October 2023 - mat-wg - mailman.ripe.net

Changes to the rpki archives on ftp.ripe.net
by Ties de Kock 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

Dear colleagues, As you may know, the RIPE NCC publishes daily RPKI dumps for all trust anchors on ftp.ripe.net/rpki. Today, we have made some changes to this longitudinal dataset. We have added: * The compressed JSON output of a validator (output.json.xz). We added this because it contains validated ASPA and BGPsec payloads. * A compressed version of the CSV file of ROAs (roas.csv.xz) * A xz compressed archive of the validated and unvalidated objects (repo.tar.xz) We made this change because it significantly reduces the size of the files. At this point, we do not plan to re-compress historic files. However, to realise the savings, we must stop producing the larger version at some point and clean up the "duplicate" files from the transition period. For now, we will create the old (roas.csv, repo.tar.gz) and new (roas.csv.xz, repo.tar.xz) side by side during a transition period. We plan to stop creating the old format after a transition period of at least a month, taking into account the feedback we receive. We will inform you when this happens. Ties de Kock Specialist Software Engineer RIPE NCC

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Unauthenticated user access to RIPE Atlas
by Ben Cartwright-Cox 03 Nov '23

03 Nov '23

Hello everybody! I was wondering around what are the rules and views on “open user access” to RIPE Atlas ( as in non-authenticated users being able to make RIPE atlas measurements) I ask because as of this morning I noticed that hurricane electric’s bgp.he.net tool is now allowing users to make right atlas measurements without any authentication to RIPE Atlas, this was surprising to me as when I asked a NCC staff member at the last meeting in Berlin about doing something similar to this I was explicitly told that this would not be desired. I cannot remember who told me this ( and I don't have an easy way of finding out again ) but assuming this is allowed I will happily copy this for bgp.tools But I'd like to check with Atlas people before doing such a thing.

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Call for presentations for MAT WG at RIPE87
by Stephen Strowes 24 Oct '23

24 Oct '23

Hi all, RIPE87 is coming up: the meeting will take place 27 November -- 1 December. Once again, we are seeking your presentations for the next MAT WG session, scheduled on Tuesday, 28 November! Presentations for the WG session are preferably 10-15min long. Please include in your proposal: * a title * a draft copy of your proposed presentation, even if just an outline * a paragraph describing the topic, and why the topic is of interest for the community. Interesting topics include (but are not limited to): recent measurement research which has an operational impact; recent operational work that may open avenues to research; projects, tools, or datasets that support either operations or research. Please submit your presentation proposal by **Friday, 27 October** by emailing us at mat-wg-chairs at ripe.net. We will make our selections and post the agenda soon after. RIPE meetings are fully hybrid with sessions facilitated through meetecho; we encourage presentations from anywhere. For our planning, we'd appreciate it if you can indicate whether you are likely to be online or on-site. Please ask if you have any questions regarding the setup on either side. Thanks! Nina, Massimo, Stephen, as WG co-chairs

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new discussion list for discussing network neutrality/title ii issues rationally
by Dave Taht 11 Oct '23

11 Oct '23

With the return of the NN discussion and regulation in the USA as of Oct 19th... https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-chairwoman-rosenworcels-net-neutrality-rem… and especially with my lack of knowledge and understanding of pending EU regulation, I decided to start a good ole fashioned mailing list to try and sort it all out, which is up to nearly 200 members now. Sign up here: https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/nnagain I am especially interested in finding new blood of all sorts (engineers, lawyers, scientists, foss folk, and infrastructure folk) willing to discuss possible brighter futures for the internet (with us old farts via this archaic method. I considered trying mastodon but it was too complicated). New metrics for videoconferencing, as well as lower layer metrics like MTTR an MTBF are on my mind, as is finding ways to improve QoE for everyone, and de-crapification of the upper layers of the stack, as well as of the gear we buy. There is a separate NPRM going on for a new FCC CyberSecurity label, which I would like to see more teeth pushed into, honestly. My hope is, one day, we can provide good feedback into various overwhelmed government processes, as we did here, 7+ years ago. http://www.taht.net/~d/fcc_saner_software_practices.pdf PS - is anyone here participating in the renewed cybergeography project? -- Oct 30: https://netdevconf.info/0x17/news/the-maestro-and-the-music-bof.html Dave Täht CSO, LibreQos

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RIPE Atlas, RIPEstat and RIS Quarterly Planning Q4 2023
by Robert Kisteleki 04 Oct '23

04 Oct '23

Dear colleagues, The quarterly plans for RIPE Atlas, RIPEstat and RIS can now be found at: https://www.ripe.net/support/documentation/quarterly-planning We hope that by providing these plans, we can better inform the community of the ongoing developments in the tools we operate and get feedback on our work. If you have any input on our plans or want to let us know what you would like to see us work on, please let us know. Kind regards, Robert Kisteleki Principal Engineer RIPE NCC

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