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APNIC’s China ROA Score Clears 80%. Its Q2 Report Says 68%.
One APNIC Executive Council packet gives China two first-half ROA endpoints: above 80% in the Director General’s update and 68% in the attached Q2 report. The higher figure has no stated measurement date or denominator.
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APNIC Wants Interests on the Ballot. A Biography Is Not a Declaration.
APNIC’s board has a register of interests. Its voters get candidate biographies. The board now supports putting material interests on nomination pages, where a useful question can be asked before a vote.
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APNIC Wants an Open Contest for Host Cities. The 2028 Meeting Skips the Opening.
The registry’s directors backed a six-month invitation for future conference hosts. Its first test will use the new scoring method while keeping the invitation closed.
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APNIC’s Board Asked How to Lift Its Energy Investment Ban. The Gate Is Still Locked.
The registry expects investment income to matter more next year. Its directors have asked for the paperwork that would let them reconsider a sector they currently exclude.
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APNIC Planned Eight M-Root Servers. Four Arrived; Sri Lanka’s Stopwatch Stayed Blank.
A root-server deployment is easy to announce. APNIC's 2025 report gives New Zealand a before-and-after number, leaves Sri Lanka's measurement unavailable, and records four deployments against a target of eight. The missing stopwatch matters more as APNIC hands part of the work to…
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The Security Budget Said No. APNIC Opened the Workshop Door
One APNIC 62 entity said commercial security tools were beyond the reach of many subsidiaries. APNIC’s answer begins in a classroom, then branches into training, member assistance and network monitoring.
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APNIC packed a second classroom into its automation course
The conference lab closed in Mumbai. Its lesson plan is meant to travel farther than the delegates did.
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APRICOT's January deadline may arrive after the stage is full
APNIC's blog announced the 2027 call on 27 October. Its final date is 25 January, but the programme committee fills speaking slots as proposals arrive. The calendar gives a deadline; it does not hold a chair.
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A Registry Row Is Not a Switch: Reading the Maldives Internet Exchange
A Registry Row Is Not a Switch: Reading the Maldives Internet Exchange 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.…
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6,637 IPs Called APNIC’s RDP Decoy 25.6 Million Times. It’s Getting Awkward.
From 21 to 27 September, APNIC’s OpenCanary decoy recorded 25.6 million RDP connection attempts from 6,637 distinct source IPs. VNC drew 4.2 million attempts from 3,179 IPs. The report counts connections, not successful logins; that distinction is the whole story.
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APNIC’s Statistics Clock Is Ticking Again. The Archive Still Owes 92 Hours.
APNIC has restarted its hourly WHOIS and RDAP reports. The latest file is current; the October archive still skips 92 consecutive hours, and the notice promising repairs has no closeout.
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APNIC’s Honeynet Saw 2,621 IPs Leave an SSH Key Behind
During one week, 2,621 source IPs ran the same command after logging in to APNIC’s honeynet. It wiped the existing `.ssh` directory and installed a key that could keep working after the password was gone.
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173 Million Events, 98,958 IPs, and One Extremely Busy Week
APNIC’s honeynet logged 173 million events in a week. Its sensors saw 98,958 unique source IPs across the network—and their individual counts add up to a third number that belongs to overlap, not a crowd of new attackers.
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The backup transit is asleep. APNIC wants it on the ASPA guest list
The path nobody sees on a normal Tuesday can become the only path that matters on a bad Wednesday.
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APNIC has 538 ASPAs. The validation queue is getting longer
Signing a provider list takes a click. Discovering that a signed list is wrong after hundreds more have joined it is a rather less cheerful afternoon.
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APNIC’s IPv6 opening act is a /48. Prop-175 wants the sequel on the same application
APNIC’s current rules give an eligible new IPv6 Provider Independent applicant a /48 first, then send a request for more space through a second assessment. Prop-175 would let the registry hear a documented larger requirement at the first application, while keeping the existing…
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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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APNIC Marks Prop-167 Implemented; Its MyAPNIC View Still Needs a Receipt
APNIC’s policy page says the directory-usage proposal was implemented on 30 June 2026. The approved text, however, joined public WHOIS/RDAP statistics to a separate MyAPNIC view for each resource holder. The Executive Council’s record treated those outputs differently; the public…
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A warning signal is a queue, not a verdict
APNIC’s post-roll account follows 50 networks that looked poorly prepared before the DNS root-key change. Their measured acceptance later moved above a majority threshold. That trajectory shows why readiness signals need a clock, a follow-up path and a precise definition of what…