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Data Sovereignty and Locality
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Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
A Riyadh Postbox, a Registry Key, and the Half of SAIX Nobody Publishes
The registry will tell you exactly what to call the Saudi Arabian Internet Exchange and where to send its post. It will not tell you who is plugged in. Measured on 4 November 2026, that gap is the finding.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Europe Wants a Map of Its Internet Backbones Before It Chooses Where to Spend
The Commission is offering up to €400,000 for an 18-month study of land and submarine routes, ownership risk and the next funding criteria. Whoever draws the baseline will help define which gaps count as strategic.
Global Cloud Services Trends
Jira can move region. Its Marketplace apps get a vote.
The green residency badge belongs to Jira’s in-scope data. An installed Marketplace app can keep a separate timetable, a separate operator and, for a dedicated move, a full-day outage window. The region selector is the beginning of the purchase, not the receipt.
Global Institutional Trends
EU–Canada Digital Trade Talks Are Done. The Agreed Text Is Missing From the Public File.
The two sides announced a political finish in Montréal on 30 October. Businesses have a list of promised subjects, but the page meant to hold the agreement still shows negotiating reports and an EU proposal. The operative wording has another set of desks to cross.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom Trends
Britain Wants a Security Switch Over Data From Listening Cables
The UK’s new subsea proposal reaches beyond cable repair. It would put fibre-optic sensing deployments under advance review and require operators to provide the data they generate when government requests it for national security.
Global Cloud Services Trends
bunny.net’s Second European Tick Removes Norway’s Nodes
Selecting both EU and EEA leaves their intersection: the EU. Overseas readers still arrive, but their requests must reach permitted locations. Procurement chooses the boundary; the audience gets the journey.
CASE FILE
More Than 23 Systems. GAO Still Couldn’t Map DOGE’s Permissions.
Four agencies reported DOGE team access to more than 23 systems. Two would not identify the systems their teams could reach, and the permissions behind the reported access remained out of view.
CASE FILE
Canada Wants Trade Data Once. The Task Force Has No Clock.
A 19-organization forum has begun work on a “Tell Us Once” model. Its launch release gives no delivery date, named operational owner or trade-specific rules for reusing the data.
CASE FILE
The Dominican Republic’s Digital Investment Ledger Has No Clock
Decree 714-26 gives the public-administration ministry a way to classify and track strategic digital projects while leaving procurement authority with the institutions that already hold it. The register has required fields, but no update interval.
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Saudi Arabia Built a 6.6 Tbps Exchange and Filled a Quarter of It
On 30 October 2026 the Saudi Arabian Internet Exchange's own homepage reported 6.6 Tbps of provisioned capacity and an all-time peak of 1.65 Tb/s — arithmetic that closes to exactly one quarter, and a gap that tells a buyer more about the exchange than any membership total does.
IETF
The Deleted Email’s First Lock Was Set Yesterday
A new JMAP draft gives destroyed mail a recovery drawer. In a shared account, the first test for opening it looks back to who could read the item when it was deleted. Purging and restoring use different rights, and a changed sharing rule sits between those clocks.
CASE FILE
City Hall's Mail Has an EU Address. Who Holds the Keys?
A map of 30 countries finds that municipal email often sits in Europe while its operator is registered elsewhere. The server's postcode won't restore a lost inbox.
Leaders
Hisham Ibrahim Looked Under the Sovereignty Plan. Both Backups Shared a Plug.
Picture two suppliers on a procurement slide and one cloud region beneath them. The slide says resilience; the wiring tells a different story. Hisham Ibrahim's RIPE Labs essays put that wiring at the centre of digital sovereignty: find the shared failure points, then ask whether…
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
Starling chose the UK cloud. NVIDIA is still in the room.
Starling says it will train a bank-specific model on more than 15 billion anonymised transactions, using Civo’s UK cloud and NVIDIA’s financial-services team and software. The interesting choice is the split: local hosting, global compute tools, and a product that will not reach…
North America Datacenter Trends
VAN-2’s Second Megawatt Has a Future Tense
Uniserve leased 10,000 square feet for a 2 MW Vancouver data centre. Its latest update puts 1 MW on the Q4 2026 opening target and leaves the other megawatt for later. The useful question is now less about the brochure’s ceiling than the evidence behind the first live rack.
History
Four Million Patents Came Online. Bring Their Numbers.
In December 1999, USPTO brought a vast older patent collection onto the web. Finding a page and reading its words were still two different appointments.
History
The Network Arrived Before the Research Could Be Found
An Indonesian research network could reach beyond the country while its own papers remained hard to find online. A 1997 account of IPTEKnet shows why connecting institutions and building usable local information required different people, budgets and decisions.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
New Zealand’s AI Survey Counts Use Cases, Not Data Control
New Zealand public agencies reported 545 AI use cases in 2026, more than double the previous year’s count. The survey also names data sovereignty as an unresolved challenge, but its published totals do not show where each case’s data goes or who can control it.
CASE FILE
EDPB finds no obstacle in CNIL’s Michelin draft; transfers remain separate
The European Data Protection Board says the French authority may adopt its draft decision on Michelin Group’s controller rules as submitted. The opinion settles a consistency question under Article 47 GDPR; it is neither the CNIL’s final decision nor approval of any individual…
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Europol’s Report Finds EU Forensic Tool Testing Still Fragmented
A new Commission–Europol analysis points to incompatible formats and national validation practices. It recommends shared tools and testing, but does not establish an EU-wide test authority.