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RIPE opened the BGPsec key desk. The routers are still catching up
AS holders can now manage router key certificates through RIPE NCC's RPKI API. The issuing desk is ready; path validation still depends on the equipment at each end.
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RIPE's duplicate records have two exit doors—and one arithmetic trap
RIPE NCC wants to retire redundant entries from its non-authoritative routing database. The proposed tests sound simple until their totals are added together.
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IPv6’s Rulebook Is Adding the Audit Chapter It Forgot to Label
RIPE’s open proposal would give IPv6 policy an explicit route to audit and LIR-closure procedures already named in IPv4 policy and the member agreement. The new heading matters because a rule is easier to operate when the reader can find the machinery behind it.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Portugal counted 14.6 million affected telecom accesses. One blackout did most of the counting.
ANACOM’s 2025 ledger shows why incident totals need more than one denominator: the case count barely moved, impact hours fell, and one national blackout pushed affected subscriptions and accesses into a different league.
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RIPE's sanctions inbox has 39 unopened files
The new RIPE NCC snapshot puts 39 possible matches in the 'not yet started' tray while the registry's transaction rule is already in force for affected holders.
IETF
Six crypto dossiers clear the IETF gate. The editor still has the keys
A single IESG decision batch sends six CNSA 2.0 profiles past the conflict check and toward a separate publication decision.
IETF
IETF puts a question mark on the port and bars the green light
The newly approved IVY draft lets an inventory identify the device while leaving its port unresolved. That honest gap now has an operating rule.
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RIPE NCC gave BGPsec a key API. Now the routers need to show up.
RIPE NCC has added an API route for creating BGPsec Router Key Certificates. That gives operators a cleaner way to authorize a router key; the harder work still sits in the routers, sessions and signatures that have to use it.
IETF
MASQUE gets four jobs and an exit sign
The IETF has approved a closing charter for its proxying group. Future HTTP extensions outside this list have an address: HTTPBIS.
IETF
IETF gives DAWN the keys to the agent address book
The new working group can build a way to find AI resources. The actual protocol has a December 2027 date with its name on it.
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RIPE reopened four doors. Its status page kept two clocks
The Academy sites returned in the morning; the all-clear for the four-site PHP shutdown came five hours and ten minutes later.
ICANN
ICANN signs the $20m transfer; the spending file stays shut
The Board has put last year’s operating surplus into its Project Fund. A project still needs its own vote.
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The Person in the Directory Who Is Actually a Button
A directory built to make people answerable contains an entry called "How it works". It carries a title line, a confidence figure and one evidence link. Not one of those three things is a person.
ICANN
Twenty votes, zero dissent: ICANN’s accent policy reaches the Board’s desk
The GNSO Council gave a unanimous push to 57 Latin-script diacritics outputs. The next signature belongs to a different room.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
PNG’s 5G: Two Bands, One Clock, No Freelance Timekeeping
NICTA says it is ready to issue 5G licences in 2.6 GHz and 3.5 GHz. In the 2.6 GHz band, the rulebook already contains one unusually practical instruction: every licensee must keep time with the others.
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ARIN spared 72 transfer cases a second signature. Who decides the next 72?
A tiny edit to the rulebook sent the definition of a “current” contract to staff practice. Six months of transfer files show what changed at the counter.
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RIPE NCC renewed one NRO seat by email. The minutes name the voters
Seven Board members, one nominee, one email meeting: Hervé Clément has another three years on the council that helps steer global number policy.
ICANN
ICANN’s Public-Interest Objectors Need the Public to Knock First
ICANN has hired three people to challenge new gTLD applications in the public interest. The rulebook gives the public the first move: an opposing comment must be on the record before an Independent Objector can file.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Britain’s Cable Plan Has Two Security Settings—and One Is Missing a Word
The UK wants to regulate fibre that can listen to the seabed, control who handles its data and order cable or repair firms to act in a national-security crisis. Its new White Paper sets out the machinery. It also gives the proposed direction power two different thresholds…
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APNIC has 538 ASPAs. The validation queue is getting longer
Signing a provider list takes a click. Discovering that a signed list is wrong after hundreds more have joined it is a rather less cheerful afternoon.