The RIPE NCC membership has raised concerns regarding members setting up additional Local Internet Registry (LIR) accounts. The RIPE NCC Executive Board is now asking the RIPE NCC membership to discuss this. The article below provides some background information, data and statistics for the discuss…
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With the MENOG 15 meeting taking place this week, we look at Internet measurements and statistics for countries in the MENOG region.
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What RIPEstat tells us about the recent cable disruption in the Mediterranean.
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We continued RIPE Atlas measurements to see if we can still find cases where 128.0.0.0/16 is filtered out.
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On 14 September 2012, the RIPE NCC started allocating from the last /8 of IPv4 addresses we received from IANA. This week we allocated the 1,000th /22!
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In this article we look at some of the effects Hurricane Sandy had on the Internet data plane, as we can see them in traceroutes done by RIPE Atlas.
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We observed an increase in the number of new LIRs in the RIPE NCC service region. Many of these new LIRs show 1-star IPv6 RIPEness.
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As part of our Data Repository, the RIPE NCC has released a new dataset. This dataset contains DNS lookups (A+AAAA), ping/ping6, traceroute/traceroute6 and HTTP fetches (IPv4/IPv6) from 53 vantage points (TTM, CAIDA Ark and others) to 60 websites involved in World IPv6 Launch. The data covers the p…
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Following on from last year's during World IPv6 Day, we again looked at relative performance of IPv4 and IPv6 from the measurements we conducted. In this article we describe the methodology and the show the results of these measurements.
