From RIPE 75 to IGF 2017
Being a fellow at RIPE 75 improved my understanding of what the multistakeholder model actually means, and I am sure it will help me later this month when attending the IGF in Geneva, supported by the RIPE NCC.
Community and Events
Embracing the Next Generation with the RIPE Fellowship
Amanda Gowland
Amanda Gowland
Based in Amsterdam
Amanda was Sr. Communications Officer and Change Officer for the RIPE NCC until 2020. More
• 4 min read
RIPE Fellows benefit from the face-to-face exposure being at a meeting provides: full engagement in plenary and RIPE Working Group sessions, experiencing BoFs, workshops and tutorials and, of course, the ample time to network and share best practices during coffee breaks, lunches and socials.
Results of the RIPE NCC Hackathon Version 6
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
During a weekend of coding and fun, we have achieved our goal to hack together a set of tools that can help with IPv6 adoption and to visualise IPv6 deployment. Join us in celebrating the results of the sixth RIPE NCC hackathon, with links to documentation, pictures and stories.
IPv6 Week Denmark
Nathalie Trenaman
Nathalie Trenaman
Based in Amsterdam
Nathalie was the Routing Security Programme Manager at RIPE NCC until 2023. She is chair of NLNOG. More
• 4 min read
An IPv6 week is an opportunity to raise awareness and stimulate IPv6 deployment on a national level. It brings a wide variety of stakeholders, knowledge and experience to a country where deployment of IPv6 is low. One of the key factors affecting the success of a national IPv6 week is support from …
Gaining Momentum with RIPE Diversity Efforts
Amanda Gowland
Amanda Gowland
Based in Amsterdam
Amanda was Sr. Communications Officer and Change Officer for the RIPE NCC until 2020. More
• 4 min read
It's been a couple weeks since we concluded another successful RIPE Meeting. Nearly 500 people gathered from 54 countries for five days of technical discussions, best practice sharing and networking.
Impressions from the Internet Measurement Conference 2017
Emile Aben
Emile Aben
Based in Amsterdam, NL
I'm a data scientist at the RIPE NCC. 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 measurement, data analysis, data visualisation, sustainability and security. … More
• 6 min read
This year's Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) was held in London from 1 - 3 November. In this article we highlight some of the presented work that we think is interesting and that the RIPE community might find useful.
Report from First RIPE NCC::Educa Event
Sandra Brás
Sandra Brás
Based in Amsterdam
Sandra worked on the RIPE NCC's L&D team from 2008 to 2021. More
• 4 min read
On the 5 October 2017 we launched our very first RIPE NCC::Educa event. It turned out to be quite a success. Here's a summary and some plans for next year.
A Software-based Approach to Identify Heavy Hitters in DNS Traffic
Santiago Ruano Rincón
Santiago Ruano Rincón
Based in Brest, France
I am research engineer at IRISA/Adopnet Lab located at the IMT Atlantique engineering school in Brest, France. I have focused my recent research on commodity-hardware tools to analyse Nx10Gbps network traffic. More
• 12 min read
This article presents a software-based prototype able to estimate the most queried domain names in a stream of DNS traffic at 12Mpps (wire-rate 10GbE). The goal is to identify domains involved in random qname attacks. This prototype is a proof-of-concept of our research on software and commodity-ha…
Key Factors for the Successful Entry of Developing Countries into the Internet of Things
Farzad Ebrahimi
Farzad Ebrahimi
Based in Tehran,Iran
Dr. Farzad Ebrahimi is CEO & Founder of BITA - IoT Holding Company and Chairman & Founder of IoT Academy of IRAN. He is a Faculty Member and Researcher in IRAN ICT Research Institute. He is also deputy of IoT & Big Data Commission in Tehran ICT Guild Organization and … More
• 8 min read
The Internet of Things can improve everyday life, increase efficiency in industry processes and even contribute to the transformation of countries. It's of great importance for countries to plan their entry into the Internet of Things market so they can benefit from its potential.
Power Prefixes Prioritisation for Smarter BGP Reconvergence
Juan Brenes
Juan Brenes is early stage researcher in the areas of internet routing, software defined networks (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV). For the last three years he has been a member of the METRICS ITN, which allowed him start a Phd in telematics at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid … More
• 7 min read
Every day the Internet experiences failures that affect the reachability of certain zones (i.e prefixes), such as cities, countries, etc. Whenever such events happen, the routing information, which is the path that information must follow in order to get from one place to another, must be upda…