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20,000 Local Internet Registries - A Peek into the Future

20,000 Local Internet Registries - A Peek into the Future

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Rene Wilhelm

12 min read

On 25 September 2018, the RIPE NCC passed the milestone of 20,000 Local Internet Registries (LIRs). We look at what's happened since the previous milestone of 15,000 LIRs and share our thoughts about the future: how much time is left for the IPv4 pool, and what are the prospects for membership deve…

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Looking Back at the Internet’s Past Decade

Looking Back at the Internet’s Past Decade

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Geoff Huston

32 min read

In this article I am looking a some fundamental developments on the Internet over the last decade. Nothing much has changed - or has it?

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Spam Over IPv6 - Eight Years Later

Spam Over IPv6 - Eight Years Later

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Ivo Dijkhuis

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A long time ago we published an article on the amount of spam we receive over IPv6. Now, eight years later, we were curious to see if the spam landscape has changed.

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How We're Migrating our Configuration Management System

How We're Migrating our Configuration Management System

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Marco Giuliani

10 min read

At the RIPE NCC we are migrating our configuration management system to a mixed solution using Salt and Ansible. This article describes the issues we were facing with the old system and the selection of a new platform.

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Could Blockchain Help in Interdomain Routing Security?

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Jordi Paillissé Vilanova

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Blockchain technology is attracting a lot of attention among the security community since it provides a way to exchange information among a set of distrusting entities without the use of digital certificates and centralised control. Blockchain provides means for distrusting parties to reach consens…

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Out-of-Region ROUTE(6) and AUT-NUM Objects in the RIPE Database

Out-of-Region ROUTE(6) and AUT-NUM Objects in the RIPE Database

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Denis Walker

9 min read

There are changes being made to the way out-of-region objects are managed and represented in the RIPE Database. The following information is important to all database users.

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So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations

So Long Last /8 and Thanks For All the Allocations

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Rene Wilhelm

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On 17 April 2018, we allocated the last available block of 1,024 addresses in 185/8 - the last /8 we received from IANA back in 2011. This article looks at how this address space was allocated and how it is used today. It's important to keep in mind that while 185/8 is finished, we still have aroun…

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Historical Whois

Historical Whois

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Christian Teuschel

4 min read

The Historical Whois widget is a new RIPEstat widget that allows users to visually navigate through RIPE Database objects and their historical versions. It comes equipped with a set of handy features for comparing historical changes to objects in a diff-tool like fashion.

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