Guest Post: IPv6 deployment is often described as a protocol upgrade. In reality, operating IPv6 at broadband scale is a test of subscriber management, DHCP, CPE interoperability, observability, and operational processes. Over seven years, WorldLink Communications grew to more than one million dual-stack subscribers, with around 70% of traffic now carried over IPv6. Here are the lessons that mattered most.
Guest Post: Could the growing deployment of RPKI become a threat to routing stability? This study analyses more than 11 years of RPKI and BGP data, measuring how much routing activity can be associated with RPKI-related changes.
Guest Post: To quantify how closely guideline recommendations align with real-world TLS deployments, we collected over 50 million TLS handshakes during two weeks from our research institution.
Guest Post: An analysis of the BGP hijack against Softaculous that enabled an attacker to obtain a fraudulent TLS certificate and distribute a malicious Virtualizor update.
Guest Post: Presto is built on the RMT architecture that underlies programmable switches, and addresses RMT’s main constraints.
Guest Post: A frontier API can refuse, change, or vanish out from under you. Open weights keep the model you depend on yours.
The APNIC Executive Council has released the Stage 1 report on APNIC’s community consultation on increasing diversity in APNIC community leadership. The discussion will continue at APNIC 62 in Mumbai, with remote participation available.
Guest Post: While many L7 protocols are complex to parse, the logic needed to enforce L7 policies tends to be simple. For the vast majority (89%) of L7 policies in the wild, Beeline can eliminate the service proxy from the critical path.
The NRO NC has published the Recommended Draft RIR Governance Document, including a redline version and rationale document.
Guest Post: The recent Telstra outage highlighted a critical but often overlooked dependency in modern networks: Accurate time synchronization.
