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SIDN Publishes RSSAC002 Traffic Metrics for .nl

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Giovane Moura

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Closing the IPv6 First-Packet Gap with GRAND

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Seyed Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani

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There is a subtle asymmetry in IPv6 Neighbour Discovery: a host knows how to reach its router before the router necessarily knows how to reach the host. GRAND fixes that asymmetry by making the host proactively advertise its address, and I implemented that mechanism in FreeBSD.

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The IRR Landscape: What RPKI Can Replace

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Matthias Wichtlhuber

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In the third part of our IRR landscape series, we use traffic measurements from AMS-IX and DE-CIX to assess which parts of the IRR landscape can safely be replaced with RPKI. Third-party ROUTE(6) objects can largely be phased out, while third-party AS-SETs remain essential for BGP filter generation.

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DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure - Beyond Definitions and Blocklists

DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure: Beyond Definitions and Blocklists

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Andrew Campling

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Evidence suggests that criminals may control a substantial share of new gTLD registrations. Although the precise scale remains contested, the article asks whether current DNS Abuse measures adequately address wider misuse of domain names.

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