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Five Years at the Edge: Recording the Evolution of Web Usage from an ISP

Five Years at the Edge: Recording the Evolution of Web Usage from an ISP

Danilo Giordano

7 min read

While 2018 has no doubt been another big year in the world of the Internet, it often pays to look at how it compares to previous years to understand and forecast growth or decline trends.

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Hackathon @ Africa Internet Summit 2019

Hackathon @ Africa Internet Summit 2019

Willem Toorop

8 min read

The ISOC African regional bureau has been organising hackathons at the last three editions of the Africa Internet Summit. This year we were given the opportunity to lead a track there at: "Measuring DNS and DoH". This is a report on the event and it's valuable and contributory outcome.

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EuroDIG 2019 Liveblog

EuroDIG 2019 Liveblog

Gergana Petrova

19 min read

The 11th edition of EuroDIG, the pan-European Internet governance event, is taking place from 19-20 June 2019 in The Hague. You can expect sessions on technical and operational issues, cybersecurity, access and literacy, human rights, media and content, innovation and more. RIPE NCC staff at the ev…

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Indicators of Online Hate Speech and Why it Should be Regulated

Indicators of Online Hate Speech and Why it Should be Regulated

Carolina Are

6 min read

This research aims at identifying the typical patterns of online hate speech and suggests starting to regulate it. Online hate speech involves online harassment, invective, threats, and repeated, often group-led abuse going beyond mere conversation disruption.

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Accountability and Trust as a Membership Organisation

Accountability and Trust as a Membership Organisation

Axel Pawlik

13 min read

In light of concerns expressed at one of our meetings recently, we think this is a good time to discuss what it means to be an IP address registry in today’s environment, and some of the challenges we face as an organisation.

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Abuse-c Validation: Update on Progress and Some Numbers

Abuse-c Validation: Update on Progress and Some Numbers

Angela Dall'Ara

6 min read

With RIPE 78 around the corner, we want to update you on our work to validate abuse contacts in the RIPE Database.

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Your EU Regulation Update: May 2019 Edition

Your EU Regulation Update: May 2019 Edition

Suzanne Taylor

8 min read

In recent years, there’s been a trend towards increased EU regulation with the potential to impact more actors across the Internet landscape. This is the second in an ongoing series in which we give a brief overview of the most pertinent policies currently being proposed, debated and implemented in…

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SEEDIG 2019 Liveblog

SEEDIG 2019 Liveblog

Gergana Petrova

12 min read

The 5th edition of SEEDIG, the Internet governance event for South East Europe, is taking place from 6 to 8 May 2019 in Bucharest. You can expect sessions on cybersecurity, trust in digital technologies, technical developments, 5G, challenges of online content, the future of work and more. RIPE NCC…

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Making the DNS More Private with QNAME Minimisation

Making the DNS More Private with QNAME Minimisation

Wouter de Vries

10 min read

DNS queries can contain a lot of sensitive information about Internet users. Query name minimisation (qmin) limits the information revealed to what is actually necessary for a DNS name server to answer the query. We did an initial study of qmin deployment and the associated challenges and published…

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Measuring Paths in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Measuring Paths in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Vesna Manojlovic

3 min read

Based on RIPE Atlas measurements, we can illustrate if paths between different networks in a given country stay in that country. We can also provide sketches of interconnections between networks in that country. In this article we look at the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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