On Stewardship, Scarcity, and the Hypocrisy of “Community Control”
What does “community control” become once the resource is scarce?
The Notes of Lu Heng
Who decides the future of the Internet?
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On Why NRS Exists — and Why Decentralization Is No Longer Optional
Why is decentralisation at the registry layer no longer optional?
On Why BTW.Media Exists — and Why Reality, Not Advocacy, Is the Product
Why describe the system as it is, rather than campaign for a solution?
On Why the Registry Layer Is a Structural Risk — and Why LARUS Is the Only Proven Business-Continuity Guarantor
Why does holding addresses directly concentrate registry risk rather than remove it?
On Why RIR Enforcement Creep Is the Silent Killer of IPv4 Liquidity — and Why It Must Be Stopped
How do auditing and pre-approval turn a market into a ration queue?
On Why “IPv6 Transition” Is Just Another Name for a Permanent Dual-Stack Tax — and Why Operators Should Stop Paying It
Who pays for a “transition” that never ends?
On The Agency Problem at the Core of Internet Governance
What happens when those who govern a system neither own it nor bear its risks?
On Why the Internet Is Colorless: Because Efficiency Is Colorless
Why does an efficient network care nothing about who you are?
On Why IPv6 Will Never Happen
What would a migration have to pay back before real networks adopt it?
On IPv6 Propaganda, IPv4 Scarcity, and a Simple Command: Stop Apologizing and Compound the Capital You Already Own
Why did twenty years of IPv6 promotion not replace IPv4 in the real economy?
Why Registries Must Never Become Enforcers
Why is an address book the wrong instrument for punishment?
On Informational Civilization: The Inevitable Path from Biological Individuals to Cosmic-Scale Intelligence
If efficiency drives civilisation, what remains for human life?