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IXP Automation Made Easy with New Open-Source Tool

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Pier Carlo Chiodi

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Affordability and security are two essential components of establishing and managing any Internet Exchange Point (IXP).

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New RIPE Atlas Root Zone DNS Measurements

New RIPE Atlas Root Zone DNS Measurements

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Chris Amin

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Two new DNS measurements, both designed to assess the impact of issues with one or more root name servers, have been added to every RIPE Atlas probe.

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Uncertainty is Key

Uncertainty is Key

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Uta Meier-Hahn

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In order to manufacture Internet connectivity, network operators around the globe make a joint effort. As of today, they have interconnected more than 55,000 Autonomous Systems. By the measure of existence, the Internet gives evidence of a remarkable degree of decentral coordination between network…

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Commercial Incentives of IPv6 Deployment

Commercial Incentives of IPv6 Deployment

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Mirjam Kühne

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This article is based on the IPv6 Best Practices document published for the Internet Governance Forum 2016 by Izumi Okutani, Sumon A. Sabir and Wim Degezelle.

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Bugfixing IPv6 Deployment Statistics

Bugfixing IPv6 Deployment Statistics

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Emile Aben

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We found a bug in a dataset that we've been producing for years.

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IPv6 RIPEness in 2017

IPv6 RIPEness in 2017

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Rene Wilhelm

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This post provides an update on our IPv6 RIPEness project, including an analysis of IPv6 RIPEness for new Local Internet Registries (LIRs).

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Time to Decide on Internet of Things Liability

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Eireann Leverett

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We are at a very important decision point in Internet history. Will we accept insecure and unsafe Internet of Things (IoT) devices that erode our privacy and open our home networks to intrusion from hackers? Or will we hold vendors accountable for their security and privacy decisions in the product…

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Addressing in 2016

Addressing in 2016

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Geoff Huston

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Time for another annual roundup from the world of IP addresses. Let’s see what has changed in the past 12 months in addressing the Internet, and look at how IP address allocation information can inform us of the changing nature of the network itself.

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Using RIPE Atlas to Validate International Routing Detours

Using RIPE Atlas to Validate International Routing Detours

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Anant Shah

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International routing detours are paths that originate in one country, visit another country and return to the original country. Such circuitous routes could occur due to intentional traffic engineering, lack of local peering, BGP misconfigurations, or even attacks. Detecting such events helps n…

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BGP in 2016

BGP in 2016

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Geoff Huston

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It has become either a tradition or a habit for me that, each January, I report on the experience with the inter-domain routing system over the past year; looking in some detail at metrics from the routing system that can show the essential shape and behaviour of the underlying interconnection fabr…

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