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10,000 LIRs with IPv6 Resources

10,000 LIRs with IPv6 Resources

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Nathalie Trenaman

6 min read

This week, the RIPE NCC saw a milestone as the 10,000th Local Internet Registry (LIR) received IPv6 addresses. The first block of IPv6 addresses was allocated from IANA to the RIPE NCC in 1999, so we have been distributing IPv6 addresses for 17 years. In those years we have seen interesting poli…

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RIPE NCC Members and Multiple LIR Accounts

RIPE NCC Members and Multiple LIR Accounts

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Laura Cobley

7 min read

The RIPE NCC membership has raised concerns regarding members setting up additional Local Internet Registry (LIR) accounts. The RIPE NCC Executive Board is now asking the RIPE NCC membership to discuss this. The article below provides some background information, data and statistics for the discuss…

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The Revamped RIPE Atlas Website

The Revamped RIPE Atlas Website

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Suzanne Taylor

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RIPE Atlas has been in operation for more than five years now, and its network of probes and users has grown tremendously in that time. We’ve also added anchors, sponsors and ambassadors to the system, developed a huge array of new tools, visualisations and features, and RIPE Atlas data is now bein…

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Keeping the Registry Up to Date in a World of IPv4 Transfers

Keeping the Registry Up to Date in a World of IPv4 Transfers

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Matt Parker

4 min read

High quality registry data is important - even more so with the recent increase in address transfers and the exhaustion of the global IPv4 pool. This article explores how we will be enhancing our tools and processes to ensure the RIPE Registry remains up-to-date in this challenging environment.

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Improving the RIPE Database Web Interface

Improving the RIPE Database Web Interface

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Alex Band

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There is an extensive project underway to make our services easier to use and work together seamlessly, so that they provide the most value to you. Over the last couple of months we have been working very hard on the RIPE Database. We have made some fundamental changes to the web interface, which w…

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Processing RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat Data with Hadoop

Processing RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat Data with Hadoop

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Paul de Weerd

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The RIPE Routing Information Service (RIS) and RIPE Atlas produce large amounts of data that needs to be processed, stored and made available to the public. We've been using Hadoop for some time now. In this article we look at the design of the infrastructure we currently have in place and describe…

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Implementing DANE for RIPE NCC Websites

Implementing DANE for RIPE NCC Websites

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Mihnea-Costin Grigore

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In September of this year, we activated DNS-based Authentication of Named Entities (DANE) for our main web services, including www.ripe.net, the LIR Portal, RIPE Atlas and RIPE Labs.

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Lost Stars - Why Operators Switch off IPv6

Lost Stars - Why Operators Switch off IPv6

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Nathalie Trenaman

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One of the measurements that we have been running for a long time is IPv6 RIPEness, where we measure the IPv6 activity of our members. We award our members with stars if they (for example) announce their IPv6 allocation in the global routing table.

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The RIPE NCC's New Look

The RIPE NCC's New Look

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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

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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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