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Membership Accountability
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AFRINIC Academy’s Calendar Still Lists a Past Event as Upcoming
In a response dated 13 October, AFRINIC Academy’s events page still placed Botswana’s 6–9 October Deployathon under “Upcoming Events”, while its “Up Next” cards had advanced to later dates. The page records a schedule mismatch; it does not establish what happened at the Botswana…
Leaders
Yasu Taniwaki’s Question: Who Can Seek a Remedy from an RIR?
At Japan IGF 2024, Taniwaki asked whether the RIR system had an appeal or dispute-resolution process. A later draft names more people who may enforce rights against an RIR, but the text is still awaiting approval and implementation.
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AFRINIC Reports 62 Event Attendances, but No Cost by Event
AFRINIC’s unaudited first-half report presents two different ledgers: travel spending by department and governance group, and attendance counts by event. One assigns USD 114,232 to Board travel; the other records 15 Board attendance entries among 62 event appearances. Neither…
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AFRINIC’s Dashboard Draft Needs a Versioned Policy-to-Test Map
The 25 September revision treats automated checks as possible indicators and requires staff to verify what a test found. That boundary matters only if members and reviewers can trace each alert to the exact policy version, input record and test that produced it.
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The LACNIC Board ballot is set for November. Its English call says October.
LACNIC’s election index and dated timelines put the 2026 Board vote on 3–10 November. One English field in the detailed call instead says voting opens a month earlier; the Spanish call gives the November date.
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RIPE Atlas Said Authentication Was Back; It Closed the Incident the Next Morning
On 29 September 2026, RIPE NCC Status said that both RIPE Access and API-key authentication for RIPE Atlas were failing. Nine minutes later, it reported a rollback and apparent recovery; the incident was not marked resolved until the next morning. Those are two different clocks…
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RIPE NCC’s service review has a route, not a budget veto
The RIPE NCC Services Working Group can examine existing services, new tools and the annual activity plan. Its charter leaves budgets and fee structures outside the group’s remit. A co-chair selection under way shows how the community chooses conveners for that review channel—and…
History
The Exchange Came Before the Association: AMS-IX’s Two-Stage Start
Amsterdam’s Internet exchange was already joining networks before its entities turned the service into a member-governed association. Its 1994–97 history shows why a shared switching fabric and the institution that runs it are separate parts of Internet infrastructure.
History
Five Seats in the Call, Six Elected: ISOC’s First Trustee Election, 1992–93
The Internet Society’s first Board began with appointments. A year later, an election notice promised five seats; the secretariat and the Board recorded six winners. The surviving documents show how members gained a real route to choose trustees—and where the public record stops.
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ARIN Can Retire 6.4.1. It Still Has to Name the Rule That Replaces It
ARIN-2026-3 would remove the Number Resource Policy Manual’s “not property” subsection. Its rationale says the subject belongs in the Registration Services Agreement, but the proposal contains no replacement text, contract version map or transition. The difficult question is what…
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RIPE NCC’s new risk register starts with the whole organisation
A top-down view of high-impact risks changes where the discussion begins; the September Board minutes tie some treatments to the right budget.
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EU Standards Access Plan Shifts the Funding Burden
The European Commission wants standards referenced in EU law to be freely accessible online. Its impact assessment puts business savings near EUR 30 million a year and possible revenue losses for national standards bodies at up to the same amount.
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RIPE NCC’s 2027 Budget Table Says €2,209 per LIR. Its Notice Says €2,056
The 2027 draft calculates €2,209 in expenses for each LIR, up 7% from the 2026 budget. RIPE NCC’s announcement repeats the €2,056 baseline instead.
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APNIC’s 363 Non-English Responses Need a Traceable Path to Strategy
APNIC’s 2026 survey counted 363 completions in ten languages besides English. The next test is whether the public record can show how that multilingual input was translated, grouped and considered for the 2028–2032 plan.
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AFRINIC’s Proposed Policy Petition Is a Board-Absence Mechanism
Draft02 gives the Policy Development Working Group a route to petition for ratification when no duly constituted and operative Board exists. A Board that declines ratification follows a different path, and the exceptional route still depends on changes to the Bylaws and NRO NC…
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RIPE NCC’s proxy deadline appears as 4 October and 14 October
One RIPE NCC notice lists 4 October as the proxy-vote deadline; the General Meeting and proxy pages list 14 October. The Articles’ two-week rule points to 14 October for a meeting that begins on 28 October, but the published mismatch remains unexplained.
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APNIC 62 Counted 584 Participants. Member Votes Follow Different Rules.
The conference report lists 500 people in person, 84 online-only and 169 APNIC Member organisations represented. Those figures describe reach; the by-laws assign formal member votes through a separate, tier-weighted process.
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ARIN’s Draft Fairness Principle Is Not a Request-Level Justification Rule
ARIN-2026-4 would move an IPv6 fairness statement into the manual’s general principles. Its September staff and legal review says the proposed sentence is not a definition or a justification requirement. That boundary matters: fairness can govern how policy is written and applied…
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LACNIC 46’s Hybrid Mix Includes 192 Remote Registrations
LACNIC’s event dashboard lists 648 in-person and 192 remote registrations out of 840. The split is a useful planning signal for a hybrid meeting, but it says nothing about who will attend or take part in the policy forum.
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LACNIC’s second-place IANA reviewer starts first—and the dates do not line up
Celsa Sanchez finished second in LACNIC’s 2026 election for its IANA Numbering Services Review Committee seats. She is due to take office immediately. The top-ranked candidate, Hernan Jose Arcidiacono, waits until 1 January 2027. One ballot has therefore produced two winners on…