Talks and Publications

Presentations and writing from the Internet History Initiative

Presentations and publications related to the Initiative, most recent first.

2026

APRICOT 2026 keynote, Jakarta, February 2026: Internet History Initiative: Preserving our Collective Data Legacy — slides, APNIC recap
Envisioning an Internet Data Trust: Strategies for Century-Scale Preservation of Infrastructure History (January 2026) — PDF. The charter and operational principles for a public-interest institution dedicated to century-scale preservation of the Internet’s historical datasets. CC BY 4.0.
Press: Internet history is vanishing. Researchers want to save it, The Register, February 2026

Internet Data Trust Workshop, ISOC Pulse Research Week, Barcelona, December 2025 (co-organized with Internet Society Pulse)
CAPIF 4, Almaty, September 2025: DNS Without Borders: Uncovering Regional Hubs and Dependencies in K-Root Traffic — slides, agenda
ZANOG25, Durban, April 2025: Contemplating Internet History: Where Do We Go Next? — slides
RIPE SEE 13, Sofia, April 2025: Assessing the Internet in the SEE Region — slides, agenda

A Deep Dive Into the Baltic Sea Cable Cuts, with Emile Aben, RIPE Labs, December 2024
IETF 121, IRTF GAIA session, Dublin, November 2024: Internet History Initiative: Overview and Exhortation — slides, session materials
RIPE 89, MAT Working Group, Prague, October 2024: Measuring and Visualizing DNS Watersheds — slides