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W3C's Second Screen Patent Panel Is Done. Its New Charter Is Not Public Yet
W3C gave its latest Second Screen charter extension a precise dependency. On 18 August, it said the Working Group was waiting for a Patent Advisory Group's recommendations before beginning a new draft charter. Six days later, the PAG recommended that the Open Screen Application…
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W3C's Interim CEO Also Sits on the Board That Oversees the Office
W3C restored executive continuity in one sentence on 28 May: its Board appointed Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Interim CEO with immediate effect. The current public roster adds a second fact. He is also a Partner-selected Director on the Board that oversees W3C Management and the…
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WebTransport's Review Runs Past Its Published Working Group Charter
The WebTransport Candidate Recommendation still has two months of public review ahead of it. The public charter record for the group that published it stopped at 30 August. That is not proof of an unauthorized group or an invalid technical report. It is a public-state gap—and an…
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Internet Society's Resolution 2026-13 Points to Two Different Policies
The Internet Society's public records currently make one resolution number perform two jobs. Its trustee-selection procedures say they were modified by Resolution 2026-13. Its travel policy and formal e-vote register assign the same number to travel-policy amendments approved on…
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Internet Society Does Not Track Attendance Where Much Board Work Happens
Internet Society expects trustees to attend every formal Board meeting and records who was present, excused or absent. Its current policy draws a different line around informal monthly meetings: attendance is not tracked even though, in the organisation's own words, a significant…
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Internet Society Copied Five Succession Duties—and Changed Who Sits at the Table
Internet Society's Board abolished its Leadership Continuity Committee only after placing its five recurring duties inside the Compensation Committee's charter. The text survived. The chair, the CEO's status and the confidentiality perimeter did not remain the same, making plan…
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Internet Society Adopted a Pay Philosophy. The Policy Itself Is Missing From the Index
Internet Society's Board has adopted a Senior Executive Compensation Philosophy Policy on advice from its Compensation Committee and Willis Towers Watson. The public resolution says the policy was attached as Exhibit A, yet the checked resolution page does not expose the exhibit…
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At Internet Society, One Organization’s Ballot Can Count as Six—or Stay One
An Internet Society Organization Member can enter two elections through one authorized delegate and still carry a different amount of voting force. In the Board of Trustees election, one selection is multiplied by membership class when votes are counted. In the Organization…
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Internet Society Put Board Email on a Retention Clock It Does Not Publish
Internet Society has now written archive retention into the procedure governing every Board mailing list. That is a useful continuity rule. Yet the public procedure points to another policy for the actual period, leaving readers unable to tell which clock, custodian and…
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At PP-26, a Debt Balance Is Not a Voting Status
The ITU Constitution does not say that any unpaid invoice cancels a State's vote. It sets a comparison: countable arrears must be measured against the contribution due for the two preceding years. A compliant repayment schedule can change what is counted without making the debt…
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At PP-26, Six-Language Access Depends on the Document Class
A delegate opening the PP-26 document page will not find one multilingual rule. A contribution belongs to a six-language series; an agenda is English only; an information paper cannot be discussed and is also English only; a temporary draft normally stays in its original…
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ITU Council Backed Doha for PP-26. The Controlling Decision Still Needs a Public Update
The ITU Council's 25 August extraordinary session did not choose a conference venue from scratch. Decision 636 and majority Member State concurrence had already fixed PP-26 in Doha for 9-27 November 2026. A public update says Councillors supported Qatar as planned; the…
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Internet Society Has a $329,000 Board Budget. Payment Disclosures Stay Internal
Internet Society's 2026 plan gives the public one Board number: $329,000. Its newly revised policies create real controls over trustee travel and other funding, but the disclosure chain ends with the Chair and the Board. The missing record is not a receipt folder on the open web.…
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Internet Society Seated Four Trustees. The Challenge Record Still Stops at “Rejected”
Four Internet Society trustees began three-year terms in July after an election cycle that included one formal challenge. The Board disclosed that it reviewed background material and associated audit results before unanimously rejecting that challenge. What the public still…
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IPv4 scarcity is becoming a chain-of-control problem
The immediate operational issue in **How RIR powerlessness impacts IPv4 scarcity and digital asset management** is no longer simple address exhaustion. RIRs can coordinate registration and recognise transfers, but those records are not the same thing as a globally enforceable…
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RIR enforcement stops where the contract ends
The practical question behind **Why RIRs lack enforcement power** is not whether regional registries can take administrative action. They can. The sharper question is what happens when policy expectations reach an organisation that is not legally bound by the registry’s contract.…
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Pennsylvania weighs data centre tax breaks and repeal
Pennsylvania is testing two competing visions for data centre policy at once: conditional incentives versus full repeal. The dual-track approach reflects how US states are struggling to balance economic development promises against rising grid and budget pressure — and whether…
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SpaceConnect launches NGSO lobby without SpaceX
Amazon and three satellite operators have launched the first dedicated NGSO lobby group without SpaceX at the table. Led by former NTIA head David Redl, SpaceConnect signals that smaller players see spectrum policy as a competitive battleground — not just a technical question.…
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Minneapolis approves five-month data centre development pause
Minneapolis is joining a growing list of US cities treating data centre development as a municipal planning question. The five-month pause will produce draft rules on energy, environmental and safety standards — and the exemption threshold for smaller facilities may set a…
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FCC restarts spectrum auctions with $3.57bn AWS-3 sale
The FCC defines US spectrum allocation, auction scheduling, and wireless policy affecting mobile operators, new satellite entrants, and network replacement funding.
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