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The RIPE Labs Article Competition - RIPE 91

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It's time for another round of the RIPE Labs article competition! Have something interesting to say about the past, present, or future state of the Internet? Tell your story on RIPE Labs and win a chance to join us at RIPE 91 this October in Bucharest, Romania.

Everything you need to know about the competition, including a more specific list of what we look from the best RIPE Labs articles, is available on the RIPE Labs Competition Rules page.

If you're eligible to enter and you have an idea for an article you’d like to put forward, it's time to get to work. All articles submitted to the competition will go through the usual RIPE Labs review process. When you're ready to send us your entry, just remember to tick the box indicating you'd like this article to be considered for the competition entry before you click to submit it for approval.

We'll stop taking new entries on 5 September 2025 at 23:00 (local Amsterdam time). If you're looking for inspiration, you can see entries from the previous competitions here and here. Good luck!


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Bangladesh’s Internet Transformation: From Satellite Shadows to Digital Highways

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Md.Kamruzzaman Khan

7 min read

In the past two decades, the Internet in Bangladesh has gotten out from under the shadow of its earlier dependence on costly satellite links for connectivity, growing from 0.1% to over 75% penetration. But the real work lies ahead: strengthening local peering, reaching rural areas, and building inf…

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insidethebox

Keeping Network Sites Online During Blackouts

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Yuriy Vykhnevych

7 min read

When blackouts become a frequent reality, keeping network sites online requires more than ad-hoc fixes. This article outlines a power management system, tested in practice, with design notes and an operator playbook.

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interconnections

Engagement in IXPs - Strategies and Growth in the Network Ecosystem

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Flavio Luciani

5 min read

Internet Exchange Points aren’t just places where packets meet - they’re where networks build trust, performance, and resilience. Making an IXP thrive depends on shared principles of neutrality, alignment, and sustained human engagement.

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Discovering the Discovery of Designated Resolvers

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Yevheniya Nosyk

6 min read

DNS encryption is gaining momentum with proposed standards such as DoT, DoH, and DoQ protecting DNS exchanges from external observers. But these standards introduce non-trivial changes to the original specification. Here we look at the Discovery of Designated Resolvers (DDR) - a mechanism that all…

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PeeringDB Product Update - September 2025

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Leo Vegoda

6 min read

As PeeringDB continues to grow and improve, we publish notes on new releases as well as promoting new features and bug fixes. These reports are an opportunity to step back and look at the broad sweep of change.

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Internet Exchange Point

Why IXPs Matter: Critical Infrastructure Beyond the Hype

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Antonio Prado

9 min read

Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) are often overlooked in discussions about critical infrastructure. Yet their role in routing stability, local resilience, and digital sovereignty is undeniable. In this article, we explore what happens when IXPs fail, and why classifying them as critical infrastructu…

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PQC for the RPKI

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Dirk Doesburg

27 min read

Future capabilities of quantum attackers will present a host of new vulnerabilities for RPKI. A research student from SIDN Labs presents the first work on post-quantum cryptography for the RPKI, establishing the foundation for making this critical Internet infrastructure quantum-safe.

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openPenny: Developing an Open-Source Tool for Detecting Non-Spoofed Traffic

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Petros Gigis

12 min read

In this article, we introduce openPenny, an open-source traffic checker currently under development as part of the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. The goal of openPenny is to help network operators identify non-spoofed traffic arriving at unexpected entry points: this offers a new primitive to de…

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End-to-End Encryption: Architecturally Necessary

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Fredrik Lindeberg

11 min read

Good intentions don’t always result in good outcomes. This is especially the case with recent suggestions regarding end-to-end-encryption adaptability requirements for number independent communication services. Not only is security an issue, the suggestions themselves go against the design of the I…

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Forecasting Cloud Performance with RIPE Atlas

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Rita Ingabire

9 min read

Clouds are essential. But predicting whether they can handle demands for heavy computing and low latency isn't straightforward. Turning to RIPE Atlas, we carried out a measurement campaign to find out whether it's possible to understand exactly what kind of latency cloud service users experience.

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