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ipv6 addresses in orbit

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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v6 neighbours

Closing the IPv6 First-Packet Gap with GRAND

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Seyed Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani

11 min read

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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IRR3

The IRR Landscape: What RPKI Can Replace

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Matthias Wichtlhuber

21 min read

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

8 min read

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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Deploying IPv6-first EKS

Deploying IPv6-first EKS on AWS: What Still Doesn't Work, and What It Saves

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Spiro Stathakis

11 min read

In this field report on IPv6-first Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), the isp6 team shares which dependencies still drag IPv4 back in, what they learnt from /28s, and why the saving is large but not automatic.

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Multiple LIR Accounts: Looking Back and Thinking Ahead

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Marco Schmidt

13 min read

Why a feature introduced for a handful of members became one of the RIPE NCC's most complex operational challenges.

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email

Two Providers, a Stubborn Plateau and a Very Long Tail: Email in the Tranco Top-1M

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Artem Berezin

7 min read

Ten years of DNS measurements reveal three trends across the Internet's most popular domains: email continues to consolidate around two providers, DMARC enforcement has hit a plateau, and a surprisingly large long tail of infrastructure defies easy classification.

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ARP retirement cake

What's ARP Got to Do with It?

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Remco van Mook

9 min read

It's only ARP. It works. So how much can it really matter? The answer lies beyond ARP itself, in the IPv4 layer cake that grew around it over four decades. The IPv4 internet is not going away in bounded time, and nobody should pretend otherwise.

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Bangladesh outage

Inside a Shutdown: BGP Evidence from an Operator Who Was There

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Md.Kamruzzaman Khan

18 min read

When Bangladesh vanished from the global routing table in July 2024, public routing data captured the event as it unfolded. Drawing on first-hand observations from inside one affected network, this article explores what that data can and cannot tell us.

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