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RIPE 91 MAT WG agenda
by Stephen Strowes 21 Oct '25

21 Oct '25

Hi all, We're pleased to share our agenda for the upcoming MAT WG session at RIPE 91! The session will take place in the main room on Tuesday, 21 October, 16:00 -- 17:30 local time (which is UTC +0300). Our planned agenda is: *16:00 [05 min]: *WG chairs, welcome *16:05 [20 min]: *Geoff Huston: Preserving Privacy vs Open Measurement *16:25 [15 min]: *Raffaele Sommese: Disrupting the Internet in the name of copyright: An Italian Story *16:40 [15 min]: *Remi Hendriks: An empirical evaluation of longitudinal anycast catchment stability *16:55 [15 min]: *Ties de Kock: Querying the DFZ *17:10 [15 min]: *Willem Toorop: Who is really running email? *17:25 [05 min]: *WG chairs, closing remarks If you have not yet registered for RIPE91, you can do so at https://ripe91.ripe.net/register/ We are looking forward to seeing you all at the session! S.

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some thoughts on add-path and bmp at ripe/ris
by Randy Bush 25 Sep '25

25 Sep '25

i have some small thoughts on add-path and BMP in RIPE/RIS. this may hinder more than help, unfortunately. as a researcher, of course i would love a wider view into the AS graph and the views of as many ASs as possible. nom nom. but ... add-path, if not done very carefully, and documented in detail for each peer, will produce views i will not understand. it is analogous to not knowing what view a BGP peer gives RIS today. did it give me a full Nth view into peer X? is the path that of a peer, a customer, a provider? and add-path is worse because it prunes in configuration and vendor- dependent and otherwise unpredictable ways. and, as an operator if P is a RIS peer, and they give RIS BMP showing their input from their peers, upstreams, and customers, those peers, upstreams, and customers have not given thir consent to have their internals published! if they want to have RIS publish their internals, they would peer with RIS and choose what view they present. and, of course, the researcher does not know what view, peer, upstream, or customer P's BMP peer is giving them. same problem as above under add-path. randy

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IMWG Agenda - LACNIC44 / LACNOG2025
by Elisa 16 Sep '25

16 Sep '25

Dear all, We are happy to announce the agenda for the next session of the Internet Measurements Working Group (IMWG) at LACNIC 44/LACNOG 2025. The session will take place on Friday, October 10. We look forward to seeing you in San Salvador or remotely! --- AGENDA --- 11:30 - 11:45 - Welcome - Chairs 11:45 - 12:05 - Analyzing the Effect of an Extreme Weather Event on Telecommunications and Information Technology: Insights from 30 Days of Flooding - Leandro Bertholdo 12:05 - 12:25 - Mapping DNS blocking trends in LATAM - Camila Breventano 12:25 - 12:40 - IPv6 Adoption Measurement in the LAC Region: Current Status, Challenges, and Future Perspectives - Kamruzzaman Khan 12:40 - 12:55 - Tracking Visibility Gaps in Allocated Internet Resources - Pedro Ferreira 12:55 - 13:00 - Closing Remarks - Chairs Best regards, Massimo, Elisa (IMWG Chairs)

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Removal of three low-usage RIPEstat endpoints on 13 October
by Ties de Kock 12 Sep '25

12 Sep '25

Dear colleagues, Over the past year, we have been migrating RIPEstat infrastructure to a new environment. As part of this process, we reviewed all components to ensure long-term maintainability. Three components with very low usage and ongoing data issues will be deprecated and removed in a month. We are announcing the immediate deprecation of the following API endpoints: * /data/speedchecker-bandwidth-measurements/… * /data/meternet-bandwidth-measurements/… * /data/generic-data (undocumented) These endpoints have not been visible in RIPEstat for a considerable period and have experienced ongoing issues with data updates. Removing these endpoints will reduce our application and systems maintenance overhead. These endpoints are deprecated with immediate effect and will be completely removed on 13 October 2025. Analysis shows very low external usage of these endpoints (fewer than 10 IP addresses in August 2025). We therefore do not expect this change to affect most users. However, we recognise that API deprecations can be disruptive, and we welcome feedback from anyone who relies on these services. We are particularly interested in hearing from users who require bandwidth measurement data, as we understand this represents a niche but potentially valuable use case. We would like to understand your specific usage patterns and requirements for this type of data. If the removal of these endpoints will impact your operations, please contact us immediately. Kind regards, Ties de Kock RIPE NCC

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Call for presentations at MAT WG at RIPE 91
by Stephen Strowes 29 Aug '25

