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ARIN Counts 675 Members One Missed Vote From Losing Their Vote
The registry has put a number on its election's quiet second contest. Board seats are at stake; so is continued General Member status for hundreds of organizations.
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Three Candidates for ARIN’s NRO NC Seat. Only Trustees Had the Final Vote.
Kate Gerry, Kat Hunter and Adair Thaxton entered a public candidate list. One emerged with a three-year term; the trustees’ secret ballot made the choice while ARIN members voted for other offices.
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No Email, No Address, No Services: ARIN’s Twelve-Month Clock
ARIN has separated 2,660 organization records with no user contact details from a much larger queue of holders it can reach but still needs to verify. One group loses services and enters a year-long hold; the other gets targeted outreach and successor research.
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ARIN’s RPKI Guest List Grew 27%. One in Seven Hosted Accounts Still Has No ROA.
ARIN counted 9,673 organizations in its RPKI service by 30 September. Its own update puts the real adoption question one click later: about one in seven Hosted RPKI organizations had not created a single Route Origin Authorization. The account is open. The route is still waiting…
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ARIN Cut Uncontracted Legacy IPv4 Space by 81%. 715 /16s Still Hold Half.
ARIN says legacy IPv4 space outside agreements fell 81% from Q1 2024 to Q3 2026. Small blocks dominate the count; 715 /16s still hold almost half of the address volume.
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The Moon Needs an Address Plan. Earth Has Not Picked Who Runs It.
The routing case for lunar address space is easy to draw. The authority that would issue it is still being drafted, with ARIN and the IETF working from different allocation models.
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ARIN Put 2,768 Legacy Prefixes Under Agreement in One Quarter. That Was the Record.
ARIN’s ARIN 58 update says Q4 2025 produced the largest quarterly change in its legacy-resource agreement programme: 2,768 prefixes covering 1.28 million /24 equivalents moved under Registration Services Agreements.
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ARIN Finally Gives Its Robots Their Own Accounts. The API Key Escapes the URL.
ARIN’s July release gave network automation two things it had been asking for: an account that can belong to a service, and a safer preferred place to carry the API key. Both requests had been waiting since 2022.
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ARIN’s Election Is a 675-Member Roll Call. Blank Ballots Count.
A ballot is doing membership work this year. For leaders, the practical question is whether the person authorized to submit it has an organizational decision to carry out.
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ARIN wants a five-year IPv6 plan. The next block still waits on 75%.
ARIN’s draft swaps several utilization tests for a network plan, then makes that same plan the clock on an LIR’s next request. The percentage sounds familiar. Its denominator is new—and the draft leaves one piece of the arithmetic on the table.
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ARIN Wants to Put the ROA and the Route in One Room. They Have Things to Discuss.
ARIN’s BGP Insight preview brings a resource holder’s RPKI settings alongside the routes that appear in BGP. The useful part is not another green badge; it is a way to see which configuration choice meets which announcement, and what a proposed correction might change.
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ARIN filed the 12-month warning under “seller”
IPv4 recipients may need to wait a year before sending addresses back out. The rule lives where a future seller would look, while ARIN staff explain it to today's buyer.
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ARIN's new directory key is missing one tooth
The Whois-RWS API has a July 2027 exit on the calendar. Its replacement still needs to find the smaller address records hiding inside a larger block.
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IPv6 Has Heard the Pep Talk. ARIN Wants the Bug Reports.
ARIN’s new task force is asking a better question than “Why aren’t you using IPv6 yet?” It wants to know what actually breaks, who can help, and how anyone will know the fix worked.
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ARIN moved a mountain of legacy addresses in one quarter. The rocks left are large
A newly disclosed 2025 agreement surge dwarfs the later remaining stock. The next cases look less like a bulk move and more like a hard address book.
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ARIN's IPv4 transfer clock is filed under “source”. Recipients miss it
An IPv4 transfer can close today while the date of the next one is already being set. ARIN tells recipients about the wait, but its policy manual posts the clock under their future role.
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ARIN put IPv4 fraud on its IPv6 slide. Show the bill
An IPv6 pitch now includes the price of chasing dodgy IPv4 claims. The registry has described the chase, but left the price tag off the slide.
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ARIN's fee scale: 1,644 big accounts balance 23,124 small ones
The registry's September fee snapshot looks like a balance scale with a tiny pan and a crowded pan. They carry almost the same annual revenue run rate. That is a useful picture of whose holdings make ARIN's budget move.
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Port 43 got 43 comments. Twenty-four told ARIN to slow down
ARIN planned a tidy retirement for old-fashioned Whois. Its own meeting slides reveal an untidy guest list: most substantive commenters pushed back, and the busiest apparent users hide behind cloud-provider addresses.
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Five registries walk into an ASPA chart. One brings zero
ARIN's routing-security slide counts 3,389 signed provider statements across the RIRs. RIPE NCC holds the largest pile; AFRINIC's column is empty. A shared tool is arriving in five very different starting positions.