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Land Registries, Title Assurance and the Limits of the Analogy
The comparison between an IPv4 record and a land title is attractive because both can sit beneath valuable transactions. A buyer wants to know who can transfer, whether the history is coherent, whether an adverse claim exists and what happens if the official record is wrong. Land…
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Mobile Number Portability Without Duplicate Numbers
A mobile number can leave a carrier without becoming two numbers. The subscriber keeps the digits that family, customers, banks and public services already know. The old operator stops serving them. The new operator begins. Other networks change how calls and messages reach the…
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Bank Account Portability and the Case for Registry Switching
The most important feature of Britain's Current Account Switch Service is not that it moves money quickly. It is that a bank customer can tell a new provider to manage the departure from an old one. The incumbent does not own the decision to leave. It receives defined…
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What Electricity Regulators Know About Essential Network Records
Electricity regulators have spent decades asking how an indispensable service should be priced, measured, restored and withheld when customers cannot simply choose another wire. Internet number registries administer something different: globally coordinated records rather than…
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A Thin Ledger With Rich Proofs
A registry does not become trustworthy by knowing everything about everyone. It becomes trustworthy when it records the few facts needed to establish unique authority, preserves every consequential change, separates the people who request and approve those changes, and lets…
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NRS Advocacy for a Portable Trust-Anchor Model
Number-resource recognition should survive a change of registry, certificate authority, repository or corporate form without forcing a holder to begin its history again. Number Resource Society can advocate this continuity and scrutinise the institutions responsible for it; NRS…
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Data Accuracy SLAs the RIRs Do Not Publish
An address record can remain reachable while being wrong, and a registry service can meet every uptime target while the wrong answer continues to circulate. Public dependence on number-resource data now deserves correction commitments measured from a reported defect to a verified…
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The Registry API Rate Limit as a Market Barrier
An RDAP or Whois quota can be a sensible defence against scraping and denial of service. It can also decide which broker completes diligence, which abuse analyst follows a campaign, and which new research firm can afford to enter. The legitimate control is not a secret number at…
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A Maintenance Window Across Twelve Time Zones
A registry engineer may schedule a change for the quietest hour at headquarters and still place the busiest hour of somebody else's network inside the blast radius. Fair maintenance is not the search for a universally convenient clock time. It is an institutional discipline that…
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Registry Logs as Evidence After an Incident
Registry Logs as Evidence After an Incident 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 Story intelligence…
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Publication-as-a-Service and the New Middleman
Running an RPKI certificate authority no longer requires running the repository from which validators retrieve its entities. That separation can reduce a network operator's infrastructure burden and place global distribution with a specialist. It also inserts a service provider…
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Delegated RPKI and the Right to Hold Your Own Keys
Delegated RPKI promises that a resource holder can operate its own certification authority and retain the private key used to sign routing authorizations. The promise is technically substantial but institutionally incomplete. Key autonomy is usable only when the option is…
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RPKI MaxLength and the Cost of a Typo
A single prefix-length choice can turn an intended routing authorization into evidence that a legitimate route is unauthorized. The error then travels through certificates, repositories, validators and the policies of networks the resource holder cannot direct. Calling this user…
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AS0 ROAs: Conservation Tool or Pre-Emptive Denial?
An AS0 ROA says that a prefix and its more-specifics should not be used for public routing. Applied to genuinely unallocated space, it can turn a registry's conservation duty into a machine-readable warning against misoriginations. Applied to a wrongly classified or newly…
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RPKI-to-Router Deployment and the Missing Governance Layer
RPKI can tell a router that a route origin is Valid, Invalid or NotFound, but it does not command the router to carry or reject the route. Between a registry's signed statement and a packet's path sits a succession of validators, caches, router implementations, peering contracts…
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The Source Attribute That Became a Trust Label
In RPSL, `source:` was meant to identify the routing registry in which an entity was registered. Operators gradually made it do more. A short name such as ARIN, APNIC, RIPE or RADB now helps determine which declarations enter filters and which are ignored. That practical…
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IRR Route Objects After the Network Has Moved
A network can change transit provider, origin AS, corporate owner or regional registry while an old Internet Routing Registry route object remains where it was first lodged. That residue matters whenever an operator still turns registry declarations into prefix filters. Migration…
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The Parent Zone and the Power to Refuse a Child
A reverse-DNS operator can serve a technically perfect child zone and still remain invisible if the parent will not publish its delegation. In the hierarchy beneath `in-addr.arpa` and `ip6.arpa`, refusal can occur at more than one boundary, for more than one reason, under more…
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Reverse DNS as a Quiet Sanction
An address block can remain routed, its servers can keep answering and its forward names can still resolve, yet a small deletion higher in the reverse-DNS tree can make its mail look untrustworthy and its network harder to operate. That is why reverse delegation should not be…
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WHOIS History and the Right to Prove a Chain of Control
A current WHOIS or RDAP answer can identify the organisation recorded against an address today. It cannot, by itself, prove how that state came to be. Transfers, mergers, name changes, legacy allocations and disputed updates require a historical proof layer: one that preserves…
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