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RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes
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RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes

The gist

IPinfo says 70.3% of routed prefixes were RPKI-valid in September 2026, up from 54.0% a year earlier.
The signed-record system guards against route hijacks like the 2008 YouTube outage.

How it unfolded

  1. Feb 24, 2008Pakistan Telecom announced a more specific route for YouTube's addresses; upstream PCCW Global passed it on, redirecting YouTube traffic to Pakistan globally for roughly two hours.
  2. 2011Regional internet registries began issuing RPKI certificates.
  3. 202342.7% of IPv4 addresses were in RPKI-valid routes.

Sources

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