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Registry Governance
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Global Cloud Services
DFINFRA Is a Registry Contact Role, Not a Carrier: Reading AS210860 Against the Registry
DFINFRA Is a Registry Contact Role, Not a Carrier: Reading AS210860 Against the Registry intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences…
Afrinic SAGA
AFRINIC under receivership: who can authorise, detect and reverse a change to its routing-security machinery
An operator in Nairobi or Lagos who validates a route with AFRINIC's RPKI tools, or signs a zone through its DNSSEC service, is relying on a registry that a Mauritian court placed under an official receiver and that ICANN has twice intervened to defend. The visible question in…
Number Resource Society
Verified to Receive, Never Tested to Answer: RIPEstat's Abuse Contact Finder
RIPEstat's Abuse Contact Finder is the step between a complaint and a responsible network: it reads the RIPE Database and hands a reporter the mailbox to use. The RIPE NCC verifies that those mailboxes exist and can accept mail. Its own documents say that validation does not…
ICANN
ICANN Can Declare Its Own Breach. The Remedy Still Needs Someone Else to Act.
A finding of breach is binding. The repair is only a recommendation. The .WEB record and one terminated community petition show where ICANN's accountability stops being automatic.
Story
AFRINIC Allocation Authority: Three Powers, One Pending Judgment
An African network operator that needs IPv4 or IPv6 space in September 2026 cannot answer a simple question from AFRINIC's org chart: who is entitled to say yes? The assignment right sits in a contract, the operational custody sits with a court-appointed Receiver, and external…
Number Resource Society
A Remedy in Writing: RIPE NCC's Abuse-Contact Regime and Its Unused Last Resort
The RIPE registry's abuse-contact regime is usually described as a validation programme. Its own paperwork describes something narrower: a periodic check that a mailbox is configured correctly, backed by an escalation ladder that ends in deregistration. The first half of that…
Afrinic SAGA
AFRINIC's authority over African number resources: contract, court, receiver
A member's addresses can be taken away by a clause, a court order or a board vote — and African internet governance is currently living through the argument about which of those three actually applies to any individual holder.
Afrinic SAGA
From RIPE NCC to AFRINIC: the instruments that moved registry authority, and the court that holds the ring
Africa's Internet number resources changed registry in 2004 and 2005 through a short chain of dated instruments. The chain moved authority. What it left with resource holders was a contract. Twenty years later the body that received that authority answers to a court-appointed…
CASE FILE
Who Authorises the Receiver: The Mauritian Court's Power Over AFRINIC
AFRINIC is a Mauritius-registered company, and the orders that have governed its assets since 2023 come from Mauritian company law. Read together, the judgment that ended the registry's first appeal, the statute that defines the court, and the two Orders in Council that carry…
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
ER-Telecom's registry record has consolidated; its network names have not
One RIPE organisation entity is recorded as the holder of autonomous systems whose as-names still carry the corporate identities of separately founded regional operators. That is a registry fact with a bounded meaning, and the boundary is the story.
Story
ARIN Closed the DS Automation Suggestion. The Parent-Side Handoff Is Still a Question
A DNS operator can publish a signal that a key should change, but it cannot by that act alone alter the parent zone. In January, ARIN agreed that automatically updating DNSSEC delegation-signer records would be useful and closed the request into its planning process. The…
Story
APNIC Was 3.0% of One Geofeed Success Sample. That Is Not an Adoption Rate
The smallest bar in an APNIC 62 chart is precise to one decimal place. The footnote does more work than the bar: 200,000 geolocation rows were sampled, publishers were reduced to distinct netnames, and two of the five RIRs were left out. The result is a useful signal about one…
Story
AFRINIC Asked Quiet French Readers to Speak. The Survey Opens in English
AFRINIC wants its next policy webinars to answer the barriers that stop people from posting to RPD or taking a PPM microphone. The 23 September invitation is unusually direct about seeking those quiet voices. Yet the advertised French route returned the English landing page…
Story
AFRINIC Can Fund the Trip. It Cannot Replace the Policy Record
An engineer from Malawi arrived at AFRINIC-37 on a ticket enabled by a new member-support programme, learned the room and spoke from her own network experience. That is a real opening. It is also a limited kind of evidence. The more exact test of AFRINIC's experiment is whether a…
CASE FILE
The Tao Was Retired. The Web Page Inherited the Change-Control Problem: RFC 9592
Two engineers can follow the same official IETF link six months apart and both truthfully say they read the newcomer guidance. They may not have read the same words. That is not an argument for freezing the page. It is the reason a living page needs a receipt.
Story
RIPE Fellowship Offers Full Support. Travel Feasibility Sits Outside the Published Score
RIPE NCC has opened its Fellowship for two 2027 meetings with a clear promise of coaching, training and full support. Its detailed programme page also describes visa, cross-border travel and reimbursement constraints that may leave part of the journey with the applicant. The…
Story
RIPE NCC's Signed Checklist Is Waiting Behind Two Other Jobs
A standard can exist, a community can ask for a service, and a registry can still have no date for delivering it. RIPE NCC's September RPKI plan puts Resource Signed Checklists behind identity and assurance work, with an API as the possible first product. The distinction matters…
Story
AFRINIC's Power to Revoke Number Resources Sits in a Contract, Not a Constitution
Every dispute about AFRINIC's internet number resources eventually resolves into a narrower question than the one the headlines ask. The registry's authority to suspend, revoke or refuse to renew African IP address space is not a constitutional attribute of a regional internet…
Afrinic SAGA
RIPE NCC to AFRINIC: the handover that moved the ledger but never escrowed it
Africa got its own internet registry in 2005. What it did not get, on the evidence available two decades later, was a registry that could outlive its keeper. The entities moved. The guarantee did not.
Story
LACNIC's ASN-Only Label Is Not a Test of Network Use
LACNIC's ASN-Only Label Is Not a Test of Network Use 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 Story…