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RIPE Community Resilience: Every Society Has the Internet they Deserve

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Vesna Manojlovic

8 min read

OSI Layer 9 is "political". Let's explore non-Westphalian views on society, and the impact of coronavirus pandemic on inequalities, justice and digital technologies. I am inviting you to work together on imagining and building utopian Internet of the future.

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Human Rights Are Not a Bug

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Niels ten Oever

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The Internet plays a crucial role in our increasingly digital daily lives. But who shapes and governs the patchwork that enables this essential utility? And how do their actions bear on the rights and interests of users all over the world?

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Transparency Meets Sustainability: Announcing the SDIA Open Data Hub

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Michael Oghia

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Last month, the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA) announced our Open Data Hub, a resource that's meant to boost transparency, trust, and data availability to help researchers, industry, and society realise a sustainable digital economy. It is essentially our answer to the challenge…

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An Analysis of Responses to Mozilla’s Trusted Recursive Resolver Public Consultation

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Andrew Campling

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While it remains to be seen what conclusions Mozilla will reach after public consultation into their Trusted Recursive Resolver policy, their initial reaction to the input received has led to positive change. That said, a closer look at responses to the consultation shows more work is needed before…

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RIPE Community Resilience: Economy of Care

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Vesna Manojlovic

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The need for community actualisation is equivalent to the financial Layer 8. The COVID-19 pandemic offers a path to alternatives to capitalism: ecofeminism, degrowth, unions, and the circular economy. Caring and maintenance are resistant to paradigms of unlimited growth and disruptive innovation.

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RIPE NCC Internet Country Report: Mediterranean Europe

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Suzanne Taylor

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We take a comprehensive look at five different countries in Mediterranean Europe as the next in our series of RIPE NCC Internet Country Reports.

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Is Big Necessarily Bad?

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Geoff Huston

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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

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Gergana Petrova

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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

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Vesna Manojlovic

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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

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Athina Fragkouli

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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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