04 Apr 2023 Advanced Networking Security ARIN’s Routing Security Services Play Important Role for the Research and Education Community By Steven Wallace Estimated reading time: 4 minutes As early adopters of internet technology, many network operators in the research and education (R&E) community use IP numbers allocated to them before ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) came into existence. ARIN is one of the five… Read More
17 Jan 2023 Advanced Networking Security NYSERNet Moves the Needle on Routing Integrity: Implementing Peer-Facing RPKI Route Origin Validation By Amber Rasche Estimated reading time: 7 minutes A Q&A with Bill Owens, NYSERNet We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Routing integrity is an end-to-end challenge that requires the participation of the entire Internet2-networked community and beyond. So, what does that mean? It’s in… Read More
10 Nov 2022 Advanced Networking ARIN Agreement Changes Offer 2 More Reasons to Secure Legacy Network Resources Before 2024 By Steven Wallace Estimated reading time: 4 minutes The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) recently released a new version of the Registration Services Agreement (RSA) and announced forthcoming increases to the legacy resource fee structure – offering… Read More
18 Oct 2022 Advanced Networking Security Front Range GigaPoP Moves the Needle on Routing Integrity: Boosting Member Participation in RPKI By Amber Rasche Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Q&A with John Hernandez, Front Range GigaPoP We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Routing integrity is an end-to-end challenge that requires the participation of the entire Internet2-networked community and beyond. So, what does that mean? It’s… Read More
20 Sep 2022 Advanced Networking Security I-Light and Indiana GigaPOP Move the Needle on Routing Integrity: Maintaining Proxy IRR Data for Members By Amber Rasche Estimated reading time: 5 minutes Q&A with Tom Johnson and Sean Carver, I-Light and the Indiana GigaPOP We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Routing integrity is an end-to-end challenge that requires the participation of the entire Internet2-networked community and beyond. So,… Read More
29 Jun 2022 Security Advanced Networking Internet2 Offers New Routing Integrity Assessment Service By Steven Wallace Estimated reading time: 2 minutes As part of its Routing Integrity Initiative, Internet2 is launching a new service to assist network operators and engineers in assessing their network’s implementation of routing integrity controls. The Internet2 Routing Integrity Assessment Service uses… Read More
31 May 2022 Security Take a Closer Look at the Internet2 Routing Integrity Initiative By Steven Wallace Estimated reading time: 3 minutes The Internet2 Routing Integrity Initiative aims to improve the research and education (R&E) community’s adoption of best practices that strengthen the resilience and reliability of data movement across the R&E network ecosystem to support our shared missions. Read More
12 May 2022 Internet2 Announcements Internet2 Submits Comments to FCC on Secure Internet Routing Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Central to the internet’s global routing system, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is used to exchange reachability information among independently operated networks on the internet. Of the more than 75,000 BGP-interconnected networks that make up the public internet,… Read More
31 Mar 2022 Security Twitter Thwarts Route Hijacking with Free Service Available to Research and Education Networks By Steven Wallace Estimated reading time: 1 minute On Monday, March 28, the Russian ISP RTCOMM began blocking Twitter from their users. Due to a misconfiguration, for a period of 45-minutes, their routing leak had the ripple effect of attempting to hijack… Read More
21 Mar 2022 Security How to Enable ARIN’s Registry Services to Secure Legacy IP Resources By Steven Wallace, Internet2 Security Architect Estimated reading time: 2 minutes Many Internet2 community organizations have IP networks that were allocated before ARIN, or the American Registry for Internet Numbers, was formed. These networks are known as “legacy resources.” While ARIN has never required holders… Read More