The Multi-Stakeholder Mirage – How the Multi-Stakeholder Model Turned Attendance Into Mandate
When did attendance start to count as a mandate?
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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Who holds the power?
Representation, authority and the claims made in the name of community.
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The Policy Mirror
What does a policy manual confess about what an institution thinks it is?
How AFRINIC's 2026 Rules Turn the Registry from Ledger into Capital Control
On When the Bookkeeper Auditions for Olympus
What happens when a bookkeeper begins to believe the ledger is a throne?
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?
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 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 Authority, Belief, and the Internet’s Addressing System
What happens to an authority built on belief once the belief fractures?
On the “Capture” Paradox — and the Verified Challenger They Manufactured
If governance is truly bottom-up, why is a challenger from inside called “capture”?
How a Neutral Bookkeeper Became a Fragile Power
How did a bookkeeper become a fragile power once the ledger turned into capital?
On Power, Legitimacy, and the AFRINIC Lock-In — When Control Targets Your Assets
Where does power actually come from, if not from the vote?