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New on RIPE Labs: Enabling Data Compression in RIPE Atlas
by Vesna Manojlovic 01 Sep '15

01 Sep '15

Dear colleagues, We’d like to enable gzip compression on all of RIPE Atlas' measurement API calls — but thanks to the BREACH vulnerability, doing so could mean that some enterprising individual with an obscene amount of time on their hands might be able read the contents of the responses. This means measurement results as well as metadata for measurements — including the small number of measurements not marked as “public”. We believe the drawbacks are negligible, but we’re looking for community support. Find out more in this RIPE Labs article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/daniel_quinn_39/enabling-data-compression-in-… Regards, Vesna Manojlovic

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New on RIPE Labs: The Internet in North Korea - Hanging by a Single Thread?
by Mirjam Kuehne 26 Aug '15

26 Aug '15

Dear colleagues, Please find a new article on RIPE Labs: The Internet in North Korea - Hanging by a Single Thread? We used RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat to investigate North Korea's Internet connectivity in light of recent outages and discuss the fragile nature of its setup. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/the-internet-in-north-korea-hanging… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Network Neutrality - Latest on Regulation
by Gordon Lennox 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2015/07/08-roaming-c… There is a link to the regulation as PDF. "How will this become a law? The agreed text will undergo technical finalisation. It then needs to be formally approved by the Council and the Parliament. The Council is expected to formally adopt it in the autumn 2015. This does not need to take place in the Telecom Council: any Council configuration has the power to adopt the legal act. The regulation will enter into force 20 days after its publication in the EU Official Journal.”

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New on RIPE Labs: Visualisation of a New Node in LACTLD Anycast Service
by Mirjam Kuehne 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

Dear colleagues, Please read on RIPE Labs how RIPE Atlas was used to measure improvements to the LACTLD infrastructure (by Hugo Salgado): https://labs.ripe.net/Members/hugo_salgado/visualisation-of-a-new-node-in-l… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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New on RIPE Labs: Improving RIPE Atlas Coverage. What Networks are Missing?
by Mirjam Kuehne 02 Jul '15

02 Jul '15

Dear colleagues, In this article we compare RIPE Atlas deployment against user population estimates provided by APNIC to see what eyeball networks are missing out on RIPE Atlas probes: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/improving-ripe-atlas-coverage-what-… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Probe and measurement archives vs. the APIs
by Robert Kisteleki 02 Jul '15

02 Jul '15

Dear All, We've observed recently that some users are using scripts to "crawl" through all the metadata provided by the probe and measurement APIs. This means that some people out there download basically the entire probe and/or measurement meta data set the system provides. As you can imagine, this is highly inefficient and keeps our servers busy. We believe that there could be better solutions. We have been providing the downloadable archive for probe metadata for some time now, and recently we've added the measurement metadata too. You can now reach these at http://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/atlas/ This way one can even get complete sets of metadata as far back as January 2015 for measurement specifications and March 2014 for probe data. Given the existence of these archives, we will apply a sane limit on how much metadata can be reached via the APIs. In practice this means that the API will not allow fetching results beyond, say, 10.000 (i.e. 500 pages of 20) entries. This is after the application of filters, so for example with no filters at all you could still access metadata of the 10k newest measurements, while if you filter for DNS measurements only, you could get the 10k newest of those, and so on. We believe this keeps the metadata API useful for the majority of the users, while the existence of the archive serves the remaining cases. Our plan is to make this change around the end of July. Regards, Robert Kisteleki

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Re: [mat-wg] feature request: have stat report on transitted prefixes
by Christian Teuschel 30 Jun '15

