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JUNET’s Name Tree Came Before DNS—and Survived the Move to .jp
Before Japan’s academic networks used TCP/IP and DNS, JUNET made hierarchical email names work over UUCP and telephone lines. The convention gave volunteers a way to keep organization names legible as the network grew—and a structure that could be carried into `.jp` when a wider…
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Same Client, Same Server Set: RFC 1542’s BOOTP Relay Rule
When one small bootstrap request has to cross a subnet boundary, the relay becomes part of the client’s conversation with a server. RFC 1542 made a quiet but consequential choice: distribute clients across servers if useful, but keep each client’s sequence of requests attached to…
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RIPE NCC’s proxy deadline appears as 4 October and 14 October
One RIPE NCC notice lists 4 October as the proxy-vote deadline; the General Meeting and proxy pages list 14 October. The Articles’ two-week rule points to 14 October for a meeting that begins on 28 October, but the published mismatch remains unexplained.
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IPv6 Won After SIPP Changed: The Revision Behind the IPng Choice
The candidate that became the basis for IPv6 did not reach the finish line in its first form. Reviewers questioned both its transition plan and the space it reserved for addresses. The eventual choice followed a redesign: eight-byte addresses became fixed sixteen-byte addresses…
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LACNIC’s Canary Guide Puts Grafana’s Detection Clock in Focus
LACNIC’s 7 October guide presents canary tokens as a low-cost warning for exposed secrets. Grafana’s own incident timeline shows what that warning timed: an attacker had already reached stolen credentials before a decoy key was tested, and response and log review came on separate…
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A Test Day Was Not a Switch: How World IPv6 Launch Changed the Goal
World IPv6 Day asked a narrow but consequential question: could popular websites add IPv6 for a day without breaking the IPv4 service people already used? A year later, World IPv6 Launch widened the assignment to access providers, home-router makers and content networks, with a…
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RIPE Database incident stayed under monitoring for 24 hours after fix notice
RIPE NCC said some web-application requests were failing with 502 responses on 7 October. A fix moved the incident to monitoring one minute after the first public report; resolution was posted 24 hours and 34 minutes later. That interval measures status states, not the length or…
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LACNIC 46’s Hybrid Mix Includes 192 Remote Registrations
LACNIC’s event dashboard lists 648 in-person and 192 remote registrations out of 840. The split is a useful planning signal for a hybrid meeting, but it says nothing about who will attend or take part in the policy forum.
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Kendrick Knowles’s withdrawal leaves seven names on ARIN’s AC list
A 14 September amendment records Kendrick Knowles’s withdrawal from the race. The current candidate list shows seven names as ARIN’s October ballot approaches.
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ARIN’s Candidate Support Counts Measure Statements, Not Votes
ARIN’s 2026 candidate pages count public Statements of Support, which any individual may submit. The formal Board and Advisory Council ballot, by contrast, runs through eligible General Member organizations.
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Gazi Zehadul Kabir Wins APNIC’s 2027 NRO NC Seat
APNIC’s final count gave Gazi Zehadul Kabir 263 votes. He will take the two-year NRO Number Council term beginning 1 January 2027, succeeding Nicole T. I Chan.
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NSPIXP-1 Shared WIDE’s NOC, Not Its AUP
The Tokyo exchange sat inside WIDE’s network operations centre, yet outside the research network’s acceptable-use boundary. Its routing design then shifted control from the exchange toward the providers that ran the networks.
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RFC 1490 Was Widely Implemented. Its Fragmentation Did Not Interoperate.
By 1998, the successor to RFC 1490 could describe two very different outcomes in the same system: multiprotocol Frame Relay was widely implemented, yet the RFC’s own fragmentation algorithm had no interoperable implementations. The split shows why a standard cannot be judged as…
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AFRINIC opens its remaining PDP co-chair seat for a one-year term
The June selection filled one of two positions; an incumbent remains in the other until the 18 November Public Policy Meeting, where the next one-year term will be chosen by consensus.
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Four Years Before RFC 1459, IRC Was Already Running
In May 1993, the first formal description of Internet Relay Chat arrived with an Experimental label. Its authors were documenting a service they said had been operating for years: a growing server network whose design was already beginning to strain.
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APNIC’s 28.5-hour chat outage tested the support boundary
APNIC’s notice records a 28-hour-30-minute interruption to online chat on its Help Centre and MyAPNIC, attributed to an unnamed third-party provider. It directs members to email or phone; it does not measure how much work those alternatives carried.
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A Remote Call Was Never Local: RFC 707’s Tenex Prototype
RFC 707 tried to make a familiar programming action—calling a procedure—work across a network. SRI’s TENEX prototype showed that the proposal could be made concrete on one machine family; the document’s sharper lesson was that a cleaner call syntax could not make messages, delay…
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More Than One First: How Australia Joined the Internet in 1989
One history at the University of Melbourne gives Australia’s first Internet connection a speed of 2,400 bits per second. AARNet’s anniversary history describes the Melbourne–Hawaii circuit as 56 kilobits per second. Both accounts place the milestone in June 1989. The difference…
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JANET’s 90% IP Figure Did Not Start SuperJANET
The 90% figure often used to explain JANET’s IP transition dates to the end of 1992. It did not launch SuperJANET: that project was planned years earlier. The figure supported a later decision to make IP native in JANET’s backbone.
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The File Was Unlinked but Still Open. NFS Left That State to the Client
RFC 1094 made an important boundary visible: NFSv2 could remove a name from a remote directory, but its stateless server could not preserve every operating system’s promise that an already-open file remained usable. The RFC put the compatibility work on the client, where a rename…