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The RIPE NCC's New Look

The RIPE NCC's New Look

Miguel Bastos

7 min read

We're pleased to announce a fresh new look for the RIPE NCC that better reflects who we are and what we do. Learn more about why we made the change and what the design process involved from the RIPE NCC's graphic designer, Miguel Bastos. We hope you'll like what you see!

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RIPE NCC Membership Statistics Q3 2015

RIPE NCC Membership Statistics Q3 2015

Rene Wilhelm

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We look at the RIPE NCC in terms of growth, geographic distribution and IPv6 deployment. We find that recent RIPE policy changes have had an impact on membership statistics and development trends.

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IPv4 in the RIPE NCC Service Region - Three Years After Reaching the Last /8

IPv4 in the RIPE NCC Service Region - Three Years After Reaching the Last /8

Rene Wilhelm

8 min read

In September 2012 the RIPE NCC reached its last /8 of available IPv4 addresses. This activated a new phase in the RIPE IPv4 policies, with each LIR now eligible to receive one final /22 allocation. In this article we look at developments in IPv4 allocations and remaining addresses at the RIPE NCC i…

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Real-time BGP Monitoring with Isolario and BGPlay

Real-time BGP Monitoring with Isolario and BGPlay

Alessandro Improta

5 min read

The Isolario project introduces a new concept of Route Collectors to devise real-time services and attract new BGP data sources. Thanks to the integration of BGPlay, the project provides new interesting troubleshooting tools to monitor BGP routes in real-time.

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A Tale of BGP Collectors and Customer Cones

A Tale of BGP Collectors and Customer Cones

Emile Aben

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When operators and researchers use data from BGP route collectors such as RIS and Route Views, it's not easy to tell if a path announced to a collector is an ISP's customer cone, an internal route, or one learned from peering or transit. In this post we look at what information we can currently get…

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Iran and K-root: The Rest of the Story

Iran and K-root: The Rest of the Story

Emile Aben

11 min read

Dyn Research published an article on K-root recently. Here we would like to augment the picture with data from RIPE Atlas in order to provide a more complete picture of the effect of the K-root node in Iran.

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Has the Routability of Longer-than-/24 Prefixes Changed?

Has the Routability of Longer-than-/24 Prefixes Changed?

Emile Aben

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In October 2014 we started announcing a few longer-than-/24 prefixes and determined they were not very visible according to the Routing Information Service (RIS) and RIPE Atlas measurements. Now, almost a year later, we revisit this.

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Analysing the K-root Anycast Infrastructure

Analysing the K-root Anycast Infrastructure

JH Kuipers

4 min read

Anycast is used by most of the DNS root-servers and other services like Cloudflare. It provides localisation and scaling benefits to clients using the anycasted service. An anycast service uses one IP for several instances of the same service. The routing system is then responsible for directing a …

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Extending RIPE Atlas' Reach

Extending RIPE Atlas' Reach

Vesna Manojlovic

5 min read

In an effort to increase the growth rate of connected RIPE Atlas probes and achieve better coverage across the globe, our Measurements Community Building team is experimenting with new outreach methods.

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Security and Trust in the Internet Routing Registries operated by the RIRs

Security and Trust in the Internet Routing Registries operated by the RIRs

Den Is

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At the RIPE 69 meeting, the use of the RIPE Database as an Internet Routing Registry (IRR) and it's relationship with other IRRs was raised. But there hasn't been much discussion on options for the way forward since. Based on what was said at RIPE 69 and the few comments made on the mailing list, I…

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