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Your Router Trusts Its Validator. But Who's Watching the Validator?

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Ritesh Mukherjee

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ROV turned your validator into a forwarding policy source. The registries have strengthened their side of the RPKI, but the chain from repository to router runs on your infrastructure. When that chain breaks, it often breaks silently.

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The Internet's New Factories

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Arman Obosyan

13 min read

AI factories create several traffic systems at once, and power is shaping where they can be built. This article asks what operators can see, what stays private, and who decides how these systems are connected.

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Do Registrars Use DNSSEC on Their Own Domains?

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Tobias Sattler

7 min read

Registrars must support DNSSEC for customers, but how many use it themselves? A study of 698 registrar domains finds fewer than one in ten has a DS record, with European registrars ahead of the rest. Tobias Sattler explores the gap and its possible explanations.

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SIDN Publishes RSSAC002 Traffic Metrics for .nl

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Giovane Moura

5 min read

SIDN Labs has released open DNS traffic data for .nl in the same format used by root server operators. In this guest post, they explain what they’re sharing and how it opens up new comparisons across the DNS.

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CAPIF 5 Meeting Report: More Local Routes, Stronger Regional Connections

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Anastasiya Pak

8 min read

More local peering, stronger routing security and a shared ambition to improve connectivity: CAPIF 5 brought Central Asia’s Internet community to Dushanbe to compare progress, discuss persistent challenges and learn from the people building the region’s networks.

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Saving IPv4 Addresses on Interconnection with RFC8950

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André Grüneberg

6 min read

Many of us have been struggling with dual-stack IP address assignment on transfer networks. But what if we could reduce the work and concentrate on one IPv6 address per interconnection? Turns out, we already can. This article sheds some light on the practical implementation of RFC8950 at IXPs.

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PeeringDB Update April - September 2026

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Leo Vegoda

5 min read

The last six months has seen important improvements to PeeringDB. We've added in page maps for searches of interconnection facilities and improved the data quality for AS-SET names.

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CAPIF 5: Regional Interconnectivity in Central Asia

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Anastasiya Pak

15 min read

Central Asia’s Internet looks very different than it did back at CAPIF 1. We trace the rise of direct regional routes, stronger routing security and new connectivity options - along with the gaps that remain.

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The /3 Body Problem

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Remco van Mook

8 min read

A large chunk of IPv6 is heading for space, and every policy question about it is currently going to be deferred to the RIR communities. This article outlines what those questions look like, and argues why now is the time to start asking them.

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From Cables to Content: Who Builds the Edge - and Who Connects to It

The Internet’s New Edge Builders

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Arman Obosyan

15 min read

After building private backbones, content and cloud platforms are now moving closer to users. In doing so, they are taking on delivery roles once associated mainly with independent CDNs.

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