Mapping Terrestrial Fibre Optic Networks is Essential for Measuring Internet Resilience

Published in Resilience. Tags: , , .

A common standard for describing fiber infrastructure makes it easier for regulators and policymakers to accurately assess the true extent and resiliency of their fiber optic networks.

Mapping Terrestrial Fibre Optic Networks is Essential for Measuring Internet Resilience

How Gamers Provide a Snapshot of Internet’s Health

Published in Resilience. Tags: , .

Learn how researchers extracted latency information from screenshots uploaded to the web by 184,000 gamers globally.

How Gamers Provide a Snapshot of Internet’s Health

Ending Internet Poverty

Published in Resilience. Tags: , , , , , .

The number of people living in Internet poverty continues to fall thanks largely to fall in cost of Internet.

Ending Internet Poverty

Update Your Website Key to Reduce Website Impersonation

Published in Technology. Tags: , , , .

Reducing maximum lifetimes of TLS certificates to 90 days could eliminate up to 75% of third-party staleness.

Update Your Website Key to Reduce Website Impersonation

Measuring Internet Censorship Without Volunteers or Vantage Points

Published in Shutdown. Tags: , , .

Authoritarian regimes often censor websites for those within their borders, threatening free and open communication on the Internet. Measuring what is blocked, how censors operate, and how censorship changes over time is essential to understanding and circumventing these censorship efforts. Unfortunately, it is challenging to measure such things, particularly in countries that restrict researchers’ ability […]

Measuring Internet Censorship Without Volunteers or Vantage Points

How Foreign Networks are Changing Internet Landscape in Greece

Published in Uncategorized. Tags: , , , , .

The growth of Internet traffic has presented a significant challenge for large content and cloud providers (Hypergiants or HGs), which are constantly seeking innovative solutions to reduce latency and enhance user experience. Two solutions are deploying services and servers inside end-user networks (off-nets) and joining Internet Exchange Points (IXPs).  In the first approach, HGs install […]

How Foreign Networks are Changing Internet Landscape in Greece

Apply Now for the 2024 Pulse Research Fellowship 

Published in Pulse News. Tags: .

Are you interested in Internet measurements and research and have a project or tool in mind that contributes to upholding an open, globally-connected, secure, and trustworthy Internet?

Apply Now for the 2024 Pulse Research Fellowship 

IMC’23 Hackathon on Network Interference Using Open Data

Published in Pulse News.

Internet censorship and shutdown events have become increasingly common in many countries — in the last 12 months, the Internet Society’s Pulse Shutdown Tracker has recorded 94 shutdown events. When analyzing Internet censorship and shutdown events, Internet Society curates data from multiple datasets, including OONI, Google Transparency Report, and Cloudflare. Each dataset provides a unique […]

IMC’23 Hackathon on Network Interference Using Open Data

Optus Outage Exposes Australia’s Internet Resilience

Published in Uncategorized.

A resilient Internet is crucial for a flourishing economy and the advancement of a country. It supports businesses, fuels innovation, and connects communities, forming a backbone for modern society’s progress and prosperity. Network resiliency is much more than just preventing network failures or disaster recovery. It acknowledges the inevitability of such incidents and prioritizes rapid […]

Optus Outage Exposes Australia’s Internet Resilience

50/50 Vision to Keep Internet Traffic Local, Efficient, and Cost-effective 

Published in Resilience. Tags: , , .

The 50/50 Vision is an ambitious target set by the Internet Society to keep at least half of all Internet traffic in selected countries local by 2025.

50/50 Vision to Keep Internet Traffic Local, Efficient, and Cost-effective 

Measuring Connection Tampering Around the World 

Published in Resilience. Tags: , .

A middlebox is a computer networking device that can transform, inspect, filter, and manipulate Internet traffic — otherwise known as connection tampering — that is deemed as restricted between clients and servers due to reasons such as copyright infringement or Internet censorship. Although these intentions seek to improve security and performance, there is a need to […]

Measuring Connection Tampering Around the World 

How Indian Internet Users are Circumventing Internet Shutdowns

Published in Shutdown. Tags: .

