Let’s see what has changed in the past 12 months in addressing the Internet and look at how IP address allocation information can inform us of the changing nature of the network itself. —Geoff Huston @APNIC

Congestion in the Internet is an age-old problem. With the rise of broadband networks, it had been implicitly accepted that congestion is most likely to occur in the ‘last mile’, that is, the broadband link between the ISP and the home customer. This is due to service plans or technical factors that limit the bandwidth…

With the increasing number of real-time applications (online games using virtual reality, multi-site financial transaction processing) and the radically new business models and use cases introduced by the 5G mobile architecture (robotics, tactile Internet) requiring interactive back-and-forth communication, user-perceived end-to-end latency is becoming an all-important factor for both users and network providers. —Richard Cziva @APNIC

For years now, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out the best way to go about investing in myself. —Diane Mawer @Web Designer Depot

Many ICANN stakeholders are concerned that access to the public WHOIS database could change [because of GDPR]. —Jerry Malcom @EFF

All encryption is based on substitution, from simple schemes we did as kids to complex non-repeating patterns based on a long numerical key. Modern encryption systems construct these keys using a combination of private and public keys with mathematical one-way functions. —Jonathan Homa @ECI

With the increasing number of real-time applications and the radically new business models and use cases introduced by the 5G mobile architecture requiring interactive back-and-forth communication, user-perceived end-to-end latency is becoming an all-important factor for both users and network providers. —Richard Cziva @APNIC

A few months ago, LinkedIn surpassed the 50% IPv6 traffic milestone. In this post, we will look into the methodology we adopted to measure performance as we enabled IPv6 on our content delivery networks (CDNs), and share some key results of our performance analysis. —Erin Atkinson and Bhaskar Bhowmik @LinkedIn

It has been fun figuring out how to build [RIPE ATLAS] over the last seven years. Although there are other measurement networks out there besides RIPE Atlas, the unique features for each of these mean that there’s no single best practice on how to build one … —Robert Kisteleki @APNIC

My first impression: Tetration is clearly evolving and improving. It may be just me, but I think I heard more emphasis on agents and third-party sources, and less on Nexus 9K hardware. —Pete Welcher @Netcraftsmen