Hi all, Some interesting articles have been published on RIPE Labs recently. Here are some of the highlights from June: 1. Hisham Ibrahim gave an update of the RIPE NCC activities in the Middle East: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/hisham_ibrahim/update-on-activities-in-the-men... <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/hisham_ibrahim/update-on-activities-in-the-menog-region> 2. Vesna Manojlovic described some interesting results the RIPE Atlas Interface Hackathon at RIPE 72 produced: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-atlas-interface-hackathon-results <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-atlas-interface-hackathon-results> 3. Emile Aben got together with George Michaelson and Randy Bush and looked at how the BGP table size can be reduced: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ggm/reducing-the-bgp-table-size-a-fairy-tale <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/ggm/reducing-the-bgp-table-size-a-fairy-tale> 4. Marco Hogewoning attended an Internet of Things event and is wondering how all these things will be connected: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/marco_hogewoning/lpwa-things-in-search-of-a-ne... <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/marco_hogewoning/lpwa-things-in-search-of-a-network> 5. Babak Farrokhi from Iran used RIPE Atlas to look at K-root reachability in the Middle East and Central Asia: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/babak_farrokhi/k-root-reachability-in-the-midd... <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/babak_farrokhi/k-root-reachability-in-the-middle-east-and-central-asia> 6. Geoff Huston wrote an article about the importance of an Open Internet: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gih/open-season <https://labs.ripe.net/Members/gih/open-season> Maybe you will be the next one to publish an article on RIPE Labs? If interested please mail us and we can help you write it. Regards, Hisham on behalf of MENOG secretariat