<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear colleagues, <div><br></div><div>Today we published the next in our series of RIPE NCC Internet Country Reports, this time focusing on the Internet landscape in four countries in Central Europe: Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://labs.ripe.net/author/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-ncc-internet-country-report-central-europe/">https://labs.ripe.net/author/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/ripe-ncc-internet-country-report-central-europe/</a></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family: "Open SansVariable", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">We examine the major market players and level of competition, Internet number resource holdings, IPv4 transfers and IPv6 readiness to understand the history and current state of Internet development in this region as well as its capacity for future growth. We also analyse the region's resilience and stability by mapping the relationship between different networks in the countries, international connectivity to the global Internet, access to K-root, traffic paths and routing security.</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open SansVariable", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open SansVariable", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Open SansVariable", sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The RIPE NCC produces these country reports in order to support Internet development and inform discussion among technical communities and policymakers throughout our service region.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I hope you’ll find it an interesting read. Please share the report with your colleagues, and as always, we<span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">’</span>d be happy to hear your thoughts or to discuss the findings. </font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Best regards,</font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Suzanne</font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">_________________</font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Suzanne Taylor</font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Public Policy & Internet Governance </font></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">RIPE NCC</font></span></div></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.ripe.net/">www.ripe.net</a> </div></span></div></body></html>