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At SN #998 Steve represented an article from APNIC Geoff Hustron (BTW the name is wrongly written at the transcripts as Jeff) .
Geoff have being chief scantiest of APNIC has lots of insights from studies he conducts on what can be called "measuring the internet".
You can find those at APNIC blog https://blog.apnic.net/author/geoff-huston/
There also blog posts by many other talented researchers which I recommend to read.

To top it all APNIC has an excellent podcast called ping https://blog.apnic.net/ping-podcast/ it is a bi-weekly podcast where Geoff has a monthly spot and the other spot is occupied by a researcher with some interesting project to talk about.

Like Leo & Steve said in the last SN episode , you don't have to listen to all the episodes , so I recommend at least to listen to episodes which includes Geoff.
The podcast structure is very similar to SN there is Geoff which talks about some very interesting topic (it is always related to an upcoming Geoff blog post) and a guy called George Michaelson which like Leo making it into a dialog.

If you like what Steve refers to as a propeller hat episode than you will find this pod cast just to your liking , there are many of those there.
I personally listened to so some of the episodes twice in order to understand all that was going on.

The topics there do revolve on what they are calling "Measuring the internet" , and you can find things like.
  • Starlink & TCP congestion.
  • New DNS DELEG record.
  • What is going on with IPv6.
  • How they were able to measure the adoption of IPv6 around the world.
  • QUIC protocol.
  • The facebook outage.
  • Why Slack was unavailable for some users around the world for 24 hours (Hint: bug in AWS route53 related to IPv6 & DNSSEC).
And many other topics , I think lots of SN listener can find this podcast very interesting.

The only down side for me is being Israeli I am not a native English speaker even-tough I talk and write in English daily due to my job I am used to the American accent so on every episode I need to wire my brain for a few seconds to deal with Australian accent :) .