RIPE 92 is just around the corner!✨

In the latest RIPE Chair Team report, Mirjam Kühne looks ahead to the meeting in Edinburgh and highlights what’s on the agenda for the RIPE community next week. From the main programme and parallel events to WG chair selections, newcomer support and recent industry updates.

🔗 Read the full update on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/author/mirjam_kuhne/the-ripe-chair-team-reports-may-2026/

The agenda for RIPE NCC Days Baltics is taking shape! ✨

Join us on 3–4 June 2026 for a closer look at the Internet operations landscape in the Baltics. 🌊

Session highlights include:

🔎 Submarine cable outages as seen with RIPE Atlas
📡 Baltic connectivity insights based on RIS and RIPE Atlas
🛠️ RPKI deployment and IPv6 uptake in the Baltics
🧭 Routing security, BGP Roles and ASPA
📊 RIS, RIPEstat and Internet measurement tools

💡 Explore the agenda and register: https://meeting-registration.ripe.net/meeting-pub/registration?0&meetingId=8e101b31-f750-4b71-8e5d-11cd2d28a302

Finishing our latest round of in-person training courses in Rome! 🇮🇹

All our in-person training courses are open to RIPE NCC members.

Check out of we're coming to your region soon here: https://learning.ripe.net/w/upcoming/

New PeeringDB Update alert! 🆕

In this new RIPE Labs article, Leo Vegoda shares the latest PeeringDB updates, including recent work on infrastructure, usability, API improvements and data quality to support a more reliable resource for the Internet community. 🌎

👉 Learn more: https://labs.ripe.net/author/leo_vegoda_2/peeringdb-update-october-2025-april-2026/

The IPv8 proposal brings together routing, identity, and network management into a single design, but... Does it leave too many operational questions unanswered? 🤔

Read more: https://labs.ripe.net/author/pcdog/questioning-the-ipv8-proposal/

Introducing our new reg-nr attribute (NWI-21)! 👏

Proposed at RIPE 91 and implemented before RIPE 92, the new reg-nr attribute (NWI-21) adds official company registration numbers to RIPE NCC organisation objects.

In this new RIPE Labs article, RIPE NCC Manager of Registration Services Marco Schmidt and RIPE NCC Senior Technical Analyst Ed Shryane explain how this update makes it easier to clearly identify similarly-named organisations.

Learn more 👉 https://labs.ripe.net/author/marco_schmidt/making-resource-holders-easier-to-identify-introducing-reg-nr-in-the-ripe-database/

A routing misconfiguration briefly made North Korea’s routes unreachable during an RPKI rollout. 🚧

This new RIPE Labs article by Romain Fontugne shows why routing is fragile, and why strong monitoring is key.

Read more: https://labs.ripe.net/author/romain_fontugne/from-bgp-data-to-insight-simplifying-real-time-routing-analysis/

Encryption between DNS resolvers and users is growing - but what about the next hop? ⏭️

In this new RIPE Labs article, Yevheniya Nosyk measures the real-world deployment of encrypted esolver-to-authoritative DNS (ADoX), finding limited, highly concentrated adoption and little support among resolvers.

👉 Read more: https://labs.ripe.net/author/yevheniya-nosyk/adox-deployment-in-the-wild/

Can BGP reveal when DDoS defences are actually kicking in? 🔐

In this RIPE Labs article, Shyam Krishna Khadka analyses five leading DDoS scrubbers to show how always-on and on-demand mitigation appear in routing data, and why this matters for routing visibility, RPKI, and incident detection.

🔗 Learn more: https://labs.ripe.net/author/shyam-krishna-khadka/understanding-ddos-scrubbing-in-bgp-five-leading-scrubbers/ less

What if QUIC traffic could reveal how hypergiants deploy their infrastructure?💡

In this RIPE Labs article, Jonas Mücke introduces how QUIC backscatter can reveal deployment details of major content providers, despite QUIC’s privacy protections.

👉 Read more on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/author/jmuecke/using-quic-backscatter-to-infer-hypergiant-deployment-configurations/