On LARUS One — The Economics of Network Identity, Customer Continuity, and Provider Revenue
What would it cost to change the number everyone recognises you by?
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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On Why i.LEASE Exists — and Why the Broker Question Is Really a Registry-Risk Question
Which broker can carry the risk when the registry stops behaving like a filing office?
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 the Cost of Running RIPE NCC — and Why Membership Fees Should Be Cut Radically
How much of a registry’s budget serves its actual mandate?
The cost of running RIPE NCC has become a recurring controversy, and for good reason. To assess it properly, we must start from first principles: what a Regional Internet Registry actually does, and what it is supposed to do.
Notes from APRICOT 2024, Bangkok
What does open participation cost, and who is left outside the room?
As APRICOT 2024 concludes, a few points stand out. It was valuable to engage directly with the community on issues shaping the global Internet, and the AGM marked a necessary turning point for APNIC after more than two decades of concentrated control.
On the Cost Structure of Regional Internet Registries
Who pays for hundreds of millions in registry budgets, and what do they get for it?
Regional Internet Registries collectively employ hundreds of staff worldwide and operate with annual budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars, all funded by mandatory membership fees. This funding model exists because RIRs hold a de-facto monopoly over the registration of number resources. The question is whether this scale of expenditure is justified by their actual function.