Here’s a quick round-up of what we’ve been publishing on RIPE Labs over the past couple of weeks:

- Questioning the IPv8 Proposal

A critical look at the IPv8 proposal and why trying to solve everything all at once might not be the answer.

- Making Resource Holders Easier to Identify: Introducing reg-nr in the RIPE Database
A simple change that makes it much easier to identify who is actually behind Internet resources.

- From BGP Data to Insight: Simplifying Real-Time Routing Analysis
On making real-time BGP data easier to explore, understand, and act on.

- The Internet’s New Builders
On how the companies driving Internet traffic are increasingly the ones building the infrastructure behind it.

- ADoX Deployment in the Wild
Even with QUIC’s privacy features, passive measurements can still reveal how large networks are built.

- Understanding DDoS Scrubbing in BGP: Five Leading Scrubbers
Using BGP data to identify how five major providers handle DDoS mitigation in practice.

- Using QUIC Backscatter to Infer Hypergiant Deployment Configurations
On how backscatter data can uncover how hypergiants deploy QUIC in the real world.

- Towards Understanding City-Level Routing Using BGP Location Communities
On what BGP communities can tell us about routing behaviour at the city level.

You can find them all here: https://labs.ripe.net/

Happy reading, and as always, all comments and contributions are very welcome!

Kind regards,
Alun Davies

RIPE Labs Editor

RIPE NCC