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Covered Magazine
Selected internet, networking and telecommunications news, with original Covered guides to understanding outages, latency, packet loss, DNS and routing.
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By Federico Di Vruno, Spectrum Manager, SKA Observatory; Vice-Chair, ITU-R Working Party 7D; Associate Director, IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky, and Piero…
Traceroute is a powerful tool for uncovering how packets travel across the Internet. However, as we recently discovered, some routers tamper with the TTL values in traceroute's pr…
By Emma van der Wateren, Instrument Scientist. ASTRON, The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy and The Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies (CRAF), and Laura Spitler, Re…
Internet research can benefit from operational insight, and network operators from research expertise. Building on what we learned at RIPE 92, we look at practical ways to make th…
In the third part of our IRR landscape series, we use traffic measurements from AMS-IX and DE-CIX to assess which parts of the IRR landscape can safely be replaced with RPKI. Thir…
Evidence suggests that criminals may control a substantial share of new gTLD registrations. Although the precise scale remains contested, the article asks whether current DNS Abus…
In this field report on IPv6-first Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), the isp6 team shares which dependencies still drag IPv4 back in, what they learnt from /28s, and why th…
We are advancing a connected set of efforts to strengthen online safety and security for people and communities worldwide. The post Advancing the Safer Internet Initiative for Eve…
Why a feature introduced for a handful of members became one of the RIPE NCC's most complex operational challenges.
On International Youth Day, we highlight young leaders within our community who are using the Internet for opportunity, inclusion, and positive change. The post Youth in Action: C…
Community-led Internet initiatives are empowering Indigenous communities worldwide through meaningful connectivity, digital inclusion, and self-determined digital futures. The pos…
Amged B. Shwedhy, an Internet Society alumnus, has helped bring Internet governance discussions to Libya. The post How One Alum Helped Build a Community of Internet Leaders appear…