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NANOG
Which NANOG Rule Is the Rule?
NANOG’s public Bylaws say an elected Director serves three years. Its live Board Responsibilities page says two. The contradiction is real, but the historical record resolves it: the live guidance sentence reflects an earlier rule while the controlling instrument has moved on.…
NANOG
The Verbs Behind NANOG’s Executive Office
The public record does not support the caricature of an Executive Director who runs NANOG by title alone, or the opposite picture of a figurehead serving a volunteer Board. What it reveals is more consequential: a paid operating layer moving decisions through money, contracts…
NANOG
The Ballot Had One Switch
In 2018, NANOG disclosed 34 bylaw changes in unusual detail, then gave members one yes-or-no control over the entire package. That design made the proposed text inspectable while leaving the members' proposition-level preferences unknowable—a distinction that matters even when…
LACNOG
From Custody to Capacity: What LACNOG’s Incorporation Actually Changed
Five audited year-end figures document the end of LACNIC’s custody of LACNOG funds. They also expose the limits of the change: an account can move, a legal person can acquire new capacities, and a regional mandate can still remain unproved.
NANOG
The Space Between NANOG’s Ballot and Its Boardroom
NANOG asks Board candidates to disclose the organisations around them, then asks Directors and officers to disclose again when a later decision touches an affiliated organisation. The public-interest question is not whether an employer name proves influence—it does not—but…
NANOG
After the Ballot: How Power Travels Through NANOG's Appointed Committees
NANOG's members elect most of the Board, not the specialist bodies that shape programmes, elections, audits and community work. The case for appointment is strong; the harder question is whether the public record lets a reader follow each grant of authority from selection to…
NANOG
The Status Switch: What NANOG’s Good-Standing Rules Actually Change
The Status Switch: What NANOG’s Good-Standing Rules Actually Change 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…
AUSNOG
The One Package Outside AusNOG’s Draw—and the Records the Other 22 Need
AusNOG replaced a long-running sponsorship waiting list with package-by-package draws in 2024. The change coincided with a visibly larger field, but an expanded inventory, unresolved package counts and an undocumented execution trail mean the public record still cannot answer the…
NANOG
What, Exactly, Did NANOG Acquire?
NewNOG incorporated in 2010. The 2011 handoff then transferred named NANOG assets to that corporation, giving the forum a legal holder for its name and domain, archives, contracts and financial risk. It made NANOG more durable and its responsibilities easier to locate without…
JPNOG
When Trust Data Goes Dark: The Safety Question Inside RPKI
Origin validation can make Internet routing safer. But a repository fault, an incomplete cache view or a mistaken local policy must not be allowed to turn a degraded security signal into lost connectivity. A six-month JANOG experiment in 2013 brought that tension into an operator…
MENOG
The Classroom Moved. Who Chose the Lesson?
When MENOG announced one regional meeting instead of two and more country roadshows, it made technical training easier to reach. The harder question is whether it also moved the power to choose—over seats, teachers, materials, accreditation and the future use of what was taught.
SANOG
Eight Days That Stayed Put: Who Did What When SANOG 34 Moved
SANOG 34 kept its late-July opening and early-August finish, but the entity-facing machinery needed to make those dates real had to be rebuilt from Colombo to Kolkata. The surviving public record separates local risk advice, an unsigned regional decision, replacement-host…
AFNOG
One Name, Two Spellings: The Limit Hidden in AfNOG’s Archive
In one corner of AfNOG’s 2008 workshop archive, Marie Paule Uwase is a entity from Rwanda. In another, the certificate gallery calls her Marie-Paul Uwase. That terminal *e* and hyphen become consequential when the latter form appears on a 2010 instructor roster. The public record…
AFNOG
TelOne Zimbabwe’s routing set repeats two members without changing the set
A live AFRINIC record lists 24 member lines but only 21 distinct ASNs. The duplicates do not establish a routing failure; they expose a smaller but consequential question about who checks the policy data used to assemble filters.
JPNOG
JANOG58 finds MAC identities multiply before switch tables fill
Japan's network operators planned for an address-table surge that never arrived. Their new field data instead shows a subtler cost: private MAC rotation enlarged and destabilised the identity state used to operate the venue network.
NANOG
A NANOG correction moves domain takedown planning above the registrar
A new operator-thread correction shows why a registrar-only recovery plan can stop one layer too low. In the reported `.com` lock, the server-side control sat with Verisign as registry operator, while the registrar remained an escalation channel rather than the actor able to…
Companies
NANOG 95: Shaping the Future of Connectivity in Arlington, TX
NANOG 95 focused on AI-driven networks, 5G, IP management, and scalable infrastructure for North America’s digital future.
Companies
NANOG 95 kicks off with a focus on innovation and collaboration
Leading tech professionals and network engineers converge in Arlington, TX, for three days of insightful sessions and collaboration.
Companies
NANOG 95 to shape the future of IP networking
NANOG 95 will gather network engineers to explore 5G, fibre, IP evolution, automation and wireless trends in Arlington this October.
Companies
AusNOG 2025: Automation, BGP and quantum cryptography
AusNOG meeting explored network management trends, submarine cable geopolitics, and the future of cryptography.
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