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Peering Market at a Glance: Trends, Transformations, and the Regional Dynamics of Internet Interconnection

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Flavio Luciani

3 min read

Recent claims that IXPs "aren’t showing significant growth", that more interconnection is happening outside exchanges, and that peering can be more expensive than transit challenge long-standing assumptions about the role of IXPs. But do these claims hold up? A new paper from NAMEX explores the dat…

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DNSSEC and PQC: Practical Impact of Increased TCP in DNS

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Eline Stehouwer

17 min read

Post-quantum cryptography could make DNSSEC responses bigger, pushing more DNS traffic from UDP to TCP. In this guest post, Eline Stehouwer (SIDN Labs) explores what that means for authoritative name servers, replaying real .nl traffic across NSD, Knot, BIND and PowerDNS.

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Raffaele Sommese - The Technical Impact of Rapid-Response Blocking: Italy’s Piracy Shield

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Alun Davies

2 min read

In our latest episode, Raffaele Sommese of the University of Twente shares insights from him and his colleagues on Italy’s Piracy Shield and how rapid-response blocking works in practice. We get into the technical impact, how it can be measured, and the consequences for connectivity.

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The IRR Landscape: Data Quality - the Good, the Bad, and the Outdated

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Tobias Striffler

21 min read

In the second of our IRR landscape series, we focus squarely on data quality: how accurate, current, and usable IRR routing data really is. Using freshness, DFZ alignment and RPKI conflicts, we spotlight where third-party IRRs drift and why cleanup matters.

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How Small Industry Labs Can Thrive Through Open Research

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Giovane Moura

6 min read

Drawing on lessons from 13 years of collaboration with academia, this guest post from SIDN Labs shows how small registries can build and sustain impactful open research partnerships with universities, from shaping shared agendas to turning results into operational improvements.

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Enterprise and SaaS Providers Prepare for Quantum Computing

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Kathleen Moriarty

12 min read

Amidst all the noise around quantum computing, this article aims to help organisations move beyond the hype and focus on practical steps developers and teams can take to prepare for what’s ahead.

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Still Smart, Still Insecure: Why Our IoT Devices Keep Failing Basic Security Tests

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Anna Maria Mandalari

3 min read

When you plug in that shiny new smart bulb or connect your Chromecast to the network, you probably assume it’s secure. After all, these are well-known brands, some even boasting compliance labels or “secure by design” marketing claims. Yet, our latest assessment paints a more troubling picture, one…

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A First Look at the Adoption of BGP-based DDoS Scrubbing Services

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Shyam Krishna Khadka

8 min read

We present a first look at the adoption of BGP-based DDoS scrubbing, developing a methodology that sheds light on use of the global top five scrubbers. By identifying protected ASes and prefixes via four BGP AS-path patterns in RIS/RouteViews, we provide an initial overview of adoption across the I…

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Unlocking Digital Growth: The Role of IXPs in South East Europe

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Jelena Cosic

4 min read

How do we know when an IXP is working well? What goals should it achieve, and can success be measured in the same way everywhere? A new RIPE NCC report takes a closer look at these questions in the context of the SEE region.

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How IGP Leaks Put IXP Route Servers in the DDoS Shooting Range

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Matthias Wichtlhuber

9 min read

Route server exposure at IXPs leaves peering LANs vulnerable to routing leaks and real-world DDoS attacks. In this article, we talk about how and why it matters.

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