The RIPE Labs Podcast
Episodes
The Technical Impact of Rapid-Response Blocking: Italy’s Piracy Shield
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest episode, Raffaele Sommese of the University of Twente shares insights from him and his colleagues on Italy’s Piracy Shield and how rap...
ICP-2 In Review: Charting the RIR Lifecycle
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
ICP-2 lays out the criteria for the recognition of new RIRs. But what about the rest of the lifecycle of the organisations that coordinate the allocat...
Break Ground! Plant Seeds! Rewild the Internet!
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Internet has long been fertile ground for innovative technologies to grow and openly compete. But having emerged out of these conditions, certain ...
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is “the Internet”? And why is it not just our access to a search engine or our favourite social media platform? In this episode, Hisham Ibr...
Making Digital Sustainability Make Sense
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The digital infrastructure we're all so dependent on has a negative - and growing - impact on the environment. In this episode, Michael Oghia talks ab...
How the Internet Routed Around Damage in the Baltic Sea
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When two Internet cables in the Baltic Sea were reported as broken last November, researchers at the RIPE NCC turned to RIPE Atlas to examine the dama...
Who Governs Cyberspace?
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we dive deep into the evolving world of cyberspace and international cybersecurity law with Francesca Bosco from the CyberPeace Insti...
Detecting Cyber Threats to Critical Systems
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is no longer unusual for Operational Technology systems to be connected to IT systems and the Internet, but this leaves them increasingly open to c...
Embracing Neurodiversity in the Internet Community
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Overcoming the various challenges involved in keeping the Internet running calls for different ways of thinking about those challenges. In this episod...
Patching Internet Vulnerabilities with RPKI
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The White House recently announced plans to boost Internet routing security in the US through better RPKI coverage. So how does RPKI help secure BGP? ...
Developing the DNS Under Pressure
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Being at the core of the Internet places the DNS under a lot of pressure. New forms of DNS abuse emerge each year, disputes over domain names persist,...
Defining a Responsible Internet
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For many, the Internet is essentially a black box. We connect with endpoints to send and receive data, but we have little insight into what happens in...
From Academia to Internet: Pioneers of EARN, NSFNET and RIPE
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the RIPE Labs podcast, three Internet pioneers talk about how they helped grow the Internet out of its early infancy, back when its...
Internet Privacy and the Cost of Losing Control
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Internet users, the companies who sell us our devices, and governments are all caught up in the struggle to protect our privacy. In this episode, Bert...
Starlink and the Future of Low-Orbit Internet
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Starlink's megaconstellations deliver broadband Internet to customers around the globe. But while the tech promises to democratise Internet access, it...
Something's Wrong on the Internet
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Internet is hardly foolproof in its design, and whether by accident or on purpose, the people who use and operate it sometimes don't do things the...
Ready or Not - Rethinking Cybersecurity for a Post-Quantum World
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Quantum technologies promise all kinds of fascinating possibilities, but they also come with risks. In this episode of the RIPE Labs podcast, And...
The Historical Record of the Internet
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Understanding outages and shutdowns and how the Internet as a whole came to be vulnerable to, and also resilient against, these kinds of events requir...
Frugal Computing for a Sustainable Internet
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anastasiya Pak talks to Professor Wim Vanderbauwhede - lead of the Low Carbon and Sustainable Computing activity at the School of Computing Science of...
Mapping the Geopolitical Internet
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mapping the dialectical relationship between the Internet and rivalries of power and influence across territories calls on expertise from a variety of...
To Serve the Board
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What it means to serve as a RIPE NCC Executive Board member has changed dramatically in the twelve years since Christian Kaufmann first took on the ro...
Best Practices for a Resilient Internet in Times of War
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the RIPE Labs podcast, we talk about how the war has changed the way the Internet community in Ukraine works, the pressure companie...
In Defence of BGP
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
BGP is the Internet's de facto routing protocol - but it's also one with many vulnerabilities and is only deeply understood by a relatively small frac...
How Sanctions Obstruct Access to the Internet
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Economic sanctions have a very clear but complicated impact on people's access to the global Internet. In this episode, I talk to Dr Farzaneh Badiei f...
RIPE IPmap - Geolocating Routes Across the Internet
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Geolocation providers usually focus on locating end user devices at the edge of the Internet. But what about the machines that make up the infrastruct...
The Internet in Central Asia
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Although the state of the Internet in Central Asia is in some ways diverse across the region, certain shared geographical, political, and technical fa...
RIPE - Coordination in the Space Between the Networks
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At start of the 90s, a small group of people came together to make sure that the numbering system that allows computers to connect with each other ove...
The Case for Revitalising Internet Governance
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Are the organisations that form the Internet governance ecosystem failing to rise to new challenges the modern Internet has created? And if so, what s...
Revealing Bias in Internet Measurements
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The analysis Pavlos and his colleagues are carrying out is part of the AI4NetMon project that aims to deliver methods for reducing biased findings fro...
Approaching the RIPE Gender Data Gap
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Measuring the gender data gap isn't always easy, but getting a clearer picture of where we're at is important. At RIPE 84, Anastasiya Pak caught up wi...
RIPE Atlas: A Distributed View of the Internet
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Twelve years ago the RIPE NCC set out to build the largest Internet measurement network ever made. Today, RIPE Atlas gives users an unprecedented unde...
Keep Ukraine Connected
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Global NOG Alliance is actively working to help keep the Ukrainian Internet connected. On 13 April, they delivered their first shipment of vital h...
Measuring Damage on the Internet
06 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of the RIPE Labs podcast, Emile Aben, Senior Research Engineer at the RIPE NCC, shares his views on the importance of efforts to ...