Summary

  • Kenny Huang’s Executive Council response calls resource delegation only part of an effective RIR’s role and names technical capability, research and infrastructure among its supporting duties.
  • Respondents distributed 100 preference points across eight activities. Infrastructure deployment support led at 15.5; registry-service improvement and community support each received 15.1.

Kenny Huang has supplied APNIC with a long job description and a short arithmetic problem. In the Executive Council response he published on 12 November, the chair says resource delegation is “only part” of an effective RIR’s role. The same response says the 2026 survey’s leading activity received an average 15.5 points out of 100. Registry improvement and community support followed at 15.1 each. A tie this close gives the next strategic plan little room to pretend that members selected one obvious winner.

APNIC identifies Huang as Executive Council chair. His argument is practical: secure use of number resources depends on policy, skills and infrastructure as well as a reliable registry. Respondents asked for hands-on assistance with IPv6, RPKI, routing security and cybersecurity. An address book may be neutral; the networks using its entries still need tools and people who can operate them.

The difficult boundary is who chooses the extra work and what it displaces. Huang says the 2028–2032 plan must make compromises within available resources. The survey points express preferences, not spending authority or a budget. The revealing document will be the plan’s account of which services receive capacity, how their link to registry stewardship is demonstrated, and which requests are deferred. Huang has argued for breadth. Now the Council must put a price on selection.