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24
Apr
2023
By James Deaton
Just two weeks remain before the 2023 Internet2 Community Exchange, May 8-11 in Atlanta, and the shared excitement across our community is palpable! This inaugural Community Exchange marks an opportunity for the research and education (R&E) community to gather and showcase the great work and progress we’ve all made…
04
Apr
2023
By Steven Wallace
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 Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) that coordinate the use…
29
Jun
2022
By Steven Wallace
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 this questionnaire – developed by Internet2 and tailored to the…
31
May
2022
By Steven Wallace
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. Routing integrity is an end-to-end challenge that requires the participation of the entire…
12
May
2022
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, Internet2 ranks 54th globally for interconnecting networks and hosts.
31
Mar
2022
By Steven Wallace
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 Twitter from the entire global internet. Fortunately, the hijack didn’t work. In…
21
Mar
2022
By Steven Wallace, Internet2 Security Architect
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 of legacy resources to bring them under the terms of an ARIN…
31
Aug
2021
By Andrew Gallo, Principal IT Architect, The George Washington University
Routing security continues to be an active area of discussion, both in the research and education networking community and across the industry. Let’s keep the enthusiasm going! IRR Data Clean-Up Steven Wallace, Internet2 Security Architect, has been holding virtual office hours to help community members with all things related to…
