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The Probe Moved. Its Dot Stayed Put.
A RIPE Atlas probe can cross a border in a cardboard box while its public map pin keeps working the old address. Researchers have now followed that little clerical comedy into the measurements people use to locate the Internet.
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RIPE Has Thirteen Names for Twelve Chairs
The committee that decides who gets a microphone at RIPE meetings has a seating problem. Its current charter says twelve; its own roll call names thirteen. Two of the elected chairs are up for a vote this week, so this is an unusually good moment to count.
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The Human Got a Mask. The Agent Got a Loyalty Card.
Acts-For gives a person a different sign-in number at each website, then sends the same agent key and handle wherever that agent signs in. The draft has already named the privacy seam: two sites can compare the agent and reconnect the person.
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The 400G Optic Fits. The Fan Hasn't Voted Yet.
A tiny module can win the race to a router port and lose the argument with its power supply. A RIPE 93 optics workshop put the missing signature on the purchase order: qualify the whole occupied chassis, including the awkward day when a fan or power unit is out of service.
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BGP Says the IX Is Fine. The Packet Has Gone Sightseeing
James Rice brought a pointed question to RIPE 93: why does an Internet exchange sell a shared peering floor when it could offer each network a routed point-to-point port? A healthy BGP session has never been a receipt for delivery to the right door. His layer-3 proposal would…
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The IPv6 Light Is Green. The Login Button Has Other Plans
NIC.br brought a useful nuisance to RIPE 93: a network can pass IPv6 traffic while the application sitting on it still needs IPv4 to finish the job. Its early V6bench tool can build an API test lab from an OpenAPI file. The awkward final step belongs to a human: deciding which…
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RIPE RIS Wants More Peers. Its Archive Has to Learn “Maybe”
RIPE NCC has a proposal for its BGP listening network: welcome more feeds, watch what they add, then decide which deserve permanent storage. At RIPE 93, Ties de Kock put a new question on the table. A route collector can make friends quickly. Who decides which of their stories…
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One Extra ASN Catches a Missing Provider. On a Peer, It Picks a Fight
At RIPE 93, Ondřej Caletka showed how a small addition to an ASPA path check can expose a missing provider. The same addition on a lateral peering session can spoil the check. One configuration line has two very different jobs, depending on who sits across the cable.
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A Plus Sign Walked Into XML and Lost Its ID
At RIPE 93, BIRD's Maria Matejka laid out the crowded family of network-management formats. Her sharpest example fits in two characters: `+3`. Move it between APIs carelessly and a string can come back as a number. Somebody has to own that conversion.
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The 2003 Routing Phonebook Gets a New Engine
RISwhois still answers at port 43. Behind that old-fashioned door, RIPE NCC has changed the machinery and added an optional RPKI verdict. The interesting question is which part of the answer saw a route and which part checked its papers.
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PHP Fixed the Bug. RIPE’s Websites Still Had to Wait Their Turn.
RIPE NCC took its Academy, the NRO site and the ASO site offline after two critical PHP flaws surfaced. The status log turns the response into a practical sequence: close, patch, wait for dependencies, reopen.
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The Network Hero Has Every Key. Who Runs Monday?
At RIPE 93, two speakers put the indispensable network expert under a brighter light. A keyring can look like competence right up to the day a second pair of hands needs it.
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Latency Improved. The File Transfer Fell Off a Cliff.
A research-network case put the flattering number beside the ugly one: delay fell from 229.9 to 82.4 milliseconds while throughput dropped from 786.4 to 0.2 Mbps. The RIPE 93 research session asks who gets an urgent ticket when the route, the tests and the traffic tell different…
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Your Phone Failed 000. Or Did the Network? Australia Wants to Tell the Difference.
Australia’s ACMA wants carriers to separate a broken handset from a bad network moment before either gets a verdict. The distinction now comes with a 35-day clock—and a blocking rule that can outrun the warning.
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The ROA Changed. The Routers Checked Their Watches.
Research scheduled on RIPE 93's 27 October programme puts a clock on the distance between an RPKI record and a changed forwarding path. The striking result: restoring a route reached half the observed vantage points in 9–12 minutes; making one invalid took 30–42.
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TRAI Took a Signal Ruler to Hampi. The PDF Needs One Too.
A mobile-network test crossed 439.8 kilometres of Vijayanagara district and another 74 kilometres of highway. Its sharpest finding is a patch of missing service; its smallest governance lesson is a 100-sample disagreement inside TRAI's own report.
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AFRINIC Administers Two /8 Blocks Dated 1993. It Did Not Allocate Them.
The registry's own definitions separate space delegated to a regional registry from space allocated before regional registries existed and now merely administered by one — including the WHOIS and reverse DNS records. That distinction does more work in Africa's address history…
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Singapore Put Simba's Airwaves and Boardroom on the Same Notice
A show-cause notice to the mobile operator ranges from radio settings at hundreds of sites to the people who approved them and the records produced to the regulator. Simba has until 16 November to answer. The argument is about the switches and the paper trail.
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Storm Éowyn Cut the Power. A £3.5m Rule Moves the Bill.
Storm Éowyn left more than 320,000 Northern Irish homes and businesses without electricity. A new annual threshold now limits how much of the next exceptional repair bill NIE Networks carries before approved costs move to consumers.
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Brussels Accepted Temu's Homework. The Examiners Wanted More Detail.
The European Commission has approved a plan for Temu to fix its illegal-product risk assessment. The national regulators' advisory board found the draft too thin to judge fully. Now the plan has four months to turn five headings into evidence.
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