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How are you tackling the key challenge of IPv6 target selection in your measurements? 🔎 Learn how Subnet-Router Anycast (SRA) probing can be used to enable more efficient Internet measurements. Read more: labs.ripe.net/author/mkoch/d…
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What do the decisions and interconnection strategies of the most IXP-connected CDN, cloud, and content networks reveal about their collective influence on the global interconnection landscape? Find out here: labs.ripe.net/author/gael-he…
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A new generation of short-lived machine credentials is underway... Spawned by passwords and API keys. 🔐 But how much should we trust those identities? Read more 👇 labs.ripe.net/author/kathlee…
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Following up on our 2024 retrospective on 10 years of legacy policy in the RIPE NCC service region, we're now taking a closer look at the prefixes that remain out of contract. Read more: labs.ripe.net/author/qasim-l…
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RIPE 92 is just around the corner!✨ In the latest RIPE Chair Team report, Mirjam Kühne looks ahead to the meeting in Edinburgh and highlights what’s on the agenda for the RIPE community next week. 🔗 Read the full update on RIPE Labs: labs.ripe.net/author/mirjam_…
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In this new RIPE Labs article, Leo Vegoda shares the latest PeeringDB updates, including recent work on infrastructure, usability, API improvements and data quality to support a more reliable resource for the Internet community. 🌎 👉 Learn more: labs.ripe.net/author/leo_veg…
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The IPv8 proposal brings together routing, identity, and network management into a single design, but... Does it leave too many operational questions unanswered? 🤔 Read more: labs.ripe.net/author/pcdog/q…
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Content and cloud platforms are no longer just the biggest users of global connectivity , they are becoming its builders. 👣 💡 Read more: labs.ripe.net/author/armanob…
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Proposed at RIPE 91 and implemented before RIPE 92, the new reg-nr attribute (NWI-21) adds official company registration numbers to the RIPE NCC organisation objects. Learn more: labs.ripe.net/author/marco_s…
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A routing misconfiguration briefly made North Korea’s routes unreachable during an RPKI rollout. 🚧 This new RIPE Labs article by Romain Fontugne shows why routing is fragile, and why strong monitoring is key. Read more: labs.ripe.net/author/romain_…
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BGP location communities offer a rare glimpse into where networks actually interconnect, but most remain undocumented and opaque. Learn more: labs.ripe.net/author/tkrenc/…
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BGP location communities offer a rare glimpse into where networks actually interconnect, but most remain undocumented and opaque. Learn more: labs.ripe.net/author/tkrenc/…
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Routing loops can silently break your network - and they’re more common than you might think. In this new RIPE Labs article, Maynard Koch and colleagues measure how often they happen and show the one simple change that can help prevent them. 👉Read more: labs.ripe.net/author/mkoch/m…
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The results of the 2025 RIPE Code of Conduct survey are in. 👉 Read more on RIPE Labs: labs.ripe.net/author/amccona…
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Our in-person training courses wouldn't reach nearly so far across the community without the kindness of our hosts! Find out where we need hosts through the rest of 2026: labs.ripe.net/author/olivia-…
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SIDN Labs introduces RootViz, a new dashboard built on RIPE Atlas data. It visualises real-time measurements from probes reaching the Internet’s root DNS servers, helping DNS operators detect anomalies and analyse events. 👉Read more: labs.ripe.net/author/giovane…
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What does a typical day on RIPE Atlas look like? Internet researchers analysed 24 hours of measurements - nearly 200,000 experiments and billions of results - to explore how RIPE Atlas operates at scale. 👉 Read on RIPE Labs: labs.ripe.net/author/yevheni… #RIPEAtlas
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Blocking IP addresses and domains has consequences! Raffaele Sommese (University of Twente) shares insights on Italy’s Piracy Shield: what's the impact of rapid-response blocking, can it be measured, and does it work? #RIPELabs #podcast youtube.com/watch?v=2qdBg11z…
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RIPE Atlas now includes a new path analysis tool that makes it easier to understand how #traceroute paths evolve over time. Learn more about this tool 👇 labs.ripe.net/author/stephen…
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Becoming a RIPE NCC member is straightforward, but keeping a trusted registry means doing careful checks behind the scenes. This article explains how we verify members at onboarding, monitor changes over time, and follow up on escalations. labs.ripe.net/author/Gabor/k…
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