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Story
The Exchange That Forgot Its Own Address
On the evening of 8 November 2026 the domain carrying the name of the Philippine Open Internet Exchange served casino copy. Eleven hours later the same address served nothing anyone could read.
History
MDN Let Your Wiki Edit Go Live. Yari Put a Reviewer at the Door.
A typo in a web reference once had a direct route from an MDN editor's screen to a public page. In December 2020, Mozilla moved that route through a GitHub pull request. A reviewer could now discuss the correction before it appeared, while the person who found the typo had to…
Story
APNIC Moved 8,192 IPv4 Addresses to SORACOM. The Route Stayed Dark.
An address block can change hands in eleven seconds and still have no visible route. APNIC's record of a Japanese /19 transfer and RIPE NCC's routing observations put those two clocks side by side.
History
Google Set the Login Deadline. The Account-Migration Standard Arrived Four Days Before It.
Google told sites using OpenID 2.0 to move to OpenID Connect before 20 April 2015 or risk losing Google sign-in. The OpenID Foundation approved the final specification for carrying old account identities into the new protocol on 16 April. The calendar looks like a last-minute…
Leaders
Michael Takeuchi’s port was clear. The congestion was on the other side.
Indonesia’s crowded exchange market gives operators more paths. It also gives them more places where a fault can hide behind somebody else’s dashboard.
Story
RIPE’s RPKI Publisher Opened Before the Guest List Arrived
For 163 minutes, delegated certificate authorities met a service that was running but did not recognise them. RIPE NCC says the repository kept its old contents and publication resumed. The failure sat at the entrance: Krill started before its publisher configuration was ready.
Story
The IPv4 Broker Whose APNIC Row Lists No Addresses
IPv4 Mall Ltd. sits in APNIC's public member directory at the ASSOCIATE tier, in a row that links to its website and carries no address block. APNIC says its tiers track how many address resources a member has rights over. The company's own site sells the buying, selling and…
Creators
PeeringDB can ship a faster API. Andy Clyde still needs 2019.
The new draft measures fresh data in minutes. Clyde’s IXP analysis needs the old record and the ability to run it again.
History
W3C Approved the Video Door. The Decryption Room Kept Its Own Rules.
In 2017, W3C gave encrypted video a common browser interface and left the machinery that actually decrypted it to separate systems. A civil-liberties group wanted a binding promise that those systems would not be used to punish legitimate security research. The standards body…
History
Knol Gave Authors the Red Pen. Google Kept the Lights.
A Knol author could put a name on an article, accept or reject a reader's edits, and decide whether to run ads. Google called that authorial control. It also hosted the page and determined when Knol would stop displaying it. In 2011 the company set two dates: public viewing would…
Creators
Andrei Dinu got a 16-page AI plan. The routers still need a human.
InterLAN IX has automated multi-router changes. Its AI assistant can inspect and plan; the write path remains a separate decision.
North America Cloud Services
CoreWeave Can Bill $104 Billion. Its Registry Footprint Is One Number.
The most-watched AI cloud in the world publishes revenue, backlog and capital spending in the billions, and answers to exactly one number in the registry that actually runs the internet. The distance between those two disclosures is where an AI infrastructure company's real…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
SGIX Prices a 400G Port and Advertises a 100G One
The exchange sells 5×400G at 20,000 SGD a month, then tells members its available port sizes are 1G, 10G and 100G. On the same page it counts locations, and stops at two.
Latin America and Caribbean Regional ISP
Membership Is Not Capacity: Brazil's Small ISPs and the IPv4 Waiting Room
One line on a registry's member list is enough to open a file on a Brazilian internet provider. It is not enough to size one — and in a market where the smallest operators carry the majority of the connections, that gap has a price attached to it.
Africa Institutional Trends
Madagascar's .mg Registry Runs on One Sentence
IANA names a manager for .mg and three service endpoints. NIC.MG says it has been the official manager for more than 30 years. The instrument that would let a registrant, a registrar or a court test that sentence was not obtained in this review.
CASE FILE
A card cannot see a cable. Hawaiki's card has stopped pretending it can.
BTW's directory projection of 4 November 2026 delivered twenty-three claims about Hawaiki Submarine Cable LP and observed its network layer exactly zero times. The file it cites twice names a different cable. Read the card as a register of what has been observed, never as a…
ICANN
A Naming Question, Addressed to the Address Community
An ICANN notice convenes the Address Supporting Organization into an approval-action forum on fundamental amendments to Articles 17 and 18 of the ICANN Bylaws. Those two articles are the Customer Standing Committee and the IANA Naming Function Reviews. The procedure doing the…
Afrinic SAGA
Two Dates, One Handover, Four Things Everyone Calls "the Registry"
The announcement of who would run Africa's address registry is easy to find. The record of what actually changed hands is a different document, and the question it would answer is the one an operator or a judge has to ask.
Europe and Middle East Institutional
France Bought the Cable Factory. Nokia's Own Paperwork Cannot Agree on When.
Nokia sold 80% of Alcatel Submarine Networks to the French State at a €350 million enterprise value, kept 20% with a put option attached, and signed up to a €100 million industrial plan for Calais and Greenwich. The record cannot agree on the day the handover happened — and that…
Europe and Middle East Datacenter
InterLAN-IX charges the same port price in Bucharest, Frankfurt and Sofia. Who pays for the distance?
Romania's exchange told RIPE 93 that geography does not change the price of a port. The same talk explains what has to be true for that promise to hold: eleven sites stitched onto one Layer 2 fabric, redundant links the operator describes as expensive, and a transport bill that…