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This announcement was made earlier today by ICANN in conjunction with the 34th ICANN meeting being held in Mexico City. ICANN’s President and CEO Announces Departure 2 March 2009 Mexico City, Mexico — 2 March 2009 — Founders and leaders of the Internet today praised the achievements of Dr Paul Twomey, the President and Chief […]

Internet pioneer Dr. Vint Cerf expressed his optimism for the Internet’s future at the official opening of the Internet Society’s new Geneva office. More than just optimism though, I was left with a feeling that he was perhaps issuing a subtle call to arms for the Internet pioneers of today.

This is a response to The Changing Foundation of the Internet: Address Transfers and Markets by Geoff Huston The majority of this piece was written on 27 October 2008, closely following the posting of The Changing Foundation of the Internet but due to time constraints in my schedule, I have just now gotten around to […]

ARIN Meetings Fellowship Program announced today.

Well, the results are now official; I did not get a seat on the ARIN AC this year. I will of course continue my activity on the ARIN PPML and hopefully make it to (at least one or two of) next years meetings. Who knows, maybe I will run again in 2009! Congratulations to everyone […]

IP space (v4, v6, vX) is a public resource and as such should be borrowed, used and returned by those with a need for it.

A decision tree to help in evaluating a liberalized IP address transfer policy.

I submitted my first policy proposal to ARIN.

LIR/EU Transfer policies are a bad idea, and there are other options. To understand this we must first agree on what a “LIR/EU transfer policy” is. Then we can look into the problems with this type of transfer policy (and there are many). Such a policy slows IPv6 adoption, which is a very bad thing […]