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Registry Governance
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AFRINIC’s No-Clash Rule Leaves One Question: Who Sets the Calendar?
AFRINIC wants its policy meetings clear of competing dates and announced a year ahead. The proposal sounds tidy until two useful events want the same week: then someone has to decide what counts as a clash, whose calendar wins, and who gets to call an exception unavoidable.
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ARIN Turned WHOIS Retirement Into Three Separate Migration Projects
Network teams rarely get one clean switch to flip when a data service retires. ARIN’s result gives them three separate jobs: wait for an RWhois migration tool, check Whois-RWS feature parity and training, then watch RDAP adoption before Port 43 returns to consultation. The…
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APNIC prop-168 adds a /12 reserve to a higher IPv4 ceiling
APNIC prop-168 v004 would let some account holders grow their IPv4 holdings to a combined /22, while reserving a separate /12 for a much later IPv6-transition purpose. The draft’s real test is how APNIC would manage those two claims on a finite pool—and explain who qualifies…
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A Temporary IPv4 Bridge Needs an Operational Exit
An IPv6-only network can still need a small IPv4 foothold: a resolver, mail gateway, monitoring system or connection to a service that has not made the same transition. APNIC proposal prop-165 v004 would offer eligible new IPv6 networks one IPv4 /24 for that work. Its hardest…
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RIPE NCC’s arbiter election will choose who hears disputes, not what they can decide
Six seats are up for election at RIPE NCC’s October General Meeting, but the ballot will not redraw the Arbiter Panel’s jurisdiction. The procedure calls its process “arbitration” while expressly placing it outside Dutch civil-law arbitration; the practical test is the remedy…
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ARIN’s 2025 transfer map runs in two directions
ARIN recorded 78,234 transferred IPv4 `/24s` across its 2025 inter-RIR flows. The total is easy to quote and easy to misread: most listed outflow went to LACNIC, while most listed inflow came from RIPE NCC. Direction carries the story that a single net figure loses.
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AFRINIC’s IXP Reserve Needs a Ledger Before It Needs a Bigger Block
AFRINIC’s own policy record raises a practical question about the IPv4 held for Internet exchange points: can the community see which parts are used, which remain contiguous, and who is waiting? Until that picture is public, a debate over whether a `/16` should become a `/15` is…
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RIPE NCC Took Four Sites Offline. Its Core Registry Services Stayed Online
After discovering PHP vulnerabilities, RIPE NCC took two Academy addresses and the NRO and ASO websites offline as a precaution. Its status page separately listed the RIPE Database, RPKI and LIR Portal as operational—a distinction that clarifies the reported scope while leaving…
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AFRINIC’s 2025 surplus fell 65% while income rose
AFRINIC’s audited accounts show three different signals: income edged higher, the surplus before finance items contracted sharply, and cash generated from operations fell further. A currency swing softened the annual decline without reversing it.
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Two Registries, One Name: What STC Submarine Systems Still Answers For
A UK company record and a US number-registry entry both keep the name STC Submarine Systems alive. Only one of them names a party anyone can still be held to.
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AFRINIC’s 2025 Audit Opinion Does Not Decide Its Litigation Risk
AFRINIC’s signed financial statements give members an unmodified opinion on the accounts while drawing particular attention to the directors’ judgment about ongoing legal proceedings. Those two statements answer different questions. Reading them together shows what the audit…
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APNIC’s NRO NC Ballot Counted 366 Votes. It Did Not Show Who Voted.
APNIC announced a winner and 366 votes for its 2026 Number Council election. Member organizations and qualifying APNIC 62 attendees could vote, but the published result does not separate the two routes.
Number Resource Society
The Clause That Sends Numbering Disputes Elsewhere
An excerpt of the ICANN Bylaws obtained for this review excludes disputes over internet numbering resources from reconsideration, in words drafted to survive the rest of the section they sit in. The procedures said to govern how regional registries are recognised arrive only as a…
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.
Number Resource Society
Filed as a Registry: The RIR Governance Document Version 2 Status Report in the Public Record
A document title, a Colombian legal domicile, a registry service listing and a role statement naming RIPE NCC sit in one row of the public record, next to that row's own instruction to verify all four. Four links decide what such an entry can support — and this review holds one…
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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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APNIC’s 2027 Fee Table Meets an Unsettled LDC Exit Date
For small network operators, the question is not merely what APNIC charges after a country leaves the least developed country category. It is which official date changes the discount, and what happens when that date is still before the United Nations General Assembly.
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LACNIC 46 Shows Two Numbers. It Does Not Explain the Gap
During LACNIC 46–LACNOG 2026, the event system published 1,215 registered entities and a separate attendees view totalling 706. The page gives neither a definition for “attendees” nor a visible data-as-of time, so the difference cannot responsibly be called an attendance rate.
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ARIN’s Proposal to Retire an IPv6 Property Clause Puts the RSA in Focus
ARIN’s RSA makes registry services subject to both the agreement and published policies. A compliance review of an IPv6 block therefore has to read both; ARIN-2026-3 would remove the policy sentence without amending the RSA.
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RIPE’s Proposed Abuse Ladder Needs an Auditable Exit
RIPE policy proposal 2026-02 puts a concrete sequence around infrastructure-level network abuse: a qualifying report, a measured threshold, formal notice, a cure period and administrative restrictions. The least settled part may be the point at which that sequence runs in…