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Navigating Network Measurements - Research, Risks and Reliability

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Tobias Fiebig

10 min read

Measuring the Internet is a delicate process and without the proper setup, things can get pretty out of hand pretty quickly. The measurement.network is a RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund supported project that helps researchers run network measurements without breaking things.

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The Internet Landscape in the Middle East

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Qasim Lone

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The Middle East’s Internet landscape is diverse and complex, with big variations between the GCC countries and areas such as the Levant and North Africa. Ahead of MENOG 24, we look at the development of Internet technologies in the Arabic-speaking countries of the region that have the potential to …

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Does the Internet Route Around Damage? - Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

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Emile Aben

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This week's Internet cable cuts in the Baltic Sea have been widely reported, even as attempts to understand their cause and impact continue. We turn to RIPE Atlas to provide a preliminary analysis of these events and ask to what extent the Internet in the region has been resilient to them.

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Serial BGP Hijackers: A Reproducibility Study and Assessment of Current Dynamics

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Ebrima Jaw

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Serial hijackers are malicious actors that repeatedly carry out prefix hijacks on various networks, some lasting for months or years. A new study assesses the evolution of serial hijacking events since 2019 and determines what actions the technical community is taking to protect the Internet agains…

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The Internet Exchange Point: A Window Onto a Changing Internet

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Flavio Luciani

6 min read

IXPs are the airports of the Internet, busy hubs connecting traffic from a multitude of networks. The Namex observatory provides a unique view of the health and stability of the Internet as it continues to grow and evolve.

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The Next Generation of BGP Data Collection Platforms

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Thomas Holterbach

12 min read

Existing BGP data collection platforms face challenges that threaten their long-term sustainability: their data comes with enormous redundancy and significant visibility gaps. We explore a new BGP data collection paradigm, already implemented in a prototype called GILL, that could stir change for o…

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ccTLD Phishing Characterisation

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Giovane Moura

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Phishing attacks are, to this day, one of the most widespread and effective means of getting access to sensitive and financial data. A new study from the team from SIDN Labs combines more than 28,000 phishing domain names in a bid to improve detection and mitigation policies.

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Roughtime: Securing Time for IoT Devices

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Robert Allen

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Roughtime is a draft protocol aimed at providing a secure way for IoT devices to obtain time. In this Q&A from Netnod, Marcus Dansarie, Technical Consultant at Netnod and co-author of the IETF draft on Roughtime, answers questions on why secure time is essential, the challenges for IoT devices, and…

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Putting the MAU Into meowmeow: On Personal ASNs

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Tobias Fiebig

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Is the use of personal ASNs to gain hands-on operational experience really such a bad idea, or is this one of the ways we make sure the Internet remains a place of equitable participation, expression and learning? In this guest article, Tobias Fiebig shares his views.

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A Comprehensive Review of RIR Policies in the Domain of AS Number Management

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Nachiket Kondhalkar

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A research team at TU Delft is researching the management of AS Numbers across RIRs as well as the potential impact of the new annual maintenance fees for ASNs and we invite you to contribute.

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