Guest Post: The Open Fibre Data Standard (OFDS) provides a common way to describe fibre infrastructure as structured, machine-readable data, allowing shared understanding without requiring uniform ownership or control.
The use of encrypted DNS transports for communication between recursive resolvers and authoritative services in the DNS was an important topic of discussion OARC 46 in Edinburgh.
Examining recent trends in DDoS activity across the Asia Pacific region and practical ways to reduce both exposure and impact.
Using Direct Current in data centres can yield sizeable energy savings, but there are tradeoffs.
Guest Post: From Kubernetes migration to improved ASN comparison and stronger data normalization, PeeringDB has delivered a range of updates over the past six months. This report highlights key operational changes, new search capabilities, and what’s coming next to support users and contributors.
Guest Post: IPv6 can be seen as an infrastructure refresh, rather than an organizational responsibility tied to governance, risk, and compliance. Reframe it in those terms, and it shifts from a network discussion to a board-level obligation.
Guest Post: RPKIViews captures the constantly changing global RPKI dataset without storing wasteful full snapshots. By using CCRs, deduplication, and high-efficiency compression, rpkispools make long-term RPKI research practical at scale.
Guest Post: MNOs lease LEO satellites from SNOs as a cost-effective way for to expand coverage, but cannot guarantee service quality without control over the satellites. Ripple is a competition-driven framework that directly links SNOs’ revenue to the service quality they deliver.
SCION has both supporters and critics, but it faces a major challenge: Replacing BGP while competing in an environment where network decisions are driven more by carrier costs than by strategic priorities.
LEO satellite networks are returning to the mobile market, this time shaped by lower launch costs and changing industry economics, with lessons from Iridium still looming.
