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Membership Accountability
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Story
ARIN's fee scale: 1,644 big accounts balance 23,124 small ones
The registry's September fee snapshot looks like a balance scale with a tiny pan and a crowded pan. They carry almost the same annual revenue run rate. That is a useful picture of whose holdings make ARIN's budget move.
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ARIN Deleted Five Words. 72 Transfer Recipients Skipped a New RSA
A transfer rule used to count back two agreement versions. ARIN removed that little counter. Six months later, it says 72 of 490 organizations completing IPv4 transfers under §§8.3 and 8.4 did not have to sign a fresh Registration Services Agreement.
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ARIN’s bridge to 2030 is built from investments and renewal bills
ARIN expects years of budget deficits before it reaches balance. Its own financial deck names the bridge: draw on investments, manage spending and leave room for annual fee rises of up to 5%.
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RIPE NCC’s “Yes” Keeps the Surplus; Members Pay Any Deficit
Last year, Yes returned the excess to members. This October, the Board wants the same button to keep an estimated €1 million in reserves for IT investment; under Yes, members cover any 2027 deficit.
Leaders
Raúl Echeberría's Two Offices: Executive Authority at LACNIC, Board Authority at ISOC
Raúl Echeberría worked at the crossing of two institutions whose responsibilities often meet in public debate but do not share a chain of command. At LACNIC he led an organisation that allocated Internet number resources and served a membership that also governed it. At the…
Leaders
Noah Maina and the Work Between a Ballot and a Mandate
In 2017, an AFRINIC community election for a regional seat on the Address Supporting Organization Address Council and Number Resource Organization Number Council produced a clear count: Noah Maina received 135 votes, while Mark Elkins received 26. The number tells us who won that…
Leaders
Srinivas Chendi and the Craft of Making Policy Reachable
APNIC’s records place Srinivas Chendi in two settings that rarely meet in an organisation chart: the member helpdesk and the policy room. Across the work documented by the regional registry, he appears as a hostmaster, liaison, trainer and explainer of process. His contribution…
North America Institutional
SIX publishes the register and defers the rules
A network weighing Seattle Internet Exchange can read two public pages before it decides: one describing the exchange, one listing its entities. Neither tells it what the exchange will check before accepting a route announcement. Both tell it a great deal about how the entity…
Story
AFRINIC’s 2025 surplus fell 65% while income rose
AFRINIC’s audited accounts show three different signals: income edged higher, the surplus before finance items contracted sharply, and cash generated from operations fell further. A currency swing softened the annual decline without reversing it.
North America Institutional
The Rate Is Fixed When the Port Is Authorized. Seattle's Exchange Names the Documents That Would Show Who May Change It.
Between 08:36 and 09:04 UTC on 21 October 2026, the Seattle Internet Exchange's own pages produced two very different kinds of statement. One is a commercial rule, specific enough to calculate: the port fee a entity pays is the rate in force at the moment its port is authorised.…
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AFRINIC’s 2025 Audit Opinion Does Not Decide Its Litigation Risk
AFRINIC’s signed financial statements give members an unmodified opinion on the accounts while drawing particular attention to the directors’ judgment about ongoing legal proceedings. Those two statements answer different questions. Reading them together shows what the audit…
BDNOG
bdNOG22 names 15 fellows, but leaves its applicant pool unseen
The Bangladesh Network Operators Group has published the 2026 fellowship roster and support terms. The public record identifies recipients, but not the size of the applicant pool or whether they attended.
Leaders
The deciding seat the record never assigns: Laura Kaplan and LACNIC's development money
A directory entry calls her an internet-development and regional-cooperation practitioner. A regional support programme, two outside organisations checked against it, and a governance body all sit inside that description. None of the documents reviewed for this briefing names her…
Global Institutional
VERY SMALL, Economy AP: What the Number Registry Can and Cannot Say About Gartner
Gartner Inc. sits in the Asia-Pacific registry's smallest membership category. The entry is exact, dated and easy to abuse — because it counts rights over IP addresses, not the size of a business, the reach of a brand or the quality of an analysis.
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A RIPE NCC Vote on 2026 Surplus Also Sets the Deficit Path
The October General Meeting resolution is framed around a forecast surplus, but its two branches also decide where a 2026 deficit would land. Members are choosing a rule for either result before the year’s accounts are final.
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RIPE NCC members will vote on putting the CEO on the Board
RIPE NCC members will decide whether the seven elected non-executives and the chief executive should sit on one Board under amended Articles of Association.
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ARIN survey shows a larger appetite for better service, but fee stability still leads
In the 2026 survey, 28% chose higher fees for higher service, up from 12% in 2023. A larger 59% still preferred the same fees and service.
Story
RIPE's IPv6 proposal adds an LIR closure clause beside an existing procedure
A local Internet registry (LIR) can face two separate questions when it closes: what happens to its service agreement and how its number resources are handled. RIPE NCC’s new IPv6 proposal names both, while existing RIPE-858 sets out separate procedures without explaining how the…
Number Resource Society
Where a Member Offers Services, and Where It Is Registered
The RIPE NCC's public member register gives VeriSign Inc. a postal address in Reston, Virginia, a contact block, and two country names under a single heading. The register keeps two geographies apart. Reading tends not to.
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AFRINIC logged 17 hours of MyAFRINIC access trouble without defining its scope
The status record gives the incident a start and an end, while the component list labels the portal operational. Neither says which member workflows were affected or how recovery was verified.