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I want to highlight the amazing transformation that has happened over the past 15 years or so
that has resulted in most of the network traffic being shrouded in encryption, and what this means
to measurement activities.
In the fight against illegal football streaming, Italy introduced Piracy Shield, a platform through which copyright holders can notify the national regulator (AGCOM), which in turn orders ISPs to block infringing resources -- such as IP addresses and Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) -- within 30 minutes.
In this talk, we present the first investigation into the platform's real-world impact by reconstructing and analyzing its blocking activity. Our analysis shows that the platform causes sig…
Anycast is widely used to improve the availability and performance of, e.g., the DNS and content delivery networks.
To use anycast one simply announces the same prefix from multiple points of presence (PoPs).
BGP then takes care of routing clients to the ``nearest'' PoP.
While seemingly simple, managing an anycast service is not without challenges.
Factors outside operator control, such as remote peering and hidden MPLS tunnels, may route clients to suboptimal PoPs in terms of latency.
To succe…
RIPE RIS collects BGP data from collectors worldwide, providing visibility into routing dynamics. While this data powers RIPEstat and various third-party applications, operators and researchers often need analyses beyond what standard tools offer. On the other hand, using raw data MRT directly, is challenging. It is computationally intensive and requires custom parsing scripts. To cover this gap we are now publishing RIPE RIS data as indexed Parquet files, covering recent BGP
RIBs and updates.
Email on the internet was originally designed in a decentralized fashion. However this decentralized deployment may not be evenly distributed. There is a supposed perception that email services are increasingly serviced on hosted digital infrastructure, which are largely managed by a small number of parties. GMail, Outlook, iCloud Mail, Yandex Mail, and other brand names are supposedly increasingly responsible for email services on the internet.
Earlier studies looking into centralization and c…