People living and working in regions prone to prolonged Internet shutdowns in India, such as Jammu Kashmir, and Manipur, have devised various ways to access the Internet. Below is a sample of these methods to help others who are dealing with government-enforced Internet shutdowns. Note some of these require pre-planning and setting up before a […]

How Indian Internet Users are Circumventing Internet Shutdowns

Manipur’s Digital Blackout: Internet Shutdown is an Assault on Justice and Fundamental Rights

Published in Shutdown. Tags: , .

On 19 July 2023, a video went viral on X (formerly Twitter) showing two women from Manipur’s Kangpokpi district being paraded naked by a mob of hundreds of men. The footage sparked outrage across political spectrums.  Netizens voiced their anguish and dismay regarding the treatment of the women as well as the fact that this […]

Manipur’s Digital Blackout: Internet Shutdown is an Assault on Justice and Fundamental Rights

Another permeating test

Published in Concentration.

this is another permalink test

Testing new permalink structure

Published in Concentration.

This is a test of new permalink structure

Test Vev

Published in Technology. Tags: .

How Resilient are E-Gov Services?

Published in Resilience. Tags: , , , , , .

Electronic government (e-gov) services enable citizens and residents to interact with their governments digitally via the Internet and are considered an indicator of resilient local Internet service. The Domain Name System (DNS), which maps domain names to Internet addresses, underpins e-gov services. Therefore, if the DNS services of e-gov domains fail, government services become unreachable. […]

How Resilient are E-Gov Services?

Measuring Africa’s Internet Resilience — What’s Changed

Published in Resilience. Tags: .

With the new Internet Resilience Index, we can now see how African countries compare to the rest of the world

Measuring Africa’s Internet Resilience — What’s Changed

Where Does Ethiopia’s Service Blocking Shutdown Rank

Published in Shutdown. Tags: , , .

Earlier this week, a tweet caught our attention noting that Pulse partner, Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), was showing social media platforms in Ethiopia were now accessible without using a Virtual Private Network (VPN), bringing to an end a 158-day service blocking order by local authorities. As per the Pulse Shutdown Tracker, local authorities […]

Where Does Ethiopia’s Service Blocking Shutdown Rank

Bangladesh, Turkey Domains Secured

Published in Countries, Technology. Tags: , , , , .

In the second quarter of 2023 two more countries have joined the ranks of those with secured country-code Top Level Domains (ccTLD) and security keys deployed in the DNS root zone. Just about every Internet communication starts with a Domain Name System (DNS) lookup. The DNS is an essential piece of Internet infrastructure that translates […]

How Governments Can Identify Weaknesses in Their Country’s Internet

Published in Resilience, Shutdown, Technology. Tags: , , , , .

Decision-makers and advocates can use Pulse to identify weaknesses in their local Internet ecosystem and make evidence-based, public policy decisions to address these.

How Governments Can Identify Weaknesses in Their Country’s Internet

Tracking Internet Shutdowns in 2023

Published in Shutdown.

It is increasingly common for governments to shut down the Internet on a national or sub-national level in an effort to solve specific problems, including control of civil unrest, stem the flow of misinformation, or prevent cheating on national exams. As of the start of July 2023, governments and other actors across 15 countries have […]

Tracking Internet Shutdowns in 2023

Measure the Economic Impact of Internet Shutdowns with the Internet Society Pulse NetLoss Calculator

Published in Shutdown. Tags: , , .

The NetLoss Calculator is a new feature we’ve added to the Pulse platform to provide a rigorous and precise estimate of the economic outcomes of Internet shutdowns.

Measure the Economic Impact of Internet Shutdowns with the Internet Society Pulse NetLoss Calculator

The Challenges Ahead for HTTP/3

Published in Technology. Tags: , , .

If you’ve followed my series of posts on the benefits of HTTP/3 (QUIC) compared to HTTP/2 (TCP), by now you might think that these new protocols seem too good to be true. They improve performance, boost security/privacy, and are the perfect bedrock for future-proof experimentation and improvements in the years to come. Still, the protocols have […]

The Challenges Ahead for HTTP/3

Measuring HTTP/3 Real-World Performance

Published in Technology. Tags: , , , , .

So far in this series, I’ve detailed how QUIC and HTTP/3 have overcome the security and privacy issues that plague the Transport Control Protocol (TCP) and HTTP/2 in a future-proof way. In this post, I’ll look at how they compare when it comes to perhaps the most important feature of any protocol: performance. Comparing HTTP/3 […]

Measuring HTTP/3 Real-World Performance

How QUIC Helps You Seamlessly Connect to Different Networks

Published in Technology. Tags: , , , .

