There was a on-site childcare for the first time at RIPE!
Sponsored by ISOC, good feedback (but no information about how many people used the service)
It has been suggested that there should have been a separate Lego room for adults :D
@gargron if you're interested, here is @bortzmeyer 's presentation about the Fediverse at the RIPE meeting: https://ripe76.ripe.net/archives/video/162/
Also the Fediverse is the only place where people actually use the new TLDs: toot.cafe, bsd.network, etc.
Best quote: "custom emojis allow people to do stupid things, but that's the price of freedom"
The goal of ActivityPub is to exchange "messages" (text, images, etc) between servers.
Main usage: Mastodon, which works a bit like Twitter. But there are several interoperable implementations.
The Internet is decentralised, which is (often) good, but services are centralized!
fediverse = recent name. Definition: "Set of servers exchanging activity information with ActivityPub (or OStatus)"
@bortzmeyer Yeah really nice visualisation! I remember the first versions of the IXP jedi, it's much prettier now :)
New features on RIPEstat: upstream visibility visualisation, it looked very nice in the slides (but I couldn't find it)
Also, historical whois feature: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/cteusche/historical-whois
RIPEstat gets 50M queries per day, quite impressive! It's almost running at full capacity.
OpenIPMap is not dead! But it changed name, it's "IPmap" now.
It allows to geolocate infrastructure ("traceroute on a map"), with crowdsourcing so that you can tell the tool if you know where a router is located.
V4 probes incoming! The v3 probes are no longer available from TP-Link, so the RIPE NCC needed to find another model.
V4 are based on NanoPi boards, field test in progress.
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/ripe-atlas-probes-delays-in-distribution
Long-requested feature: contributing to Atlas by providing probes/anchors in Virtual Machines.
Pilot phase: 5 VM-based anchors, should have more information by the end of the year
Atlas now has measurement tagging, so that it's easier to group your measurement into "campaigns" and find them in 6 months.
New feature: DNS-over-TLS measurement
Update on RIPE NCC tools #ripe76
Atlas has now 330 anchors, including VM (!)
An RIPE Labs article from @bortzmeyer within the first 4 slides :)
Well according to comments from various people, this approach is nice but does not work that well in practice (because of end hosts doing some strange stuff)
I think that's more a case of fixing the hosts :)
It's quite simple: you get two PA prefixes (one from each of your ISPs), and you announce both of them to your hosts with RA (Routeur Advertisements)
Then it's up to the hosts to select which source IPv6 address it uses, and it gets forwarded to the right ISP.
The hard part is signalling network change (up/down uplink) to devices. This can be done with RA by setting the lifetime to 0, so that hosts stop using this prefix.