Community and Events

Uncertainty is Key

Uta Meier-Hahn

• 6 Mar 2017

• 8 min read

In order to manufacture Internet connectivity, network operators around the globe make a joint effort. As of today, they have interconnected more than 55,000 Autonomous Systems. By the measure of existence, the Internet gives evidence of a remarkable degree of decentral coordination between network…

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Apply Now for New RIPE Fellowship Programme

Amanda Gowland

• 16 Feb 2017

• 2 min read

The RIPE Fellowship will fund up to five attendees from the RIPE NCC service region to participate in a RIPE Meeting.

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A Slice of 5G

Marco Hogewoning

• 10 Feb 2017

• 3 min read

The concept of a 5th generation of mobile networking is gaining traction – not only among policy makers but also in technical standardisation work.

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Ethics in Network Measurements

Mirjam Kühne

• 6 Feb 2017

• 6 min read

For the 2017 edition of the Free and Open Software event FOSDEM, our Community Builder Vesna Manojlovic gave an interview about moral obligations of engineers, scientists and hackers, based on the example of RIPE Atlas.

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What we Learned Setting up NLNOG

Job Snijders

• 30 Jan 2017

• 6 min read

Over the past few years, many new local Network Operator Groups (NOGs) have been set up, each of them defined by their own unique characteristics. We wanted to share some of our experiences from setting up the Netherlands Network Operator Group (NLNOG).

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DNS Measurements Hackathon 2017

Alun Davies

• 23 Jan 2017

• 7 min read

The RIPE NCC's fifth hackathon event will happen in Amsterdam, in April 2017. We would like to invite operators, designers, researchers and developers to take on the challenge and join us in developing new tools and visualisations for DNS measurements.

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The Next 42 RIPE Atlas Probes at Hackerspaces

Vesna Manojlovic

• 28 Dec 2016

• 7 min read

In this article, we give one example of the possible communities that are now easier to build around RIPE Atlas probes. With the tagging of similar probes, existing communities can use additional tools for creating and analysing RIPE Atlas measurements, such as "IXP Country Jedi", to create their o…

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Studying the IPv4 Transfer Market: Reported Transfers

Ioana Livadariu

• 22 Dec 2016

• 9 min read

Over the past five years, all Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), with the exception of AFRNIC, have exhausted their pool of available IPv4 addresses. The Internet community anticipated this almost two decades ago and standardised IPv6 as a long-term solution. IPv6 uptake is, however, still laggin…

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RIPE Atlas Success Story: Zoom-in on Germany

Vesna Manojlovic

• 9 Dec 2016

• 3 min read

Here is an example of how cross-pollination between two or more communities can create success. An overlap between IETF participants, RIPE Atlas users and listeners of a popular German podcast has led to growth in the deployment of RIPE Atlas probes (hardware devices that measure Internet infrastru…

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