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CAPIF 5: Regional Interconnectivity in Central Asia

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Anastasiya Pak

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Central Asia’s Internet looks very different than it did back at CAPIF 1. We trace the rise of direct regional routes, stronger routing security and new connectivity options - along with the gaps that remain.

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From Cables to Content: Who Builds the Edge - and Who Connects to It

The Internet’s New Edge Builders

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Arman Obosyan

15 min read

After building private backbones, content and cloud platforms are now moving closer to users. In doing so, they are taking on delivery roles once associated mainly with independent CDNs.

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Closing the IPv6 First-Packet Gap with GRAND

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Seyed Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani

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There is a subtle asymmetry in IPv6 Neighbour Discovery: a host knows how to reach its router before the router necessarily knows how to reach the host. GRAND fixes that asymmetry by making the host proactively advertise its address, and I implemented that mechanism in FreeBSD.

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When Traceroutes Lie: How TTL Jumps Can Give Us a False Impression of the Internet’s Topology

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Sebastian Kappes

7 min read

Traceroute is a powerful tool for uncovering how packets travel across the Internet. However, as we recently discovered, some routers tamper with the TTL values in traceroute's probing packets, giving you a false view of how networks are actually interconnected.

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Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice in Internet Operations

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Jelena Cosic

6 min read

Internet research can benefit from operational insight, and network operators from research expertise. Building on what we learned at RIPE 92, we look at practical ways to make those connections easier and turn promising conversations into lasting collaboration.

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The IRR Landscape: What RPKI Can Replace

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Matthias Wichtlhuber

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In the third part of our IRR landscape series, we use traffic measurements from AMS-IX and DE-CIX to assess which parts of the IRR landscape can safely be replaced with RPKI. Third-party ROUTE(6) objects can largely be phased out, while third-party AS-SETs remain essential for BGP filter generation.

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Inside a Shutdown: BGP Evidence from an Operator Who Was There

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Md.Kamruzzaman Khan

18 min read

When Bangladesh vanished from the global routing table in July 2024, public routing data captured the event as it unfolded. Drawing on first-hand observations from inside one affected network, this article explores what that data can and cannot tell us.

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Who's Running All Those Tiny RPKI Servers?

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Ties Dirksen

18 min read

Who runs the hidden infrastructure behind secure Internet routing? An internship report from SIDN Labs looks beyond the RIRs at the independently operated RPKI publication servers helping to secure BGP.

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ASPA Is Live. Can You See It Working?

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Ritesh Mukherjee

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ASPA objects can be registered today with ARIN and RIPE NCC. Validators support RTR v2. But if you're an operator, can you actually see what ASPA is doing - or would do - on your network? We built a tool to find out.

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How Do We Manage Vulnerabilities in the Age of AI?

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Kathleen Moriarty

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AI-assisted development is changing more than how software is written. It might also force us to reconsider the processes we use to identify, track, and manage vulnerabilities.

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