Network Operations

Innovative Approaches to Combating SPAM: Lessons from IP Leasing

Jolita Puzakova

• 14 Aug 2024

• 4 min read

SPAM and abuse remain persistent challenges across various digital platforms, threatening user trust and operational integrity. Jolita Puzakova and colleagues explore how they tackle this persistent threat with a three-fold approach.

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IXP-from-Scratch: Building a New IX

Thomas Liske

• 12 Aug 2024

• 5 min read

In this new series "IXP from Scratch", we report about our endeavor of building DD-IX, an Internet Exchange located in the city of Dresden, Germany. DD-IX is driven by a grassroots community that loves contributing to a resilient and efficient Internet. We start with some basic background and will …

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Putting the MAU Into meowmeow: On Personal ASNs

Tobias Fiebig

• 22 Jul 2024

• 14 min read

Is the use of personal ASNs to gain hands-on operational experience really such a bad idea, or is this one of the ways we make sure the Internet remains a place of equitable participation, expression and learning? In this guest article, Tobias Fiebig shares his views.

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Driving the ASN Truck Without a Licence

Radu Anghel

• 18 Jul 2024

• 16 min read

Natural persons have been registering ASNs for a long time, and for many reasons, from running small businesses to keeping up a hobby. This isn't something wrong that needs to be fixed. ASNs should be assigned based on need. But 'need' should not be defined as “my friends have one so I need one too…

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RIPE NCC Webinars for the Ukrainian Internet Community

Alex Semenyaka

• 12 Jul 2024

• 6 min read

At the request of the Ukrainian RIPE community, on 12 and 13 June 2024 the RIPE NCC organised two webinars for the Ukrainian community on LIR Procedures and Operating the RIPE Database.

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A Multifaceted Look at Starlink Performance - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Nitinder Mohan

• 11 Jul 2024

• 9 min read

How does Starlink stack up against terrestrial ISPs as a global service? And exactly what factors impact its operations? A new multifaceted active and passive measurement study uncovers the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to Starlink performance.

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Paola Grosso: Defining a Responsible Internet

Alun Davies

• 28 Jun 2024

• 2 min read

For many, the Internet is essentially a black box. We connect with other endpoints to send and receive data, but we have little insight into what happens in between. Dr Paola Grosso talks about how CATRIN seeks to provide more visibility and control so we can make more responsible decisions on how …

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20 Years of Inferring Interdomain Routing Policies

Savvas Kastanakis

• 25 Jun 2024

• 9 min read

As the structure of the Internet has become ever flatter over time, what effect has this had on the dynamics of inter-domain routing? A new study examines whether 20-year-old insights into the characteristics of routing policies still hold.

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Whose CIDR Is It Anyway?

Jan Schaumann

• 18 Jun 2024

• 22 min read

IP address space wasn't divided evenly, and after years of re-allocation and re-assigment, the question that comes to mind is: who owns what parts of it? In the latest in a series of articles on the centralisation of the Internet, Jan Schaumann digs into the data to try to get a clearer view.

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Working Towards a Coordinated RPKI System

Sofía Silva Berenguer

• 29 May 2024

• 3 min read

What would a single, global RPKI system look like?

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