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RPKI 2023 Review - Growth, Governments, and Innovation

RPKI 2023 Review - Growth, Governments, and Innovation

Job Snijders

7 min read

Happy new year everyone! Having just closed chapter 2023 - let's look back at the previous year. In this article, I'll share some RPKI statistics, summarise highlights from the IETF standards development process, and reflect on emerging trends.

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Anycast DNS for the I–Root Service: 20 Years of 100% Availability

Anycast DNS for the I–Root Service: 20 Years of 100% Availability

Lars-Johan Liman

5 min read

Lars-Johan Liman, Netnod's DNS nestor, makes a few personal reflections on the 20th anniversary of Netnod's deployment of anycast – a technology that is a crucial part of the infrastructure of Netnod's modern DNS services.

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Jim Cowie: The Historical Record of the Internet

Jim Cowie: The Historical Record of the Internet

Alun Davies

Understanding outages and shutdowns and how the Internet as a whole came to be vulnerable to - but also resilient against - these kinds of events requires more than a snapshot of things as they are today. In this episode, Jim Cowie talks about how historical measurement data can help us acquire a b…

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Models of Trust for the RPKI

Models of Trust for the RPKI

Geoff Huston

13 min read

There are five RPKI Trust Anchors, one for each RIR. But if one of these trusted operators were coerced into falsely issuing a certificate, there's no way relying parties could avoid being misled. Geoff Huston talks about the adopted approach to RPKI Trust Anchors and how things might be improved.

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Security Control Changes Due to TLS Encrypted ClientHello

Security Control Changes Due to TLS Encrypted ClientHello

Kathleen Moriarty

8 min read

The way we defend our systems is shifting right now thanks to a major change to the Transport Layer Protocol (TLS) taking place between the browser and a new device called the client-facing server.

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Using Timestamps Inside RPKI Objects to Optimise RRDP-RSYNC Transport Switchovers

Using Timestamps Inside RPKI Objects to Optimise RRDP-RSYNC Transport Switchovers

Job Snijders

13 min read

Tricks to help reduce bandwidth and CPU cycles for both RPKI Publication Point servers and RPKI validators when switching between RRDP and RSYNC transports, as implemented in rpki-client.

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Announcing RIPE NCC’s Public Bug Bounty Program

Announcing RIPE NCC’s Public Bug Bounty Program

Emir Cuneyt Akkutlu

5 min read

At the RIPE NCC, we’re dedicated to prioritising security and trust for our community and the sensitive information we handle. With that in mind, we’re very glad to announce that we're opening up our bug bounty program to anyone who wants to take part.

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Who’s Waiting on the IPv4 Waiting List?

Who’s Waiting on the IPv4 Waiting List?

Antony Gollan

12 min read

Four years after our IPv4 waiting list became active, and with more than a thousand LIRs in the queue for an allocation, how successful has the list been at providing at least a minimal amount of IPv4 space to newcomers?

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Two Years of Selective Peering with RIS

Two Years of Selective Peering with RIS

Emile Aben

8 min read

The peering strategy for RIS has traditionally been an open one, geared towards maximising the number of peers. But over the past couple of years we've been working with a more selective approach that reduces redundancy and cost, while also helping make sure RIS provides a diverse view of global ro…

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Palestine Internet Connectivity as Seen in BGP

Palestine Internet Connectivity as Seen in BGP

Qasim Lone

9 min read

What does Internet routing data tell us about how the Internet in Palestine has fared since the outbreak of war in October.

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