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ARIN Recommends a Password Refresh but Sets No Time Horizon
ARIN’s chief information security officer asks account holders who have not changed a password “recently” to update it. The advice is voluntary, the interval is undefined, and the post says no incident prompted it.
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ARIN’s Draft Fairness Principle Is Not a Request-Level Justification Rule
ARIN-2026-4 would move an IPv6 fairness statement into the manual’s general principles. Its September staff and legal review says the proposed sentence is not a definition or a justification requirement. That boundary matters: fairness can govern how policy is written and applied…
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Kendrick Knowles’s withdrawal leaves seven names on ARIN’s AC list
A 14 September amendment records Kendrick Knowles’s withdrawal from the race. The current candidate list shows seven names as ARIN’s October ballot approaches.
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ARIN’s Candidate Support Counts Measure Statements, Not Votes
ARIN’s 2026 candidate pages count public Statements of Support, which any individual may submit. The formal Board and Advisory Council ballot, by contrast, runs through eligible General Member organizations.
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ARIN grant turns Dominica campus Wi-Fi gaps into a student evidence project
A US$20,000 award backs planned mapping, routing-security, IPv6 and accessibility work at Dominica State College; the project’s findings have not yet been published.
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ARIN adds a virtual policy open house before its October meeting
A new online session will put ARIN’s Advisory Council in a room with people preparing for the October policy discussions. The event is a guided route into an existing process; its announcement says nothing yet about who will attend or what may follow.
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Jamaica’s Internet Exchange Turns on the Terms of Participation
A 2026 relaunch brings JAIXP back into view, but its durable value will depend on why independent operators choose to connect, exchange traffic and remain.
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ARIN’s IPv4 Calendar Has a Quarter and a Date
ARIN’s 7 October distribution announcement put the next IPv4 Waiting List distribution in “late” 2026’s fourth quarter. The live status page points to on or about 4 January 2027. Neither statement is an applicant-level delivery promise, but together they show why a public…
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ARIN’s Person-POC Workflow Links the Creator’s Account by Default
ARIN’s latest POC guidance identifies a consequential distinction at the moment a contact record is created: the person it is meant to represent may not be the user account that ARIN Online attaches to it.
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ARIN’s Grant Page Lists 18 Applications. Board Minutes Say 10.
ARIN’s live 2026 grant summary lists 18 applications and two selected projects. Draft minutes from the Board’s August meeting say two of ten applications were selected. The public record does not say whether those totals count different stages.
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ARIN Vice Chair Reads Waitlist Clause as an Eligibility Test
An ARIN staff review, a vice chair’s later reading and a same-day reply differ over what the proposal would change in the Waitlist test—and beyond it.
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ARIN’s Latest Review Says “None.” What Changed Since the Ticket Forecast?
A February staff review of ARIN-2025-3 anticipated more IPv4 Waiting List requests and more ticket work. A September review of the revised text marked the effect on registry operations and services “None.” The rule changed between those assessments; the public record does not say…
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ARIN Funded an RPKI Dashboard Around a 99% Claim. The Recipe Must Travel With It
Four numbers arrived in ARIN’s grant record: 3.9 billion observations, 139 GB, 9% and more than 99%. The first two describe a warehouse. The last two judge behaviour. A weekly public dashboard can make that judgement useful, but only if the exact measurement recipe travels with…
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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…
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ARIN’s Draft Defines “Out of Region” Without Defining the Unit
ARIN’s Draft Defines “Out of Region” Without Defining the Unit 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…
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ARIN’s IPv6 CSV Has a Spelling Problem, Not a New Address
An uppercase letter in an IPv6 export does not allocate a second network. It can still give a spreadsheet, log search or text-based join a second name for the same one. An ARIN customer asked for lowercase in the Manage Networks CSV; ARIN agreed that the change would be more…
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ARIN Closed the Grant Total. Its Final-Report Clock Still Has Two Dates
ARIN’s 22 September notice names two 2026 Community Grant recipients and $37,350 in awards. The same program page still gives September and October 2027 as the final-report deadline, so the public schedule cannot yet be treated as one authoritative clock.
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ARIN’s Legal RPSL Still Produced a Partial Mirror Answer
A recursive query returned seven ASNs. The reference described in ARIN’s public suggestion contained far more. Nothing in that contrast required the routing policy to be invalid: the failure could sit in the journey from a logical set, through one very long physical line, into a…
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ARIN Approved a Revised Strategic Plan. Its Public PDF Still Says December 2025.
ARIN’s draft minutes record an August 2026 vote on a “new” or “revised” strategic plan. The plan linked from ARIN’s public planning page, however, identifies itself as the version adopted in December 2025. That mismatch does not prove the strategy changed. It does show that the…
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ARIN’s Jacksonville Workshop Has Two Start Times
Three days before the event, ARIN’s dated notice says 9:30 while its live outreach page says 10:00. One labelled schedule can make both times useful.