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APRICOT's January deadline may arrive after the stage is full
APNIC's blog announced the 2027 call on 27 October. Its final date is 25 January, but the programme committee fills speaking slots as proposals arrive. The calendar gives a deadline; it does not hold a chair.
CASE FILE
Europe may charge the biggest data diners extra. The menu has no prices yet
The Council wants public bodies to send a different bill to companies large enough to turn civic records into a private advantage. The tricky part is writing a price list that survives daylight.
CASE FILE
W3C Closed the Advisory Board’s Side Door. The Rulebook Still Shows the Way In
W3C’s elected Advisory Board once had a written route into corporate Board meetings: up to two non-voting liaisons. The corporate Board ended that program, the next Process draft deletes the route, and the operative Process still prints the directions. A governance document can…
CASE FILE
The Safety Hub Speaks Arabic. The Workshop Binder Still Speaks English
The Internet Society has opened its online safety hub in Arabic, French, Spanish and Turkish. The page for the course that local trainers can carry into a room still says the curriculum is available only in English. That gap is the difference between finding advice and being able…
CASE FILE
MANRS Wants a Tougher Routing Rule. Its Own Minutes Cannot Agree on the Headcount
MANRS is sharpening the promises network operators make about routing security. The awkward part arrives before a router is touched: one meeting record puts the effect of a strict registry rule near 40% of entities, while the next gives 13% in its detailed account and nearly 40%…
CASE FILE
Europe’s Open Internet Watchdogs Have a Filing Cabinet. The Network Needs a Meter
BEREC’s tenth annual look at open-internet oversight found a crowded desk and a smaller test bench. For one central question about internet-access conditions, 25 regulators requested information from providers, 24 studied user reports, and nine used technical network monitoring.…
CASE FILE
The CRTC Had Two Clocks. British Columbia Made Them Disagree
A Canadian telecom filing could be on time by the regulator’s public instructions and late by the regulator’s written rule. British Columbia’s decision to stop changing clocks exposed the split. The CRTC has picked one deadline for today’s proceedings; the rulebook still carries…
ICANN
The GAC sketches a draft room for new domains. Who signs the warning?
Governments are preparing to compare notes on the 2026 domain applications. The interesting moment comes when a shared concern needs a named sender: one member can warn an applicant, while advice from the whole committee needs consensus.
CASE FILE
The Hotel Listing, the Phishing Message and the Ad Walk Into Brussels
Booking.com’s search page, reservation messages and paid rankings now sit in one European Commission case file. The regulator has opened a formal Digital Services Act investigation into three different doors through which a booking can go wrong. The fourth door is institutional…
ICANN
ICANN is moving the audit. The GAC wants its question to arrive intact.
Two review rooms can share a corridor and still lose a file between them. Governments want ICANN's redesign to say exactly who will examine how their advice reaches the Board, while leaving the committee's own internal review in its own hands.
CASE FILE
The Transparency Report Starts With a Question the Platform Gets to Edit
Ofcom is preparing annual online-safety transparency notices. Before anyone publishes a report, the regulator will ask the public about its method and give each covered service its own draft list of reporting demands. The argument over what gets measured begins in the margins of…
ICANN
ICANN counts the whistles. The GAC wants to see the whole DNS-abuse field
A complaint can tell a referee where to look. It cannot describe every play on the pitch. Governments at ICANN87 want a reproducible view of how registries and registrars actually handle DNS abuse across the contracted industry.
CASE FILE
The Platform Pays the Expert. Ofcom Holds the Veto.
Britain’s online-safety regulator is looking for people who can inspect the services it oversees. The appointment rules give Ofcom the scope and the final say on expertise; the service under examination receives the bill. That arrangement deserves more attention than the polite…
CASE FILE
ITU has 48 Council seats. The Americas brought exactly nine names for nine of them.
One region arrived at the election with a perfectly packed suitcase. Four others brought spare candidates. The difference was settled before anybody picked up a ballot pencil.
ICANN
RootViz rang the L-Root alarm. The broken road had the story
For four days in January, thousands of measurement probes struggled to reach one root-server identity over IPv4. A presentation at RIPE 93 shows why the first name on an alarm is often the wrong name on the repair ticket.
Leaders
Massimiliano Stucchi Put a RIPE 93 Slot on the Ten-Minute Clock
The programme chair had two headaches: synthetic-looking slides and the Friday morning schedule. One full presentation slot became a run of lightning talks.
ICANN
The privacy service left the building. GAC still wants the registrar to answer
A domain complaint can reach the registrar while the customer details sit with another company. Governments want the handoff to have an owner, especially when the clock is running.
ICANN
ICANN Counted 1,615 Applications. The IDN Question Found Its Own Microphone.
The new gTLD round has a splendidly precise total and an awkwardly timed question about who is represented inside it. The Governmental Advisory Committee has supplied an early answer for internationalized domain names. ICANN's fuller category table is still on the calendar.
ICANN
GAC's rulebook was still waiting for a new ICANN. It got one in 1998.
A sentence in the GAC's operating rules kept saying the IANA functions “are being transferred.” ICANN was founded in 1998 and took its first standalone IANA-functions contract in 2000. Governments have now voted to clean up the rulebook that tells their advisory committee how to…
ICANN
ICANN's sign-language plan is waiting for the host's wallet
The meeting has a standard plan for spoken-language interpretation. The GAC says further sign-language provision now depends, for the moment, on what a host country is willing to support. That makes access a budget decision with a change of venue attached.