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NANOG
What, Exactly, Did NANOG Acquire?
NewNOG incorporated in 2010. The 2011 handoff then transferred named NANOG assets to that corporation, giving the forum a legal holder for its name and domain, archives, contracts and financial risk. It made NANOG more durable and its responsibilities easier to locate without…
JPNOG
When Trust Data Goes Dark: The Safety Question Inside RPKI
Origin validation can make Internet routing safer. But a repository fault, an incomplete cache view or a mistaken local policy must not be allowed to turn a degraded security signal into lost connectivity. A six-month JANOG experiment in 2013 brought that tension into an operator…
MENOG
The Classroom Moved. Who Chose the Lesson?
When MENOG announced one regional meeting instead of two and more country roadshows, it made technical training easier to reach. The harder question is whether it also moved the power to choose—over seats, teachers, materials, accreditation and the future use of what was taught.
SANOG
Eight Days That Stayed Put: Who Did What When SANOG 34 Moved
SANOG 34 kept its late-July opening and early-August finish, but the entity-facing machinery needed to make those dates real had to be rebuilt from Colombo to Kolkata. The surviving public record separates local risk advice, an unsigned regional decision, replacement-host…
AFNOG
One Name, Two Spellings: The Limit Hidden in AfNOG’s Archive
In one corner of AfNOG’s 2008 workshop archive, Marie Paule Uwase is a entity from Rwanda. In another, the certificate gallery calls her Marie-Paul Uwase. That terminal *e* and hyphen become consequential when the latter form appears on a 2010 instructor roster. The public record…
AFNOG
TelOne Zimbabwe’s routing set repeats two members without changing the set
A live AFRINIC record lists 24 member lines but only 21 distinct ASNs. The duplicates do not establish a routing failure; they expose a smaller but consequential question about who checks the policy data used to assemble filters.
JPNOG
JANOG58 finds MAC identities multiply before switch tables fill
Japan's network operators planned for an address-table surge that never arrived. Their new field data instead shows a subtler cost: private MAC rotation enlarged and destabilised the identity state used to operate the venue network.
NANOG
A NANOG correction moves domain takedown planning above the registrar
A new operator-thread correction shows why a registrar-only recovery plan can stop one layer too low. In the reported `.com` lock, the server-side control sat with Verisign as registry operator, while the registrar remained an escalation channel rather than the actor able to…
Number Resource Society
A Versioned Event Schema for Comparing RIR Decisions
Regional Internet Registries disclose substantial activity, yet the same decision can still be counted at different moments, under different names and against different populations. A useful comparison layer should begin below dashboards and annual totals: one bounded, versioned…
Number Resource Society
A Global South Label Cannot Substitute for a Mandate
The Global South names a real distribution of disadvantage and an unstable political coalition at the same time. It can draw attention to colonial inheritance, expensive capital, infrastructure gaps, weak bargaining power, linguistic exclusion and the fact that most people who…
Number Resource Society
When One Corporate Group Casts Twenty Registry Votes
Twenty ballots can comply with a registry's rules and still expose a constitutional choice the rules never state. If twenty legal members answer to one corporate control group, should an election count twenty independent voices, one economic interest, or something between the…
Number Resource Society
Climate Reporting Cannot Justify Registry Mission Creep
A regional Internet registry consumes electricity, buys equipment and services, leases offices, relies on data centres, sends staff to meetings and convenes an international community whose travel has an environmental cost. It also faces physical climate risks: flood, heat…
Number Resource Society
Control-Change Notices Without a Registry Surveillance State
An Internet number registry does not need a permanent dossier on every shareholder in order to notice that the person able to direct a resource-holding company has changed. What it needs is a narrowly defined event notice: who changed, which recognized holder is affected, when…
Number Resource Society
Digital Identity Requirements at the Registry Gate
An Internet number registry must know more than the name typed into an account form. It must establish that an organization or natural person exists, that the person making a request can act for it, and that a transfer or record change is authorized by the legitimate holder.…
Number Resource Society
Machine-Readable Policy and the Risk of Automated Discretion
Internet number registries already expose important parts of registration through software interfaces. A network can update records, create routing entities, retrieve registration data and receive validation errors without a staff member retyping the request. The next step…
History
Brian Carpenter and the lifecycle of an IPv6 transition mechanism
Brian Carpenter’s work on 6to4 is best read not as a claim to have solved the IPv6 transition, nor as a confession that one engineer caused its failures, but as a documented cycle of technical responsibility: define an interim bridge with Keith Moore, describe what operating that…
Number Resource Society
How to Ratify a Number-Resource Continuity Charter
A continuity charter for Internet number resources will not become legitimate because its principles sound prudent or because a well-attended meeting applauds them. Ratification is a chain of attributed decisions: a bounded drafting mandate, a public evidence record, declared…
Number Resource Society
The Registry-Choice Pilot That Must Be Allowed to Fail
A registry-choice pilot will produce useful evidence only if its sponsors commit in advance to the possibility that the idea is wrong. From 2026 to 2036, a bounded trial should preregister its cohorts, controls, benefit thresholds, safety floors, stopping rules and rollback path…
Number Resource Society
A Ten-Year Stress Test for Number Resource Institutions
Number-resource institutions are built around continuity. Allocations, registrations, transfers, directory data and route-security credentials must remain dependable while boards change, laws conflict, markets move and systems age. Their public language therefore emphasizes…
History
Geoff Huston and the Transfer of Australia's University Internet
From building AARNet in 1989 to the migration of AUNIC in 2001, the documented roles of Geoff Huston reveal how capacity, commercial demand, and public legitimacy divided the overlapping responsibilities of a small technical community among universities, operators, registries…
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RIR Watchdog
Five regional sessions tracking allocation policy, board legitimacy, and institutional continuity.
Open RIR WatchdogCase File
Long-cycle governance dossiers with legal, election, and institutional stress analysis.
Open Case FileNumber Resource Society
Membership, charter, and resource-governance intelligence from the NRS ecosystem.
Open NRS SessionICANN
DNS coordination, accountability frameworks, and global multi-stakeholder process dynamics.
Open ICANN SessionIETF
Protocol standardization trajectory and interoperability risk under fragmented policy conditions.
Open IETF SessionHistory of Internet
Long-cycle infrastructure history used for governance interpretation and structural forecasting.
Open History SessionNOGs
Operator-level implementation intelligence from APRICOT plus regional and national NOG ecosystems.
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