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Presto Leaves Applications Unchanged. Its Peers Still Have Conditions
Presto’s POSIX layer can preserve the application’s familiar socket boundary. The published prototype nevertheless asks operators to condition the NIC and every peer that meets it on the wire.
ICANN
The autistici.org Hold Has a Timestamp but No Public Decision Receipt
PIR’s RDAP service records exactly when `autistici.org` changed and which registry controls remain applied. It cannot tell the public who connected a US sanctions designation to that domain-wide action, which rule governed the choice, why it happened before a wind-down licence…
North America Regional ISP Trends
telMAX's CAD 215m Package Is Not One Pool of Capital
The arithmetic is simple: CAD 105 million of structured investment plus a CAD 110 million increase to an existing credit facility equals CAD 215 million. The economics are not. The two instruments can price risk, control, cash cost and upside differently, while the public…
ICANN
ALAC Is Changing Its ECA Representative. The Authority Must Still Come From ALAC
A one-page letter names Claire C. Craig as Jonathan Zuck’s future successor in two connected roles: ALAC Chair and ALAC representative on the Empowered Community Administration. The personnel change is clear. The harder governance question begins after it: when that…
Story
RIPE’s IPv6 PI Draft Has a 24-Month Plan but No Post-Plan Decision
Proposal 2024-01 can ask an applicant what it expects to use over the next two years. It does not yet say what evidence, judgment or proportionate response should follow when those two years are over.
History
Vint Cerf’s shared credit in the 1974 TCP specification
RFC 675 makes Cerf’s contribution tangible: a jointly authored specification with explicit naming rules and acknowledgments of other people’s ideas. It also shows why authorship, design credit and responsibility for a working system need separate accounts.
CASE FILE
Southeast Asia’s Four Concentration Scores Do Not Measure One Market
The new Internet Society Pulse study places four striking HHI ranges beside one regional story. They are not interchangeable readings of a single market. Each changes either the infrastructure layer or the unit used to group observations, and any policy response should preserve…
CASE FILE
IGF 2026 Scored Workshops in Four Themes, Then Published Five
The final list is clear about what readers can attend: 80 workshops filed under five broad themes. The selection record is less complete. Six days earlier, the MAG was still working with four evaluation themes, 76 provisional selections and four open places. A useful public index…
Story
LACNIC’s New Transfer Draft Is a Policy Map, Not a Checkbox
One sentence in LAC-2026-4 appears to ask whether two registries have compatible rules. Read closely, it asks five different questions—and leaves the most important hand-off between them undocumented.
North America Cloud Services Trends
Fastnet’s Tiny Maryland Power Building Still Faces a Long Approval Chain
Amazon has reduced the proposed shore facility for its U.S.–Ireland Fastnet cable to a power-feed building of less than 700 square feet, with no water connection and limited power demand. The smaller design answers part of Worcester County’s concern about infrastructure…
CASE FILE
One Safer Internet Brand, Four Responsibility Chains
The Internet Society’s Safer Internet Initiative brings grants, public resources, training and policy advocacy into one understandable programme. That unity helps communication. It does not create a single chain of command. The initiative will be more credible if every action…
IETF
IETF’s Two Tools Consultations Need Separate Clocks and One Decision Trail
IETF LLC opened two consultations on the same day, but they do not ask the same institution to make the same kind of promise. One would measure whether a service works; the other asks what using that service should be like. The boundary is explicit. The governance task now is to…
Story
India Opened Lower 6 GHz. APNIC 62 Still Needed a Client Receipt
The band could be lawful, the access point could contain the right radio, and a device could still never see the network. APNIC 62 turned that gap between authorization and usable capacity into an operational record—but not yet a reproducible one.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Telesat Has a Commissioned Gateway, Not Yet a Live Lightspeed Service
Orange and Telesat have turned their Bercenay-en-Othe hosting agreement into a commissioned piece of European ground infrastructure. That is a real change in the programme’s physical state. It is also only one link in a chain that still needs production satellites, a working…
ICANN
Two Councils Adopted the 2016 CCWG Framework. That Did Not Make It ICANN-Wide
An ICANN org record check has turned a familiar governance document into a narrower instrument. The 2016 framework for future cross-community working groups was formally adopted by the GNSO and ccNSO, but no record was found of adoption or endorsement by the other Supporting…
North America Regional ISP Trends
FirstLight Has a 240-Mile Hyperscaler Deal. Diversity Is Still Unproved
FirstLight’s new Albany–Boston agreement is a credible signal that hyperscale demand is reaching regional fibre corridors. It is not yet public proof that the customer has bought two failure-independent paths.
Story
AFRINIC’s Merge Question Could Bind Two Section 3 Decisions Together
The co-chairs asked whether a meeting-calendar rule and a broad rewrite of the policy working group should become one draft. Before that happens, the community needs to know what would be combined—and what it would still be allowed to decide separately.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
OVH Strasbourg: electrical isolation was an emergency control of its own
The useful lesson from the 2021 fire is not a speculative ignition theory. It is a question about practical control: who can establish the electrical conditions needed for an emergency response, and what would demonstrate that later improvements actually work?
Latin America and Caribbean Institutional
NIC.br’s IX.br: access options are not a recovery test
A network’s own exchange port and a shared connection describe different ways to reach IX.br. Neither description, on its own, establishes what remains usable during a failure. The operational question is which dependencies an alternative avoids—and who can put it to work.
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services
Safe Swiss Cloud: backup choice, recovery evidence and cloud exit
Choosing where a backup lives, restoring a working application and moving a workload away are different tests of customer control. Safe Swiss Cloud’s published material helps separate those tasks—and identify the evidence still needed.