30 Jun '15

Dear colleagues, I wanted to follow-up on Job's feature request, about RIPEstat also displaying prefixes transited by an ASN, since several of you also said you would find this feature useful. Supporting this feature will require some work on RIPEstat's front-end as well as on the back-end (our Hadoop storage platform). Implementing this for all available historic RIS data would have a large impact on our storage capacity. However, we will be able to implement this feature for a sliding window of 30 days, as you suggested. So RIPEstat will be able to show the prefixes for which an ASN provided transit during the previous 30 days. At the moment I don't have a concrete delivery date for this feature, but we will merge the necessary development work into our work plan and let you know before the end of June when we expect to be able to support this feature in RIPEstat. We will make sure it is implemented before RIPE 71 in November. Please let me know if you have any further feedback or questions. Regards, Christian Teuschel & Romeo Zwart RIPE NCC On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 01:15:09PM +0200, Job Snijders wrote: > Hi MAT, > > I'd really like the stat team to implement a tool that tells me > what prefixes are originated AND transitted by a given ASN. The > use-case is that I (before setting up BGP sessions) can make an > automated assessment what amount of prefixes the network will > announce, which prefixes they are likely to announce and if that > matches up with the prefix-filter I would apply on that bgp > session. > > A second use case is that when I want to connect a peer or customer > to which I have never been connected before, I have no idea what > they will announce to me. Should I want to make predictions for > traffic engineering purposes, it would be beneficial if I could > fetch a list of prefixes this peer is likely to announce to other > peers from the stat system. > > A sliding window of say 30 days would be perfect, for my purposes I > do not need the tool to offer data going back to the beginning of > time. > > Do others agree that the above would be a useful feature? > > Kind regards, > > Job >

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Eleven new RIPE Atlas anchors have joined the community
by Michela Galante 24 Jun '15

24 Jun '15

Dear colleagues, More and more organisations from all over the world are hosting RIPE Atlas anchors: in the last 6 weeks, on average, 2 anchors were activated every week! We are proud to announce that eleven new RIPE Atlas anchors have been activated since our previous announcement, bringing the total to 132: * us-els-as40528 located in El Segundo, California and us-rtv-as16876 located in Reston, Virginia, hosted by ICANN. * nl-dro-as51430, hosted by ALTUSHOST B.V. in Dronten, The Netherlands. * us-pou-as6124 hosted by Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. * pk-isb-as7590 hosted by COMSATS Internet Services in Islamabad, Pakistan, and sponsored by APNIC. * ph-qzt-as9821 hosted by ASTI in Quezon City, Philippines, and sponsored by APNIC. * nl-hrd-as34612 hosted by Matrix DATA in Harderwijk, The Netherlands. * at-szg-as5404 hosted by conova communications GmbH in Salzburg, Austria. * fr-ysd-as201958 hosted by ADP in Saint-Denis, France. * de-fra-as49024 hosted by FHE3 GmbH in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. * de-ham-as201709 hosted by Netzwerge Hamburg eK in Hamburg, Germany. The map of all anchor locations is available at: https://atlas.ripe.net/anchors/map/ You can access the anchoring measurements for all anchors at: https://atlas.ripe.net/anchors/list/ And here are the logos and links to hosting companies: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/community/#!tab-anchor-sponsors We are still accepting new applications from individuals and organisations interested in hosting a RIPE Atlas anchor. We are particularly interested in deploying anchors in the Middle East, Western Asia, Latin America and Africa, in order to add more geographical diversity to the measurement data. There are more organisations that want to host a RIPE Atlas anchor but don’t have the necessary funding. To learn more about sponsoring an anchor, please contact us at mcb(a)ripe.net To apply for your own RIPE Atlas anchor: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/become-an-anchor-host/ For any other questions, please contact us at atlas(a)ripe.net Regards, Michela Galante Measurements Community Building RIPE NCC

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[training] RIPE NCC Webinars - new dates
by Training Services 18 Jun '15

18 Jun '15

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the dates for the RIPE NCC Webinars for the coming quarter. These interactive on-line learning sessions take about one hour, and give you the opportunity to learn and interact with our trainers without leaving your desk. In the next 3 months you can participate in the following Webinars: - Advanced RIPE Atlas Usage (NEW!) - Introduction to the RIPE Database - RIPE Database - Advanced Topics - IPv6 in the RIPE Database - IPv6 Addressing Plan - Webinar for New LIRs - Resource Certification (RPKI) Register now at https://www.ripe.net/support/training/learn-online/webinars Participation is limited to 20 people, so don't hesitate if you want to take part! If you have any questions, please email <training(a)ripe.net>. We look forward to seeing you online. Kind regards, RIPE NCC Training Service

