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Registry Governance
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The IPv4 Broker Whose APNIC Row Lists No Addresses
IPv4 Mall Ltd. sits in APNIC's public member directory at the ASSOCIATE tier, in a row that links to its website and carries no address block. APNIC says its tiers track how many address resources a member has rights over. The company's own site sells the buying, selling and…
Story
LACNIC’s 80% ROA gate failed consensus. Two days later, the gate was gone.
A proposal would have made route-origin paperwork a condition for getting more addresses. The public record now shows two decisions, two days apart.
Latin America and Caribbean Regional ISP
Membership Is Not Capacity: Brazil's Small ISPs and the IPv4 Waiting Room
One line on a registry's member list is enough to open a file on a Brazilian internet provider. It is not enough to size one — and in a market where the smallest operators carry the majority of the connections, that gap has a price attached to it.
Africa Institutional Trends
Madagascar's .mg Registry Runs on One Sentence
IANA names a manager for .mg and three service endpoints. NIC.MG says it has been the official manager for more than 30 years. The instrument that would let a registrant, a registrar or a court test that sentence was not obtained in this review.
ICANN
A Naming Question, Addressed to the Address Community
An ICANN notice convenes the Address Supporting Organization into an approval-action forum on fundamental amendments to Articles 17 and 18 of the ICANN Bylaws. Those two articles are the Customer Standing Committee and the IANA Naming Function Reviews. The procedure doing the…
Afrinic SAGA
Two Dates, One Handover, Four Things Everyone Calls "the Registry"
The announcement of who would run Africa's address registry is easy to find. The record of what actually changed hands is a different document, and the question it would answer is the one an operator or a judge has to ask.
ICANN
The ASO Asked Five Communities About a Veto. The Notice Records the Outcome, Not the Reasoning.
A follow-up notice from the Address Supporting Organization tells the RIR community that it was canvassed on the At-Large Advisory Committee's rejection action petition and that nothing came back in support. Beside the ASO's own published procedures, the notice reads as a minimal…
ICANN
Two Board Seats, One Announcement at a Time
ICANN's Board has two seats reserved for the address community, and the Address Supporting Organization's Address Council fills them. The public trace of that work arrives as dated announcements: an appointment here, a nominations call there. The three-year term that is supposed…
Number Resource Society
Five Registries, One Report Card: The Committee That Grades IANA
The IANA Numbering Services Review Committee is the numbering community's own audit body. Five regional internet registries appoint its members, it measures the IANA numbering services operator against a service-level agreement, and it publishes what it finds. The interesting…
ICANN
Fifteen Seats, Five Selectors, One Undefined Verb
Three members from each of the world's five regional internet registries, fifteen in total, sit on the Address Council of the Address Supporting Organization. Together they choose one director of the ICANN Board, and they are described in their own institutional records as…
Story
AFRINIC Rebuilt Its Political Seats. The Record Stops at the Technical One.
A dissolved board, a chief executive contract that expired in November 2022, receivership from 2023, a board election halted in June 2025 and completed three months later, interim managers with a budget and an action plan, and a chief executive named to start on 1 January 2027.…
Story
The Bangladesh exchange that owns a membership row and nothing else
Our record for the Bangladesh Internet Service Provider Internet Exchange Trust names a Bangladesh jurisdiction, a private-company legal form, one SMALL APNIC membership and not a single address. That gap between a national-sounding name and an empty operating surface is the…
Story
ARIN’s Committees Keep Minutes. The Public Gets the Board’s Receipt.
ARIN wrote a precise recordkeeping rule for its Board committees in January. It says who attends, who drafts the minutes, and how often the committees report. The named audience for those minutes is the Board. That matters when a committee can hire an auditor or set the…
Story
LACNIC Took Conciliation Out of Its Directors' Dispute Route
The registry changed a small clause with a large institutional meaning. A director who quarrels with LACNIC under the new commitment meets a three-arbitrator process in the contract text. The previous agreement first sent the parties to conciliation. The Board also wrote down…
Story
ARIN Built an Org-ID Lock. It Left the Door Open by Default.
A network can spend years building a trusted name. In ARIN's registry, another holder could attach an address record to that name without first asking its owner. ARIN built a switch to stop this. Then the existing scale of incoming records persuaded it to ship the switch in the…
Story
RIPE’s Spare Balancer Sent New Writes to a Read-Only Database. The Old Ones Kept Working.
An operator's first update after a failover met a closed door. An older database connection could still reach the writable primary. RIPE NCC's new postmortem explains the intermittent failure behind its October registry incident: redundancy moved the traffic, but a misconfigured…
Story
RIPE Froze Extra LIR Accounts. Twenty-Eight Survey Replies Pointed to Permissions.
The board shut the door on new extra accounts; a member survey showed why some operators kept walking through it. The answer is partly in the access controls, not the address pool.
Story
ARIN Asked an Accent to Wait for RDAP. Thirteen Years Later, the Ticket Still Waits.
In 2013, a member asked why ARIN's Customer name field could not hold an accented letter. ARIN pointed to the next generation of directory protocol. That protocol arrived, and ARIN helped build and operate it. The suggestion is still on hold, while the published write-API rules…
Story
APNIC Put Two Mornings on Its Noticeboard. The Status Log Has a Third.
A network operator reading APNIC's service-update index would schedule around 3 and 5 November. The status record places another Brisbane maintenance window between them, with twenty named components and a different five-minute warning. The awkward part is not an outage claim. It…
Global Institutional
Four Documents, One Ambitious Label: Inside Packet Clearing House's Paper Trail
A California corporation number, a tax classification, a sentence on a homepage and one public number-resource record have been enough to file Packet Clearing House, Inc. in an infrastructure directory as an institution performing registry functions for internet number resources…