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A Slice of 5G

A Slice of 5G

Marco Hogewoning

3 min read

The concept of a 5th generation of mobile networking is gaining traction – not only among policy makers but also in technical standardisation work.

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Internet Access Disruption In The Gambia - 2016

Internet Access Disruption In The Gambia - 2016

Emile Aben

4 min read

We had a look at various RIPE NCC data sets to see what we can learn from yet another country-wide Internet outage in 2016.

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Cybersecurity Due Diligence - an ISP Perspective

Cybersecurity Due Diligence - an ISP Perspective

Joanna Kulesza

8 min read

Cybersecurity is no longer a corporate or private affair. What once was simply good business practice is now a legal obligation for ISPs, large and small. What does this mean for you?

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Routing Detours: Can We Avoid Nation-State Surveillance?

Routing Detours: Can We Avoid Nation-State Surveillance?

Annie Edmundson

6 min read

An increasing number of countries are passing laws that facilitate the mass surveillance of their citizens. In response, governments and citizens are increasingly paying attention to the countries that their Internet traffic traverses. In some cases, countries are taking extreme steps, such as bui…

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Supporting IPv6 Deployment Through Policy

Supporting IPv6 Deployment Through Policy

Marco Schmidt

4 min read

It was about one year ago that the RIPE community reached consensus on a policy proposal that introduced additional criteria for initial IPv6 allocations. We thought it was time to look back at the origins of this proposal and see how the change has worked out since.

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What Do Network Operators Sell to Each Other?

What Do Network Operators Sell to Each Other?

Uta Meier-Hahn

12 min read

Comparisons rarely work. They never fit properly; they almost always lead away from the topic. And the audience‘s attention is lost in unimportant details. Therefore, writers do themselves few favours when they use comparisons as stylistic tools. I once read that in a book about speech writing (Fra…

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EuroSSIG: A Deep Dive into the World of Internet Governance

EuroSSIG: A Deep Dive into the World of Internet Governance

Gergana Petrova

8 min read

EuroSSIG 2016, held in Meissen, Germany from 16-23 July, gathered 30 fellows and 30 faculty members together for an intensive week-long introduction to the topic of Internet governance. This was also the year it celebrated its 10th anniversary. The RIPE NCC, which is one of many sponsors, sent two …

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EuroSSIG Internet Governance Summer School: A Faculty Member's Impressions

EuroSSIG Internet Governance Summer School: A Faculty Member's Impressions

Marco Hogewoning

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I've been a faculty member at EuroSSIG, the European Summer School on Internet Governance, since 2013. Below are my impressions on my experiences during that time, along with what makes EuroSSIG so unique.

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Internet Access Disruption In Turkey - July 2016

Internet Access Disruption In Turkey - July 2016

Emile Aben

8 min read

With the attempted coup in Turkey, reports went out about social media being throttled and/or blocked. We analysed data about this that we collected with RIPE Atlas and the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI).

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DNS Privacy

DNS Privacy

Geoff Huston

16 min read

The DNS is normally a relatively open protocol that smears its data (which is your data and mine too!) far and wide. Little wonder that the DNS is used in many ways, not just as a mundane name resolution protocol, but as a data channel for surveillance and as a common means of implementing various …

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