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ICANN
ICANN renewed the messenger after the message missed Seville
Sebastien Ducos gets another two years between ICANN's policy council and government advisers. His own report explains why that corridor needs more than a calendar invitation.
ICANN
ICANN maps appeals for local-script domains. The review desk is still being built
The Board has approved an IDN country-code rulebook that points certain disputes toward a dedicated review route. That route still needs implementation and a Bylaws decision.
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Britain’s Broadband Scoreboard Has a Denominator That Won’t Sit Still
The latest Project Gigabit table lists 861,890 premises in initial contract scope and 340,880 built. BDUK’s other official series counts subsidy-backed coverage, on a different calendar and a different base.
ICANN
Four chairs, three required: ICANN gives its complaint desk a thin bench
ICANN's new accountability committee has four voting directors. Its charter needs three for a quorum. One empty chair is the entire cushion.
ICANN
ICANN appoints a new chair to review its reviews. The pile is waiting
Miriam Sapiro takes the organizational-review chair as a second draft, another public hearing and a November work list wait on the table.
Story
ARIN Wants to Put the ROA and the Route in One Room. They Have Things to Discuss.
ARIN’s BGP Insight preview brings a resource holder’s RPKI settings alongside the routes that appear in BGP. The useful part is not another green badge; it is a way to see which configuration choice meets which announcement, and what a proposed correction might change.
ICANN
ICANN priced for 1,000 applications. About 1,600 came through the door
The new domain round brought in roughly $110 million for implementation work priced to cost $70 million. ICANN expects to send the excess back. The receipt is going to need several columns.
Story
RSC Has an RFC. RIPE NCC's API Has Been Waiting Since 2024.
RFC 9323 is almost four years old. RIPE NCC planned API support in 2024, put the work on hold in its annual report, and still lists it as conditional in Q4 2026.
ICANN
ICANN moves its audit chair to risk. The old risk chair stays
Catherine Adeya takes the Risk Committee gavel from Wes Hardaker, who remains at the table. A risk register, tolerance work and an audit plan sit in the handover folder.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Ireland has six TV multiplexes in reserve. The footnote is 47,000 DTT-only homes without broadband.
ComReg’s post-2030 spectrum puzzle has a neat numerator and a messy household denominator: six multiplexes are reserved for terrestrial television, two are used, and tens of thousands of homes still depend on the aerial with no broadband line behind it.
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ARIN filed the 12-month warning under “seller”
IPv4 recipients may need to wait a year before sending addresses back out. The rule lives where a future seller would look, while ARIN staff explain it to today's buyer.
Story
ARIN's new directory key is missing one tooth
The Whois-RWS API has a July 2027 exit on the calendar. Its replacement still needs to find the smaller address records hiding inside a larger block.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Two Shipping Groups Asked for More Time. Ofcom Gave Old MOB AIS Beacons Through 2031
Legacy man-overboard AIS beacons can stay on licences through 2031, after two maritime groups challenged Ofcom’s original timetable. New authorisations still stop in January 2027.
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REGULATEL Has the Working Group. LACNIC Has the MOU. Give Them a Job.
LACNIC and REGULATEL have signed a broad cooperation pact. REGULATEL already has an Internet Affairs group with a remit for technical and governance work. Put the agreement there and ask for an output with a date.
ICANN
ICANN approves the back-office bill. The price tag is a black bar
The Board cleared an enterprise software renewal while hiding both the supplier and the spending ceiling in its public resolution.
ICANN
Australia opens a domain-name tip line. The tip sheets stay in the drawer
With more than 1,600 new internet suffix applications on the table, Canberra wants the public to flag trouble before it decides which names deserve a government warning.
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IPv6 Has Heard the Pep Talk. ARIN Wants the Bug Reports.
ARIN’s new task force is asking a better question than “Why aren’t you using IPv6 yet?” It wants to know what actually breaks, who can help, and how anyone will know the fix worked.
ICANN
ICANN approved the IDN rulebook. Uppercase lookalikes lost their special hearing
The Board kept the new country-code policy moving and struck out one proposed escape hatch for names that collide only when written in capitals.
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The backup transit is asleep. APNIC wants it on the ASPA guest list
The path nobody sees on a normal Tuesday can become the only path that matters on a bad Wednesday.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
The City Pass Covers 8 GHz. One Satellite Downlink Still Needs an Invitation.
Ofcom has opened urban gateway applications across 68 high-density areas. Up to 8 GHz now has a standard route; one useful downlink band still asks each site to make its own case.