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  • Jun 24, 2026 — In recent PING episodes, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston has asserted that Internet routing has shifted away from traditional IP packet forwarding. Instead, it is increasingly driven by processes that map names to addresses. It’s no longer just...

    What ‘name-based routing’ really means
  • Jun 10, 2026 — In this episode of PING we’re hearing about secure Internet Routing and its data distribution problem from Job Snijders who has been on PING before talking about his measurements in BGP and RPKI. We caught up at IETF125 in Shenzhen where Job presented...

    The Erik protocol: improving RPKI data fetch
  • May 27, 2026 — In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston and I discuss Network Time Protocol or NTP. NTP is one of the older systems we depend on, designed and implemented by Dave Mills who died in 2024. Dave had been working on time synchronisation...

    About Time
  • May 13, 2026 — This time on PING I'm talking to Alban Kwan from the Trusted Notifier Network (TNN). I caught up with Alban at the APRICOT/APNIC61 meeting held recently in Jakarta, where Alban was attending the policy and governance sessions with a particular interest...

    The socialised cost of online abuse
  • Apr 29, 2026 — In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston discusses the tortuous history of The CIDR report Classless Inter-Domain Routing or CIDR, is a mechanism defined in the 90s, to replace the former model of fixed sized networks defined in...

    CIDR inside
  • Apr 15, 2026 — This episode of PING is an interview with Marc Blanchet from Viagenie in Quebec, Canada. Marc has been active in Internet Procotols and the IETF for decades, most recently focussed on Internet Protocol communications in deep space. Marc presented at...

    IP Networking in Deep Space
  • Apr 01, 2026 — In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston (https://blog.apnic.net/author/geoff-huston/) discusses an emerging concern about how the IETF interprets the concept of ‘Best Current Practice...

    What does “BCP” really mean?
  • Mar 18, 2026 — This episode of PING features Thomas Alfroy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-alfroy-aa4345180/) and Thomas Holterbach (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-holterbach/) from the University of Strasbourg, talking about bgproutes.io...

    bgproutes.io: A next-generation BGP data collection platform
  • Mar 04, 2026 — In this episode of PING, APNIC Chief Scientist Geoff Huston (https://blog.apnic.net/author/geoff-huston/) discusses running advertising-based experiments and a problem of interest in the modern DNS.DNS fundamentally requires end users, their chosen...

    Measuring the use of DNS over IPv6
  • Feb 18, 2026 — This episode of PING features two members of the Thai academic and research community and was recorded last year at IETF 122 (https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/122/proceedings) in Bangkok. With a population of more than 70 million, Thailand has...

    Internet measurement in Thailand
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