Measuring Routing (In)security
• 5 min read
The Internet routing system is vulnerable to attacks and that is a problem. But what is the scale of the problem and how does it evolve over time?
Network Operations
Blockers to IPv6 Adoption
David Holder
David Holder
Based in UK
Dr Holder has over twenty-nine years’ experience in the IT industry in senior technical and management posts. He is currently the CEO and chief consultant at Erion Ltd, the world-leading IPv6 training and consultancy company. In his role at Erion, Dr Holder has had over twenty years of experience of … More
• 11 min read
On a recent flight from the UK to the USA I sat next to the IT director for a global corporation. He asked me why I was travelling, to which I answered that I was giving the keynote presentation at an IPv6 conference held by the US Federal government. Without hesitation, his response was “IPv6 is n…
IPv6 Launchiversary: the View from RIPE Atlas and K-root
Stephen Strowes
Stephen is a principal engineer in the Office of the CTO at Fastly, where he spends his time trying to figure out what the Internet is. He obtained his PhD in Internet routing scalability from the University of Glasgow in 2012. More
• 10 min read
IPv6 growth continues apace; content networks regularly measure more than 20% of their requests as taking place over IPv6 today. However, deployment has not been uniform. In this article, we review growth from the perspective of RIPE Atlas data since the launch event.
RIPE NCC::EDUCA IPv6 Day
Ulka Athale
Ulka Athale
Based in Amsterdam
Senior Marketing and Communications Officer at the RIPE NCC. I started working at the RIPE NCC in 2018, having previously worked in digital marketing, communications, magazine publishing and teaching. More
• 5 min read
The RIPE NCC is marking the sixth anniversary of the World IPv6 Launch with RIPE NCC::Educa IPv6 Day, an all-day webinar on the state of IPv6 and its future. Here is a quick overview of where IPv6 currently stands from the RIPE NCC perspective.
Dissecting DNS Defenses During DDoS Attacks
Giovane Moura
Giovane Moura
Based in Arnhem, The Netherlands
Giovane is a Data Scientist with SIDN Labs (.nl registry) and a Assistant Professor at TU Delft, in the Netherlands. He works on security and Internet measurements research projects. You can reach him at http://giovane-moura.nl/ More
• 3 min read
New technical report evaluates DNS defenses in the wild against DDoS attacks and shows some interesting results.
Could Blockchain Help in Interdomain Routing Security?
Jordi Paillissé Vilanova
Jordi Paillissé Vilanova
Based in Barcelona
Jordi Paillissé received his degree in Telecommunications Engineering (2013) from the Technical University of Catalonia (Spain). He has been a visiting student in École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). He is currently a PhD candidate in Computer Architecture at the Technical University of Catalonia. His main research interests are future … More
• 9 min read
Blockchain technology is attracting a lot of attention among the security community since it provides a way to exchange information among a set of distrusting entities without the use of digital certificates and centralised control. Blockchain provides means for distrusting parties to reach consens…
AS Hegemony: Measuring AS Interdependence
Romain Fontugne
Romain Fontugne
Based in Tokyo
I am the deputy director of IIJ Research Laboratory. The focus of my work is on Internet measurements, data analysis, and routing. More
• 5 min read
How does your network depend on other networks? In this article we present a new tool that helps you measure AS dependencies.
What Drives IPv6 Deployment?
Geoff Huston
Geoff Huston AM is the Chief Scientist at APNIC, where he undertakes research on topics associated with Internet infrastructure, IP technologies, and address distribution policies. From 1995 to 2005, Geoff was the Chief Internet Scientist at Telstra, where he provided a leading role in the construction and further development of … More
• 37 min read
It’s been almost seven years since World IPv6 Launch day on 6 June 2011 (*). In those seven years, we’ve managed to place ever-increasing pressure on the dwindling pools of available IPv4 addresses, but we have still been unable to complete the transition to an all-IPv6 Internet.
Conditional Router Advertisements in Enterprise Multihoming
• 10 min read
It’s 2018. IPv6 has been around for 20+ years (*) and global adoption is above 20% (**). Among those who have not yet deployed the modern version of the IP protocol, one particular category stands out: enterprise networks.
Out-of-Region ROUTE(6) and AUT-NUM Objects in the RIPE Database
Denis Walker
From 2001 to 2015 I was a developer and then the business analyst for the RIPE Database with the RIPE NCC. During this time I have been involved in every aspect of it's design and development of the software, web services and infrastructure, it's philosophy, legal, political and policy aspects, … More
• 9 min read
There are changes being made to the way out-of-region objects are managed and represented in the RIPE Database. The following information is important to all database users.