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Consolidation, Centralisation, and the Internet Architecture

Consolidation, Centralisation, and the Internet Architecture

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Jari Arkko

6 min read

Many of us have held a vision of the Internet as the ultimate distributed platform that allows communication, the provision of services, and competition from any corner of the world. But as the Internet has matured, it seems to have fed the creation of large, centralised entities that provide most …

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Routing Security is Hot!

Routing Security is Hot!

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Melchior Aelmans

3 min read

Routing security is important and it is great to see that it is now on the agenda of many network operators. We're going to organise an RPKI signing party to further increase deployment.

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The RPKI Observatory: A New Website Aiming to Help Reduce RPKI Misconfigurations

The RPKI Observatory: A New Website Aiming to Help Reduce RPKI Misconfigurations

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nusenu nusenu

7 min read

In this post I'll cover why it is important to take care of RPKI misconfigurations, what the impact of ignoring them is, how network operators can easily determine whether they are affected by a specific RPKI misconfiguration and how significantly the amount of RPKI unreachable IP space changed ove…

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iSEND: IPv6 SEcure Neighbor Discovery Implementation for Android Devices

iSEND: IPv6 SEcure Neighbor Discovery Implementation for Android Devices

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Ahmad Alsadeh

3 min read

IPv6 SEcure Neighbor Discovery (SEND) is an extension to countermeasure the security threats in IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP). SEND provides address ownership proof, message protection, and router authorisation capabilities. The current lack of robust implementations of SEND at the end use…

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DOH! DNS over HTTPS explained

DOH! DNS over HTTPS explained

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Geoff Huston

14 min read

If you had the opportunity to re-imagine the DNS, what might it look like? Normally this would be an idle topic of speculation over a beer or two, but maybe there’s a little more to the question these days. We are walking into an entirely new world of the DNS when we start to think about what exact…

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Gunfight at OK Corral: MPLS vs. Probing

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Benoit Donnet

10 min read

In this article, we investigate the various relationships between MPLS tunnels and standard probing techniques (i.e., ping and traceroute). We investigate several possible MPLS configurations and explain how they interact with measurement techniques. We also provide an external link to an online…

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How We Will Be Validating abuse-c

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Angela Dall'Ara

6 min read

At the RIPE NCC we’re busy working out a process so we can start validating approximately 70,000 abuse contact email addresses in the RIPE Database. Read on to see how we will approach this.

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Internet Atlas - Tools for Digital Literacy

Internet Atlas - Tools for Digital Literacy

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Andrej Petrovski

5 min read

Based on existing studies and research about the digital environment in Serbia, its legal and technical features, usage and habits among Internet users, the SHARE Foundation aims to produce tools and materials designed to inform, educate and encourage project target groups understand Internet infra…

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Clusters in the Expanse: Understanding and Unbiasing IPv6 Hitlists

Clusters in the Expanse: Understanding and Unbiasing IPv6 Hitlists

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Oliver Gasser

7 min read

Network measurements are an important tool in understanding the Internet. Due to the expanse of the IPv6 address space, exhaustive scans in IPv4 are not possible for IPv6. The best practice when conducting IPv6 measurements is to use so called IPv6 hitlists.

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Measuring Anycast DNS Services Using RIPE Atlas

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Kenneth Finnegan

12 min read

A step-by-step guide to how to use the RIPE Atlas measurements infrastructure to characterize the world-wide performance of Anycast DNS services.

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