Topic
Registry Governance
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Leaders
Dean Pemberton Asked APNIC for Its IPv6 Seating Chart
The empty chairs between IPv6 allocations had a purpose. Pemberton wanted the seating plan where members could read it.
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Four blocks on the slide, one in your hand: ARIN's waitlist math
ARIN's own example puts four separate /24 blocks on the table. Its current rules let a qualifying applicant take one. The question is whether neat routing still deserves the last word on a scarce address queue.
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RIPE opened the BGPsec key desk. The routers are still catching up
AS holders can now manage router key certificates through RIPE NCC's RPKI API. The issuing desk is ready; path validation still depends on the equipment at each end.
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Tomoya Yoshida Gave Fake ASNs a Real Place to Live
A copied routing lesson can wander into a live network. Yoshida helped give its imaginary neighbours numbers of their own.
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RIPE's duplicate records have two exit doors—and one arithmetic trap
RIPE NCC wants to retire redundant entries from its non-authoritative routing database. The proposed tests sound simple until their totals are added together.
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IPv6’s Rulebook Is Adding the Audit Chapter It Forgot to Label
RIPE’s open proposal would give IPv6 policy an explicit route to audit and LIR-closure procedures already named in IPv4 policy and the member agreement. The new heading matters because a rule is easier to operate when the reader can find the machinery behind it.
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David Woodgate Found the Second ISP Bill in APNIC’s IPv6 Rule
A network could buy a second connection to keep its IPv6 addresses, or renumber when it left its first provider. Woodgate put both costs on the table.
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RIPE's sanctions inbox has 39 unopened files
The new RIPE NCC snapshot puts 39 possible matches in the 'not yet started' tray while the registry's transaction rule is already in force for affected holders.
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Tobias Knecht Put the Abuse Report on the Right Desk
The router expert was receiving the complaint; Knecht gave APNIC Whois a dedicated incident-response address.
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James Spenceley Found Two Names for One AS Number
James Spenceley Found Two Names for One AS Number 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 follow. The Leaders…
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Andy Linton Asked APNIC to Read the IPv4 File Before Demanding Another Form
The registry already held the evidence. Linton's 2009 IPv6 proposal turned that overlooked fact into a faster route from an IPv4 record to a first IPv6 block.
Story
RIPE reopened four doors. Its status page kept two clocks
The Academy sites returned in the morning; the all-clear for the four-site PHP shutdown came five hours and ten minutes later.
Leaders
Randy Bush Helped Put a Door Ticket on the Last Big IPv4 Block
Imagine arriving at the Internet's address counter after the shelves have emptied. In 2008, Randy Bush and two fellow policy authors wrote a rule for that late arrival: keep APNIC's final /8 in small, one-time portions. The ticket was modest. Its point was that tomorrow's network…
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The Person in the Directory Who Is Actually a Button
A directory built to make people answerable contains an entry called "How it works". It carries a title line, a confidence figure and one evidence link. Not one of those three things is a person.
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Hans Petter Holen Was RIPE’s Only Chair Candidate. Then He Took Another Job.
The first formal search for a RIPE community Chair began with one name: the man already in the chair. Hans Petter Holen then accepted the job of running the RIPE NCC, the registry that supports the community. He saw the problem with holding both offices, stepped down, and was…
Story
ARIN spared 72 transfer cases a second signature. Who decides the next 72?
A tiny edit to the rulebook sent the definition of a “current” contract to staff practice. Six months of transfer files show what changed at the counter.
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RIPE NCC renewed one NRO seat by email. The minutes name the voters
Seven Board members, one nominee, one email meeting: Hervé Clément has another three years on the council that helps steer global number policy.
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APNIC has 538 ASPAs. The validation queue is getting longer
Signing a provider list takes a click. Discovering that a signed list is wrong after hundreds more have joined it is a rather less cheerful afternoon.
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ARIN has enough IPv6 posters. Its task force wants the trouble tickets
The registry's new IPv6 brief moves from explaining the protocol to finding the concrete obstacles that keep it off production networks. The hard part is deciding which problems get a place in the queue.
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APNIC’s IPv6 opening act is a /48. Prop-175 wants the sequel on the same application
APNIC’s current rules give an eligible new IPv6 Provider Independent applicant a /48 first, then send a request for more space through a second assessment. Prop-175 would let the registry hear a documented larger requirement at the first application, while keeping the existing…