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Membership Accountability
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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.
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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.
Leaders
The Office and the Rulebook: What John Curran's ARIN Record Can Actually Attribute
A registry chief executive is easy to describe and hard to hold to account. The job sits at the end of a chain that begins with a community proposal, passes through a board, and finishes in an operational queue. This briefing separates those links using the two ARIN documents…
CASE FILE
Nominet's member revolt proved a remedy, not a mandate
Nominet's own documents record a member-requisitioned meeting, a certified vote and directors leaving afterwards. They do not, on the record I could reach, establish what members were entitled to do — and that gap is the governance story.
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Why RIPE NCC's 15-month cushion needs more than a calculator
Its reserve covers 9.8 months of budgeted operating costs. Getting from that figure to a longer period without income depends on when fees arrive, what spending stops and assumptions that a balance sheet cannot settle.
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At APNIC, winning a seat will not always mean winning three years
A staggered change of terms will make council turnover easier to predict. Finding the people who can contest those seats is a different job.
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AFRINIC's receiver was named in the court papers all along
An appointment order, a letter from ICANN and a pending discharge application tell a more useful story than an allegedly anonymous supervisor: how a registry keeps making decisions while its leadership changes.
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ARIN’s Survey Calls Customer Service an Exception. Its Table Shows a Smaller Gap.
ARIN’s 2026 satisfaction report says the overall distance between expectations and perceived performance narrowed. Yet its narrative names Customer Service as an exception while the same page’s table moves that dimension from a nine-point gap to six. The sample also changed, so…
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AFRINIC opens a priorities survey without a public timetable
The Member and Stakeholder Survey asks what works, where AFRINIC should improve and which priorities matter next. Its public invitation offers anonymous-by-default feedback, but does not state when the survey closes or when AFRINIC will report what it heard.
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RIPE NCC board ties surplus vote to IT renewal
RIPE NCC’s Board recommends Yes on both resolutions at its 28–30 October General Meeting. It links the expected 2026 surplus to a reserve buffer for a major IT rebuild, while asking members to choose the Arbiters Panel candidates themselves.
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LACNIC’s Board Ties Comisión Fiscal Access to Possible Financial Impact, but Does Not Define the Test
A sentence in LACNIC’s March 2025 Board minutes describes a private route from masked meeting material to the Comisión Fiscal. The route depends on possible financial impact. The record does not explain how that trigger is judged, and it does not show that any passage was…
ICANN
ICANN’s FY26 accounts show a $36m pre-investment gap in the New gTLD segment
ICANN’s audited FY26 schedule puts a $35.994 million gap in the New gTLD Program before investment gains, while ICANN Operations is $18.370 million positive on the same basis. The segments end the year in opposite positions even as consolidated net assets rise.
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AFRINIC’s co-chair search separates candidate approval from community consent
AFRINIC has opened nominations for one Policy Development Working Group co-chair. Candidates need support from two members; registered entities at the Public Policy Meeting will choose by consensus. The distinction matters because the chair facilitates policy discussion but does…
CASE FILE
InternetNZ posts AGM answers before two-month member deadline
InternetNZ has published its 2026 annual-meeting question-and-answer files after members carried a motion requiring a complete, unedited meeting-question record and written answers within two months.
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APNIC’s Delegation Review Runs on Six Clocks
APNIC’s resource-delegation program puts data reviews, random checks, internal process work, member assistance, NIR support and agreement review under one public calendar. Their entities and natural end states differ. That matters as the main review approaches its hand-off target…