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Local Certification Service Launched

Local Certification Service Launched

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Alex Band

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In order to use the RIPE NCC Resource Certification (RPKI) Service, the only option up to now was to rely on the hosted system in the LIR Portal. Today we are releasing a proof of concept of the Local Certification Service. This allows RIPE NCC members to run Resource Certification on their own sys…

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Measuring World IPv6 Day - Comparing IPv4 and IPv6 Performance

Measuring World IPv6 Day - Comparing IPv4 and IPv6 Performance

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Emile Aben

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During World IPv6 day we measured the performance of IPv4 and IPv6 between 40 vantage points and 46 World IPv6 Day participants and other dual-stacked sites. If one has to pick a winner, then the old protocol, IPv4, would win, but IPv6 often shows comparable or better performance.

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Assigning 32-bit ASNs

Assigning 32-bit ASNs

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Mirjam Kühne

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The RIPE NCC has been assigning 32-bit Autonomous System Numbers for quite some time now. In this article we're showing a number of statistics and some analysis.

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RIPE NCC Active Measurements Of World IPv6 Day Dataset

RIPE NCC Active Measurements Of World IPv6 Day Dataset

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Emile Aben

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As part of our Data Repository we released a new dataset. This dataset contains DNS lookups (A+AAAA), ping/ping6, traceroute/traceroute6 and HTTP fetches (IPv4/IPv6) from 40 vantage points (TTM, CAIDA Ark, and others), to 53 web sites involved in World IPv6 Day. The data covers the period from 2011…

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Measuring World IPv6 Day - Long-Term Effects

Measuring World IPv6 Day - Long-Term Effects

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Emile Aben

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In this article we'll look at some of the more long-term effects of World IPv6 Day, as seen in our measurements a number of weeks after the event itself.

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Measuring World IPv6 Day - Some Glitches And Lessons Learned

Measuring World IPv6 Day - Some Glitches And Lessons Learned

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Emile Aben

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As already stated by us and others, World IPv6 Day on 8 June, was a big success. No major issues came to light, and most minor issues that surfaced were resolved, and as such were a useful learning experience. In this article we provide details on some of the events we observed by looking at our me…

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Measuring World IPv6 Day - First Impressions

Measuring World IPv6 Day - First Impressions

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Mirjam Kühne

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World IPv6 Day took place on 8 June 2011. The RIPE NCC did a number of measurements both before and during World IPv6 Day. We've done an initial analysis of the data and would like to share our first impressions and results with you.

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World IPv6 Day - Asymmetric 6to4 Measurements

World IPv6 Day - Asymmetric 6to4 Measurements

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Richard Barnes

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RIPE NCC and BBN have been working on measuring the impact of 6to4 on the latency of Internet traffic. This article describes the measurement techniques used for this survey, and some initial findings based on measurements conducted at BBN.

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