Topic
Peering and Transit
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IETF
A BLACKHOLE Community Requests Discard Without Granting a Neighbor Unlimited Routing Authority
A DDoS victim may need traffic discarded before it reaches a congested interconnection, but asking a neighboring network to destroy reachability is an unusually powerful request. RFC 7999 standardizes that request while surrounding it with prior agreement, prefix authorization…

Global Regional ISP Trends
A Completed Route Refresh Is Not a Policy Reconciliation
Route Refresh lets a network replay BGP reachability without resetting the session. The exchange can finish perfectly while the operational question remains open: did the intended policy revision reach the right routers, act in the right direction and produce the expected…

IETF
A Graceful Shutdown Community Declares Maintenance Without Taking the Neighbor's Routing Authority
Planned maintenance is a local decision, but the traffic it moves belongs to an interconnection. RFC 8326 gives one network a standard way to say that an EBGP path is about to disappear while leaving the neighboring network in control of its own route preference. That…

Global Regional ISP Trends
A GTSM Hop Check Is Not Peer Authentication
A packet that arrives with the expected TTL can be close enough to pass a routing safeguard without being cryptographically proven to come from the intended peer. GTSM is valuable precisely when operators preserve that boundary.

NANOG
Who Gets the Scarce Minutes?
A conference agenda is not merely a timetable. It is a budget of collective attention. NANOG's published materials show technical talks, parallel rooms, workshops, keynotes, community coordination and commercial networking sharing a finite clock. The public record can show how…

Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends
Poyrazwifi: the wireless footprint that makes repair capacity the real product
Poyrazwifi: the wireless footprint that makes repair capacity the real product intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may…

Story
LACNIC’s 2025 Path Study Does Not Date Its Measurements
A year in a report title tells readers when an edition belongs on the shelf. It does not tell a network operator when the packets behind its charts crossed the wire. LACNIC’s regional path study offers a useful view of routes and latency, but leaves that second clock unstated.

CASE FILE
The Route Reflector Distributed the Link. It Never Witnessed It: RFC 9815's Sparse-Peering Evidence Boundary
A route reflector can hold the newest authenticated account of a data-centre link and still know nothing directly about whether that link carries a packet. RFC 9815 makes this separation operationally useful: BGP can distribute a link-state graph over far fewer sessions than the…

Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Power International-Tyres: the corporate ASN behind a physical distribution promise
Power International-Tyres: the corporate ASN behind a physical distribution promise intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that…

Global Regional ISP Trends
PolBox.TV: three registered relationships, one observed neighbour
PolBox.TV: three registered relationships, one observed neighbour intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The…

Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends
Plusine Systems: three public names, separate responsibilities
Plusine Systems appears in public evidence under a legal name, the Axians commercial brand and the registered autonomous-system name PLUSINE-AS. Those identities can be joined, but the join does not answer every operational question. For a buyer, the useful work is to map which…

IETF
Default Reject Turns Missing EBGP Policy from Silent Authority into an Explicit Failure
An external BGP session can be established while its authority to receive or advertise routes remains undefined. RFC 8212 changes the default at that boundary: without import policy, accept no routes; without export policy, announce none. The leadership question is not whether a…

Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Piter-IX turns regional peering reach into a resilience question
Piter-IX presents a broad exchange footprint across Russian cities. That reach can shorten interconnection paths and widen choice, but a map is not yet a resilience proof: buyers still need to know which facilities, transport routes and operating processes can fail together.

NPNOG
After the RPKI Panel: Did npNOG’s 2020 Routing-Security Moment Survive the Screen?
The official page does not, by itself, prove that entities created ROAs, deployed validation or changed production routing policy afterwards.

IETF
Enhanced uRPF Lets an Operator Admit Feasible Source Paths Without Trusting Every Route
A valid packet from a multihomed customer can arrive on a link that the receiving router would not choose for the return journey. Strict reverse-path forwarding may discard it; loose checking may accept any routed source. RFC 8704 defines a narrower middle ground: build an…

IETF
BGP Roles Turn a Peering Relationship into a Route-Leak Boundary
Before two networks exchange a single route, each can state what kind of neighbour it believes it has. RFC 9234 turns that bilateral statement into a control: incompatible roles can stop the session, while the Only-to-Customer attribute can stop a marked route from crossing the…

Global Regional ISP Trends
A Second Remote Peering Service Is Not a Second Path
Remote peering can put an exchange within logical reach without putting a second physical route under the buyer’s control. Resilience begins by tracing each service through every handoff, not by counting green entities in a portal.

NPNOG
A decade of meetings, but where is the outcome ledger? Auditing npNOG’s institutional value
npNOG can document that it kept opening the room. Its public chronology runs from the first numbered meeting in 2016 to npNOG-11 in 2025, with a virtual programme in 2020. The archive shows workshops, conferences, fellows, committees and technical subjects. That is not trivial…

NPNOG
Who Opens the Room? npNOG, NPIX and SANOG in the npNOG-10 Ceremony
The first ten minutes of a conference can look like an org chart. At npNOG-10 in Pokhara, the [published programme](https://npnog.org.np/npnog10/programs/conference/) gave the first welcome to Rupesh Shrestha, identified there as NPIX managing director and SANOG chair. The next…

Story
RIPE’s IRR Study Says RPKI Can Replace a Route Object, Not a Customer Cone
A new RIPE Labs study makes a useful distinction that is easy to lose in general talk about replacing the IRR. A prefix–origin record and the policy information used to discover a customer cone are not the same operational entity, so they cannot share one retirement decision.