Imagine using your phone at work to connect to a virtual meeting via your office WiFi network. The video conference is going overtime but you need to get to a client meeting across town. The facilitator says there are only 15 minutes left so you decide to watch the rest while you walk to your […]

How QUIC Helps You Seamlessly Connect to Different Networks

Why HTTP/3 is Eating the World

Published in Technology. Tags: , , , .

The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a cornerstone of the Internet, helping to load Web pages, stream videos, and fetch data for your favorite apps. Last year a new version of the protocol, HTTP/3, was standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the organization in charge of defining Internet technologies. Since then, HTTP/3 and the related […]

Why HTTP/3 is Eating the World

IPv6 to Improve Performance for Telefónica Subscribers

Published in Technology. Tags: , , .

Spanish Internet provider Telefónica recently announced it has completed the deployment of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for all Movistar and O2 mobile network customers in Spain. Rolling out the technology upgrade started in November 2022. The Spanish network operator also claimed it will deploy IPv6 to all fixed broadband connections by the end of […]

IPv6 to Improve Performance for Telefónica Subscribers

The Challenges of Measuring Decentralized Networks: The Case of the InterPlanetary File System

Published in Resilience. Tags: , .

The decentralized web, also known as Web 3.0, is an innovative approach to the traditional web we currently use. It provides users with more resilience, security, and control of where their data is stored. However, because of its decentralized and peer-to-peer (P2P) structure, Web 3.0 makes measuring and monitoring its performance challenging. In this post, […]

The Challenges of Measuring Decentralized Networks: The Case of the InterPlanetary File System

How Hygienic is Your Website and Email Service?

Published in Resilience. Tags: , .

The Internet Hygiene Portal allows consumers to assess the level of security of website and email services to help them make informed choices to safeguard their digital transactions from cyber threats.

How Hygienic is Your Website and Email Service?

Announcing 2023 Pulse Research Fellows

Published in Pulse News. Tags: .

We’re please to announce the inaugural cohort of Pulse Research Fellows.

Announcing 2023 Pulse Research Fellows

Making Censorship Data More User Friendly

Published in Technology. Tags: , .

Collecting measurement data is only part of the process of characterizing censorship and making it useful.

Making Censorship Data More User Friendly

Four of the World’s Top 10 Populous Countries Driving IPv6 Adoption

Published in Technology. Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .

With the two largest populations in the world, India and China are also boasting the most IPv6 users in the world.

Four of the World’s Top 10 Populous Countries Driving IPv6 Adoption

A Standard to Increase Availability, Accessibility of Terrestrial Fiber Infrastructure Data

Published in Resilience. Tags: , , .

Open Fibre Data Standard seeks to streamline the process of making sense of the data and enable public and private sector stakeholders to make data-driven decisions about terrestrial fiber projects.

A Standard to Increase Availability, Accessibility of Terrestrial Fiber Infrastructure Data

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Published in Technology. Tags: , , .

While I was writing this post for Pulse last year, to note that the Top Level Domain (TLD) for Côte d’Ivoire (.ci) had been signed, I noticed that both .ke (Kenya) and .bw (Botswana) were unsigned since 15 September and 22 June respectively. Both of these domains had previously been signed. It’s very troubling to […]

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Is the Classic Internet Still Relevant?

Published in Concentration, Technology. Tags: , , , , .

Development and innovation happening at the edge of the Internet is having a significant impact on its evolution.

Is the Classic Internet Still Relevant?

Measure the Health of the Internet, Help Collect Local Traffic Measurements

Published in Resilience. Tags: , , .

Do you live in one of the following countries? Bolivia Iraq Morocco Brazil Kazakhstan Palestine Burkina Faso Madagascar Philippines Democratic Republic of Congo Malawi Samoa Georgia Maldives Sudan If so, the Internet measurement community needs your help and you don’t need any technical knowledge to contribute! The Internet Society Pulse team is developing a methodology to […]

Measure the Health of the Internet, Help Collect Local Traffic Measurements

Unitel Gets the IPv6 Ball Rolling in Mongolia

Published in Technology. Tags: , .

