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Lead Report / AFRINIC
Lu Heng, CEO at Cloud Innovation, argues that Smart Africa’s attempt to force a single centralised Internet policy on a continent as diverse and fractious as Africa is dangerous and ultimately impossible.
Governance
Disclosure cadence and institutional reporting discipline continue to tighten.
Market
Service-layer demand expands as IP infrastructure intelligence becomes an investment variable.
Risk
Scenario mapping continues across regulation, concentration, and operational choke points.
Most operators assume buying IPv4 gives them the strongest long-term control. In reality, they often obtain only a registry database entry governed by contracts, policies, audits, and termination powers held by institutions whose public contractual downside can be capped at amounts trivial relative to the operational value of the block and the continuity value of the network behind it.
LARUS, a first-party IPv4 leasing provider, addresses that mismatch by absorbing registry-layer risk at the first-party lessor level and providing customers with continuity through an operator that has already demonstrated unusual legal standing and a publicly documented, court-tested continuity position inside the RIR system.
Read Note:35 →Governance, market, and membership branches operating in one integrated newsroom model.
Five regional sessions: ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC, AFRINIC, and LACNIC.
History of the Internet
Lito Ibarra’s story reveals how the internet was built from scratch and why its governance now struggles at global scale
Open History Session
Leadership Alliance
Optus and Ericsson achieved 3.4Gbps on a live 5G SA network using advanced carrier aggregation techniques.
Open Alliance Session
