Network Operations
First Itojun Service Award Presented to Lorenzo Colitti and Erik Kline of Google
The first Itojun Service Award has been presented to Lorenzo Colitti and Erik Kline of Google for their outstanding contributions to the development and deployment of IPv6, in particular for their sustained efforts to make significant commercial content available over IPv6.
IPv6 Panel Discussion Results
Having evaluated the outcomes of the EU IPv6 Deployment Survey and presented them at various meetings during the past few weeks, I was curious to find out if the outcomes would be different when asking the same questions to the RIPE community.
REX Usage Report
After the Resource Explainer REX has been available for four weeks, we looked at the usage statistics collected by the tool to get a better ide how useful this tool could be for the wider community.
APNIC DITLD Looking at Other Regions
Related to the earlier article 'APNIC and Day In The Life (DITL)' , please find here a link to a number of animations showing more DITL data for APNIC focusing on other countries.
How to Define Address Space as 'routed' ?
When can a particular address block considered to be globally routed. The purpose of this document is to come up with a definition of "globally" routed prefixes which can be used in any analysis of RIS data, both recent and historic.
REX and Ukrtelecom
This articles reports from an analysis where we used REX to find out more information about the IP addresses used by Ukrtelecom after they were identified as a spam source.
APNIC and Day In The Life (DITL)
This is a report about APNIC participating in the Day In the Life data collection activities organized by OARC and CAIDA.
The Challenge of IP Addressing and the 2009 Nobel Prize
This essay compares the analysis of economic governance done by Nobel Prize winners Dr. Elinor Ostrom and Dr. Oliver Williamson with the Internet addressing and routing system.
Lameness: Analysis, Measurement, and Estimation
After the RIPE NCC implemented a system that checks for lame DNS servers in the part of the DNS tree the RIPE NCC maintains I was curious to find out how big a problem DNS lameness really is. I wrote a tool and presented it at the DNS WG during RIPE 59 in Lisbon.
A Guide to Making Movies
While walking around the hallways at RIPE59, a couple of people asked me how the movies were made, what tools did I use and such. So here's a short summary on what I did to produce these movies.