RIPE 91 brings us back to Bucharest after 10 years! As always, you can view the slides, you can watch the recordings, but if you're wondering what's really happening at the RIPE Meeting, read the daily meeting blog!| RIPE Labs
How do we know when an IXP is working well? What goals should it achieve, and can success be measured in the same way everywhere? A new RIPE NCC report takes a closer look at these questions in the context of the SEE region.| RIPE Labs
Route server exposure at IXPs leaves peering LANs vulnerable to routing leaks and real-world DDoS attacks. In this article, we talk about how and why it matters.| RIPE Labs
RIPE 91 brings us back to Bucharest after 10 years! As always, you can view the slides, you can watch the recordings, but if you're wondering what's really happening at the RIPE Meeting, read the daily meeting blog!| RIPE Labs
We map where networks actually publish routing data - across RIR-run and third-party IRRs - and how that data is used in practice. Connecting our findings with RPKI growth and exploring regional patterns, we examine legacy space and operational risks to suggest clear clean-up priorities.| RIPE Labs
Since we launched Khipu, we’ve been working to pin down the most useful, real-world workflows. This article walks through six core use cases - from outage detection, though routing policy validation, to exploring IXPs along network paths.| RIPE Labs
With record-breaking participation in Almaty, CAPIF 4 rallied network operators, IXPs, policymakers, and researchers to map Central Asia’s next steps. The message was clear: accelerate IPv6, deepen interconnection and measurement for resilience, and diversify paths to keep traffic closer to home.| RIPE Labs
With RIPE 91 around the corner, the RIPE Chair Team flags schedule tweaks, a new submission system, and BoFs on ICP-2, encrypted DNS, and RIPE NCC strategy. Also inside: revamped Fellowship, policy updates, and highlights from recent and upcoming industry events.| RIPE Labs
ICP-2 lays out the criteria for the recognition of new RIRs. But what about the rest of the lifecycle of the organisations that coordinate the allocation and public registration of unique IP numbers? In this episode, Andrei Robachevsky of the NRO NC talks about the ICP-2 review.| RIPE Labs
With an increasing number of route collectors and the resulting increase in available routing data, how do we analyse such a large amount of data in a reasonable time? BGP Scanner was developed to meet the limitations of existing large-scale BGP data analysis tools.| RIPE Labs
Working with BGP Data| RIPE Labs
Help shape a safer, more open RIPE community. We’re launching our first Code of Conduct survey to understand how safe people feel at RIPE meetings and how likely they are to report concerns. If you have a moment to answer five quick, anonymous questions - your input will shape what we improve next.| RIPE Labs
Autocast turns one round of unicast latency measurements into millisecond-accurate predictions, automatically selecting the optimal anycast locations for fast .nl response times worldwide. Pairing simulated annealing with real resolver telemetry, it delivers lean, cost-aware PoP sets - often around 11–13 sites - that rival painstaking manual tuning without a single trial BGP announcement. Read on to learn more!| RIPE Labs
Italy’s Piracy Shield blocks IPs and domains within minutes, but measurements performed by researchers at the University of Twente and colleagues show broad collateral damage to legitimate services. We share the results of those measurements in the hopes of sparking a community discussion around the Piracy Shield initiative| RIPE Labs
As part of our research into post-quantum cryptography (PQC) for DNSSEC, we test PQC as a drop-in replacement for classical algorithms. We explore a transition where both run simultaneously, analysing how resolvers validate records, edge cases, and the feasibility and impact of such a period.| RIPE Labs
Recent disruption linked to the MUSE cyberattack shows how dependent airports are on shared IT services. This article looks at governance and network design choices that limit blast radius and keep operations running.| RIPE Labs
Have you heard about MRT dumps, but never tried to use them because the bar seems too high? Or are you tired of doing “parse -> grep -> process” every time you touch BGP MRT dumps? This hands-on guide shows how to load RIS/RouteViews data into ClickHouse - covering tools, schema, and example querie…| RIPE Labs
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…| RIPE Labs
The NRO RPKI Program aims to enhance the transparency, robustness and security of the RPKI system while also increasing the consistency of the RPKI system user experience across RIRs. Here's an update on our plans for the rest of 2025.| RIPE Labs
Thinking of entering the RIPE Labs Article Competition? Here's everything you need to know!| RIPE Labs
The RIPE Atlas team is developing a new tool for traceroute visualisations that should make analysing large traceroute measurements much clearer and easier.| RIPE Labs
The RIPE Atlas team is developing a new tool for traceroute visualisations that should make analysing large traceroute measurements much clearer and easier.| RIPE Labs
Join the next RIPE NCC hackathon focused on Green Tech this December! This time, our goals are to develop tools, policies and protocols to reduce the environmental impact of Internet infrastructure. Apply now to join and help us organise this Sustain-a-thon!| RIPE Labs
We're making further changes to improve the ease of access to content on the ripe.net website.| RIPE Labs
Search on www.ripe.net is an important feature that has been lacking in usability, and the behaviour was changed during the recent redesign. In this article, we’ll dive a little deeper into the complexities of website search and review why this change was implemented.| RIPE Labs
