APNIC and RIPE NCC are doing a hackathon at APRICOT 2018. It just started today with some light interaction with various participating members yesterday.

https://2018.apricot.net/program/hackathon/

The theme of the hackathon is around IPv6. Many cool projects were suggested yesterday and teams started working today on certain shortlisted projects like:

1. A tool for ranking CDNs – A tool based on RIPE Atlas data to rank CDNs based on latency across different regions.
2. An IPv6 fun word game – Where anyone with a member account can suggest a word, and compete with other members who share more IPv6 addresses. It may include things like showcasing creative use of hexadecimal strings in an IPv6 address like Facebook popularly does face:b00c in their IPv6 pools.
3. IPv4 and IPv6 network security  – Study of attacks and overall security in IPv6. It would involve study and possibly a report on various attack vectors in the IPv6 domain.
4. A countrywide report on IPv6 deployment – I have yet to see how it is different from existing other reports.
5. IPv6 tunnel detection – Figuring out where tunnels used and figuring out the IPv4 address of those endpoints via a javascript plugin and possibly comparing IPv4 Vs IPv6 performance.

Let’s see how things go in next 12hrs. Super fun. Things should show up on Github in next few hours. 🙂

Disclaimer and misc points:

1. It’s a hackathon and final thing may vary greatly from the original idea. Let’s see how things evolve.
2. The final tool which uses such idea/code may be awesome but for next 12hrs it will be more around proof of concept and small demo instead of a full-fledged tool in certain cases.
3. I am part of the jury for the hackathon.