Mandate Laundering: From RIR Fantasy to Transition Architecture
When does an institution stop performing authority and start believing it possesses it?
The Notes of Lu Heng
Who decides the future of the Internet?
Who gave the Internet’s recordkeepers the power to govern it? These Notes follow that question from everyday analogies to a different design for the network.
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Running-Code Betrayal: How the RIR System Turned Consensus Against the Technical Community
Does “community consensus” give a room the right to rule over networks that are already running?
On How Thick Governance Destroyed the Obscurity It Needed to Survive
Why is public attention dangerous to a system that survived in the dark?
The Poverty Penalty: How the RIR Model Taxes the Poor While Calling It Equality
Was the registry system ever built to equalise scarcity between rich and poor?
From Double Extraction to Sovereignty Inversion: How Nations Lose Sovereign Control to RIRs for US$100
How does a nation’s numbering layer end up under a foreign private body for one hundred dollars?
On Why Saying IPv4 Commercialization Harms Poorer Countries Gets the Structure Wrong
Does a need-based system protect poorer countries, or formalise their disadvantage?
On Regional Internet Registries’ Thick Governance Turns Uniqueness into Double Extraction
What does uniqueness actually require, and what has been built on top of it?
On Why I Am Certainly Not the First Victim, and Likely the First Survivor
Why does a system that produces many victims keep them from seeing one another?
On Who Gets to Speak for a Continent, a Community, or “The End User”
Who has a mandate to speak for a continent, a community, or “the end user”?
On Internet Number Resources Are Not Political Property
Why is a service region not a sovereign community?
On When Registry Power Detaches from Liability: Why the Present RIR Coordination Model Cannot Survive in Its Current Form
What breaks when registry power grows but its liability stays at one hundred dollars?
On Why the Present Registry Model Becomes Impossible Once IPv4 Becomes a Real Asset
Can a clerical liability shell govern an asset class worth trillions?