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CASE FILE
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…
IETF
A Temporary IANA Registry Needs More Than an Expiry Date
The IETF is considering a way to publish an IANA registry before the RFC that creates it has been approved. A visible two-year clock is a useful warning, but the harder governance question is what happens to the authority behind every entry when the registry is renewed, closed…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Veeva's Salesforce CRM Has a 150% Per-Customer Cap and 2030 Exit
The legacy platform is neither open for ordinary growth nor scheduled to disappear tomorrow. Veeva's agreement with Salesforce has turned the old CRM into a bounded migration corridor: existing customers can still operate and expand within a fixed ceiling, while new customers and…
CASE FILE
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…
IETF
SECDISPATCH Has Closed. Its Outcomes Need a Transfer Record
The IETF has merged its separate Security Dispatch venue into a broader DISPATCH working group and will close the old mailing list. The new door is clear. The harder governance task is keeping every old proposal’s last recorded disposition attached to the right archive, authority…
Global Institutional Trends
Trimble Cut T&L Goodwill by US$562m While Segment Profit Rose 19%
Trimble's transportation and logistics unit produced more revenue, profit and margin in the second quarter, yet its long-duration accounting value fell sharply. The two facts are compatible: one measures current execution, while the other compares a reporting unit's carrying…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Okta Is Moving a Service Line With a -53.4% Non-GAAP Margin to Partners
Okta expects its accelerated hand-off of professional services to reduce fiscal-year revenue growth by about one percentage point. The work being moved was already loss-making inside Okta. The strategic question is whether partners make deployment cheaper and faster for the whole…
North America Institutional Trends
HealthEquity's HSA-Cash Yield Was 3.83%. Members Retained 0.26%
Two rates in HealthEquity’s latest filing describe the same pool of member cash from opposite sides of the contract. Insurance and depository partners paid an average annualized yield of 3.83%; HSA members retained an average annualized rate of 0.26%. The 3.57-percentage-point…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Zoom's US$1.54bn Quarterly Profit Included a US$1.61bn Anthropic Gain
Zoom's most conspicuous quarterly number did not come from meetings, contact centres or AI agents. A private financing round at Anthropic allowed Zoom to increase the carrying value of its preferred shares, producing an unrealized gain larger than the company's operating income…
CASE FILE
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…
North America Datacenter
OpenAI data-centre chief leaves after team reorganisation
Chris Malone’s exit follows an earlier reorganisation that placed OpenAI’s data-centre engineering, compute and build-and-delivery work under separate leaders.
North America Datacenter Trends
Abbott says data-centre reporting fell below 10%
Texas is auditing projects seeking grid connections after Governor Greg Abbott said fewer than 10% of data-centre companies supplied requested information on future electricity demand.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Zscaler Had No 10% Revenue Customer. One Partner Held 12% of Receivables
Zscaler’s latest filing draws two concentration maps over the same quarter. On the revenue map, no customer reached the 10% reporting line. On the collection map, one anonymous channel partner held 12% of net accounts receivable. Neither number is alarming on its own. Together…
North America Institutional Trends
Target's Digital Channel Originated 19.6% of Merchandise Sales; Stores Fulfilled 97.6%
Target's fiscal-Q2 tables describe one basket twice. Mobile and web initiated almost one merchandise dollar in five, while stores remained the fulfilment surface for almost every merchandise dollar. The figures do not conflict: they reveal a retail model in which digital demand…
IETF
IETF Executive Director Takes On a Legacy RFC Role
Jay Daley says he appointed himself Managing Director, IETF Secretariat, closing a vacancy in a role that still exists in IETF standards but whose work has long since spread across the LLC. The appointment may have no practical effect, as his report says, yet it exposes a useful…
North America Cloud Services Trends
Asana's 817 Large Customers Are Not Necessarily 817 Companies
Asana ended April with 817 customers generating more than US$100,000 in annualized GAAP revenue. The natural reading is a map with 817 large companies on it. The filing describes a different unit. A customer is a distinct account that can be a team, an institution or a business…
ICANN
After 26 Years, .IE’s Root Record Finally Names Its Operating Registry
Ireland’s country-code domain did not change operator in July. Its formal record caught up with an operating arrangement that began in 2000. The distinction matters because a root entry should identify who performs the function without being mistaken for ownership, sovereignty or…
Global Cloud Services Trends
Third-Party Hosting Supplied Half of Workday's US$66m Subscription-Cost Rise
Workday added US$302 million of quarterly subscription revenue and US$236 million of derived subscription gross profit. The delivery bill still deserves its own reading: third-party hosted infrastructure alone supplied US$33 million of a US$66 million increase in subscription…
CASE FILE
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…
CASE FILE
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…