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On the Diversity of Interdomain Routing in Africa

On the Diversity of Interdomain Routing in Africa

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In 2013 and 2014 we looked into measuring Interdomain Routing in Africa using the RIPE Atlas infrastructure. This resulted in a paper published at the PAM (Passive and Active Measurement) 2015 conference. Here we present some highlights of this research.

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Measuring Countries and IXPs in the SEE Region

Measuring Countries and IXPs in the SEE Region

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Emile Aben

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We looked at Internet measurements for the South East Europe (SEE) region in order to share these with attendees at the SEE 4 Meeting that took place from 21-22 April 2015 in Belgrade, Serbia. This is the long version of the lightning talk Vesna Manojlovic gave at SEE 4.

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Website Redesign Simplifies Policy Proposal Discussions

Website Redesign Simplifies Policy Proposal Discussions

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Marco Schmidt

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When re-designing www.ripe.net, we paid extra attention to how we can improve the interface for the Policy Development Process (PDP). This open and transparent process determines RIPE Policies, which govern the distribution and use of nearly all Internet resources in the RIPE NCC service region. Ou…

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Measuring Countries and IXPs with RIPE Atlas

Measuring Countries and IXPs with RIPE Atlas

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Emile Aben

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We've been working with various Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) over the last few months to see how RIPE Atlas active measurements can provide insight into how they are keeping local traffic local. This could help improve performance and efficiency for IXPs and their members. To explore this, we've…

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Introducing ENISA: Securing European Networks

Introducing ENISA: Securing European Networks

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Rossella Mattioli

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ENISA, the European Union Agency for Network & Information Security, is an independent body of expertise, set up by the European Union, to secure Europe’s information society. It was founded in 2004 to facilitate the exchange of information between EU institutions, the public and the private sector…

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Internet Interconnection: Networking in Uncertain Terrain

Internet Interconnection: Networking in Uncertain Terrain

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Uta Meier-Hahn

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The Internet today consists of more than 49,000 networks. Network interconnection is the Internet’s central feature. Yet, there is little qualitative research on the junctions between networks – about why networks interconnect where they do, or about how network engineers create, maintain or shut d…

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Year in Review and Looking Ahead to 2015

Year in Review and Looking Ahead to 2015

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Axel Pawlik

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RIPE NCC Managing Director Axel Pawlik recently gave an interview about what he sees as the most important developments of 2014 and looks ahead to the big issues in 2015.

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Distribution of RIPE Atlas Probes

Distribution of RIPE Atlas Probes

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Emile Aben

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As the RIPE Atlas network continues to grow, it's useful for ambassadors and potential probes hosts to easily see where we already have probes deployed and where we'd like more probes installed. We created a few useful maps to help with this.

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Privacy and Security - Five Objectives

Privacy and Security - Five Objectives

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Geoff Huston

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It has been a very busy period in the domain of computer security. With "shellshock", "heartbleed" and NTP monlink adding to the background of open DNS resolvers, port 445 viral nasties, SYN attacks and other forms of vulnerability exploits, it's getting very hard to see the forest for the trees. W…

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RIPE Community Impressions of IGF 2014

RIPE Community Impressions of IGF 2014

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Chris Buckridge

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The ninth annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF) ran from 1-5 September in Istanbul, Turkey, attracting nearly 2,500 participants on-site and more than 1,000 online to participate in wide-ranging Internet governance discussions. As part of ongoing efforts to ensure a strong technical community voi…

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