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Infrastructure Geolocation - Plan of Action

Infrastructure Geolocation - Plan of Action

Emile Aben

7 min read

At RIPE 67 we presented our ideas on infrastructure geolocation. We received positive feedback for developing this idea. This article shows the current thinking on how to develop router geolocation further. Any feedback will be appreciated.

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Are We Ready to Switch Off IPv4?

Are We Ready to Switch Off IPv4?

Marco Hogewoning

5 min read

At the RIPE 67 meeting in Athens, Greece, the RIPE IPv6 Working Group ran a little experiment to test the feasibility of an IPv6-only network and to identify challenges in user experience. While the results were highly encouraging, they indicated that there is still work to be done before IPv4 can …

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Network Anomaly Detection – Do We Know What to Detect?

Network Anomaly Detection – Do We Know What to Detect?

Jan Rejchrt

3 min read

Network anomalies are not understood the same way among the network experts. However, establishing a unified view is important for the development of anomaly detection tools. The survey described below will help to develop such a unified view.

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14th Saudi Arabian IPv6 Task Force Meeting

14th Saudi Arabian IPv6 Task Force Meeting

Marco Hogewoning

4 min read

The RIPE NCC recently participated in a meeting of the Saudi Arabian Task Force. A well-attended event, it included presentations and discussions about IPv6 deployment strategies, as well as presentations by operators reporting back on their successful IPv6 pilot projects and plans to roll out IPv6…

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LACNIC Assists RPKI Deployment in Ecuador

LACNIC Assists RPKI Deployment in Ecuador

Sofía Silva Berenguer

6 min read

This is an example of how LACNIC has helped with RPKI deployment and created a success story to encourage others in similar initiatives.

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New gTLD Concerns: Dotless Names and Name Collisions

New gTLD Concerns: Dotless Names and Name Collisions

Geoff Huston

27 min read

In the long discussions about the new generic Top level Domains (gTLD), there were two technical topics that were the subject of many assertions and little in the way of observed data. The first concerned the viability of a so-called "dotless" name, where the gTLD label itself contains an IP addres…

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Measuring Google's Public DNS

Measuring Google's Public DNS

Geoff Huston

34 min read

Much has been said about how Google uses the services they provide, including their mail service, their office productivity tools, file storage and similar services, as a means of gathering an accurate profile of each individual user of their services. The company has made a very successful busines…

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How “National” is the Dutch Critical IP Infrastructure?

How “National” is the Dutch Critical IP Infrastructure?

Benno Overeinder

10 min read

After the publication of the Critical Infrastructure Protection report more than ten years ago, we asked ourselves how critical infrastructure companies are interconnected, how resilient these connections are, and to which extent they are dependent on foreign entities.

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RIPE Atlas - Packet Size Matters

RIPE Atlas - Packet Size Matters

Emile Aben

15 min read

This new RIPE Labs article talks about trying to send large packets over the Internet. Above a certain size, these packets will have to be fragmented, which is known to cause problems. In both IPv4 and IPv6, we see approximately 10% of RIPE Atlas probes that are unsuccessful in pings with fragmente…

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Valuing IP Addresses

Valuing IP Addresses

Geoff Huston

14 min read

The prospect of exhaustion of the IPv4 address space is not a surprise. We've been anticipating this situation since at least 1990. But it's a "lumpy" form of exhaustion. It's not the case that the scarcity pressures for IP addresses are evidently to the same level in every part of the Internet. It…

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