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09-07-2024
This blog offers a deep dive into RFC8950 and its impact on Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), focusing on the transition to using IPv6 next-hops for IPv4 routes. Written after the 39th Forum in Prague, it highlights insights from André Grüneberg (BCIX) and Aleksi Suhonen (TREX), chairs of the RFC8950 Working Group. The blog explores technical challenges, vendor readiness, and the group's efforts to collaborate and raise awareness of this critical innovation shaping the future of internet infrastructure.
Previous Posts
Internet Society/ 20-05-2022
Read our new blog post on ISOC's 50/50 vision—an ambitious plan to keep at least half of all Internet traffic in emerging economies local by 2025.
Leo Vegoda/ Euro-IX/ 09-11-2021
Read our new blog post on the upcoming improvements to the IXPDB, and then share your thoughts on future development priorities with our Product Manager, Leo Vegoda!
Flavio Luciani & Maurizio Goretti/ Namex/ 19-01-2021
The historical scope of Internet Exchange points (IXPs) is to provide a technical peering platform where network operators can share their Internet traffic, meaning interconnecting their networks and exchanging their own traffic.
Internet Infrastructures
Following the joint panel webinar with AMS-IX where we discuss the flaws of the Internet and what the community can do to address these issues, Kevin Meynell of ISOC offers more insight into his views on a 'public option for the core' and Internet infrastructure.
4 Nov, 2020
PeeringDB Satisfaction Survey
PeeringDB wants input from network operators, exchange operators, facility providers, content distributors and anyone who uses our interconnection database.
2 Nov, 2020
