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The BGP Large Communities Playground

The BGP Large Communities Playground

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Pier Carlo Chiodi

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This article describes the BGP Large Communities Playground, and encourages people to utilise automated regression testing and compliance checking when developing new protocol features.

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15,000 Local Internet Registries

15,000 Local Internet Registries

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Rene Wilhelm

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On 28 December 2016, about 90 days before its 25th anniversary, the RIPE NCC reached the milestone of serving 15,000 active Local Internet Registries (LIRs). In this article we look at trends observed in the membership in the last few years. We also assess the remaining lifetime of the last bit of…

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Studying the IPv4 Transfer Market: Reported Transfers

Studying the IPv4 Transfer Market: Reported Transfers

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Over the past five years, all Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), with the exception of AFRNIC, have exhausted their pool of available IPv4 addresses. The Internet community anticipated this almost two decades ago and standardised IPv6 as a long-term solution. IPv6 uptake is, however, still laggin…

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Build your own Anycast Network in Nine Steps

Build your own Anycast Network in Nine Steps

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Samir Jafferali

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Please read this guest post by Samir Jafferali from LinkedIn in which he explains which steps he followed when setting up an anycast network: from acquiring address space to setting up routing and announcing the prefix from multiple PoPs.

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Scoring the DNS Root Server System, Part 2 – A Sixth Star?

Scoring the DNS Root Server System, Part 2 – A Sixth Star?

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Geoff Huston

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I am taking a second look at the DNS root servers, this time focusing on the ability to handle large UDP responses over IPv6.

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Scoring the DNS Root Server System

Scoring the DNS Root Server System

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Geoff Huston

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The process of rolling the DNS Root’s Key Signing Key of the DNS has now started. During this process, there will be a period where the root zone servers’ response to a DNS query for the DNSKEY resource record of the root zone will grow from the current value of 864 octets to 1,425 octets. Does thi…

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Internet Access Disruption In The Gambia - 2016

Internet Access Disruption In The Gambia - 2016

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Emile Aben

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We had a look at various RIPE NCC data sets to see what we can learn from yet another country-wide Internet outage in 2016.

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Impact of IPv4 Transfers on Routing Table Fragmentation

Impact of IPv4 Transfers on Routing Table Fragmentation

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Rene Wilhelm

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IP address transfers have the potential to create more entries in the routing table for the same amount of address space. We analyse the net effect that four years of IPv4 transfers in the RIPE NCC service region have had on routing table growth and compare this to growth for allocations from which…

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Cybersecurity Due Diligence - an ISP Perspective

Cybersecurity Due Diligence - an ISP Perspective

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Joanna Kulesza

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Cybersecurity is no longer a corporate or private affair. What once was simply good business practice is now a legal obligation for ISPs, large and small. What does this mean for you?

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Results of the IPv6 Deployment Survey

Results of the IPv6 Deployment Survey

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Jordi Palet Martinez

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Over the past year, I have been conducting a public survey to better understand how ISPs deploy IPv6. In this post, I will summarise some of the key findings thus far.

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