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What Do Network Operators Sell to Each Other?

What Do Network Operators Sell to Each Other?

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Uta Meier-Hahn

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Open Season

Open Season

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Geoff Huston

10 min read

In June 2016, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) hosted a meeting of ministers to consider the state of the Digital Economy. The central message from this meeting was the message that: “Governments must act faster to help people and firms to make greater use of the …

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K-root Reachability in the Middle East and Central Asia

K-root Reachability in the Middle East and Central Asia

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Babak Farrokhi

6 min read

There are about 600 DNS root server instances deployed around the world. But does everyone have an equal level of access to a root server in their region? Are they fairly distributed? Do all major (and country level) network operators recognise the value in deploying (or peering with) a root server…

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Anycast vs. DDoS - Evaluating the November 2015 Root DNS Event

Anycast vs. DDoS - Evaluating the November 2015 Root DNS Event

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Giovane Moura

3 min read

IP anycast has been widely used to replicate services in multiple locations as a way to deliver better performance and resilience. It has been largely employed by CDNs and DNS operators, such as on the root server system. However, there is little evaluation of anycast under stress.

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Connectivity in the LAC Region

Connectivity in the LAC Region

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Mirjam Kühne

6 min read

Please enjoy this guest post by Agustín Formoso, Software Developer at LACNIC: Regional connectivity is not an easy metric to measure. To do it properly you need measurements generated by multiple vantage points, located in as many places as possible (both geographically and logically). Besides,…

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Using RIPE Atlas to Look at IXPs in Berlin

Using RIPE Atlas to Look at IXPs in Berlin

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Mirjam Kühne

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The IXP country jedi tool described in earlier RIPE Labs articles, can also be used to analyse the situation in a specific city. This time we look at Berlin.

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