Published in Shutdown. Tags: india, Manipur.
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 […]
Published in Resilience. Tags: e-gov, Measuring the Internet, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, USA.
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. […]
Published in Shutdown. Tags: Africa, Ethiopia, service blocking.
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 […]
Published in Resilience, Shutdown, Technology. Tags: advocacy, government, https, ipv6, tls.
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.
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 […]
Published in Shutdown. Tags: economy, NetLoss, tools.
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.
Published in Technology. Tags: http3, measurements, quic.
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 […]
Published in Technology. Tags: http/2, http3, measurements, quic, tcp.
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 […]
Published in Technology. Tags: 4G, quic, tcp, wifi.
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 […]
Published in Technology. Tags: http3, quic, tcp, tls.
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 […]
Published in Resilience. Tags: Measuring the Internet, web 3.0.
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, […]
Published in Technology. Tags: censorship, measurements.
Collecting measurement data is only part of the process of characterizing censorship and making it useful.
Published in Technology. Tags: Bangladesh, Brazil, china, india, Indonesia, ipv6, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, USA.
With the two largest populations in the world, India and China are also boasting the most IPv6 users in the world.
Published in Resilience. Tags: cable, fiber, Infrastructure.
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.
Published in Concentration, Technology. Tags: cdn, cloud, peering, research, transit.
Development and innovation happening at the edge of the Internet is having a significant impact on its evolution.
Published in Shutdown. Tags: Africa, Chapters, elections, Nigeria.
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.
Published in Resilience. Tags: APRICOT 2023, Philippines, South East Asia.
Climate and geography makes maintaining the Internet in the Philippines expensive.
Published in Resilience, Shutdown. Tags: Italy, ixp, outage, peering.
Italy’s recent Internet outage was a failure that was years in the making and could have been negated through greater interconnectivity.
Published in Resilience.
Source Address Validation is a key technique to mitigate anti-spoofing.
Published in Technology. Tags: Bahrain, ipv6, MENOG, Middle East, tools.
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 […]
