The Ghost Office: our Transition to Remote Work during COVID-19
• 6 min read
What it took to send the RIPE NCC's staff home while remaining fully operational.
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Improving Our Emails
Ulka Athale
Ulka Athale
Based in Amsterdam
Senior Marketing and Communications Officer at the RIPE NCC. I started working at the RIPE NCC in 2018, having previously worked in digital marketing, communications, magazine publishing and teaching. More
• 5 min read
We’re about to start using a third-party product to handle our email communications for cases where we need to contact people outside of mailing lists and ticketing systems - like meetings and training invites. This will allow us to develop a better service for you while making things more efficien…
RIPE NCC Learning & Development: Changes in Service Delivery
Rumy Spratley-Kanis
Rumy Spratley-Kanis
Based in Amsterdam
Rumy Spratley-Kanis was Head of Learning and Development at the RIPE NCC. More
• 3 min read
Nuestra casa es su casa
Don't Terminate People's Internet Connections
Job Snijders
Job Snijders
Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Job Snijders is an Internet Engineer, he analyzes and architects global networks for future growth. Job has been actively involved in the Internet community in both operational, engineering, and architectural capacity, as a frequent presenter at network operator events such as NANOG, ITNOG, DKNOG, RIPE, NLNOG & APRICOT, and in … More
• 2 min read
Here is a plea to keep Internet services on in these times where we rely on online communications.
Do we Need to Rethink Network Monitoring?
• 6 min read
Regardless of whether you’re a knowledgeable computer user or not, there is a high probability that you’ve heard of or have even used traceroute and ping.
What Network Engineers Need to Know About Software Engineering
Sasha Romijn
Sasha Romijn
Based in Amsterdam, NL
Sasha is an independent Python developer and community manager from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, organiser of several conferences, core team member of Write the Docs, and former committer on Django, the largest Python web framework. Along with over a decade of general software engineering experience, she has worked extensively near the … More
• 9 min read
With the increasing use of automation and overlap between roles, many network engineers will end up writing software, or likely already have. If you write a bash script to automate something, you are a developer and that means you can benefit from learning how to do it right.
Revamping the RIPE NCC Academy
Ulka Athale
Ulka Athale
Based in Amsterdam
Senior Marketing and Communications Officer at the RIPE NCC. I started working at the RIPE NCC in 2018, having previously worked in digital marketing, communications, magazine publishing and teaching. More
• 5 min read
The RIPE NCC Academy is closed for some updates. Here’s what we’re changing to make it easier for you to learn on the go.
Our Approach to the Cloud
Kaveh Ranjbar
Kaveh Ranjbar
Based in Amsterdam
As former Chief Information Officer for the RIPE NCC, I was mainly involved with the planning, operation and development of the RIPE NCC's global information services as well as research and development. This included the RIPE NCC's authoritative DNS services as well as K-root infrastructure, data collection and measurement networks … More
• 3 min read
We have plans to move some of our technical infrastructure to the cloud in order to achieve greater agility in our technical setup. Here's an overview of our approach.
Mail Filtering - Rethinking Our Reliance on RBLs
• 4 min read
Keeping the channels of communication between us and the wider Internet community open has always been one of our main priorities. Just lately we received some input that caused us to rethink the way we've been doing things on this front.
Your EU Regulation Update: October 2019 Edition
Suzanne Taylor
Suzanne Taylor is a Public Policy & Internet Governance Consultant. In her work with the RIPE NCC, she engaged with a broad range of Internet stakeholders including the RIPE NCC membership, governments, law enforcement and intergovernmental organisations. From 2012 to 2016, she worked in communications at the RIPE NCC and … More
• 6 min read
This is the third in an ongoing series in which we give a brief overview of the most pertinent digital policies currently being proposed, debated and implemented in the European Union.