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People intelligence profiles the leaders, operators, researchers, creators, investors, and policy actors shaping internet infrastructure strategy. The category connects interviews, public profiles, company links, role changes, governance exposure, affiliation context, and related articles so readers can follow decision-makers by operating role rather than by isolated article chronology.
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Colin Perkins: How Real-Time Media Learned to Share the Internet
Colin Perkins did not invent RTP, WebRTC or Internet congestion control. His more defensible contribution is also more revealing: over three decades, he helped develop the repair, feedback, signalling, safety and governance mechanisms that allow voice and video to remain useful…
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Ivan Pepelnjak and the discipline of testing network automation
Ivan Pepelnjak’s career runs from Slovenia’s early internet and exchange infrastructure to ipSpace.net and the open-source netlab project. His recurring argument is practical: automation becomes trustworthy only when intended state is modelled explicitly, vendor claims are…
Creators
David S. Miller and the public process behind Linux networking
A networking patch can start as a few lines of code and end up affecting servers, routers, phones, cloud hosts and appliances around the world. David S. Miller has spent decades close to the point where those changes become shared Linux infrastructure, first through the SPARC…
Creators
Maria Matejka needed the hallway. RIPE 93 had no childcare.
At RIPE 93, a BIRD developer described where network work actually happens: between sessions. The conference offered a remote microphone, but no organised childcare.
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Florian Holzbauer’s Municipalytics Starts with 95,498 Local Units. Domain Records Cover 69,220.
Municipalytics counts municipal web, mail and DNS across Europe from a fixed administrative baseline. Each layer loses records for a different reason; the blank space is part of the map.
Creators
Terry Sweetser found IPv4 hiding under qBittorrent’s “Any Interface” switch
His home network already had native IPv6 and a working IPv6 port forward. A client setting kept a large share of torrent traffic on the older path anyway.
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Siena Perry gave APNIC hosts a 30-month clock. APNIC gave them two start dates.
The registry's new conference-host process promises a longer runway and public criteria. A prospective South Asian host reading APNIC's two official pages would still need to ask when the first bid window opens.
Creators
Spiro Stathakis Built an IPv6 EKS Cluster. The /28 Lasted Until the Interfaces Arrived.
His pods had IPv6 addresses. The nodes and service endpoints still needed room in an IPv4 subnet, and the smallest one filled up.
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André Grüneberg Saved an IXP IPv4 Address. Then He Had to Pay a Router.
RFC 8950 lets an exchange member carry IPv4 routes over IPv6 next hops. Grüneberg’s BCIX account puts the hard part where the old and new members still have to meet.
Creators
Sabina Anja Says a Higher MAC Sequence Is a Better Lie, Not Proof
EVPN can move a workload across a fabric with one BGP update. Anja shows how that convenience can spread a forged address just as efficiently.
Academics
Ulrich Speidel Found the Gap Between Solar Power and an Unbroken Internet
The panels may keep generating, the battery may have charge, and the router can still reboot. Speidel puts the missing seconds in the middle of the power plan.
Academics
Romain Fontugne Put Two Clocks on One Routing Screen
A route can move before its validation colour catches up. Fontugne’s BGP monitor makes that difference visible, then asks the operator to keep the clocks apart.
Creators
Barry O’Donovan’s CRA test: one software team, two roles—one product at a time
At RIPE 93, the INEX developer argued that the Cyber Resilience Act can assign different roles to the same organization across different products. For network operators, the label changes who handles security work upstream.
Leaders
Md.Kamruzzaman Khan Pulled 47 Prefixes by Hand. RIPEstat Gave Them One Eight-Hour Clock.
Khan remembers the router-by-router work. A public routing-history query squeezes its 47 prefixes against one observation boundary. That gap matters whenever a dashboard is asked to explain a network decision.
Academics
Thomas Holterbach’s IXP Data Pitch Met a 50,000-Route Warning
At RIPE 93, Holterbach reported three IXP route-server feeds and 60 entity BMP sessions. An audience example involving 1,500 BGP connections and 50,000 routes put the hard question on the screen: how much visibility can a shared collector store and serve at useful speed?
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Microsoft’s NTP had 12 addresses. Most RIPE Atlas vantage points saw one.
Pascal Huppert and seven co-authors measured what a widely used time service actually handed back. More than half of RIPE Atlas vantage points saw a single choice from a 12-address inventory.
Leaders
Eric Andrei Băleanu Took InterLAN-IX Across Romania. The Long Links Still Send the Bill.
InterLAN-IX extended one Layer 2 peering fabric to regional points of presence so smaller operators could connect nearby and reach the same exchange. Eric Andrei Băleanu says the trade is real: capacity, redundancy and operating cost on the links between sites, with no automatic…
Academics
Rene Wilhelm Counted 726 Million DNS Queries in Makati. Some Local Probes Still Went Abroad.
The new AuthDNS node was busy on Wilhelm’s sample day. Whether Philippine networks used the local route was a different question.
Academics
Antonio Prado’s IPv6 Arithmetic: One /29, 524,288 Routes, and a Local Bouncer
Prado put a route-table bill next to the reassuring green light of origin validation. The bill could be larger than the entire IPv6 table he counted.
Academics
Yevheniya Nosyk’s Atlas Ledger: 6.5% of Measurements Made 71% of Results
RIPE Atlas looked like a playground for custom tests until Nosyk and her colleagues counted the output. The small anchoring category was the heavyweight.
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