The Ghost Office: our Transition to Remote Work during COVID-19
• 6 min read
What it took to send the RIPE NCC's staff home while remaining fully operational.
Community and Events
WFH Hackathons
Vesna Manojlovic
Vesna Manojlovic is Community Builder at RIPE NCC. Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. In 2003, she took responsibility for developing and delivering advanced courses, such as RPSL, Routing Registry, DNSSEC and IPv6. In 2008, she lead efforts to establish IPv6 RIPEness as a measure of … More
• 6 min read
This is one of the series of articles about virtual hackathons: if you are working from home and have some spare energy, please join the collective efforts to solve some important problems: your skills can help people and communities!
Internet Stability in Times of Corona
Emile Aben
Emile Aben
Based in Amsterdam, NL
I'm a system architect/research coordinator at the RIPE NCC, where I work in the science group. I'm a chemist by training, but have been working since 1998 on Internet related things, as a sysadmin, security consultant, web developer and researcher. I am interested in technology changes (like IPv6 deployment), Internet … More
• 4 min read
In this article we're sharing observations we made in the RIPE Routing Information System (RIS), our Internet data plane observatory.
The Best Laid Plans…
João Luis Silva Damas
João Luis Silva Damas
Based in Madrid, Spain
I love the Internet. I spend my days working as a Sr Researcher APNIC, co-organising ESNOG, getting stuff done as President of ISOC-ES, co-chairing the RIPE DNS WG and participating in the DNS root signing process as a TCR More
• 3 min read
For just over 10 years now, every three months, a diverse group of “Trusted Community Representatives” [1] get together in one of two data centres in the USA and follow an agreed script to sign a batch of Key Signing Requests (KSRs) provided by Verisign that, once returned with the proper signature…
Reporting back from 36c3: Resource Exhaustion
Vesna Manojlovic
Vesna Manojlovic is Community Builder at RIPE NCC. Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. In 2003, she took responsibility for developing and delivering advanced courses, such as RPSL, Routing Registry, DNSSEC and IPv6. In 2008, she lead efforts to establish IPv6 RIPEness as a measure of … More
• 11 min read
Watching the videos from the Chaos Communication Club (CCC) is both an entertaining and educational activity. Our 2020 focus on sustainability has inspired me to share my favourite moments that seem most relevant to the RIPE Community and RIPE Labs audiences.
RIPE NCC Learning & Development: Changes in Service Delivery
Rumy Spratley-Kanis
Rumy Spratley-Kanis
Based in Amsterdam
Rumy Spratley-Kanis was Head of Learning and Development at the RIPE NCC. More
• 3 min read
Nuestra casa es su casa
How NOG Communities Can Help During COVID-19
Mirjam Kühne
Mirjam Kühne
Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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 … More
• 1 min read
The good folks of the network operators forum in the UK (UKNOF) have created a spreadsheet that lists various volunteer services and offerings to support people through COVID-19. If you would like to list your local Network Operators Group (NOG) initiative, get in touch! And please spread the word!
Don't Terminate People's Internet Connections
Job Snijders
Job Snijders
Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Job Snijders is an Internet Engineer at Fastly where he analyzes and architects global networks for future growth. Job has been actively involved in the Internet community in both operational, engineering, and architectural capacity, as a frequent presenter at network operator events such as NANOG, ITNOG, DKNOG, RIPE, NLNOG & … More
• 2 min read
Here is a plea to keep Internet services on in these times where we rely on online communications.
Results of the Pan-European Quantum Internet Hackathon
Vesna Manojlovic
Vesna Manojlovic is Community Builder at RIPE NCC. Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. In 2003, she took responsibility for developing and delivering advanced courses, such as RPSL, Routing Registry, DNSSEC and IPv6. In 2008, she lead efforts to establish IPv6 RIPEness as a measure of … More
• 7 min read
In November 2019, we organised the first ever multi-location Quantum Internet hackathon.
Reporting Back From RIPE 79
Hans Petter Holen
Hans Petter Holen
Based in Amsterdam, Netherland
Hans Petter Holen is the Managing Director of the RIPE NCC. Before taking on this role in May 2020, he served as the RIPE Chair from 2014 and has been part of the RIPE community for over 25 years. He also serves as the secretary of the Number Resource Organisation … More
• 11 min read
After RIPE 78, I published an article with some of my takeaways from the meeting. I received positive feedback about that, and so here I am with another update from our last meeting in October. As with the last time, topics are ordered roughly according to when they occurred in the meeting week rat…