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Membership Accountability
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MENOG
The Classroom Moved. Who Chose the Lesson?
When MENOG announced one regional meeting instead of two and more country roadshows, it made technical training easier to reach. The harder question is whether it also moved the power to choose—over seats, teachers, materials, accreditation and the future use of what was taught.
Number Resource Society
A Versioned Event Schema for Comparing RIR Decisions
Regional Internet Registries disclose substantial activity, yet the same decision can still be counted at different moments, under different names and against different populations. A useful comparison layer should begin below dashboards and annual totals: one bounded, versioned…
Number Resource Society
A Global South Label Cannot Substitute for a Mandate
The Global South names a real distribution of disadvantage and an unstable political coalition at the same time. It can draw attention to colonial inheritance, expensive capital, infrastructure gaps, weak bargaining power, linguistic exclusion and the fact that most people who…
Number Resource Society
When One Corporate Group Casts Twenty Registry Votes
Twenty ballots can comply with a registry's rules and still expose a constitutional choice the rules never state. If twenty legal members answer to one corporate control group, should an election count twenty independent voices, one economic interest, or something between the…
Number Resource Society
Climate Reporting Cannot Justify Registry Mission Creep
A regional Internet registry consumes electricity, buys equipment and services, leases offices, relies on data centres, sends staff to meetings and convenes an international community whose travel has an environmental cost. It also faces physical climate risks: flood, heat…
Number Resource Society
Control-Change Notices Without a Registry Surveillance State
An Internet number registry does not need a permanent dossier on every shareholder in order to notice that the person able to direct a resource-holding company has changed. What it needs is a narrowly defined event notice: who changed, which recognized holder is affected, when…
Number Resource Society
Digital Identity Requirements at the Registry Gate
An Internet number registry must know more than the name typed into an account form. It must establish that an organization or natural person exists, that the person making a request can act for it, and that a transfer or record change is authorized by the legitimate holder.…
Number Resource Society
Machine-Readable Policy and the Risk of Automated Discretion
Internet number registries already expose important parts of registration through software interfaces. A network can update records, create routing entities, retrieve registration data and receive validation errors without a staff member retyping the request. The next step…
Number Resource Society
How to Ratify a Number-Resource Continuity Charter
A continuity charter for Internet number resources will not become legitimate because its principles sound prudent or because a well-attended meeting applauds them. Ratification is a chain of attributed decisions: a bounded drafting mandate, a public evidence record, declared…
Number Resource Society
The Registry-Choice Pilot That Must Be Allowed to Fail
A registry-choice pilot will produce useful evidence only if its sponsors commit in advance to the possibility that the idea is wrong. From 2026 to 2036, a bounded trial should preregister its cohorts, controls, benefit thresholds, safety floors, stopping rules and rollback path…
Leaders
Pavel Šnajdr and the member-run VPS platform that made infrastructure decisions public
Pavel Šnajdr is not best understood through a corporate title. The stronger story is how vpsFree.cz made a Czech member association behave like visible infrastructure: publishing its operating constraints, building its own container-host stack, explaining migrations away from…
Leaders
Armando Ametrano and the Local Infrastructure of Broadcast Trust in Las Flores
Armando Ametrano's public record is not the story of a national technology celebrity. It is the quieter record of a local Argentine media operator whose work sits where radio continuity, cable-operator politics, broadcast-association governance, and internet-number responsibility…
Leaders
Gergana Petrova and the Work of Making Internet Institutions Legible
Sofia Ren profiles Gergana Petrova through the RIPE NCC community-development work that turns regional meetings, operator groups, fellowships, local hubs, and governance participation into the connective tissue of a more legible and resilient Internet infrastructure community.
Leaders
Hans Petter Holen and the Operating Trust Behind Internet Numbering
Sofia Ren profiles Hans Petter Holen through the public record that connects an early Norwegian internet-service builder, a former RIPE Chair, and the RIPE NCC's current chief executive to the quiet governance work that keeps number resources, registry trust, and community…
Leaders
Mirjam Kühne and the Infrastructure of Neutral Process
Mirjam Kühne's public record sits in a place the internet often depends on but rarely celebrates: the chairing, community-building, policy stewardship, and administrative governance that keep shared technical institutions legitimate. As RIPE Chair, former RIPE NCC community…
Story
The Post-Exhaustion Generation Has Never Received an Initial Allocation
An Internet service provider founded after IPv4 exhaustion begins with a different institutional memory from a network that entered when a regional registry could satisfy an ordinary, needs-based request from a free pool. The newer operator may buy address space, lease it…
Leaders
María Eugenia Spagnuolo and the Small-Operator Signal in Latin American Internet Governance
María Eugenia Spagnuolo's public record is not a story of formal victory or consolidated control. It is more precise than that: a 2022 LACNIC Electoral Commission candidacy that missed a single seat by six votes, a candidate biography that places her in Argentina's local…
Story
The Next AFRINIC Election Must Publish Its Denominator
An election can produce winners and still fail to prove that the electorate was treated fairly. The missing fact is often not the numerator on the results page but the denominator underneath it: every organisation entitled to participate, every application accepted or refused…
Story
The First Permanent IGF and the Same Old Execution Gap
The Internet Governance Forum became permanent in December 2025, but permanence did not convert discussion into command. The first annual meeting under that status will take place in Nairobi from 14 to 18 December 2026, after this article's publication date. The honest question…
Story
WSIS+20 After the Applause: Which Operational Right Changed?
The twentieth-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society ended with a consensus resolution, a permanent Internet Governance Forum and a long list of commitments on access, human rights, inclusion, cooperation, financing and follow-up. Those are consequential…