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New on RIPE Labs: HTTP Measurements with RIPE Atlas
by Mirjam Kuehne 16 Jun '15

16 Jun '15

Dear colleagues, After a discussion with the community about HTTP measurements, we'll start implementing this as a publicly available measurement type. Please find some more information on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kistel/http-measurements-with-ripe-atlas Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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problems with RIPE Atlas website
by Romeo Zwart 08 Jun '15

08 Jun '15

dear colleagues, We are currently investigating issues with the RIPE Atlas service that cause the RIPE Atlas web pages to fail. We will update you of any further developments through https://www.ripe.net/support/service-announcements/service-and-security-ann…. We apologise for the inconvenience caused. Kind regards, Romeo Zwart RIPE NCC

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Re: [mat-wg] Geoloc API covered_percentage
by Christian Teuschel 28 May '15

28 May '15

Dear Noriyuki, The "covered percentage" value shows how much of the referenced IP space is known in the geoip database (MaxMind's GeoLite City, [1]). This referenced IP space depends on the look-up type: - For a prefix look-up it is the given prefix itself. - For an ASN look-up it is related to the prefixes this ASN originates. A recent update to the documentation makes it more clear, https://stat.ripe.net/docs/data_api#Geoloc. Best regards, Christian [1] http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/geolite/ On 19/05/15 12:00, Arai Noriyuki wrote: > > hi all, > > i am trying to do something with the geoloc API and i found there is > an item named "covered percentage" for every location. what does it > mean? > > (i once thought it is the percentage of the IP addresses in that > location among the whole address space of the object resource. but it > sounds i was wrong. :P) > > thanks and regards, > noriyuki >

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Geoloc API covered_percentage
by 荒井則之（ネットワーク本部）- Arai Noriy uki - 19 May '15

19 May '15

hi all, i am trying to do something with the geoloc API and i found there is an item named "covered percentage" for every location. what does it mean? (i once thought it is the percentage of the IP addresses in that location among the whole address space of the object resource. but it sounds i was wrong. :P) thanks and regards, noriyuki

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Eleven new RIPE Atlas anchors joined the community
by Vesna Manojlovic 16 May '15

16 May '15

Dear colleagues, More and more organisations from all over the world are hosting RIPE Atlas anchors - on average one anchor is activated every week! We are proud to announce that eleven new RIPE Atlas anchors have been activated since our previous announcement, bringing the total to 121: * np-ktm-as45170, hosted by the Internet Exchange Nepal (NPIX) in Kathmandu, Nepal, and sponsored by APNIC. * ch-gtg-as20612, by SwissIX Internet Exchange in Glattbrugg,Switzerland * de-ber-as20647, hosted by CarrierColo / IPB GmbH in Berlin, Germany * fr-par-as57734, hosted by FranceIX in Paris, France. * fi-yyv-as30798, hosted by TNNet Oy Ltd in Jyvaskyla, Finland. * rs-ini-as13303, hosted by University of Niš in Niš, Serbia * at-klu-as42473, by Anexia Internetdienstleistungs Gmbh in Klagenfurt, Austria * nz-lyj-as17746, by NZ Registry Services in Aukland, New Zealand * us-sjc-as22300, hosted by Wikia in San Jose (USA) * de-muc-as8767, by M-net Telekommunikations GmbH in Munich, Germany * es-leg-as766, by University Carlos III of Madrid, Leganes, Spain. The map of all anchor locations is available at: https://atlas.ripe.net/anchors/map/ You can access the anchoring measurements for all anchors at: https://atlas.ripe.net/anchors/list/ And here are the logos and links to hosting companies: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/community/#!tab-anchor-sponsors We are still accepting new applications from individuals and organisations interested in hosting a RIPE Atlas anchor. We are particularly interested in deploying anchors in the Middle East, Western Asia, Latin America and Africa, in order to add more geographical diversity to the measurement data. There are more organisations that want to host a RIPE Atlas anchor but don’t have the necessary funding. To learn more about sponsoring an anchor, please contact us at mcb(a)ripe.net To apply for your own RIPE Atlas anchor: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/become-an-anchor-host/ For any other questions, please contact us at atlas(a)ripe.net Regards, Vesna Manojlovic Measurements Community Building RIPE NCC

