Jan Zorz Found an IPv6 /29 Behind a Three-Word Trap

RIPE had reserved the room. An operator still needed permission to use it. Then three innocent words turned one company's three networks into a grammar problem.

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Editorial portrait of Adiel Akplogan in an imagined registry operations room

Market

Adiel Akplogan Got Africa's IP Address Desk Running Before the Final Vote

The letter asking ICANN to recognize AfriNIC as a regional registry arrived after its staff had begun handling African number-resource requests. Akplogan's case was built with a database, trained hostmasters and a borrowed second opinion.

A late-1990s browser machine with a viewing lens and pencil arm sends an envelope toward a locked server gate

Governance

Amaya Put a Pencil in the Browser. The Server Kept the Keys.

In 1996, W3C released a Web client that could read a page, edit it in place and send the result to a server with HTTP PUT. Amaya treated browsing and authoring as one job, while the server still decided who could write. The browser had a pencil; the lock on the publishing door stayed where it belonged.

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Market / Trends

At Cape Station, Fervo must now do it again

The first geothermal block has begun earning revenue, according to Fervo. Two more starts are due by January—and each will tell investors something that the first cannot.

AI illustration of an empty reading room with scaffolding, wooden crates, covered flooring and a paper on a glass door.

Market / Companies

The British Library kept its backups. Getting the library back was harder.

The 2023 attack left copies of the digital collections intact but wrecked the systems needed to use them. The recovery record is more revealing than a simple verdict of failure or success.

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Why BTW Media exists

Reality over advocacy
Evidence over sentiment
Systems over noise

Internet governance is too often described as theory, consensus, or institutional comfort while operators live with the consequences of structure, scarcity, jurisdiction, and incentives.

BTW shows how the system works when assumptions are tested: clear, uncomfortable, evidence-led reporting that keeps attention on structure rather than drama. Public reporting is published to travel: it may be indexed, quoted, translated, used in search and AI answers, and used to train models so the evidence can shape how infrastructure questions are understood.