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Chile Put 1,954 URLs on a Blocklist. Where Is the Clock to Take Them Off?
A five-day deadline tells network operators when to add a target. LACNIC's new blocking study asks for the other half of the job: a way to correct and retire it.
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Three LACNIC Board Seats, Five Candidates. Brazil Is Out Before the Vote.
LACNIC's 2026 slate puts three sitting directors against two challengers. The citizenship ceiling has already narrowed the field that members will see in November.
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LACNIC Can Shut the Service Window. The Draft Wants the Address Block Too.
A legacy holder who misses LACNIC's December paperwork deadline faces the loss of registration services under a Board call already in force. A new policy proposal would put recovery of the number resource itself on the table. The distance between those acts is where the argument…
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LACNIC Reached 9.39% of Legacy Holders. They Cover 24.67% of the IPv4.
The registry’s contact campaign is reaching a large slice of address space through a small slice of organizations. The December deadline still runs for everyone else.
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LACNIC's New Policy Referee Could Be a Version Number
Jordi Palet Martinez says he is correcting the language of LACNIC's policy process. The registry's own staff says his proposal changes who gets to judge a policy's evolution. That is a fight over the entity of a decision, tucked into a change labelled clarification.
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LACNIC Plans an IPv4 Side Door for December. Three Registries Keep Separate Keys.
The region's new third-party IPv4 sub-assignment policy has an opening month and a conspicuous wall. LACNIC says the first stage will work within each of its three registration systems. The bridge between them comes later, on a date nobody has announced. The deal over money will…
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LACNIC Starts Three Clocks for Routes It Won’t Guarantee
An address allocation can be entered in the registry before a single customer can reach it. LACNIC’s rule gives recipients three different deadlines to announce their resources, then places the negotiation for actual reachability with their connectivity providers. That division…
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Publishing ASPA Is the Easy Part. Getting It Into a Router Is the Plot.
LACNIC has put ASPA creation in MiLACNIC and validation in FORT. The interesting handoff comes next: a valid object still has to travel through a validator, a router protocol and a local routing policy before it can change a decision.
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REGULATEL Has the Working Group. LACNIC Has the MOU. Give Them a Job.
LACNIC and REGULATEL have signed a broad cooperation pact. REGULATEL already has an Internet Affairs group with a remit for technical and governance work. Put the agreement there and ask for an output with a date.
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LACNIC Wants 80% ROA Coverage. Its Evidence Counts Something Else.
A LACNIC proposal would make valid ROA coverage a condition for an organization’s next resource allocation. The 80% threshold is crisp; the evidence cited for it measures regional route validity, a different quantity.
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The Gateway That Points Back: A DHCP Draft Adds a Legacy-Client Escape Hatch
Version 03 of an individual Internet-Draft adds a conditional DHCPv4 Router Option for clients that require one: the host's own address or 127.0.0.1. The author says this should keep non-local IPv4 traffic on the host, but no published test yet shows how operating systems handle…
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An Internet address is not an Internet connection
LACNIC and REGULATEL want to bring technical and regulatory work closer together. Their agreement has somewhere practical to start: working groups that already exist.
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The Link Is Not the Block: Testing LACNIC’s Sub-Assignment Rule
LACNIC’s September policy-list exchange began with a small portal question and ended at a more consequential one: when an internet service provider sells a dedicated connection, has it also given the customer an IPv4 resource? The public record describes the service, but leaves…
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Digitel’s IPv6 Transition Had a Second Clock in Its Records
Venezuela’s IPv6 rule measures a network’s ability to carry the protocol. Digitel’s account points to a separate test: whether its subscriber records could identify the address used at a particular time. The public evidence does not show that the rule prescribed a CDR field.
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LACNIC links an operator’s ASN to the freedom to change providers
LACNIC links an operator’s ASN to the freedom to change providers 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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Díaz’s provider switch narrows the symptom, not the blocker
In a 14 October LACNIC Blog essay, Telecom Affairs lead César Díaz recounts that vehicle-repair diagrams were missing through one provider and available through another at the same place. That is a provider-dependent result in his account; it does not identify the layer that…
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LACNIC’s Caribbean satellite fallback depends on an unstated trigger
Its CaribNOG 32 guidance pairs full-table routing over fibre with a default route over LEO. The post reports exercises, but no operator deployment, failover test or capacity result.
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FRIDA’s 2026 Call Cut Its Menu in Half. The Application Data Cannot Explain the Shift
FRIDA moved from four thematic categories and grant and award tracks in 2025 to two categories and grants alone in 2026. The new cycle drew 57 applications, but its published figures do not explain why the invitation changed or how reviewers reached the final mix.
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Digitel says IPv6 reaches five million devices; DNS headroom remains unmeasured
The Venezuelan mobile operator says IPv6 serves 74% of connected devices and carries 42% of mobile traffic. Its separate report of DNS-server load near 45% raises a capacity question, but supplies no measurement window or ceiling.
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LACNIC’s Board Ties Comisión Fiscal Access to Possible Financial Impact, but Does Not Define the Test
A sentence in LACNIC’s March 2025 Board minutes describes a private route from masked meeting material to the Comisión Fiscal. The route depends on possible financial impact. The record does not explain how that trigger is judged, and it does not show that any passage was…