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New on RIPE Labs: AMS-IX Outage during RIPE 70 as Seen with RIPE Atlas
by Mirjam Kuehne 14 May '15

14 May '15

Dear colleagues, Please find this new article on RIPE Labs including some visualisations of yesterday's AMS-IX network outage: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/kistel/the-ams-ix-outage-as-seen-with-ripe-at… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCCC

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feature request: have stat report on transitted prefixes
by Job Snijders 14 May '15

14 May '15

Hi MAT, I'd really like the stat team to implement a tool that tells me what prefixes are originated AND transitted by a given ASN. The use-case is that I (before setting up BGP sessions) can make an automated assessment what amount of prefixes the network will announce, which prefixes they are likely to announce and if that matches up with the prefix-filter I would apply on that bgp session. A second use case is that when I want to connect a peer or customer to which I have never been connected before, I have no idea what they will announce to me. Should I want to make predictions for traffic engineering purposes, it would be beneficial if I could fetch a list of prefixes this peer is likely to announce to other peers from the stat system. A sliding window of say 30 days would be perfect, for my purposes I do not need the tool to offer data going back to the beginning of time. Do others agree that the above would be a useful feature? Kind regards, Job

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New on RIPE Labs: On the Diversity of Interdomain Routing in Africa
by Mirjam Kuehne 08 May '15

08 May '15

Dear colleagues, In this new article on RIPE Labs, the authors looked into measuring Interdomain Routing in Africa using the RIPE Atlas infrastructure. This resulted in a paper published at the Passive and Active Measurement (PAM) conference. Here some highlights of this research are presented: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/fanou_roderick/on-the-diversity-of-interdomai… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Call for MAT CoChair candidates
by Christian Kaufmann 08 May '15

08 May '15

Dear MAT WG, now as our new process is in place: >> 1. A call for interested parties is made on the WG mailing list at three yearly intervals, or as needed >> 2. Interested parties have 2 weeks to make their interest known via the mailing list >> 3. The MAT-WG chairs issue a call for discussion as per normal. WG members express their approval or otherwise of the presented candidates. >> 4. After two weeks the chairs declare consensus as they would do for a policy proposal I want to issue a call for a new CoChair which supports me in running and preparing the Meeting. As a remainder our Charter and Website can be found at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/groups/wg/mat and the Job description at: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-542 Please feel free to nominate yourself if you are interested or shanghai others ( with their approval:-)) till the 21st April. Thx a lot and best regards, Christian Kaufmann MAT WG (Co)-Chair

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New on RIPE Labs: Measuring Countries and IXPs in the SEE Region
by Mirjam Kuehne 24 Apr '15

24 Apr '15

Dear colleagues, In this post we look at 10 countries in South East Europe and see how we can use RIPE Atlas to get a sense of routing and the interconnectedness of networks in these countries. This is the longer version of a lightning talk Vesna Manojlovic gave at the recent SEE 4 meeting: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/measuring-countries-and-ixps-in-the… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Draft agenda for the MAT WG @ RIPE70
by Christian Kaufmann 22 Apr '15

22 Apr '15

Hello All, This is the draft agenda for the Measurement, Analysis and Tools Working Group session at RIPE70: A. Introduction: Welcome, Scribe, Jabber, Agenda (5m) B. New CoChair (5m) C. A basic ISP Ranking by market share, from random measurements - George Michaelson - 20 min D. RIPE Atlas update - Vesna - 10m E. “BGPStream” (an open source framework for live/historical BGP data analysis) - Chiara Orsini - 20m F. Measuring Delay and Packet Loss at an IXP - Arnold Nipper - 20min G. Result of the RIPE Atlas Hackathon - Vesna - 10 min Z. AOB Timings are approximate:-) The session will take place at 14:00 local time on Wednesday 13th May. See you in Amsterdam! Christian MAT WG Chair

