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Court and Continuity Risk
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ICANN
ICP-2 in 2001: Criteria Written for Expansion, Not Failure
The original ICP-2 criteria were written to decide when a new regional internet registry could be recognized during an expansion of the registry system. They remain a valuable entry checklist, but they cannot by themselves supply a modern power to suspend, replace, or derecognize…
ICANN
Shared Legal Strategy Among Supposedly Independent Registries
When the regional internet registries coordinate on legal risk, the result can protect the numbering system from fragmentation. The danger begins when legal mutual aid becomes a common power position that reduces institutional competition, weakens regional comparison, and makes…
ICANN
Mission Limitation After the Transition
The post-transition ICANN bylaws give the mission limit a sharper sentence than the pre-transition institution ever had: ICANN shall not act outside its mission. That sentence matters, but only as much as the community can afford to invoke it, prove it, obtain interim restraint…
ICANN
The Jurisdiction Project That Could Not Move the Corporation
ICANN's jurisdiction debate produced useful but narrow legal changes: stronger best-efforts commitments around sanctions licensing, clearer warnings against over-reading United States sanctions through contracts, and some choice-of-law or venue options in agreements. It did not…
ICANN
ICANN's AFRINIC Threat and the Missing Replacement Rule
ICANN's warning after the AFRINIC election crisis showed that recognition review is no longer theoretical. It also exposed the harder question: if AFRINIC were found unable to provide regional registry services, who would receive the records, who would operate the services, what…
ICANN
The Recognition Power ICANN Never Clearly Defined
ICANN can recognize a regional internet registry, question whether it remains compliant, and warn that a formal review may follow. What has never been defined with enough precision is the power between recognition and replacement: the triggers, notice, evidence standard, interim…
ICANN
IANA's Allocation Audit Trail
The top of the Internet number-resource hierarchy is trusted because IANA registries are public, familiar and generally stable. That is not the same as being externally reconstructable. Global pool changes should leave timestamped, versioned and verifiable evidence that lets…
ICANN
The Ombudsman Without an Order Power
ICANN's Ombuds can investigate unfair treatment, obtain records, mediate conflict, make findings, recommend corrective action and bring a serious breach to the Board. What the office cannot do is equally consequential: it cannot unilaterally set aside a Board decision, impose an…
ICANN
IRP Awards and the Cost of Making ICANN Listen
ICANN's Independent Review Process can establish that the institution violated its constitutional commitments, publish a reasoned declaration, allocate substantial proceeding costs and support judicial enforcement. Yet access to that form of accountability still depends on…
ICANN
The Reconsideration Request That Reviews Process, Not Power
ICANN's Reconsideration mechanism can examine whether the Board or staff crossed the Mission, ignored material facts or relied on inaccurate ones. But the first judge is a committee made up of directors, the final judge is the Board, the claimant carries a demanding filing…
ICANN
The IANA Numbering Services SLA and Its Enforcement Gap
The agreement between ICANN and the five Regional Internet Registries is often described as the post-2016 answer to a simple accountability question: who can hold the IANA numbering operator to its promises? The text gives the RIRs substantial rights, from review and dispute…
ICANN
PTI's Separate Corporation, Shared Control
Public Technical Identifiers has its own legal personality, board, officers, accounts, audit, plans and contracts. Those features make the IANA functions easier to see, govern and, if necessary, move. They do not make PTI independent of ICANN. The parent remains sole member…
ICANN
The IANA Stewardship Transition and the Vanishing Counterparty
The 2016 transition ended a narrow but unmistakable relationship: one government held a finite contract with the IANA functions operator and could decide whether that operator continued. The post-transition settlement gained global legitimacy by removing that state-held lever. It…
ICANN
NTIA's IANA Contract as a Source of Discipline
For sixteen years, the United States did not merely endorse ICANN's stewardship of the IANA functions. It purchased a defined service, inspected performance, controlled renewal and retained a narrow authorisation role in root-zone changes. The arrangement was neither global…
Apnic
Registry Logs as Evidence After an Incident
Registry Logs as Evidence After an Incident intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The Apnic intelligence…
Apnic
RPKI Terms of Service Versus Routing Liability
When a registry-controlled certificate or published authorisation changes a legitimate route from Valid to Invalid, networks that reject Invalid announcements can make the error economically real within minutes. Terms that give an institution decisive certificate powers while…
ARIN
The Bankruptcy Court's IPv4 Auction and the Registry's Late Arrival
When an insolvent company sells IPv4 space, the bankruptcy court can authorize the sale, settle creditor claims and choose the best bid. It cannot make a stale registration operationally clean by decree. Nortel's sale to Microsoft and Borders' sale to Cerner show why legal…
Afrinic SAGA
AFRINIC's Legal Spend per Active Member
AFRINIC's legal bill becomes more intelligible when divided by the organisations sustaining the registry, but the calculation also exposes a missing denominator, unequal fee incidence and the absence of a member-level account of what the expenditure achieved.
Lacnic
LACNIC Fees in a Region of Currency Volatility
A membership invoice stated in US dollars gives LACNIC a stable accounting unit, but it transfers exchange-rate timing, conversion cost and access to dollars to networks whose customers usually pay in local currency.
ARIN
ARIN's Fee Redesign and the Networks That Paid More
ARIN's Fee Redesign and the Networks That Paid More intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The ARIN…