Time Horizon
2019 Present
Within the Time Horizon facet, 2019 Present time-horizon intelligence organises articles by the period over which a signal is expected to matter. The page helps readers distinguish immediate operational changes from longer-cycle governance, investment, standards, and infrastructure shifts that may unfold across quarters or years. It connects timing assumptions with public evidence, related actors, market context, customer exposure, policy pressure, and infrastructure planning so readers can judge whether a development is urgent, strategic, or still waiting on confirming evidence. The page also explains how time horizon changes the meaning of a signal, which organisations may be exposed, and which infrastructure decisions require short-term action or long-cycle monitoring.
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Publication-as-a-Service and the New Middleman
Running an RPKI certificate authority no longer requires running the repository from which validators retrieve its entities. That separation can reduce a network operator's infrastructure burden and place global distribution with a specialist. It also inserts a service provider…
Afrinic SAGA
The Asset Recovery Question AFRINIC Could Not Answer Cleanly
Correcting a corrupted registry was never going to be a matter of restoring old entries: AFRINIC had to prove the legitimate chain, notify every affected layer, protect good-faith reliance and keep operating networks intact while disputed custody was decided.
Afrinic SAGA
Contempt, Compliance and Registry Continuity
A court must be able to enforce its orders against a registry, but enforcement is better designed when it reaches the responsible decision-makers and preserves the number services on which unrelated networks depend.