IPv4 addresses have become scarce digital assets with rising market value due to limited supply, slow IPv6 adoption and secondary trading.
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Lu Heng highlights how conflating symbolic legitimacy with enforceable authority fuels resistance to clarity in critical systems.
Bipartisan pushback over AI data centre electricity demand highlights energy policy challenges and infrastructure limits in the United States.
Why CFOs must treat IPv4 addresses as balance sheet assets and consider leasing versus ownership in financial strategy.
Samsung Electronics reports progress on HBM4 memory chips as competition in the high-bandwidth memory market intensifies in 2026.
China urges the Netherlands to correct its actions on Nexperia, saying Dutch intervention has disrupted the global semiconductor supply chain.
Baidu prepares a potential IPO for its AI chip arm Kunlunxin as China accelerates efforts to build domestic semiconductor capacity.
IPv4 leasing is not innovation but adaptation, revealing how scarcity reshapes incentives in the Internet’s core systems.
Lu Heng explains why ICP-2 revision must preserve bottom-up governance to ensure RIR accountability and resist centralised control.
Critics warn CAIGA is less about digital transformation and more about political control, raising concerns over Smart Africa and ICANN’s role.
Examining whether scarce IPv4 addresses can be treated as investment assets amid rising market demand and structural barriers.
Proposal explores using distributed ledgers to decentralise global IP address registration, raising governance and regulatory questions.