Community Grant Program Recipients

2026 ARIN Community Grant Program Recipients

Project summaries provided by grant recipients.

RPKI Operational Health Dashboard for the ARIN Service Region

Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Virginia)
https://rpki.netsecurelab.org/
Project Funding: US$17,350

We have built a longitudinal archive of RPKI repository objects from all five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), covering about 14 years from the start of RPKI (~2012) to today. It holds roughly 3.9 billion object observations, stored as 139 GB of content-addressed Apache Parquet. Our analysis shows that the five RIRs, while following the same RFCs, run their repositories quite differently. CRL validity windows differ by 7x, revocation compliance ranges from 9% at AFRINIC to over 99% at ARIN (since 2023), and re-signing intervals differ by 16x. ARIN’s 2023 changes show up clearly in the data: the re-signing interval went from 14 to 80 days, CA certificate lifetimes dropped from 10 years to 825 days, and revocation compliance rose from under 5% to over 99%. Right now the community has no shared place to track these metrics over time. With this grant, we will turn the archive into a public dashboard at rpki.netsecurelab.org, updated weekly.

Dominica State College’s Youth Internet Governance Lab: Campus Evidence for Inclusive, Resilient Internet

Dominica State College (Stockfarm, Dominica)
Project Funding: US$20,000

Dominica State College proposes to establish the DSC Youth Internet Governance Lab, a campus-based, student-led initiative implemented through the DSC Innovation Hub. The project will use DSC’s real connectivity challenges — Wi-Fi interference, campus dead zones, and frequent wireless signal drops across upper and lower campus as an evidence base for youth-led Internet governance, technical research, IPv6 and routing security education, inclusive access analysis, and policy development.

Associate degree-level students in Computer Science, IT, Telecommunications, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Education and Law/Paralegal Studies will work in interdisciplinary teams. They will conduct supervised campus connectivity mapping, produce technical dashboards, develop an IPv6 readiness checklist, create introductory learning materials on routing security and RPKI, assess accessibility implications for students with diverse learning needs, and prepare student-authored Internet governance policy briefs.

The project will conclude with a DSC Youth Internet Governance Forum in 2027, where students will present technical findings, accessibility insights, legal/governance analyses, and recommendations for small-island campus connectivity resilience. The project will produce an open Small Island Campus Connectivity and Youth Internet Governance Toolkit for adaptation by other colleges in the ARIN Caribbean region.