RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund
The RIPE NCC Executive Board decided to discontinue the Community Projects Fund at its 183rd meeting on 20-21 March 2025. Read the news announcement.
The RIPE NCC supported a range of projects and innovative ideas over its 25-year history, and formalised these efforts through the RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund. We knew there was no shortage of brilliant minds in the Internet technical community working on groundbreaking projects, but securing funding to support these projects could be challenging. The RIPE NCC provided €250,000 per year to support projects of value to the operation, resilience, and sustainability of the Internet, with a focus on tools and services benefiting the technical community in its service region.
Funding and Recipients
View funding recipients and read about how projects are selected.
The Good of the Internet
The Community Projects Fund has supported over 25 projects working ‘for the Good of the Internet’.
ARTEMIS
This project will enrich the functionality of ARTEMIS to evaluate and monitor the impact of a BGP prefix hijacking incident on the data plane. Data-plane monitoring will be enabled through traceroutes to affected IP prefixes.
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Internet Health Report
The Internet Health Report leverages data collected by large measurement platforms (e.g. RIPE Atlas, RIS, and RouteViews) to automatically pinpoint connectivity issues or routing changes that may have detrimental effects on other networks. T
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Cryptech Project
The main goal of CrypTech is to create an open-source design for a hardware cryptographic engine for Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
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