Earlier this year while compiling the latest IPv6 deployment data for our Pulse Enabling Technologies page my attention was drawn to a dramatic rise in levels of IPv6 traffic emanating from Mongolia. Interested to learn more, we set about making contact with Unitel, the largest digital service provider in Mongolia and the source of the […]

Unitel Gets the IPv6 Ball Rolling in Mongolia

Mongolia Joins Growing Number of Countries Reducing Openness and Resilience of the Internet

Published in Shutdown. Tags: , .

The Mongolian parliament is reviewing a controversial law that gives the minister of internal affairs the power to shut down access to the Internet. The law, which was hastily passed by the parliament in January and then quickly vetoed by the president, would remove the ability of 3.3 million people to communicate, learn, and earn […]

Mongolia Joins Growing Number of Countries Reducing Openness and Resilience of the Internet

Kazahkstan, Haiti Domains Secured

Published in Technology. Tags: , , .

In the first quarter of 2023 two more countries have joined the ranks of those with secured country-code Top Level Domains (ccTLD) and security keys deployed in the DNS root zone. Just about every Internet communication starts with a Domain Name System (DNS) lookup. The DNS is an essential piece of Internet infrastructure that translates […]

Kazahkstan, Haiti Domains Secured

DNSSEC Validation in 2022: Canada and USA in Decline

Published in Technology. Tags: , , , , .

In my first post in this series, I highlighted the amazing growth of DNSSEC validation in countries within Africa. In this post, I’ll jump across the Atlantic Ocean to highlight the mixed changes we’ve seen in DNSSEC validation over the past year in North and South America. Growth continues in South America, with Guyana, Venezuela, and Argentina all making significant gains […]

DNSSEC Validation in 2022: Canada and USA in Decline

Nigeria Regulator and Advisors Collaborate to Strengthen Internet

Published in Shutdown. Tags: , , , .

The Internet Society Nigeria Chapter has been collaborating and informing the national regulator on threats against the Internet, including nullify rumors of Internet shutdown during the recent Nigerian elections.

Nigeria Regulator and Advisors Collaborate to Strengthen Internet

DNSSEC Validation in 2022: Africa Leads With Amazing Growth

Published in Technology. Tags: , , , , .

2022 saw solid growth in DNSSEC validation around the world with some amazing increases in countries within Africa

DNSSEC Validation in 2022: Africa Leads With Amazing Growth

Apply Now for Inaugural Pulse Research Fellowship 

Published in Uncategorized. Tags: .

Are you interested in Internet measurement research and have a project or tool in mind that contributes to upholding an open, globally-connected, secure, and trustworthy Internet? 

Apply Now for Inaugural Pulse Research Fellowship 

Philippines Internet Resilience Trending in the Right Direction

Published in Resilience. Tags: , , .

Climate and geography makes maintaining the Internet in the Philippines expensive.

Philippines Internet Resilience Trending in the Right Direction

RFC 9364 Offers a One-Stop Answer To “What Standards Make Up DNSSEC?”

Published in Technology, Uncategorized. Tags: , .

RFC 9364 is a valuable reference you can point people to where they can learn about all the elements of DNSSEC.

RFC 9364 Offers a One-Stop Answer To “What Standards Make Up DNSSEC?”

Italy’s Internet Outage a Perfect Storm

Published in Resilience, Shutdown. Tags: , , , .

Italy’s recent Internet outage was a failure that was years in the making and could have been negated through greater interconnectivity.

Italy’s Internet Outage a Perfect Storm

Fewer than 20% of networks in Latin America, the Caribbean are vulnerable to inbound IP spoofing

Published in Resilience.

Source Address Validation is a key technique to mitigate anti-spoofing.

Fewer than 20% of networks in Latin America, the Caribbean are vulnerable to inbound IP spoofing

Don’t Believe Every ‘Extraordinary’ Stat You See

Published in Technology. Tags: , , , , .

Last month, Hanna Kreitem and I participated in MENOG22, an event organized by the RIPE NCC in Manama, Bahrain. It is the major networking and peering event in the region attracting 183 attendees from 29 countries for two days of presentations, and lots of discussions and interesting exchanges during the breaks and the social event. During […]

Don’t Believe Every ‘Extraordinary’ Stat You See

IPv6 To The Stars

Published in Technology. Tags: , , , .

