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ARIN Counted 24 of 43 Substantive Comments Against Killing Port 43. The Port Stays.
ARIN proposed a 2029 retirement for its busiest old directory protocol. After the consultation, it kept the service on the clock only in pencil: adoption and query milestones first, another round with the community later.
CASE FILE
Half the IPP’s First-Year Assessments Were Local. IDA Has No Door for Councils.
Local-government projects made up 24 of 48 first-year IPP assessments. The IDA began on 1 November for central-government investment; Te Waihanga has published no date or eligibility test for a local route.
Story
ARIN’s Satisfaction Gap Shrunk. Its Performance Score Fell Eight Points.
ARIN’s fifth customer survey says performance moved closer to expectations. Expectations fell faster, and the respondent pool changed.
Story
ARIN’s “Immediate” Policy Has a Six-Month Implementation Plan
ARIN marks a policy’s implementation “Immediate”; its staff estimate six months to update the guidance and systems that put ISP and LIR into practice.
Story
APNIC Backfilled Its WHOIS and RDAP Stats. The Incident Notice Still Has No End Time.
APNIC’s October archive now contains the hourly files affected by a processing failure. Its public notice still leaves the end-time and duration fields blank. The files tell readers the feed resumed; the incident record never says so.
Story
RIPE NCC Opened NWI-22. The 60% Cleanup Estimate Is Already a Year Old.
RIPE NCC has moved its proposed RIPE-NONAUTH cleanup into a numbered work item and narrowed one key test to an exact match. The headline estimate still rests on last year’s candidate counts; the updated numbers and the implementation definition are next.
Story
ARIN Cut Uncontracted Space 81%. Its 23 Biggest Blocks Still Hold 38%.
ARIN’s latest data-accuracy report has a triumphant headline hiding an awkward remainder: the uncontracted legacy pool is much smaller, but a handful of very large blocks still account for a striking share of it. The next argument is about how the registry decides whose silence…
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
RIPE Wants a Policy Manual. Copying the Text Can Shift Its Meaning.
At RIPE 93, Remco van Mook proposed an index first, then the gradual relocation of policy chapters. The room’s sharpest question was whether a verbatim move can stay clerical once old text carries years of precedent.
IETF
The IETF Moved Its Rights. IANA Still Had Five Sign-offs in July.
The IETF’s own intellectual-property assets moved to the IPMC in March. In July, the latest dated status still had five IANA agreement novations waiting for final signatures; an October draft now asks the document library to catch up with the new custodian.
IETF
ECH's spare key carries an off switch
A proposal for signed connection retries makes a useful distinction: keeping a service reachable and protecting its visitors' privacy are different responsibilities.
CASE FILE
One Day Apart, Different Rule: England’s 10% Test Starts with 2 November DCOs
England’s new biodiversity-gain rule draws a hard line at the date a development-consent application is filed. A covered application submitted on 1 November stays outside the new mandatory 10% objective; a new application from 2 November must include an outline plan and proposed…
History
A URL Joined the Internet’s Address List. HTTP Was Still Informational.
In 1993, the Internet Users’ Glossary counted email, IP and hardware addresses. Its 1996 revision added URLs while describing HTTP’s formal standard as still in development.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
India Put Caller Names on the 4G Default. The Circular Leaves the Receiver’s Exit Unmapped.
From 1 November, India’s Department of Telecommunications ordered caller-name presentation on 4G and newer networks without a separate request. Its circular maps the name from one carrier database to another, but leaves the receiver-side disable procedure out of the operative…
CASE FILE
Brussels Put Austria’s January Age Checks on Ice While Europe’s Rule Is Still a Proposal.
Austria’s draft age checks for under-14s now sit inside a Commission standstill running through 29 July 2027. The EU KIDS Act at the centre of the dispute is still a proposal.
CASE FILE
Singapore Publishes Cyber Deadlines. The Covered-Entity List May Stay Private.
Singapore’s S 791/2026 sets 24-hour, 72-hour and 30-day filing stages. The Act does not require designation notices to appear in the Gazette.
CASE FILE
The CRTC’s Temporary Phone-Lock Exception Has No Fixed End Date
The CRTC kept a conditional two-business-day unlock window in place and rejected a request to reopen it. The exception ends only when the Commission decides the broader consumer-code case; 30 November is the hearing’s opening date, not the rule’s expiry.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Ofcom Wants Two New Harm Categories. The Pre-Duty Tracker Missed Them
Ofcom recommends adding body-stigma and depression content to the statutory priority list. Its tracker began asking about those non-designated categories only after child-safety duties had started.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Australia’s Telco Code Rule Started 27 October. The Registry Gate Starts on Another Clock.
The Act sets separate clocks: registered-code duties and revised penalty rules commenced on 27 October, while the provider-registration scheme has its own start date and a further six-month delay before it applies.
CASE FILE
Brussels Has a CTP MoU. Canberra Has a 2027 Follow-Up.
The UK and Australia say comparable critical-third-party regimes could cut needless duplication for global providers. Their joint statement names no shared operating protocol. A UK–EU memorandum already gives regulators a concrete coordination framework to compare.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
India’s 5G Core Draft Draws a Border Around Its Virtualized Stack
TEC’s proposed 5G Core standard would keep every component of a virtualized system inside India, including the machinery that manages network functions and stores their software packages. The location rule is fixed in the draft; many feature choices are left to each buyer’s…