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

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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

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?

Where Does Ethiopia’s Service Blocking Shutdown Rank

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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

How Governments Can Identify Weaknesses in Their Country’s Internet

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

Making Censorship Data More User Friendly

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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

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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

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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

Is the Classic Internet Still Relevant?

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

Is the Classic Internet Still Relevant?

Nigeria Regulator and Advisors Collaborate to Strengthen Internet

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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

Philippines Internet Resilience Trending in the Right Direction

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

Philippines Internet Resilience Trending in the Right Direction

Italy’s Internet Outage a Perfect Storm

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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

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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
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