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IETF FARE Draft Brings Multi-Plane Route Choice to the RNIC
The new FARE-in-MPSON Internet-Draft treats the network interface as a routing decision point when scale-out AI fabrics are split into isolated planes. It is a work in progress, not an approved IETF feature, a deployment announcement or a performance result.
IETF
IETF Updates Its BGP FARE Adaptive-Routing Draft
The latest FARE text places an operational constraint beside BGP-based adaptive routing in a CLOS fabric: a weighted ECMP decision depends on comparable path-bandwidth information across the whole equal-cost set. It is an Internet-Draft, not an IETF-approved routing feature or a…
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LACNIC Counted 978 Organisations and 2,145 Weighted Votes. One Denominator Is Still Missing.
LACNIC’s 2026 extraordinary Board election published enough numbers to reproduce a seven-percent organisation turnout and the winning margin. It did not publish the total voting power held by all eligible organisations. In a system where one member can carry eleven times another…
IETF
IETF Updates Its Encrypted PDMv2 IPv6 Diagnostics Draft
The IETF’s current PDMv2 draft asks a governance question inside an IPv6 diagnostics mechanism: who may see timing and endpoint information, and under what prior authorization? It is an active draft, not a deployed encryption product or an approved standard.
IETF
IETF Updates Its SR-MPLS STAMP Measurement Draft
The IETF’s latest SR-MPLS STAMP draft turns a familiar operations question into explicit protocol work: whether a probe is assessing the path that traffic is actually engineered to use. It remains a draft, not a deployment announcement or a new standard.
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India’s Routing-Security Coverage Is Rising Faster Than Invalid-Route Filtering
APNIC’s latest India ecosystem review points to rapid gains in RPKI coverage alongside a much smaller reported share of networks filtering invalid announcements. The gap is a monitoring problem, not a verdict on national resilience.
IETF
IETF Updates Erik Sync Draft for RPKI Publication
An updated IETF Internet-Draft describes a relay-based way to distribute RPKI publication data. It is a current design proposal, not a new Internet standard or a deployment announcement.
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ARIN’s 2026 Election Officer Is a Sitting Trustee. Who Audits the Certification Chain?
ARIN’s published rules give one non-candidate Trustee a view across candidate problems, the voter list and the final tally before the Board confirms the result. That is a real internal control. It is not the same thing as independent election assurance—and the distinction matters…
IETF
The Public ENUM Response Date Has Passed. The Decision Has Not.
An ITU-T consultation on possible closure of E.164 country-code delegations in `e164.arpa` named 15 August 2026 for Member State responses. The public record still does not state an outcome.
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APNIC Moved Its One Share Into a Corporate Trustee. Who Controls the Trustee?
The reform removed a real one-person vulnerability. It did not remove the one-share legal machine. APNIC’s own trust deeds, company constitutions and by-laws show where authority now travels—and why collective control should not be confused with independent trusteeship or direct…
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AFRINIC’s remote-board clause can hear a quorum. It still cannot identify one
Draft Article 19.3 preserves remote Board meetings, but its test stops at a working audio channel. For an institution whose decisions can bind members, move money and restrict exit, that is not yet an evidence standard.
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When AFRINIC Could Not Authorise Itself, Company Law Supplied an Agent
Four directors could still turn up, staff could still know the work and lawyers could still know the file. None of that answered the decisive corporate question in September 2023: who could lawfully speak and act for AFRINIC when its Board needed five directors for a quorum, its…
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ARIN consults on retiring legacy directory services in favour of RDAP
ARIN has opened a consultation on a roadmap to consolidate four directory-service protocols around RDAP. The proposal is not a shutdown notice: it asks users how the retirement of older interfaces should be staged, with different earliest dates for each service.
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AFRINIC draft makes one year the line between a member election and a Board appointment
Proposed Article 13.9 would require an election when more than one year remains in a vacant Board seat, but would let the Board appoint the replacement when one year or less remains. That is clearer than AFRINIC’s current interim rule, yet the draft does not fix when the…
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AFRINIC draft opens a wide advice channel without an advice register
The proposed Article 16 would replace the Council of Elders with flexible committees and let the Board seek nonbinding input from almost any interested person or body. Its committee safeguards are detailed; its separate advisory-engagement trail is not.
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AFRINIC draft lets presence count as a yes vote unless a Director expressly dissents
A chair can be occupied without a hand being raised. Under draft Article 19.9, that presence can still enter AFRINIC’s decision record as agreement and an affirmative vote unless the Director expressly dissents or votes against. The rule is not new, but the consultation is an…
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AFRINIC retains a six-vote route to remove its CEO without making the Board’s record visible
Draft Article 17.2 leaves the existing CEO-removal power unchanged: on a full nine-seat Board, six of the eight other directors can end the appointment, subject to labour law. The same draft adds “justifiable cause” elsewhere but does not require a non-confidential reason, tally…
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AFRINIC draft adds “justifiable cause” but leaves Director removal procedure outside Article 14
AFRINIC’s proposed Article 14.1(c) would let two-thirds of all other Directors remove a Director for “justifiable cause”. The phrase improves the current Constitution, which gives the same Board-controlled route without an express cause test. Yet the draft’s explanation promises…
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AFRINIC draft keeps a three-Director fallback for adjourned Board meetings
AFRINIC’s proposed Article 19.6 starts with a normal Board quorum of at least five Directors. It then preserves a less visible rule already found in the current Constitution: after a meeting without quorum is adjourned for more than 24 hours and absent Directors are notified…
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AFRINIC draft drops the CEO nationality ban but leaves the Board to define disqualifying conflict
Proposed Article 17.3 replaces a blanket exclusion with a more defensible individual test. It still does not say what evidence the Board must use, who must recuse, what the candidate may answer, or how a disputed decision can be reviewed.
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