Growth in IPv6-Capable DNS Infrastructure (Featured Blog)
In our last post on CircleID we showed encouraging growth in the number of IPv6-enabled networks. But announcing an IPv6 prefix is only one of the first steps a network operator should take when...
View ArticleFrom 80 to 8,000 - The Growth of the RIPE NCC Membership (Featured Blog)
The RIPE NCC is 20 years old and it now has over 8,000 members. In this article we are looking at the growth curve and the composition of the membership: what industry do RIPE NCC members come from...
View ArticleWhat Ever Happened to the Closed Local Internet Registries? (Featured Blog)
Since the establishment of the RIPE NCC, 5,000 Local Internet Registries (LIRs) have closed. We wanted to find out why. Many of them were probably victims of the burst of the dotcom bubble. But how...
View ArticleUpdate on IPv6 Address Distribution in the RIPE NCC Service Region (Featured...
At the recent RIPE Meeting we presented some IPv6 address distribution statistics that we would like to share with a wider audience. In the article below, you can find recent statistics on IPv6...
View ArticleMeasuring IPv6 at the Network and the Customer Level (Featured Blog)
George Michaelson, APNIC's Senior Research and Development Scientist recently visited the RIPE NCC to collaborate on various research projects with his RIR colleagues. IPv6 measurements were one of the...
View ArticleMeasurement Results from World IPv6 Launch (Featured Blog)
As announced on RIPE Labs we monitored the behaviour of a number of networks that participated in the World IPv6 Launch on 6 June 2012. For that, we looked at the full list of participating...
View ArticleMeasuring World IPv6 Launch: Comparing IPv4 and IPv6 Performance (Featured...
Following on from last year's measurements after World IPv6 Day, the RIPE NCC carried out active measurements on World IPv6 Launch on 6 June 2012. These measurements included latency measurements both...
View ArticleUpdate on Assigning 32-bit ASNs (Featured Blog)
As mentioned in Assigning 32-bit ASNs published one year ago, 16-bit Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) are becoming a scarce resource just like 32-bit IP addresses. In 2007, the Internet Engineering...
View ArticleUpdate on AS Path Lengths Over Time - How Interconnected is the Internet?...
With the number of ASes connected to the Internet constantly increasing, one could expect that the length of the AS paths would also increase as the network as a whole gets wider. However, this doesn't...
View ArticleRIPE NCC is Reaching the Last /8 of IPv4 (Featured Blog)
In an earlier article, IPv4 - Business As Usual, we pointed out that the RIPE NCC will reach the last /8 of IPv4 address space (16,777,216 addresses) sometime later this year. On Friday, 14 September...
View ArticleNew LIRs and Their IPv6 RIPEness (Featured Blog)
The RIPE NCC's membership grew steadily over the course of 2012. In Q3, the RIPE NCC received 417 requests to become a Local Internet Registry (LIR); the highest number we have seen so far. This surge...
View ArticleA Look at How the Internet Routes Around Damage: Measuring Global Effects of...
Hurricane Sandy caused major damage in both the Caribbean and the North-Eastern part of the USA. In an earlier article (RIPE Atlas - Superstorm Sandy) we showed data on 15 RIPE Atlas probes that are...
View Article1,000th /22 Allocated from Last /8 (Featured Blog)
On 14 September 2012, the RIPE NCC began allocating IPv4 address space from the last /8 we received from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Nobody was entirely sure what would happen when...
View ArticleNetworks Announcing IPv6 Over Time: A Short Update (Featured Blog)
We regularly check the status of IPv6 deployment in the RIPE NCC service region, and in other service regions as well. One way to measure IPv6 deployment is to look at the percentage of networks...
View ArticleOne Year Later: Who's Doing What With IPv6? (Featured Blog)
One year on from the World IPv6 Launch in June 2012, we wanted to see how much progress has been made towards the goal of global IPv6 deployment. Both APNIC and Google are carrying out measurements at...
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