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.
Guest Post: No homelab can be complete without a proper networking setup. Proceed at your own risk! (… it’s worth it)
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.
Geoff Huston discusses the unexpected behaviours of the DNS when you perform a query after ‘cold start’ with no cached data.
Guest Post: Privacy compliance starts with knowing your data. Many NREN services, including federated identity, eduroam, CSIRT operations, and network telemetry, process personal data and may already fall under emerging privacy laws.
Guest Post: Though often overlooked, time underpins telecommunications, finance, energy, cloud, AI, and transport systems. As dependence on GNSS increases, organizations need resilient, traceable time sources to strengthen cybersecurity, improve operational continuity, and support digital sovereignty.
Guest Post: Chamelio is a provider-managed network stack for cloud VMs that runs in userspace on the host and allows tenants to upload custom transport protocols to a shared datapath.
Guest Post: Vulnerability discovery is an orchestration problem, not a frontier-model problem.
Guest Post: Persistent partial reachability is not noise — it is a fundamental, measurable part of how the Internet behaves today. A small number of long-lived peninsulas cause most of the impact, and recognizing them can dramatically improve both operational clarity and measurement accuracy.
Job Snijders discusses a new, compact representation of RPKI-signed objects and an archive of spooled snapshots of the global RPKI repositories.
