RIPE NCC Membership - 2012 Statistics
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At the start of a new year and four months after we reached the last /8 of IPv4 address space, we looked at our membership statistics again. Have we seen an increase in members or resource requests?
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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.
1,000 /22s Allocated from Last /8
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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!
RIPE Atlas: Hurricane Sandy and How the Internet Routes Around Damage
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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.
Number of New LIRs and their IPv6 RIPEness
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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.
RIPE NCC Active Measurements of World IPv6 Launch Dataset
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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…
Measuring World IPv6 Launch - Comparing IPv4 and IPv6 Performance
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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.
First Measurement Results from IPv6 Launch
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Like last year during World IPv6 Day, the RIPE NCC has been doing various measurements during World IPv6 Launch on 6 June. We will publish the results in a series of articles on RIPE Labs.
Measuring World IPv6 Launch Participants From All Over The World
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Similar to last years World IPv6 Day, this year, the RIPE NCC is measuring selected World IPv6 Launch participants from over 50 vantage points all over the world. We're measuring DNS, ping, traceroute and HTTP and show results at http://ipv6launch.ripe.net/ .
Update on IPv6 Address Distribution
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At the recent RIPE Meeting we presented some IPv6 address distribution statistics which we would like to share with a wider audience. In the article below, you can find statistics on IPv6 allocations and assignments. In particular, the article details what affect the removal of the requirement to b…
What Ever Happened to...?
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... those LIRs that closed. The RIPE NCC now has over 8,000 members. But how many members have closed in the meantime and why?
From 80 to 8,000 - The Growth of the RIPE NCC Membership
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The RIPE NCC is 20 years old and it now has over 8,000 members. In this article, we drill down a bit more into the composition of our membership: what industry do RIPE NCC members come from and which countries account for the highest numbers of members and IP resources.