The stars are aligning for IPv6 deployment. The last two months have seen huge rollouts of IPv6 technology at the Ukrainian ISP Kyivstar and the satellite Internet operator Starlink. We want to highlight these significant ongoing IPv6 deployments as they serve to illustrate the continued adoption of this key enabling technology by major network operators […]

IPv6 To The Stars

Is the Internet Fragmenting or Decentralizing (or Both)?

Published in Uncategorized.

Concerns about the Internet fragmenting into multiple, disconnected and non-interoperable networks have been raised and discussed within Internet governance forums for nearly a decade, including at this week’s Internet Governance Forum (IGF). Follow: IGF 2022 Open Forum #49 Advancing Digital Inclusion through the Freedom Online Coalition: Responding to Internet Fragmentation Many in the technical community, including […]

Is the Internet Fragmenting or Decentralizing (or Both)?

Internet (Un)Reliability Around the World

Published in Technology.

As a network of networks, the Internet can be characterized as a set of dependencies between networks. Dependencies for both connectivity and customers. An outage at any specific network can impact dependent networks that do not have alternative means of accessing the Internet. Some networks are so large that significant outages can impact many dependent […]

Internet (Un)Reliability Around the World

Counting the Cost of Internet Outages in Lebanon

Published in Shutdown.

Internet service interruptions in Lebanon are increasing in frequency and becoming the norm. Access via landlines and mobile data is affected across all regions in the country. The argument used to justify these outages is power cuts at local transmission stations. At the Internet Society Lebanon Chapter, we estimate that the direct and indirect costs […]

Counting the Cost of Internet Outages in Lebanon

Côte D’Ivoire Secures DNS

Published in Technology. Tags: .

We wrote earlier this year about Rwanda joining the ranks of fully DNSSEC capable domains and now we can report that they have been followed by the Côte d’Ivoire ccTLD, .ci. The .ci ccTLD is managed by the Côte d’Ivoire Network Information Centre. It’s been a few years since ICANN helped to provide DNSSEC deployment workshops for […]

Côte D’Ivoire Secures DNS

Multiple Internet Disruptions Observed in Iran

Published in Shutdown. Tags: , .

Over the past couple of weeks we have observed multiple incidents of artificial Internet limitations in Iran. These incidents are reported to be connected to local unrest. We collect data and analysis on Internet shutdown events occurring around the world, and look at the economic and human impact of these actions. Timeline Regional shutdowns On […]

Multiple Internet Disruptions Observed in Iran

Egypt’s Submarine Cable Stranglehold

Published in News. Tags: .

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/egypts-submarine-cable-stranglehold/

New Report on the Impact of Internet Shutdowns to Prevent Cheating on Exams Launched

Published in Shutdown. Tags: , , , , , .

A new report, Internet Shutdowns to Prevent Cheating During Exams: The Impact on Society and Economy in the MENA Region, has been launched today by SMEX, a Lebanese NGO that works to advance self-regulating information societies in the MENA region.  The report comes after another summer of Internet shutdowns throughout the region, which saw Internet […]

New Report on the Impact of Internet Shutdowns to Prevent Cheating on Exams Launched

Rogers Outage: What do we Know After Two Months?

Published in Concentration, Resilience.

It’s now been a full two months since Rogers Telecom suffered a nationwide Internet outage, leaving tens of millions of Canadians without telecommunications services.  On the morning of 8 July 2022, Rogers subscribers across Canada found themselves without Internet service.  The outage spread to cable, mobile services, and fixed line telephony, including access to E911 […]

Rogers Outage: What do we Know After Two Months?

Tech firms, telcos in India urge central govt to control internet shutdowns

Published in News. Tags: .

Internet shutdowns cost the country more than $580 million in 2021, with 59 million people impacted. https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/tech-telco-firms-seek-federal-oversight-to-control-internet-shutdowns-122090700496_1.html

TLS 1.3: A Story Of Experimentation And Centralization

Published in News.

https://blog.apnic.net/2022/08/17/tls-1-3-a-story-of-experimentation-and-centralization/

Iran’s Internet Shutdowns are Facilitated by Careful Attempts at Fragmentation of the Network

Published in Shutdown. Tags: , .