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Results of RIPE Atlas data visualization hackathon
by Vesna Manojlovic 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

Dear all, In March 2015, a diverse group of contributors got together to come up with creative ways to visualise the health of the Internet using RIPE Atlas open measurements data. It was the first RIPE Atlas hackathon. Impressive results were hacked together by programmers, designers and operators during an intensive weekend of work and fun in Amsterdam. In this article we celebrate hackathon achievements, document and promote hackathon results, create a memento for participants and report in detail for the benefit of the rest of the community: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-atlas-hackathon-results Numbers * We received more than 70 applications for participation * Present: 24 participants & one no-show, 6 jury members and 11 support staff (coincidentally: 42!) * 6 out of 25 participants were female (24%) * 3 jury members were female (50%!) * Ten final projects were presented * Four projects were awarded prizes * 14 free & open source software projects were published on GitHub * 20 litres of tea were consumed * 10 large pizzas were eaten for lunch on Saturday * Two kilograms of chocolate Easter Eggs were munched up * 12 Club-Mate bottles were emptied Links: - All code: RIPE Atlas community pages on GitHub: https://github.com/RIPE-Atlas-Community/ripe-atlas-community-contrib/blob/m… - Videos: on RIPE NCC YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/RIPENCC/videos?shelf_id=0&view=0&sort=dd - Hackathon presentations and code: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-atlas-hackathon-presentations More links & photos in the article: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/becha/ripe-atlas-hackathon-results Regards, Vesna

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MAT WG Chair selection process
by Christian Kaufmann 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Dear MAT WG, as you might have seen on other RIPE WG mailinglists or experienced at the last RIPE meeting in London, all the WG's are coming up with a documented and transparent Chair selection process. In the past - the Chair which wanted to leave organised himself a replacement which was then accepted via humming or show of hands during the WG Session. This was not allowing people which where interested in becoming a chair but did not know about the upcoming change to run for this position. Also did WG Chairs tend to stay for a long time so there was not much chance for other people to become a Chair. The new process should solve this problems and also confirm every so often that the WG still want to have the existing chair as chair. My proposal for the MAT WG is the following, which is basically identically to what others like the DBWG are doing. 1. A call for interested parties is made on the WG mailing list at three yearly intervals, or as needed 2. Interested parties have 2 weeks to make their interest known via the mailing list 3. The MAT-WG chairs issue a call for discussion as per normal. WG members express their approval or otherwise of the presented candidates. 4. After two weeks the chairs declare consensus as they would do for a policy proposal This process would be used to reconfirm the existing chairs as well. Please let me know if this proposal suits our WG or not in the next 4 weeks. After we agreed on a process I will issue the first call for the vacant CoChair position. Best regards, Christian Kaufmann MAT WG (Co)-Chair

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Membership Statistics and Measurements in the MENOG Region
by Mirjam Kuehne 02 Apr '15

02 Apr '15

Dear colleagues, With the MENOG 15 meeting taking place this week, we looked at various statistics and measurements in the MENOG region, for instance membership growth, IPv6 deployment and interconnections measured with RIPE Atlas. Please find the results on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/how-does-the-menog-region-measure-up Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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New on RIPE Labs: Amsterdam Power Outage as Seen by RIPE Atlas
by Mirjam Kuehne 30 Mar '15

30 Mar '15

Dear colleagues, As you might have heard, there was a power outage last week Friday in the north of The Netherlands, a country with a very high density of RIPE Atlas probes. This density provides us with some interesting data and visualisation. You can find more details on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/andreas_strikos/amsterdam-power-outage-as-see… Kind regards, Mirjam Kuehne RIPE NCC

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Call for Presentations at RIPE 70 in Amsterdam
by Christian Kaufmann 24 Mar '15

24 Mar '15

Dear MAT WG, I am working on putting together the agenda for the MAT working group meeting on Wednesday 13th May at RIPE 70 in Amsterdam and there are still slots left. If you have something you would like to present, please let me know in the next two weeks. Thanks a lot, Christian Kaufmann MAT WG Chair

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