The day after the zero-days
Guest Post: Patching faster cannot keep up with AI-driven discovery. Leverage structural invariants to make bug classes irrelevant.
The day after the zero-days
By Niels Provos on 28 Aug 2026
Guest Post: Patching faster cannot keep up with AI-driven discovery. Leverage structural invariants to make bug classes irrelevant.
The lingering legacy of ‘reserved’ ports
Modern service discovery mechanisms increasingly allow services to run on arbitrary ports, yet DNS may remain the one protocol that cannot fully escape its dependency on the long-established convention of port 53.
Online voting for NRO NC election 2026 opens today
Cast your vote for the seat open for election on the NRO NC. All voting closes on Thursday, 10 September 2026 at 14:30 (UTC +5:30).
EC Chair’s Preview: September EC Meeting and APNIC 62
Get an overview of the topics the EC are considering ahead of the September meeting at APNIC 62.
The emerging role of AI in governance discussion
A growing debate within the IETF is exploring how AI-generated content should be used and disclosed in standards discussions.
Beyond origin validation: Four classes of routing attack nobody Is validating
Guest Post: RPKI has made real progress against prefix hijacking. But when you map every known class of BGP attack against the defences that exist, four of them turn out to sit entirely outside cryptographic validation — handled with local filters, static thresholds and reactive response.
South Asia SRF highlights Member priorities on IPv6, routing security, and training
More than 100 APNIC Members attended the South Asia APNIC Sub-Regional Forum alongside SANOG 44 in Kathmandu. Member feedback gathered during the event will help inform APNIC’s future priorities across the region.
AI, IPv6, and the future Internet at IETF 126
Guest Post: At IETF 126, discussions highlighted how AI is beginning to shape the future of Internet infrastructure. Participants identified IPv6 as a critical foundation for large-scale AI ecosystems and explored new approaches.
MikroTik as a home router
Guest Post: No homelab can be complete without a proper networking setup. Proceed at your own risk! (… it’s worth it)
Do IXPs make the Internet faster? It’s complicated
IXPs shape latency, cost, resilience, and the spread of new technologies, not just Internet speed. As the Internet evolves, the role of IXPs continues to expand, as highlighted in this BPF 2026 panel discussion.