Iran has a notable history of maintaining a tight grip over the Internet within the country. Since 2009, there has been an increasing number of Internet shutdowns in Iran, ranging from local and regional events to a near total national blackout in November 2019. During this event, the Iranian government shut down the Internet for […]

Iran’s Internet Shutdowns are Facilitated by Careful Attempts at Fragmentation of the Network

How To Shut Down The Internet And How To Fight Back

Published in News. Tags: .

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/29/how-to-shut-down-the-internet-and-how-to-fight-back

Are We On The Verge Of Internet 2.0?

Published in Technology. Tags: , .

If you’ve been around the Internet and tech industries for a while, it can start to feel like there’s often more hype than reality to a lot of buzzword-driven trends and so-called innovations. The advent of Web 2.0 in the early noughties had substance and ushered in a new era of more collaborative, social websites and […]

Are We On The Verge Of Internet 2.0?

From Centralization to Market Concentration 

Published in Concentration.

In 2021, a fourth focus area was published on Internet Society Pulse. We called it “Internet Centralization”. Today we’ve changed the name to “Market Concentration” and we wanted to explain why.  The concept of centralization can be seen as the degree to which an activity within a given set of relationships is dependent on a […]

From Centralization to Market Concentration 

The U.N Calls on States to Stop Shutting Down the Internet  

Published in Shutdown.

The devastating real-life effects of Internet shutdowns on the lives and rights of millions of people are vastly under-appreciated and deserve much greater attention, says a new report on Internet shutdowns, published by The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN-OHCHR). Internet shutdowns create significant obstacles that damage economies, democratic processes, […]

The U.N Calls on States to Stop Shutting Down the Internet  

Older versions of TLS deprecated by Amazon

Published in News.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/tls-1-2-required-for-aws-endpoints/

Outage in Egypt impacted AWS, GCP and Azure interregional connectivity

Published in News.

https://www.kentik.com/blog/outage-in-egypt-impacted-aws-gcp-and-azure-interregional-connectivity/

Why School Exams are Disrupting Everyone’s Internet Access

Published in Shutdown. Tags: .

Internet access is an essential part of life for many people around the globe – but not during the school exam period in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This is the message that is conveyed by the ongoing disruption of Internet access for millions of people, in part or in full, to stop students cheating on public exams in several countries, including Syria, Sudan, Jordan, and Algeria. Often used as […]

Why School Exams are Disrupting Everyone’s Internet Access

Sudan: Exam Season 2022 Internet Shutdowns

Published in Shutdown. Tags: , .

General entrance exams in Sudan took place from 11-22 June, 2022, and alongside them came Internet shutdowns implemented as a measure to combat cheating. As has occurred over the last few years, Internet access was disrupted for everyone, rendering Sudan out of reach from the world for a few hours on each day with scheduled […]

Sudan: Exam Season 2022 Internet Shutdowns

Syria: Exam Season 2022 Internet Shutdowns

Published in Shutdown. Tags: , .

General entrance exams in Syria took place from 30 May – 21 June, 2022, and alongside them came Internet shutdowns implemented as a measure to combat cheating. As is the case since 2016, Internet access was disrupted for everyone, rendering Syria out of reach from the world for a few hours on each day with […]

Syria: Exam Season 2022 Internet Shutdowns

An Eye On The Numbers: IPv6 Deployment

Published in Technology. Tags: .

On Internet Society Pulse we present a variety of different measurements that help to illustrate the extent and variation in IPv6 deployment around the world and across the networks that comprise the global Internet. June 2022 marks the 10-year anniversary of World IPv6 Launch so we thought this would be a good time to reflect on some of […]

An Eye On The Numbers: IPv6 Deployment

HTTP RFCs have evolved: A Cloudflare view of HTTP usage trends

Published in News.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-view-http3-usage/

Remarks by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield at a UN Security Council Meeting on the Use of Digital Technologies in Maintaining International Peace

Published in Uncategorized.

https://usun.usmission.gov/remarks-by-ambassador-linda-thomas-greenfield-at-a-un-security-council-meeting-on-the-use-of-digital-technologies-in-maintaining-international-peace-a/

Offline: When Exams Disrupt Everyone’s Internet

Published in Shutdown.

