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Network-resource Evidence
Within the Topic facet, Network-resource Evidence topic intelligence connects articles that share a specific subject, signal focus, or monitoring theme. The page gives readers a richer path through related reporting, source evidence, market actors, and infrastructure implications, with enough context to understand why the topic matters across company movements, governance decisions, regional exposure, and operational risk. Readers can compare recurring signals, affected organisations, public evidence, market context, service continuity, procurement, competition, compliance, and strategic planning questions behind the subject instead of stopping at a thin list of matching articles. It explains what the topic covers, which infrastructure actors or policies are involved, what evidence supports the coverage, and why the subject may matter for operators, customers, investors, and policy readers.

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DNSViz and the graph that makes DNSSEC failures legible
DNSViz turns one of the internet’s least intuitive failure modes into a picture that operators can investigate. Created by Casey Deccio and publicly operated by DNS-OARC, the open-source project links delegations, keys, signatures and authenticated denial records into an…

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Eric Dumazet: Linux server economics through small queues
A busy server can look excellent on throughput charts while still wasting time, memory and processor resources behind its own packets. Eric Dumazet's work on TCP Small Queues, fair queueing, pacing and cache-friendly data structures has made Linux account more strictly for these…

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Eric Dumazet and the small queues inside the economics of Linux servers
A very busy server can display excellent throughput and still waste time, memory and CPU behind its own packets. Eric Dumazet's work on TCP Small Queues, fair queueing, pacing and cache-locality-oriented structures helped Linux account for those hidden costs better. It is not the…

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One firm accounted for 93.9% of AFRINIC's 2023 legal-fee line. The audit does not show the authority trail
AFRINIC's newly published 2023 finance summary assigns US$1,064,309 of US$1,133,630 in legal fees to C&A Law and says US$1,260,250 was owed to the firm at year-end, excluding VAT. The accounts now carry an unmodified audit opinion. What members still cannot see is the…

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The Meaning of “End”: AFRINIC’s Draft 3 and the Discipline of Negative Routing Assertions
One sentence added to an AFRINIC policy proposal in April 2021 drew a vital line: reclaimed number resources should enter the registry’s AS0 coverage only after reclamation ends. That line can protect routing security, but only if “the end” is made into a state that outsiders can…

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Eric Dumazet and the small queues shaping Linux server economics
A heavily loaded server can show excellent throughput while wasting time, memory and processor behind its own packets. Eric Dumazet’s work on TCP Small Queues, fair queueing, pacing and in-memory structure layout has helped Linux account for these hidden costs more accurately. It…

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Eric Dumazet and the small queues that underpin the Linux server economy
Servers under heavy load can look healthy on throughput graphs while still wasting time, memory and CPU behind the packets they are about to send. Eric Dumazet's work on TCP Small Queues, fair queueing, pacing and cache-aware data structures has helped Linux account for those…

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Eric Dumazet and the small queues that support the Linux server economy
A busy server can deliver excellent performance figures while still losing time, memory and CPU capacity behind its own packets. Eric Dumazet's work on TCP Small Queues, fair queueing, pacing and cache-sensitive structures helped Linux account for those hidden costs with more…

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Eric Dumazet and the small queues in Linux server economics
A heavily loaded server can look excellent on a throughput chart and still waste time, memory and CPU behind its own packets. Eric Dumazet's work on TCP Small Queues, fair queueing, pacing and cache-conscious data structures helped Linux account for these hidden costs more…

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Eric Dumazet and the small queues inside the Linux server economy
A busy server can look excellent on a throughput plot while wasting time, memory and processor capacity behind packets that have not yet left the machine. Eric Dumazet's work on TCP Small Queues, fair queueing, pacing and cache-aware data-structure layout has helped Linux account…

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Eric Dumazet and the small queues inside Linux server economics
A busy server can appear healthy on a throughput chart while wasting time, memory and processor capacity behind its own packets. Eric Dumazet’s work on TCP Small Queues, fair queueing, pacing and cache-aware data structures helped Linux account for those hidden costs more…

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Stephen Hemminger and the commands that make Linux networking operable
Stephen Hemminger’s long stewardship of iproute2 sits between Linux kernel capability and operational control. The suite’s commands make routes, queues, bridges, sockets and devices inspectable, while carrying decades of compatibility and maintainer obligations.

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Kathleen Nichols and the queue delay a fast link cannot hide
Kathleen Nichols’ best-known work changed the variable used to judge a network queue: time, rather than packet count. CoDel made persistent waiting measurable, while leaving deployment dependent on bottleneck placement, responsive senders and maintained implementations.

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Poul-Henning Kamp and the performance discipline of doing less
Poul-Henning Kamp’s systems work is held together by a suspicion that software becomes slow and fragile when several layers keep the same state or repeat the same task. His record shows what doing less can gain—and which responsibilities it transfers.

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AFRINIC notified members of a no-approval meeting. Its draft minutes record a 99% adoption
AFRINIC's 23 March notice said the 2021 accounts would only be received and noted on 14 April because no approval was required. The draft minutes record a different operative text: receive, note and adopt. They report a 99%-1% poll but publish no ballot totals. That missing…

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Five Minutes at the Registry, Longer on the Network
AFRINIC’s second draft of its RPKI AS0 proposal introduced a narrow but important restraint: a separate trust anchor could let networks choose whether to receive the registry-generated warning and let observers measure it apart from ordinary holder authorisations. That choice…

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One resolution, two proof burdens: what AFRINIC had to preserve in 202002.552
One resolution, two proof burdens: what AFRINIC had to preserve in 202002.552 intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may…

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Sally Floyd made congestion control accountable to evidence
Sally Floyd linked router queues, transport feedback, traffic models and standards into a discipline of shared-network responsibility. Her legacy lies less in one celebrated algorithm than in a method for testing throughput, delay, fairness, stability and deployment assumptions…

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AFRINIC's current Board is making decisions, but its resolutions archive still stops at 2022
AFRINIC says its Board publishes resolutions and the minutes of the meetings where they were taken. As of 13 August 2026, the page making that promise listed years only through 2022—even though the purported current Board has since announced decisions on management, committees…

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Massimo Candela and the interfaces that turn routing data into action
From BGPlay and RIPE Atlas interfaces to BGPalerter and geofeed monitoring, Massimo Candela has built tools that turn partial internet measurements into something operators can investigate. Their value depends on preserving the sources, thresholds and maintenance ownership behind…
