Students and researchers often ask the RIPE NCC whether we have a list of topics relevant to the RIPE community. We reached out to the RIPE community, as well as our staff, and asked for suggestions.
This research topic covers an interdisciplinary study of international law and computer science on the question of an international cybersecurity due diligence standard. International law has long recognised the principle of due diligence in the law of state responsibility and international reliability. The due diligence standard is increasingly present in international documents on cybersecurity, for example the recommendations of the Council of Europe or the influential reports of the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security. Be it maritime oil transportation or nuclear energy supply, states have long sought the advice of technical experts in setting national laws and international standards when it comes to preventing significant transboundary harm. The proposed research attempts to draw on these experiences for the purposes of ensuring effective, international cybersecurity measures. This work will have great practical significance in light of the upcoming implementation of the EU NIS Directive, recognising critical Internet resources as parts of European infrastructures.
Do you have questions? Contact Joanna Kulesza, University of Lodz, Poland.
This research topic refers to the well-known notion of Common Heritage of Mankind (CHMK) and the idea of critical Internet resources being recognized as "res comunis omnium" – a shared resource, protected through international law guarantees, to be used to the benefit of all mankind. Thus far international law has looked at the outer space and the deep seabed as those areas where international protection was needed. They are to be explored by all on equal footing and used for peaceful purposes only. The debate on including e.g. the Internet backbone or the DNS as elements of the CHMK has been present in academic discussion for over a decade. Most recently the Dutch presidency of the EU pushed for identifying "Internet's core of key protocols and infrastructure" to be "considered a global public good that provides benefits to everyone".
While this idea of Critical Internet Resources as a part of the CHMK is slowly slipping into the international political debate on Internet governance, there has been little technical expertise provided. This proposed project aims at supplementing the existing CHMK dogmatic framework with technical expertise to answer the question of whether it is possible and feasible to identify such core Internet resources that should be granted international protection. In particular, the questions of private ownership, security and international law enforcement will be addressed.
Do you have questions? Contact Joanna Kulesza, University of Lodz, Poland.
On the Internet, code is law. While laws are made by parliaments, judges and at times governments, those actors play little to no role in Internet standard setting. Or do they? This proposed study looks to identify the actual involvement of state actors (state agencies, ministries, state sponsored lobbyists) in such forums as RIPE, IETF, W3C and alike. With that it seeks to answer the question on the role states play in Internet standards setting. The proposed aim of the study is to provide both: transparency on the issue addressed and recommendations to policy makers on their presence in such Internet "law"-making bodies.
Do you have questions? Contact Joanna Kulesza, University of Lodz, Poland.
The RIPE NCC would like to build a tool to help us get a better overview of the distribution of Internet measurement points (RIPE Atlas). Currently, there are over 9000 RIPE Atlas probes distributed around the world, but the distribution is quite biased towards certain countries and networks. So, for future distribution of batches of these devices by the RIPE NCC, we'd like to get the devices into places that are currently not well represented. This tool should identify where these places are, based on the current status of the deployment of our measurement vantage points combined with external data from authoritative Internet data sources.
If you are interested in helping us build this tool, please contact Vesna Manojlovic and Emile Aben.
It is essential to understand recent trends in customer traffic. Possible research topics include:
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Research topics in this area include:
IIJ is offering internships for university students in this area. For more information, look at their website or send them an email.
Research topics in this area include:
IIJ is offering internships for university students in this area. For more information, look at their website or send them an email.
Work can be done to develop network system management technologies to implement Service Defined Infrastructure (SvDI). The following topics can be considered:
IIJ is offering internships for university students in this area. For more information, look at their website or send them an email.
Possible topics in this area include:
IIJ is offering internships for university students in this area and will make available a small data center (about 100 servers) for the purposes of research. For more information, look at their website or send them an email.
The objective is to design and develop scalable virtual machine operation management tools and system based on RFC7666 for KVM.
IIJ is offering internships for university students in this area. For more information, look at their website or send them an email.
With the name of specialization, various academic and open source projects invented different shape of network stacks and operating systems. While the specializations avoiding generalization tax solve specific problems of network stack, those are often coupled with the downgraded features due to the specializations, which are hard to recover because the feature richness usually comes with the incremental growth of operating systems.
As a result, there are still serious problems of conventional network stack and library operating systems (or userspace network stacks):
The primary goal of this project is 1) to alleviate the current issue of network stacks, and 2) to retain the feature-richness of the current operating systems by morphing a monolithic kernel into an any kernel implementation (a.k.a. library operating system). The concept of library operating system is not new but it is emerging to address current issues on operating system and network stack.
The objective of this project is to design and develop an implementation of library operating system, Linux Kernel Library (or LKL), to solve aforementioned issues of current operating system. Possible topics are:
IIJ is offering internships for university students in this area. For more information, look at their website or send them an email.