Every year, throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, millions of people are cut off from the Internet for lengthy periods while students take their school exams.In many countries in the region, national school exams are a major annual event. They can have a huge impact on people’s futures and the results usually […]

Offline: When Exams Disrupt Everyone’s Internet

Rwanda Signs Up for DNSSEC

Published in Technology. Tags: .

It’s been a few years since ICANN helped to provide DNSSEC deployment workshops for African ccTLD registries but that effort is still paying off. The latest ccTLD to join the ranks of fully DNSSEC capable domains is Rwanda’s .rw domain. The Rwandan ccTLD is managed by the Rwanda Internet Community and Technology Alliance and Rwanda is the 17th African […]

Rwanda Signs Up for DNSSEC

25 May: Offline: When Exams Disrupt Everyone’s Internet

Published in Past Event.

IPv6 Deployment Passes Another Milestone

Published in Technology. Tags: .

Google’s latest IPv6 measurements show the percentage of its users connecting to Google services over IPv6 passed 40% for the first time on 30 April this year. This is a significant milestone in the ongoing deployment of IPv6 services to Internet users all around the globe. Crossing this latest threshold now means that IPv6 use by Google users has grown from […]

IPv6 Deployment Passes Another Milestone

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Majority of Announced IPv6 Address Space Now Secured

Published in Technology. Tags: , , , .

Internet measurement results from our friends at APNIC show that efforts to improve the security and resilience of the Internet’s routing system passed a significant milestone recently. More than 50% of advertised IPv6 address space has a valid Route Origin Authorisation (ROA). This means that now, for the first time, the majority of announced IPv6 address space is secured with RPKI. […]

Majority of Announced IPv6 Address Space Now Secured

Internet Shutdowns to Prevent Cheating During Exams is a Disproportionate Measure

Published in Shutdown. Tags: , , .

High Court in India Challenges Internet Shutdown Order in West Bengal By Tanmay Singh, Internet Freedom Foundation and Anandita Mishra, Internet Freedom Foundation On 8 March, 2022, a resident of Calcutta in India challenged an Internet suspension order, which was issued by the State Government of West Bengal on 3 March, 2022. The order, ostensibly […]

Internet Shutdowns to Prevent Cheating During Exams is a Disproportionate Measure

Ukraine-Russia M-Lab Dashboard

Published in Uncategorized.

This is a live dashboard of speedtest data collected from Measurement-Lab. It presents data on both Ukraine and Russia as from 1 February, 2022. This dashboard provides a summary view by country (Pages 1 and 4) including the number of tests run on Ukrainian and Russian networks. The other pages provide either a City-level or […]

Internet Outages: What’s in a measurement?

Published in News.

Mozilla Foundation hosted a Twitter Spaces audio chat related to Mozilla’s new open dataset on Internet outages with Berhan Taye, Doug Madory, Maria Xynou, Alberto Dainotti and Alessio Placitelli. The recording is online now if you wish to listen or share further. It was a wide-ranging conversation about technical outage measurements, why they matter and […]

6 April: Upholding a sustainable, resilient internet: what coalitions and solutions are needed?

Published in Past Event. Tags: .

https://www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/research-event/upholding-sustainable-resilient-internet-what-coalitions-and-solutions

Défendre un internet durable et résilient : quelles coalitions et quelles solutions sont nécessaires ?

Published in Non classifié(e).

Internet Perspectives: Ukraine and Russia

Published in Resilience, Shutdown. Tags: , .

As events unfold in Ukraine and the world is focused on following what is happening, it’s important to remember that critical Internet infrastructure plays a key role in keeping people connected, providing access to all kinds of crucial information and support and helping people stay in contact with loved ones across borders. At the Internet […]

Internet Perspectives: Ukraine and Russia

Internet Access Should Not be Disrupted to Serve Political Goals: Shutdowns in Jammu & Kashmir, India

Published in Shutdown.

In the past few years, India has imposed the lion’s share of Internet shutdowns across the world. The country witnessed a marked increase in the number of shutdowns since 2016 – ordering 121 of 213 documented shutdowns in 2019, and 109 of 155 documented shutdowns in 2020. An Internet shutdown, an intentional disruption of access […]

Internet Access Should Not be Disrupted to Serve Political Goals: Shutdowns in Jammu & Kashmir, India

Ukrainian Internet Shrinks by Over 15%

Published in Resilience. Tags: , .

