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Is Big Necessarily Bad?

Is Big Necessarily Bad?

Geoff Huston

20 min read

Why did a network technology such as the Internet, designed to pass control away from the central network to the connected devices, succumb to the level of centrality we see today? In this guest post, Geoff Huston shares his thoughts on the topic of centrality.

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RightsCon - What's New in the Human Rights Debate

RightsCon - What's New in the Human Rights Debate

Gergana Petrova

12 min read

RightsCon is a huge conference on human rights in the digital age. 8,500 attendees meet this week to discuss Internet shutdowns, content governance, data protection, digital economy, and more. As these discussions benefit from more input from the technical community, we’ll be updating you on what w…

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RIPE Community Resilience: Nature is Healing

RIPE Community Resilience: Nature is Healing

Vesna Manojlovic

14 min read

To address the topics of RIPE community health, the OSI Networking Model is mapped to the Maslow pyramid of needs. In this instalment of the series, Vesna Manojlovic connects Layer 6 and the aesthetic needs.

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Caught in the Middle: Regulatory Impact and our Mission as the RIPE NCC

Caught in the Middle: Regulatory Impact and our Mission as the RIPE NCC

Athina Fragkouli

4 min read

The increasing rate of conflicting regulatory developments across our service region has become a very real subject of concern for the RIPE NCC. In this article, Athina Fragkouli talks about the impact such developments have on our operations and the principles guiding the work being done to prepar…

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Artificial Intelligence and Policy-Making Developments – Council of Europe’s CAHAI

Artificial Intelligence and Policy-Making Developments – Council of Europe’s CAHAI

Athina Fragkouli

5 min read

As the first in a series of articles aimed at exploring how policy-making institutions are reacting to challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI), we look at how the Council of Europe seeks to examine the feasibility of a legal framework for the development, design and application of AI.

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Understanding the European Resolver Policy

Understanding the European Resolver Policy

Andrew Campling

5 min read

The European Resolver Policy is intended to provide reassurance to end-users and other stakeholders that personal data gained in the operation of DNS resolution services will not be misused. In this guest article, Andrew Campling talks about the aims and benefits of the policy.

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You are Not Alone: RIPE Community Resilience

You are Not Alone: RIPE Community Resilience

Vesna Manojlovic

6 min read

The continued resilience of the RIPE community during the COVID-19 pandemic has helped the Internet keep running. This hasn't been easy, but we're in it together! Vesna Manojlovic draws a parallel between universal human needs and OSI model networking abstraction layers.

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#LetsGreenTheWeb with ClimateAction.tech

#LetsGreenTheWeb with ClimateAction.tech

Michael Oghia

8 min read

ClimateAction.tech invites you to join us for our #LetsGreenTheWeb campaign – a focused, 5-day Twitter campaign to measure the carbon emissions of websites, share tweets highlighting the results, and encourage developers to reduce website emissions. The campaign will run on Twitter from 15-19 Febru…

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Remote Chaos Experience 2020

Remote Chaos Experience 2020

Vesna Manojlovic

4 min read

There is a substantial overlap between RIPE and CCC communities. In this post, I highlight talks from the most recent event that might be inspirational and useful to our readers.

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Our First Glance at the Uganda Internet Shutdown

Our First Glance at the Uganda Internet Shutdown

Vesna Manojlovic

3 min read

Reports indicate that the Ugandan government initiated a shutdown of the country's Internet yesterday evening. Here's a look at what we're seeing based on data available from our Routing Information Service (RIS) and RIPE Atlas.

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