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Registry Governance
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The 30 Percent Congress Legalised After It Was Collected
For two and a half years, every covered domain registration carried a public-purpose assessment that Congress had not specifically authorised. One month after a judge exposed the defect, Congress made the past lawful “as if” it had acted first.
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The second consultation placed Board review before a future SGMM vote
AFRINIC’s 4 August announcement described a careful sequence for moving constitutional text from public comments to committee revision, independent legal scrutiny, Board review and, only if the Board allowed the proposal to advance, later consideration by members. The important…
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AFRINIC appeal panel remains unnamed after deadline
AFRINIC sought nominees for three seats on a five-member appeals panel. Ten days after the deadline, its live page still published no current members.
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AFRINIC says GovCom is ready, but its term clock is not
AFRINIC published the committee’s names and end dates. Without start dates, its one-year Board liaison cap and the 2026 transition remain unverified.
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The Nine Applicants and the Missing Settlement in ARIN Arbitration
Nine companies asked a federal judge to stop ARIN from revoking their IPv4 records. Five months later, an arbitrator rejected every claim and incorporated a settlement that the public file says is attached—but is not.
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AFRINIC removes a nationality bar—but leaves its replacement gate without a record
The August consultation ended with a genuine reform still attached to an unfinished procedure: Mauritian candidates would no longer be excluded by passport, yet the Board could decide who never reaches the CEO’s office without the draft guaranteeing notice, reasons, recusal or…
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RIPE Atlas Closed a Probe-Assignment Incident Without a Measurement Ledger
A missing vantage point can describe the Internet, the probe or the scheduler. On 18 August, RIPE Atlas made the third possibility explicit: measurements using an area choice other than `worldwide` had trouble receiving probes. The backend was fixed; the public record still does…
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LACNIC's ASO AC Result Became Official Without a Closure Receipt
At 18:00 UTC on 20 August, one public election table crossed a consequential boundary. The names and 144 votes did not change. The page's status did: the provisional result became the official result after two audit windows. What did not appear beside that new status was the…
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ARIN's New “Sole Use” Definition Has No Observation Window
Imagine one address prefix serving three anycast sites: one inside ARIN's service region and two outside it. The inside site is withdrawn for maintenance, then restored an hour later. The holder, service design and prefix have not changed. Under the wording of a new ARIN…
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John Scudder and the BGP Session That Had to Declare Its Capabilities
Two routers may complete a TCP connection and still be unfit for the BGP job expected of them. One may understand an optional extension that the other has never implemented; both may understand it while only one admits support in the OPEN message; or an older peer may reject the…
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APNIC's SIG Review Lists Twelve Changes Before It Has Decision Text
Twelve headings can make a governance review look nearly finished. They can also hide the one thing a consensus call must actually decide: the precise rules that will replace the current ones. APNIC's July SIG Guidelines draft has diagnosed a connected set of problems; its next…
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AFRINIC's Survey Can Count Replies. It Cannot Count Representation Yet
A response box can fill quickly and still leave the room outside it invisible. AFRINIC's new member and stakeholder survey may produce useful service evidence, but its eventual weight will depend on a record the launch has not yet supplied: who could answer, who was reached, what…
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RIPE's IPv6 PI Draft Has a Trigger but No Transition Receipt
Nine `/48` assignments can remain a valid deployed state while nothing changes. The next request for address space is different: it can activate a next-nibble decision, a contiguity test, a new prefix and a six-month return clock. Proposal 2024-01 names that trigger but does not…
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LACNIC's Anti-Fake-IXP Log Has No Event Column
LACNIC has made a scarce IPv4 reserve unusually visible. Its public file can show who holds an issued interval and how much of the pool remains reserved. What it cannot say in one row is what happened. A log commissioned to cover assignments, recoveries and returns still…
Story
ARIN's ISP/LIR Claim Needs a Predicate Ledger
One card asks what a company sells. Another asks whether it receives and redistributes Internet number resources. Draft Policy ARIN-2025-1 wants every holder of the first card to fit inside the second. Its proposed definitions do not yet make that containment rule true.
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APNIC Would Remove `/23`; Three Prefix Sizes Still Need Names
One bit separates a `/23` from a `/24`. It also separates 512 IPv4 addresses from 256. APNIC's current initial-LIR test can ask for immediate need for the smaller block and a one-year plan for the larger one. Prop-169 would repair that mismatch. Its replacement noun now needs an…
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AFRINIC Draft 2 Can Waive 90%; “Sufficiently Documented” Has No Fields
AFRINIC recorded the second-data-centre trap in 2018. An End User wanted another `/24` for redundancy, had used less than 90% of its existing space and was therefore ineligible. Draft 2 finally names that class of problem, then leaves the proof inside two words: sufficiently…
Story
Khipu's Local Archive Preference Creates an Evidence Expiry Boundary
A historical Khipu view can reach farther back than the archive shelf available on the workstation opening it. Once the number of local `ip2asn`, `ixp`, `ip2country` and `asn2country` snapshots is a preference, reproducibility has an expiry boundary that the measurement date…
Story
RIPE's First-ASN Proposal Removes One Test but Leaves Three Records Open
RIPE's First-ASN Proposal Removes One Test but Leaves Three Records Open 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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Three National Registers Expose the Gap Behind LACNIC's No-Consensus Result
Brazil calls an individual entrepreneur a natural person doing business in their own name. Argentina opens its simplified tax register to `personas humanas`. Uruguay describes a one-person monotributo business as a natural person registering before economic activity begins.…