Former Web Services Manager at the RIPE NCC, interested in Python, Plone and Pyramids. I've been an open source developer since 2005. More
• 2 min read
We have decided to move static content to a CDN to help speed up the rendering time of our websites.
Suzanne Taylor is a Public Policy & Internet Governance Consultant. In her work with the RIPE NCC, she has 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 … More
• 7 min read
In recent years, there’s been a trend towards increased EU regulation with the potential to impact more actors across the Internet landscape. Here, we give a brief overview of the most pertinent policies currently being proposed, debated and implemented in the European Union.
Policy Officer at RIPE NCC, supporting the Policy Development Process (PDP) for the implementation of accepted RIPE community policies. More
• 6 min read
At the RIPE NCC we’re busy working out a process so we can start validating approximately 70,000 abuse contact email addresses in the RIPE Database. Read on to see how we will approach this.
Rene Wilhelm is a senior research engineer in the R&D department at the RIPE NCC. Coming from a background in particle physics, Rene joined the RIPE NCC in 1996. His interests are in data analysis, routing, Internet measurements and visualisation. More
• 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…
Geoff Huston AM is the Chief Scientist at APNIC, where he undertakes research on topics associated with Internet infrastructure, IP technologies, and address distribution policies. From 1995 to 2005, Geoff was the Chief Internet Scientist at Telstra, where he provided a leading role in the construction and further development of … More
• 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?
Based in Amsterdam
I work as Senior Information Security Officer for the RIPE NCC. Before that, I worked for several Internet related companies in various technical and security related roles. I'm interested in all aspects of information security and privacy, which includes a wide range of topic from information security frameworks (ISO 27001, … More
• 3 min read
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.
Based in RIPE NCC - Amsterdam
I am a Network and Linux System Engineer with a cultural background in humanities and learning design. I have a strong interest in informal training and I see learning as a process always intertwined with our daily activities. Rather than merely being in love with technology, I am interested in … More
• 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.
Based in Barcelona
Jordi Paillissé received his degree in Telecommunications Engineering (2013) from the Technical University of Catalonia (Spain). He has been a visiting student in École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). He is currently a PhD candidate in Computer Architecture at the Technical University of Catalonia. His main research interests are future … More
• 9 min read
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…
• 6 min read
In this article we're looking at amendments that will be needed to the RIPE Database in order to ensure GDPR compliance.
From 2001 to 2015 I was a developer and then the business analyst for the RIPE Database with the RIPE NCC. During this time I have been involved in every aspect of it's design and development of the software, web services and infrastructure, it's philosophy, legal, political and policy aspects, … More
• 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.
