[ncc-announce] [news] RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund 2019 Recipients Announced

Dear colleagues,

The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund opened its call for applications in 
July 2019. The application period was open for 8 weeks and we received 
more than 45 applications from 23 different countries. We’d like to 
thank all the applicants - the number and diversity of topics show that 
there are many great ideas that need support.

The RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Selection Committee has reviewed 
the applications and is happy to announce that the following seven 
projects have been selected as the 2019 recipients of the RIPE NCC 
Community Projects Fund.

Congratulations to the selected projects!

- Antikraak: Protecting non-routed and transferred address space against 
spear-hijacking, SimulaMet
- ASNR: ASN Ranking system - A path to detect fake ASNs, Alireza Vaziri
- Cryptofuzz, Guido Vranken
- Improving the Tor network’s IPv6 support, The Tor Project
- IRRexplorer v2, NLNOG Foundation
- RPKI Ecosystem Health Monitoring, NLNet Labs
- Verification and monitoring of BGP prefix hijacking incidents using 
RIPE Atlas probes in the ARTEMIS open source detection tool, Institute 
of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research and Technology - 
Hellas (FORTH)

You can read more about how these projects will contribute to the ‘Good 
of the Internet’at:
https://www.ripe.net/support/cpf/funding-recipients-2019

Kind regards,

Alastair Strachan
RIPE NCC Community Projects Fund Coordinator