IPv6 Misconceptions: It’s Fake News (cont)
• 6 min read
Here is the second part of common IPv6 misconceptions that are often used as reasons for not deploying IPv6.
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Join the Amsterdam RPKI Deployathon 2019
Vesna Manojlovic
Vesna Manojlovic is Community Builder at RIPE NCC. Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. In 2003, she took responsibility for developing and delivering advanced courses, such as RPSL, Routing Registry, DNSSEC and IPv6. In 2008, she lead efforts to establish IPv6 RIPEness as a measure of … More
• 8 min read
The RIPE NCC and Juniper Networks are co-hosting the first RPKI deployathon in March 2019 - a two-day event which will bring together network professionals to work on practical aspects of routing security.
IPv6 Misconceptions: It’s Fake News
• 5 min read
As I was preparing my keynote presentation for the recent UK IPv6 Council AGM held in London earlier this month, it occurred to me that I’ve spent a significant amount of time talking about how good IPv6 is at these and other meetings, often to those who are already championing and using the protoc…
Uncovering Remote Peering at IXPs
Vasileios Giotsas
Vasileios Giotsas is a researcher at Lancaster University. His work focuses on systems security and resilience, distributed systems, and measurement and analysis of Internet protocols. More
• 10 min read
Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) originally aimed to keep local traffic local and reduce dependence on third parties. However, ever-increasing traffic volumes create pressure for denser and more diverse peering that challenges the traditional IXP model. A fundamental shift in peering practices is R…
DoH - It's DNS Jim, but not as we know it!
Sara Dickinson
Sara Dickinson
Based in Oxford, UK
Sara is co-Founder of Sinodun IT, a UK based consultancy doing all things DNS. More
• 19 min read
At RIPE 77, I talked about what’s been going on with DNS over the past five years from the perspective of end devices. Now in article form, here's what I had to say about the status of the IETF standards for DNS over TLS (DoT) and DNS over HTTPS (DoH) as well as the deployment status of clients and…
New MRT-BGP Reader Six Times Faster Than its Predecessors
Lorenzo Cogotti
Lorenzo Cogotti
Based in Italy
Lorenzo Cogotti is a programmer and free software enthusiast. He is founder and lead of The DoubleFourteen Code Forge, an ethical software development organization promoting independent research and good software practices. More
• 7 min read
With an increasing number of route collectors and the resulting increase in available routing data, how do we analyse such a large amount of data in a reasonable time? BGP Scanner was developed to meet the limitations of existing large-scale BGP data analysis tools.
OpenBGPD - Adding Diversity to the Route Server Landscape
Claudio Jeker
Claudio Jeker
Based in Zurich, Switzerland
Claudio Jeker is a long time OpenBSD developer doing mostly crazy networking stuff. Working on bgpd, ospfd, ospf6d and the MPLS framework in OpenBSD. Currently working full time on OpenBGPD. More
• 8 min read
Thanks to the RIPE NCC Community Project Fund we were able to revive the OpenBGPD daemon and bring more diversity to the Route Server landscape.
Twelve Steps to Enable IPv6 in Government and Enterprise Networks
Jordi Palet Martinez
Jordi Palet Martinez
Based in Spain
Jordi Palet Martínez has been working with computers, networking and technology since he was 8 years old. The last 17 years, as CEO/CTO at "The IPv6 Company", devoted most of his time to IPv6 R&D, standardization, training and consultancy, having worked already with IPv6 customers in 110 countries in the … More
• 10 min read
In the first part of this two-part series, I shared a recent IPv6 deployment case study I worked on for a government network in the LACNIC region, concentrating on the hereditary peculiarities in the network that we had to overcome, many of which are common among government and organisational netwo…
IPv6 for Governments and Enterprises – a Case Study
Jordi Palet Martinez
Jordi Palet Martinez
Based in Spain
Jordi Palet Martínez has been working with computers, networking and technology since he was 8 years old. The last 17 years, as CEO/CTO at "The IPv6 Company", devoted most of his time to IPv6 R&D, standardization, training and consultancy, having worked already with IPv6 customers in 110 countries in the … More
• 6 min read
In this article I will look at corporate networks, which include cases for governments, enterprises and other organisations.
10 Years of IPv6 Stakeout!
Torbjorn Eklov
Torbjorn Eklov
Based in Gävle
Co founder and owner to Interlan Gefle AB. Worked with IPv6 in 16 and DNSSEC in 10 years. More
• 6 min read
In October 2008 I registered kommunermedipv6.se. My main motivation was to encourage the municipalities in Sweden to enable IPv6 and to publicly show once it's done. Now, ten years later, I think my idea was a big mistake....