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Asia-Pacific Institutional
Beijing RITT-Net and the .手机 Registry Control Plane: DNSSEC, RDAP, and Continuity Costs
Public delegation, contract, DNSSEC, RDAP, and operator records show how the `.手机` registry depends on precise state, reliable interfaces, and recoverable operational control.
Leaders
Chris Caputo and the Route-Server Decisions Behind Strict RPKI Filtering at SeattleIX
Chris Caputo's public Seattle Internet Exchange record shows how route security becomes operational: acceptance rules are ordered, evidence sources have different weight, measured withdrawals are allowed to stand, and continuity changes are sequenced around observable traffic…
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP
AS9245 Shows the Dual-Stack Routing Footprint Behind Compass, Not Its Service Resilience
Generic editorial illustration of dual-stack route visibility meeting a service-evidence boundary; it does not depict Compass infrastructure, topology, access quality, capacity, customer service or resilience.
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP
AS45637 Makes UniFone's Dual-Stack Routing Visible but Not Its Access Resilience
Editorial illustration of a public routing edge meeting a separate regional access path; it does not depict a UniFone facility, tower, route, coverage area, outage, customer network or measured resilience outcome.
Global Cloud Services
Joint Stock Company Navigation-information systems and the .GDN Control Plane: RDAP Reliability, DNSSEC, and Continuity Costs
Public registry, delegation, DNS, RDAP, and compliance records show how a small piece of global naming infrastructure depends on precise records, running services, operational supervision, and credible recovery.
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP
AS142207 Keeps WJY Visible in the Registry After Its Public Route Goes Quiet
Editorial illustration of an administrative network identity remaining visible while a dated public routing path is quiet; it does not depict a WJY facility, outage, customer network or measured service outcome.
Leaders
Kotikalapudi Sriram and the Operational Boundaries of AS_SET Deprecation and BGPsec
Across three collaboratively produced RFCs, Kotikalapudi Sriram's public standards record traces a move from discouraging ambiguous AS path sets to prohibiting them, while BGPsec shows what explicit path authorization still requires: negotiated capabilities, accurately bound…
Leaders
Jeff Tantsura and the Operational Limits Made Visible by Maximum SID Depth Signaling
Jeff Tantsura's co-authored standards work on Maximum SID Depth shows why path computation needs an accurate record of what a running node can actually impose, carried with enough type and scope to remain useful from the IGP to BGP-LS and PCEP.
Asia-Pacific Institutional
OP3FT China's Frogans Address Control Surface: Registry, Resolution, Governance, and Continuity Costs
OP3FT China is a Beijing company and the local Chinese branch of the nonprofit standards organization behind Frogans technology. Its public role reaches beyond promotion. The company may participate, under OP3FT control, in technical specifications, software implementations, and…
Global Cloud Services
Cloudflare's January 2026 IPv6 Route Leak Made Empty Export Policy an Accountability Test
Cloudflare's account of a 25-minute IPv6 route leak shows why routing automation must be judged by rendered export semantics, Adj-RIB-Out changes and the paths the Internet actually observed.
Global Cloud Services
OVHcloud's 2021 Backbone Outage Made BGP-to-OSPF Isolation an Accountability Test
OVHcloud says a maintenance change intended to strengthen DDoS resistance moved Internet-scale BGP state into OSPF, testing whether a global backbone could bound, observe and independently reverse its own routing transitions.
Leaders
John Moy and the Operational Record Behind OSPF State and Graceful Restart
John Moy's documented OSPF work offers a restrained account of routing reliability: topology state has to be explicit and synchronized, protocol cost has to be measured, standardization has to rest on implementation experience, and forwarding continuity during restart has to end…
Asia-Pacific Institutional
eNIC's .cc Registry Control Surface: Delegation, DNSSEC, RDAP, and Continuity Costs
eNIC Cocos (Keeling) Islands Pty. Ltd. d/b/a Island Internet Services is the company named by IANA as the current manager of the .cc country-code top-level domain. That public role creates a compact but consequential technology control surface: root-zone delegation data…
Global Cloud Services
Cloudflare's 2026 BYOIP Outage Made Prefix-State Control an Accountability Test
A control-plane change withdrew customer-owned prefixes and exposed why address authority, service bindings, route intent, deployed configuration and public reachability need separate, continuously reconciled evidence.
Leaders
Linda Dunbar and the Operational Boundaries of Secure Network Connectivity
Linda Dunbar's public IETF record connects data-center neighbor discovery, interfaces to network security functions, BGP-based SD-WAN edge discovery, and directorate scrutiny of failure visibility, showing why secure connectivity depends on explicit operational boundaries rather…
Leaders
Ross Callon and the Operational Transition from Dual Routing to MPLS Labels
Ross Callon's dated standards record shows that network transitions endure when capabilities, compatibility, and forwarding identity are made explicit, first for IP and OSI coexistence and later for traffic classes bound to locally meaningful MPLS labels.
Global Institutional
The 2015 Root DNS Flood Made Cross-Operator Telemetry an Accountability Test
Two concentrated query floods exposed the difference between root-system continuity and localized saturation, making shared, layer-specific telemetry the basis for judging operator preparedness and response.
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP
Planet Information Technology Solution and AS136903: IPv4, IPv6, RPKI, DNS, and ISP Continuity Costs
Planet Information Technology Solution and AS136903: IPv4, IPv6, RPKI, DNS, and ISP Continuity Costs intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
Europe and Middle East Institutional
Spamhaus's 2013 DDoS Made Open DNS Recursion a Network Accountability Test
The March 2013 campaign showed how exposed recursive DNS, source-address spoofing and shared interconnection paths could turn individually small configuration failures into a large external cost. Accountability depends on proving which operator controlled each executable step and…
Leaders
Dave Oran and the Operational Boundaries from IS-IS to IP Anycast
Dave Oran’s shared technical record shows how dependable forwarding begins with a clear account of identity: which routing domain, service instance, name, or piece of state a system is actually using, and where continuity can break when that identity changes.