[Podcast] BGP in review for 2025
Geoff Huston discusses BGP trends in 2025 and how they may reshape our understanding of BGP’s place in the Internet’s technology adoption curve.
[Podcast] NITK Students at IETF: Fresh minds for standards development
Two groups of students from NITK discuss the work they did at the IETF 122 Bangkok hackathon, and afterwards in their WG. Professor Mohit Taliani is seeking to encourage new entrants to join IETF protocol and standards development.
Cloudflare measures TCP
Cloudflare looks at TCP flows as a ‘man-in-the-middle’ on your behalf, using a 1% global traffic sample to reveal session behaviour, congestion control, and surprising quirks of modern Internet connections.
Is it really always the DNS?
When DNS breakage occurs and takes down your services, it points to an inadequate understanding of the interdependencies of your own complex systems.
[Podcast] Going dark: Measurement when the Internet hides the detail
Geoff Huston discusses protocol privacy, RFC 7258 and how APNIC Labs measures in a world of secure protocols.
21 years and counting of ‘eight fallacies of distributed computing’
Eight long held and common beliefs about the network have been shown, time after time, to be false. What are they, and what do they mean?
Fast UDP I/O for Firefox in Rust
Firefox has implemented fast UDP I/O in Rust. Why does it matter?
[Podcast] Adjusting for data source bias in Internet measurements
Emile Aben from RIPE NCC discusses AS Hegemony, and Internet outage analysis using BGP data from RIPE’s RIS and Atlas with novel visualization techniques.
A proposed ‘big’ IPv6 block for packetized amateur radio
A new IETF draft proposes allocating 44::/16 to Amateur Radio Digital Communications, echoing the original 44/8 IPv4 block. The idea has triggered debate about ham-radio networking and how global IPv6 space is delegated under today’s IANA, RIR, and ICP-2 processes.
[Podcast] The politics of undersea cables
Geoff Huston discusses the complex strategic and political issues in submarine cables.