29 Aug '25

Hi all, RIPE 91 will take place 20 -- 24 October in Bucharest. We are seeking presentations for the MAT WG session, scheduled on Tuesday, 21 October! Interesting topics include (but are not limited to): * Measurement research which has an operational impact * Operational initiatives that could inspire new research directions * Projects focused on network data collection * Tools for network data analysis and visualization * Innovative measurement techniques and proposals Starting from RIPE 91, both plenary and working group proposals can be submitted through the same system, Pretalx: https://pretalx.ripe.net/ripe91/ The Pretalx submission form will ask you for various details. Please select the MAT track, and include a title & abstract (these will eventually become public). For our evaluation, please include the following in your proposal: * an outline of your presentation (under 'notes') or provide a draft slide deck * the slot duration you'd like; we tend towards 15-20 minutes including Q&A, but please specify * whether you intend to present in person or online The deadline for MAT WG proposals is 15 September 2025. We will make our selections and post our agenda soon after. If you have any questions, please contact us at mat-wg-chairs [at] ripe.net. Thanks! - Nina, Massimo, Stephen as WG chairs

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Planned maintenance to data.ris.ripe.net, ftp.ripe.net, data-store.ripe.net on 25 July, 11:00-15:00 UTC
by Ties de Kock 01 Aug '25

01 Aug '25

Dear colleagues, The webserver that distributes RIS files, data.ris.ripe.net, as well as ftp.ripe.net and data-store.ripe.net, will be down for maintenance on 25 July. During the maintenance, a storage appliance will be moved to a different data centre. This is part of the RIPE NCC’s effort to reduce our data centre footprint and increase the geographical distance between our data centres. BGP sessions with RIS collectors will be established as usual, and no data will be lost. However, downloads from https://data.ris.ripe.net will not be available. Other RIS services are not affected. Start: Friday July 25, 2025 11:00 UTC End: Friday July 25, 2025 15:00 UTC Affected: * data.ris.ripe.net * ftp.ripe.net * data-store.ripe.net We expect service to be unavailable for two hours in this window. Kind regards, Ties de Kock RIPE NCC

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Forecasting Cloud Performance with RIPE Atlas
by Alun Davies 22 May '25

22 May '25

Dear colleagues, What kind of latency do cloud service users actually experience? Can we forecast future connectivity performance based on latency characteristics for specific locations? New on RIPE Labs, Rita Ingabire and colleagues share answers to these questions and more based on the findings of a three-month traceroute study they conducted using RIPE Atlas: https://labs.ripe.net/author/rita-ingabire/forecasting-cloud-performance-wi… Best regards, Alun Davies RIPE Labs Editor RIPE NCC

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MAT WG agenda for RIPE90
by Massimo Candela 13 May '25

13 May '25

Dear all, The MAT working group session will take place on Tuesday 13 May at 16:00 UTC+1. This is the agenda: 16:00 - Welcome - Chairs 16:05 - Lost in Encryption: Monitoring Audio and Video Flows without Payload in Video-Conferencing Applications - Julien Gamba 16:20 - WhoActuallyIs? Finding the Companies Behind the Networks - Joshua Levett 16:30 - Pontus: A Memory-Efficient and High-Accuracy Approach for Persistence-Based Item Lookup in High-Velocity Data Streams - Weihe Li 16:45 - Frontiers of LEO Space Networks: Understanding the Intricacies of Starlink's Internet Access - Nitinder Mohan 17:00 - Hardware-assisted Virtual Networking for low-latency network services - Florian Wiedner 17:15 - RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat updates - Robert Kisteleki 17:20 - Closing Remarks - Chairs See you in Lisbon! Ciao, Massimo (for the MAT WG Chairs)

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Call for presentations for MAT WG at RIPE 90
by Massimo Candela 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

Hi all, RIPE90 will take place 12-16 May in Lisbon. We are seeking presentations for the MAT WG session, scheduled on Tuesday, 13 May! Interesting topics include (but are not limited to): * Measurement research which has an operational impact * Operational initiatives that could inspire new research directions * Projects focused on network data collection * Tools for network data analysis and visualization * Innovative measurement techniques and proposals Please submit your proposal at mat-wg-chairs [at] ripe.net by **Thursday 17 April**. Include the following in your email: * a title * a draft of the presentation (an outline is okay!) * a paragraph describing the topic and why it is of interest to the community * whether you intend to present in person or online Thanks! Nina, Stephen, Massimo as WG Chairs

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release of the new RIPEstat UI
by Ties de Kock 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

Dear colleagues, Following our announcement last week on the RIPE discussion list [0], we have now deployed the new user interface for RIPEstat: https://stat.ripe.net. We invite you to take a look and share any feedback you might have with us. To learn more about the new RIPEstat UI and what has changed, check out this article: https://labs.ripe.net/author/ties/introducing-the-new-ripestat-ui. Best regards, Ties de Kock RIPE NCC On behalf of the RIPEstat team [0]: https://mailman.ripe.net/archives/list/ripe-list@ripe.net/message/L7S3RGSCJ…

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