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Registry Governance
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Malaysia’s NIR Bid Is About Who Assigns the Numbers
APNIC’s public account of its talks with Malaysia points to a sharper question than whether the country needs a local registry: who makes the final assignment decision, and who remains answerable when that decision travels through the regional system?
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LACNIC’s Legacy Policy Page Leaves Its No-Consensus Timeline Unclear
LACNIC’s index dates a no-consensus state for LAC-2023-4 version 4 to 29 August, lists an assessment window through 8 September and says the version was not discussed. A separate legacy-recovery proposal appeared on 16 September.
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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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A new individual draft points to IPv6. ARIN’s space policy still includes IPv4
ARIN’s current space-address proposal still names both IPv4 and IPv6. September records point toward an IPv6-only direction and a separate IANA/NRO allocation model, but neither record is an adopted change.
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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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ARIN Recommends a Password Refresh but Sets No Time Horizon
ARIN’s chief information security officer asks account holders who have not changed a password “recently” to update it. The advice is voluntary, the interval is undefined, and the post says no incident prompted it.
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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’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…
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Kendrick Knowles’s withdrawal leaves seven names on ARIN’s AC list
A 14 September amendment records Kendrick Knowles’s withdrawal from the race. The current candidate list shows seven names as ARIN’s October ballot approaches.
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ARIN’s Candidate Support Counts Measure Statements, Not Votes
ARIN’s 2026 candidate pages count public Statements of Support, which any individual may submit. The formal Board and Advisory Council ballot, by contrast, runs through eligible General Member organizations.
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Gazi Zehadul Kabir Wins APNIC’s 2027 NRO NC Seat
APNIC’s final count gave Gazi Zehadul Kabir 263 votes. He will take the two-year NRO Number Council term beginning 1 January 2027, succeeding Nicole T. I Chan.
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AFRINIC opens its remaining PDP co-chair seat for a one-year term
The June selection filled one of two positions; an incumbent remains in the other until the 18 November Public Policy Meeting, where the next one-year term will be chosen by consensus.
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RIPE NCC makes chair support open-ended; its public procedure still cites 2026
The RIPE NCC Executive Board has removed the scheduled sunset from support for Working Group Chairs’ physical attendance at RIPE Meetings. Yet the published procedure still says the previous extension ends in 2026. Before the next application window, the organisation needs one…
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APNIC’s 28.5-hour chat outage tested the support boundary
APNIC’s notice records a 28-hour-30-minute interruption to online chat on its Help Centre and MyAPNIC, attributed to an unnamed third-party provider. It directs members to email or phone; it does not measure how much work those alternatives carried.
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NRO raises its IGF contribution to US$100,000 after seven years at US$75,000
UN DESA accepted the contribution in August, the NRO says. The latest public donor table records US$75,000 in each year from 2019 through 2025, while acceptance alone does not establish when money was transferred.
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ARIN grant turns Dominica campus Wi-Fi gaps into a student evidence project
A US$20,000 award backs planned mapping, routing-security, IPv6 and accessibility work at Dominica State College; the project’s findings have not yet been published.
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ARIN adds a virtual policy open house before its October meeting
A new online session will put ARIN’s Advisory Council in a room with people preparing for the October policy discussions. The event is a guided route into an existing process; its announcement says nothing yet about who will attend or what may follow.
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ARIN’s Out-of-Region Draft Leaves One Anycast Question Open
A draft from the American Registry for Internet Numbers would distinguish resources used only beyond its service region from a resource used both there and in another RIR region. That boundary matters to operators running distributed services. Yet the current text has dropped a…