Do we Need to Rethink Network Monitoring?
• 6 min read
Regardless of whether you’re a knowledgeable computer user or not, there is a high probability that you’ve heard of or have even used traceroute and ping.
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What Network Engineers Need to Know About Software Engineering
Sasha Romijn
Sasha Romijn
Based in Amsterdam, NL
Sasha is an independent Python developer and community manager from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, organiser of several conferences, core team member of Write the Docs, and former committer on Django, the largest Python web framework. Along with over a decade of general software engineering experience, she has worked extensively near the … More
• 9 min read
With the increasing use of automation and overlap between roles, many network engineers will end up writing software, or likely already have. If you write a bash script to automate something, you are a developer and that means you can benefit from learning how to do it right.
Revamping the RIPE NCC Academy
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 Academy is closed for some updates. Here’s what we’re changing to make it easier for you to learn on the go.
Our Approach to the Cloud
Kaveh Ranjbar
Kaveh Ranjbar
Based in Amsterdam
As former Chief Information Officer for the RIPE NCC, I was mainly involved with the planning, operation and development of the RIPE NCC's global information services as well as research and development. This included the RIPE NCC's authoritative DNS services as well as K-root infrastructure, data collection and measurement networks … More
• 3 min read
We have plans to move some of our technical infrastructure to the cloud in order to achieve greater agility in our technical setup. Here's an overview of our approach.
Mail Filtering - Rethinking Our Reliance on RBLs
• 4 min read
Keeping the channels of communication between us and the wider Internet community open has always been one of our main priorities. Just lately we received some input that caused us to rethink the way we've been doing things on this front.
Your EU Regulation Update: October 2019 Edition
Suzanne Taylor
Suzanne Taylor is a Public Policy & Internet Governance Consultant. In her work with the RIPE NCC, she has engaged with a broad range of Internet stakeholders including the RIPE NCC membership, governments, law enforcement and intergovernmental organisations. From 2012 to 2016, she worked in communications at the RIPE NCC … More
• 6 min read
This is the third in an ongoing series in which we give a brief overview of the most pertinent digital policies currently being proposed, debated and implemented in the European Union.
25,000 LIRs - An End to the Milestone Highs?
Rene Wilhelm
Rene Wilhelm is a senior research engineer in the R&D department at the RIPE NCC. Coming from a background in particle physics, Rene joined the RIPE NCC in 1996. His interests are in data analysis, routing, Internet measurements and visualisation. More
• 12 min read
Little more than twelve months after we passed the 20,000 active LIRs mark, the number of LIR accounts reached a new milestone on 2 October 2019. As the number of available IPv4 addresses in our pool dropped to 3 million, applications for new LIRs exploded. In July alone, we saw a record number of…
Synchronising Users from the LIR Portal to the Default Maintainer in the RIPE Database
Ed Shryane
Ed Shryane
Based in Amsterdam
I'm a Senior Technical Analyst with the RIPE NCC, working on the RIPE database. More
• 3 min read
A new feature that makes credentials in the RIPE Database consistent with the LIR Portal. This removes the need for manually updating the same information in two places. It also reduces the risk of having unathorised access to the wrong parties.
We’re Running out of IPv6 (And That’s a Good Thing!)
Riccardo Stagni
Internet Resource Analyst at the RIPE NCC More
• 8 min read
You read that right. The RIPE NCC is running out of IPv6... Luckily, we've also received our second /12 IPv6 allocation – becoming the first Regional Internet Registry (RIR) to do so! Let’s take a look back at how we’ve distributed our first /12 allocation.
Abuse-c Validation: Update on Progress and Some Numbers
Angela Dall'Ara
Policy Officer at RIPE NCC, supporting the Policy Development Process (PDP) for the implementation of accepted RIPE community policies. More
• 6 min read
With RIPE 78 around the corner, we want to update you on our work to validate abuse contacts in the RIPE Database.