Data from the Internet Outage Detection and Analysis tool (IODA) shows a decline in the reachability of Ukrainian Internet address space since the beginning of the recent conflict with Russia. Over 15% of previously reachable Internet addresses are no longer responsive to probes from IODA. The regions most impacted are unsurprisingly those where we know […]

Ukrainian Internet Shrinks by Over 15%

India Shuts Down the Internet in West Bengal to Prevent Cheating During School Exams

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Note: After this blog post was published, the High Court of Calcutta dismissed the order to shutdown the Internet in West Bengal. Read more about how quick legal action meant that hundreds of thousands of citizens in West Bengal were able to stay online in this blog post. Over the last few years, a worrying […]

India Shuts Down the Internet in West Bengal to Prevent Cheating During School Exams

How You Can Contribute to Internet Measurements: Run the OONI Probe

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The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a global community measuring Internet censorship around the world. In this short video, Maria Xynou, OONI’s Research & Partnerships Director, explains how you can take part by running the OONI Probe app to detect internet censorship where you are. She also explains how you can use the […]

How You Can Contribute to Internet Measurements: Run the OONI Probe

2-6 May, 2022: LACNIC 37

Published in Past Event.

LACNIC 37, Cali, Columbia and online. 2-6 May

19-25 March, 2022: IETF 113

Published in Past Event.

IETF 113, Vienna, Austria and online. 19-25 March, 2022.

Internet in Fiji impacted by DNSSEC errors

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https://blog.cloudflare.com/dnssec-issues-fiji/

Mozilla Opens Access to Dataset on Network Outages

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National Domain Name Security: 2021 in Review

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Just about every Internet communication starts with a Domain Name System (DNS) lookup. The DNS is an essential piece of Internet infrastructure that translates human-friendly names (internetsociety.org) into computer-friendly numbers (2001:41c8:20::b31a). Like many other components of the Internet, the DNS started out without any security features in a vastly different Internet landscape. Today, security and […]

National Domain Name Security: 2021 in Review

Severed Internet Access in Yemen: A Wake Up Call

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Yemen was forced into an Internet shutdown on Friday, 21 January, 2022 when the communications building in the city of Hodeidah was destroyed in a nighttime airstrike. The building is home to the only Internet cable landing point, connecting Yemen to the global Internet network, and the airstrike severed Yemen’s Internet gateway. In the aftermath, […]

Severed Internet Access in Yemen: A Wake Up Call

Internet Networks per Capita

Published in Technology.

In response to our recent post about the history of Internet network number assignments, Andy Davidson asked an interesting question via Twitter – what would this look like on a per capita basis? Very different indeed is the answer! (You may need to reload this page in your browser to see the animation below.) This […]

Internet Networks per Capita

Where Are the Internet Networks?

Published in Technology.

The Internet is a network of networks. But where are these networks?  We can get some insight by using the location of the organization that holds the registration for the allocated Autonomous System Number (ASN) assigned to the network as a proxy for the location of that network. All Internet networks must be assigned an ASN in order for them […]

Where Are the Internet Networks?

New Web Protocol Reaches Milestone

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The new web protocol HTTP/3 now makes up around a third of all traffic on large European networks according to a recent post from Sandvine. They monitored traffic on several large Tier-1 networks in Europe and the US and found that HTTP/3 (running over the new transport protocol QUIC) constituted around 30% of traffic in […]

New Web Protocol Reaches Milestone

Kazakhstan’s Internet Shutdown Leaves Millions in the Dark During Unrest – The National Post, 10 Jan 2022

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Kazakhstan’s Internet Shutdown Leaves Millions in the Dark During Unrest – The National Post, 10 Jan 2022

The Gambia’s Internet Outage Through an Internet Resilience Lens

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On the 4 January, 2022, The Gambia, the smallest country in mainland Africa, was completely cut off from the Internet for more than eight hours, leaving almost 2.5 million people without connectivity. Gamtel, the state-owned operator, released a communique on 5 January, explaining  the reasons of the outage.   What Happened? Most of the international traffic of The Gambia is routed […]

The Gambia’s Internet Outage Through an Internet Resilience Lens
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