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Within the Primary Domain facet, Internet Infrastructure Institution intelligence groups reporting by primary domain so readers can follow a focused area of internet infrastructure, governance, connectivity markets, or digital capital. The page brings together related articles, public evidence, institutions, companies, people, regional exposure, operating dependencies, and market context that may otherwise sit across separate category pages. It explains the domain, the likely actor class, the market or governance context, and the source material readers should use when comparing signals. Operators, analysts, and governance readers can see how the same domain appears across events, profiles, market shifts, public-source evidence, regional dependencies, and longer-cycle infrastructure decisions over time.
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Nearly 15 Months After RIPE NCC’s RDAP Promise, ENUM Still Gets a 501
RIPE NCC said in August 2025 that its database team would add e164.arpa to RDAP. On 1 November 2026, queries for the zone and a country-code branch still returned “Not Implemented”; the October update said work had progressed, but named no release date.
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ARIN’s ticket count fell 69%. The reporting bucket changed.
ARIN’s annual reports move from 17,817 total Registration Services tickets resolved in 2024 to 5,577 resource-request tickets in 2025. The number shrank; the label narrowed; the report offers no bridge.
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APNIC Put NIR Consultation Beside Global Rulebook Work. The Order Is Still Blank.
APNIC’s approved 2027 plan puts implementation of the RIR Governance Document and consultation on NIR governance in the same year. An earlier APNIC letter put the consultation after the global document’s finalization and implementation; the new minutes do not say how those clocks…
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LACNIC’s Board Candidates Split on Who Must Carry Out a Court-Ordered Block
Five candidates answered the same question about court-ordered blocking. Three point toward the content’s source or host; two make the order’s recipient, jurisdiction and chosen execution layer decisive.
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ARIN’s October Transfer Log Has 14 Rows, 304 /24s and an ASN. Which Number Is the Deal?
ARIN’s October Transfer Log Has 14 Rows, 304 /24s and an ASN. Which Number Is the Deal? intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences…
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APNIC Reached Consensus on Two Proposals. Their Pages Still Say “For Discussion.”
APNIC’s September meeting recorded consensus on two policy proposals. The registry’s live proposal pages still list both as “For discussion at APNIC 62 OPM,” leaving the vote result and the status field to tell different stories.
Leaders
Michela Galante Floated Interviews. RIPE Must Not Mistake Fluency for Motivation
At RIPE 93, the fellowship coordinator said AI can change applicants’ ideas and floated interviews as a possible next step. The current application still runs through RIPE 101, a quiz and a committee; any new gate needs a public rubric.
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RIPE NCC Has 8,000 Undeliverable Addresses. If Every Recipient Fails, No Notice Gets Through.
A RIPE Database update can be acknowledged while every designated watcher misses the notice. RIPE NCC's own transcript names the hard edge: when all notification recipients fail, nobody is left to warn.
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Elizabeth Goodson wants hospitals and school districts in ARIN’s IPv6 debate
The ARIN Advisory Council member says public bodies and businesses that live with network policy rarely help shape it. Her route from a DSL support desk to network planning gives that gap a practical address.
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Evghenii Kosatii Asked ARIN for a Policy Course. Now He Wants a Council Seat.
At ARIN 57, Kosatii asked whether the organization would teach the Policy Development Process. Months later, the former Fellow is on the ballot for a policy council seat. His questionnaire names the rules he wants ARIN to make clearer.
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AFRINIC’s Four-Day AfIGF Pitch Has One Timed Room. It’s for Members.
AFRINIC invites the public to its booth in Accra; the only session with a time and room on its AfIGF page is a two-hour meeting reserved for members.
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NIS2’s ENISA Registry Is Growing. Its Access Clause Still Names the Old List.
The Commission wants ENISA’s registry to include essential and important entities, then gives competent authorities an access sentence that names a narrower set of service providers and air carriers. That is a small drafting seam with a large consequence: the proposal says who…
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LACNIC’s Five Board Candidates Back Neutrality. Their Answers Split 2–1–2.
All five candidates say network neutrality matters. Two say Latin America is losing it, one says not yet, and two never give a trend verdict. Their election answers arrive without a common test for the claim.
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Peter Hessler Wants RIPE to Map Policy Conflicts Before Anyone Edits the Rules
At RIPE 93, the Database Working Group co-chair backed a reference index of RIPE policy, then asked for a separate record of conflicting definitions. A map can show where rules live; deciding how they fit together belongs to a different step.
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RIPE Wants New Voices. First, Take the English Course and Pass a Quiz.
The Fellowship’s new call puts a two-hour RIPE 101 course and a quiz before the application form. The course page lists English; RIPE publishes no quiz pass rate.
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Matteo Liberato’s .kids Warning Hits a Public Scoreboard Built for Registrations
At RIPE 93, Liberato asked whether a namespace created for children was being run to its promise. ICANN’s public files show how many .kids names are registered; the contract’s safety statistics sit outside that public scoreboard.
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Timo Hilbrink Says RIPE Wasn’t Ready. An .org Domain Had Left DNS in Two Days.
At RIPE 93, Hilbrink used the Autistici Inventati case to ask what a sanctions contingency plan would control. The public record shows an OFAC designation and a wind-down licence; the meeting transcript supplies the reported DNS action, but no PIR decision explaining it.
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Catherine Middleton says she has time for ARIN again. Her filing lists two other boards.
Catherine Middleton says a university-director job that once kept her from seeking another ARIN Board term ended in 2024. Her new candidacy rests on that change in her calendar, alongside two current board seats and a job ARIN itself describes as a 5–10-hour-a-week commitment.
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Eric Kapitanski Put the Sensor on the Server. The Scanner Picked Its Targets.
LightScope watches selected unused TCP ports on production hosts, then sends chosen connections to a separate honeypot. In his RIPE 93 talk, Eric Kapitanski showed why the machine running a service can reveal a scanner’s choices that a dark address cannot.
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ARIN’s Conflict Test Has Two Stages. Tina Morris’s Disclosure Shows Why.
Her 2026 questionnaire says her Amazon Web Services team works with ARIN Registration Services as a customer and in the IPv4 transfer market. The candidate assessment and the Board’s decision on a specific transaction answer different questions.