A comprehensive audit of the AFRINIC Whois Database
Guest Post: AFRINIC has completed an audit of its whois database, following a misappropriation of IP number resources in 2019.
Tag: RIRs
Career advice for the Internet sector
Guest Post: The heads of the world’s five RIRs recently got together to chat about what makes and breaks careers.
Limiting the power of RPKI authorities
Guest Post: Proposal seeks to change RPKI to a distributed model, preventing unilateral takedown of IP prefixes by Regional Internet Registries.
IPv4 transfers now available between APNIC and LACNIC regions
APNIC can now begin processing IPv4 transfers between the APNIC and LACNIC regions.
Event Wrap: RIPE 80
Geoff Huston presented on Buffers and Protocols at RIPE 80, held online from 12 to 14 May 2020.
RPKI and Trust Anchors
Why do RIRs use a trust anchor set of RIR-based 0/0 self-signed certificates?
Event Wrap: AFRINIC 31
APNIC’s Guangliang Pan participated at AFRINIC 31 in Luanda, Angola, from 2 to 6 December 2019.
Event Wrap: ARIN 44, NANOG 77 and OARC 31
APNIC participated at NANOG 77, ARIN 44 and OARC 31, held back-to-back, in Austin, USA, from 27 October to 1 November 2019.
Keep calm and carry on: The status of IPv4 address allocation
The recent news of RIPE NCC totally exhausting its IPv4 addresses is a reminder that IPv4 is running out.
Event Wrap: LACNIC 32
APNIC participated at LACNIC 32 and LACNOG 2019 in Panama City, Panama, from 7 to 11 October 2019.