The journey wasn't easy, and I nearly gave up a few times so it feels good to see being highlighted in CACM. Massive gratitude to my co-authors for their persistence! The tools for the visuals of the work are almost ready to be shared as well; stay tuned!
Our paper on "A Manifold View of Connectivity in the Private Backbone Networks of Hyperscalers" is now available in Communications of the ACM (https://t.co/G2OTXwbf0S). You can also read the very nice words of Sara Alouf in her Technical Perspective about our work! 1/2
@DougMadory Happy to send you the paper! We came across some interesting cases and were surprised by the number of organizations that we observed squat in some way or another.
@DougMadory 3/3 The FBI has also recently argued that squatting is a crime, as it constitutes fraud and theft of services. Using squat space owned by DoD has also resulted in confusion and security concerns for administrators who believe their traffic to be routing through the DoD's network
Also little detail, I believe this is one of the Internet measurement papers with the largest amount of traceroutes processed! Here is a link to the paper if you are interested!
https://t.co/37m7cpeH3g
1/9 In our new paper published at CCR, we tackle a pressing issue in the network community - how operators handle the depletion of IPv4 address space. With slow IPv6 adoption, NATs and CGNATs have extended IPv4 shelf-life expectancy. But what happens when even NAT isn't enough?
9/9 I want to thank my co-authors and the Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic for their very helpful memo on the legality of IPv4 squatting (https://t.co/S4EeB8fDso).