Your elected leaders: Bikram Shrestha, Policy SIG Chair
From early ISP deployment in Nepal to leading regional policy discussions, Bikram Shrestha connects global policy with local realities.
Your elected leaders: Bikram Shrestha, Policy SIG Chair
By Dan Fidler on 5 May 2026
From early ISP deployment in Nepal to leading regional policy discussions, Bikram Shrestha connects global policy with local realities.
ReAct: Reflection attack mitigation for asymmetric routing
Guest Post: DDoS attacks continue to be a destructive force on the Internet. ReAct was created to provide efficient and effective mitigation against AR-DDoS attacks, when routing is either symmetric or asymmetric.
[Podcast] CIDR inside
Geoff Huston discusses the CIDR Report, a 30-year-long series of data about who is sending excess data in BGP. Does the CIDR Report still hold value?
Pacific routing security sets a deadline
Guest Post: PITA 30 showed both the risks of insecure routing and the opportunities for rapid improvement in the Pacific, with PITA 31 set as an implementation target.
Google hits 50% IPv6
IPv6 has reached a major milestone, with around half of Google’s users now accessing its services over IPv6.
APNIC and PITA renew MoU to strengthen cooperation in the Pacific
APNIC and PITA have renewed their MoU, reaffirming their long-standing partnership and commitment to strengthening Internet development and resilience across the Pacific.
Revocation of X.509 certificates
‘Revocation is broken’ is a catchphrase in the world of certificates and Certificate Authorities. Certification infrastructure may not have been designed for the Internet of today.
Detecting and characterizing DDoS scrubbing from global BGP routing
Guest Post: Analysing public BGP data to characterize the real‑world behaviour of five major scrubbing services.
Welcoming the 2026 APNIC general and Policy Fellows
APNIC is pleased to welcome the successful applicants to its 2026 general and Policy Fellowship programs. This year’s Fellows reflect the diversity and talent of network practitioners and community contributors from across the Asia Pacific region.
Using QUIC backscatter to infer hypergiant deployment configurations
Guest Post: What can we learn about QUIC deployments just by listening to unsolicited QUIC traffic? As it turns out, quite a lot.