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APNIC’s Two Root-Key Signals Count Different Things
On 11 October, the DNS root is scheduled to begin using KSK-2024 to sign the zone. APNIC’s latest measurements put two percentages beside that date, but one follows key-tag signals from resolvers while the other tests end systems behind validating resolvers. Their denominators…
History
Who Could Apply for a Top-Level Domain? RFC 920’s First Eligibility List
In October 1984, the first top-level domain list was also a set of admission rules: some names were temporary, others stood for broad categories, and none could enter the tree without an administrator and a route to authorization.
ICANN
ICANN’s 2027 NomCom: Chair-Elect succession stays discretionary
Charles Mok will chair ICANN’s 2027 Nominating Committee and Ron da Silva will serve as Chair-Elect. The appointments put a quiet bylaw distinction in view: an expected handoff is not a guaranteed promotion.
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Three Networks, One Transmission: The 1977 Internetting Demonstration
The famous van was only one endpoint. The real test was whether a message could cross packet radio, the ARPANET and a satellite packet network without turning them into one enlarged network. The surviving record supports a successful route—and a much narrower claim than “the…
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The Glossary Left Interoperability Undefined: RFC 1208’s Moving Target
Adapted from a pocket guide for Interop ’90, RFC 1208 helped readers navigate a fast-moving field without pretending that one short definition could prove two vendors’ systems actually worked together.
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LACNIC Adds ASPA Publishing to MiLACNIC; Uptake Is Still Uncounted
LACNIC Adds ASPA Publishing to MiLACNIC; Uptake Is Still Uncounted 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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ITU and WFP report three conflict telecom assessments ahead of PP-26
ITU says findings from three rapid assessments informed UN leadership briefings, while a resilience framework is developed and the implementation plan remains in progress.
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The Cache Changed the Destination, Not the Root: AlterNIC’s 1997 InterNIC Redirect
A resolver in one operator’s network returned an AlterNIC address for `www.internic.net`. Its cache record exposed the route the redirect took: additional DNS data had become a local answer. That was evidence of a changed destination at one resolver, not of a new authority taking…
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A Customer Link Became a Security Boundary: RFC 2267 and BCP 38
In 1998, an informational memo moved one check from the machine under attack to the provider edge nearest the traffic’s declared source. RFC 2267 asked whether a packet arriving from a customer network used a source prefix that network could legitimately send. The rule narrowed…
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PeeringDB’s API v3 Draft Expands Reads Without Rewriting Data-Use Rules
PeeringDB is proposing a read-only interface served from multiple locations. Its draft would make queries easier to cache, but the existing rules still govern bulk storage, redistribution and commercial reuse.
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What APNIC’s 2027 Balance Assumes About Foundation Funding
APNIC’s 2026 budget shows where a sharp reduction in Foundation receipts went: some costs moved into APNIC’s self-funded development budget, some activities were reduced, and M-Root support was proposed for JPRS to manage. Its published 2027 balance assumes Foundation funding…
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LACNIC’s Loop Study Moves 59 Cases into Intra-AS Under a Private-Hop Rule
LACNIC’s Dominican Republic measurements leave 41 possible-loop cases unclassified after a second rule shifts 59 from the unknown column into intra-AS. The difference is a choice about how to read a hidden hop, not a count of newly confirmed faults.
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ITU’s Pacific office plan puts three posts on paper; funding remains open
A detailed Suva and PIFS option reaches PP-26 with a three-post cost model, while host approvals, legal instruments and a funding source remain unresolved.
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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.
History
The Pigeon Returned an IP Packet. A Human Still Had to Finish Delivery: RFC 1149 in Bergen
In Bergen in 2001, a Linux user group tested a ten-year-old specification for carrying IP datagrams by pigeon. Four replies reached the log, but only after a person removed the paper, scanned it and corrected the OCR. The surviving record shows what this one route tested—and what…
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APNIC Sets a One-Hour RPKI Patch Window; rsync May Pause for Up to Two Minutes
APNIC plans security patching on 13 October from 08:00 to 09:00 UTC+10. Its notice forecasts up to two minutes of unavailability on one self-hosted RPKI rsync endpoint, while saying other RPKI services are not expected to be interrupted.
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ITU’s Draft Budget Leaves Future Conference Costs Outside the Plan
ITU’s proposed four-year financial plan balances at CHF 646.4 million, yet it does not include the financial implications of future World Conference decisions. The same draft says earlier conferences assessed more than CHF 15 million in additional implementation needs beyond…
ICANN
The `.mcp` Bid Would Turn Protocol Membership into a Domain Gate
Five applicants now sit in the preliminary `.mcp` contention set. Charleston Road Registry, which trades as Google Registry, proposes that four kinds of connection to the Model Context Protocol qualify someone to register a `.mcp` name. It also gives an unnamed `.MCP Policy…
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ITU Sends Its Language Group’s Renewal Case to PP-26
A four-year report asks the Council to recommend keeping CWG-LANG, but the Council’s published transmittal records that it sent the report with Member State views. PP-26 now faces the next-period decision under Decision 11.
History
One Connection Was One Point: How RFC 1025 Tested TCP/IP Compatibility
Before compatibility could be assumed, it had to be demonstrated between actual implementations. RFC 1025 turns that early Internet practice into a scorecard: start with one connection, then add peers, gateways, damaged packets and cases designed to expose what a successful…
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