Congestion control at IETF 123
How evolving traffic patterns, adaptive bitrate streaming, and modern pacing techniques are reshaping transport protocols and network performance.
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China’s steady progress on road to IPv6
Mid-2025 data shows sustained IPv6 growth in China, backed by coordinated policy, infrastructure upgrades, and rising application-level adoption.
Gotta catch ‘em all! IPv4 Turf War
IPv4 Turf War is a simple game about claiming blocks of IP addresses, with potential measurement applications.
[Podcast] Robert Kisteleki on RIPE Atlas
Robert Kisteleki from the RIPE NCC discusses the RIPE Atlas system, a network of over 13,000 globally dispersed Internet measurement devices ‘lighting up the Internet’.
Serving Indigenous communities with high-speed Internet through monsoons and desert
Guest Post: Connecting remote Indigenous communities through desert and monsoonal rains required adaptations and improvements to battery-and-solar-powered Internet infrastructure.
SIEVE — a better algorithm than LRU?
Guest Post: Introducing SIEVE — a simpler algorithm than LRU that delivers better efficiency and scalability for web cache workloads.
Experimental support for AF_XDP sockets in NSD
Guest Post: Exploring the promise of fast-path DNS delivery through XDP, and the pain points that come with it.
IEPG at IETF 123
External ISP network disruptions, triggering QUIC, BGP path attributes, and a regional standards forum?
Recognizing IXPs as critical infrastructure
Guest Post: What happens when IXPs fail and why classifying them as critical infrastructure is a necessity.
[Podcast] A day in the life of BGP
Geoff Huston analyses a single, regular, day of BGP activity to explore what it reveals about the state and stability of global Internet routing.