• 6 min read
There has been much discussion about the need for IPv6 over the past decade and more, but with IPv4 addresses approaching exhaustion, this has seen an upsurge in IPv6 deployments over the past year. In particular, mobile operators are increasingly deploying IPv6-only in their consumer networks, whi…
Based in Amsterdam, NL
Gerardo Viviers has been a Trainer at the RIPE NCC since 2014. He travels throughout the RIPE NCC service region (Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia) to give training courses on a number of topics, including: Local Internet Registries (LIRs), IPv6, and the Routing Registry. Gerardo worked … More
• 5 min read
We've been working with law enforcement to help them tackle the ever-growing problem of cybercrime.
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
Together with Comcast and DKNOG, the RIPE NCC is organising our sixth hackathon, the topic of which will be IPv6! Our goals are to promote IPv6 in Denmark, come up with new and creative ways to visualise IPv6 measurements, and hack together the tools helpful for IPv6 deployment.
Uta Meier-Hahn is a doctoral researcher at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin. In her work she focusses on informal regulation of internet infrastructure with specific interest in internet interconnection arrangements. As academic editor for the institute's Internet Policy Review (http://policyreview.info), Uta contributes to establishing a hybrid … More
• 10 min read
There are many resources available to learn about Internet peering. But when it comes to de-peering, networkers are mostly left with their gut feeling.
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
• 9 min read
Today begins the newest edition of four-yearly Dutch summer camping conferences for and by hackers: SHA2017. Since there is an overlap between topics and participants within the RIPE community, this is an invitation to the talks and workshops that might interest you.
Based in Iran
Alireza Vaziri is a full-time network and system engineer with a focus on network design. He started his career working for an ISP as a Helpdesk in 2002. In 2006, He started to dive in vendor specific certification path and got a couple of certificates in the fields of network … More
• 8 min read
Year after year, botnets make impressive progress over counter-attack methods. Botmasters have deployed encryption and P2P connectivity to bots and we are always a step behind.
Based in Berlin, Germany
Human-centered security enthusiast and IT management consultant working for LEXTA Consultants Group. Spare-time illustrator and former RACI attendee. More
• 4 min read
We want to fully understand the issue of security misconfigurations. We have some preliminary findings. But we need your help: Please, participate in our anonymous survey on security misconfigurations.
Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Job Snijders is an Internet Engineer, he analyzes and architects global networks for future growth. Job has been actively involved in the Internet community in both operational, engineering, and architectural capacity, as a frequent presenter at network operator events such as NANOG, ITNOG, DKNOG, RIPE, NLNOG & APRICOT, and in … More
• 1 min read
RFC 8195 presents examples and inspiration for the operational application of BGP Large Communities.
Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Job Snijders is an Internet Engineer, he analyzes and architects global networks for future growth. Job has been actively involved in the Internet community in both operational, engineering, and architectural capacity, as a frequent presenter at network operator events such as NANOG, ITNOG, DKNOG, RIPE, NLNOG & APRICOT, and in … More
• 4 min read
"External BGP (EBGP) Route Propagation Behavior without Policies” was published as RFC 8112 . What does this mean for network operators and vendors?
Based in Germany
Enno Rey is an old school network security guy with a background in operations. For the last decade he has been involved in many IPv6 projects of large environments. Enno regularly blogs about IPv6 or network security topics and he frequently contributes to RIPE meetings. More
• 8 min read
Recently my organisation discussed IPv6 filter rules for NIC-level firewalls (in a virtualised data center) with a customer. I’d like to take this opportunity to lay out potential approaches for local packet filtering of IPv6, which might somewhat depend on the address configuration strategy you ch…
