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RIPE 89 – Policy Proposals Up for Discussion
October 22, 2024
RIPE NCC is hosting its 89th Regional Meeting from October 28, 2024, to November 1, 2024, in Prague, Czechia. Read more
ARIN 54 – Recommended Draft Policies
October 21, 2024
ARIN 54 will be hosted in Toronto, Canada from October 24 to October 25 to discuss with the community current draft policies and recommended draft policies Read more
APNIC 58
Policy Discussion Results
September 10, 2024
APNIC 58 was held in Wellington, New Zealand from August 30 to September 6, 2024. There were initially four proposed policies but only two were voted on as the others were withdrawn. Read more
The Results of the RIPE 88
Policy Discussion
May 29, 2024
RIPE 88 was held in Krakow, Poland. The Address Policy Working Group (APWG) met and discussed policy and services updates and made their selection for two open co-chair seats. Read more
What’s Happening at RIPE 88?
May 15, 2024
RIPE NCC is hosting their 88th Regional Meeting from May 20th, 2024 to May 24th, 2024 in Krakow, Poland. Read more
Cogent Secured Notes
& IPv4 Addresses
May 3, 2024
Cogent (NASDAQ: CCOI) recently announced that it was offering secured notes for $206MM using some of its IPv4 addresses and the leases on those IPv4 addresses as security. Read more
The Upcoming Policy Discussion at ARIN 53
April 12, 2024
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is hosting their 53rd Public Policy and Members Meeting in Bridgetown, Barbados from April 14th 2024 – April 17th 2024. Read more
APNIC 57 POLICY PROPOSALS
February 22, 2024
APNIC 57 (APRICOT 2024) will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, this year from February 21st to March 1st. This year there are four new policy proposals up for community discussion. Read more
RIPE 87 POLICY PROPOSAL
November 27, 2023
A policy proposal will be discussed at RIPE 87 that seeks to standardize the application of the RIPE policy across all internet resources, regardless of status and decrease the workload for LIRs when registering their IPv4 resource assignments. Read more
ARIN 52 Policy Proposal Follow-up
October 31, 2023
At ARIN 52 in San Diego, all policy proposals were discussed with no conclusions. Since these proposals were all “Draft Policies,” under ARIN’s Policy Development Process, they are too new to get a sense for whether the community supports them. Read more
What Happened at LACNIC 40?
October 31, 2023
At LACNIC 40 the community discussed four policies: two focused on obtaining addresses, one focused on cleaning up records from addresses returned to LACNIC, and one focused on the Policy Development Process. Read more
ARIN IPv4 Waitlist – 3 Years and Could Get Longer
October 31, 2023
A company joining ARIN’s IPv4 Waitlist today should expect to wait at least three years. There are about 150 requests each quarter. But ARIN can only fulfill 30-50 requests. Read more