Note:9 On APNIC Governance and the Need for a Clean Break
Ahead of the 2023 APNIC elections, I raised serious concerns about its governance. At the time, those concerns were dismissed, […]
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Note:8 On Why Centralised Alternatives Fail — and Why a Decentralised Registry Is the Only Viable Path
As IPv4 exhaustion rendered the original allocation role of Regional Internet Registries obsolete, a recurring question emerged: should RIRs continue […]
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Note:7 Why Buying IP Addresses Today Is a Scam — and How Telecoms Could Become Trillion-Dollar Companies
IPv4 addresses are widely treated as assets, traded for billions of dollars by cloud giants and telecom operators. Amazon alone […]
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Note:5 On Decentralising the Internet’s Governance
The Internet today still relies on legacy structures that allocate and register critical identifiers—names and numbers—through centralised institutions that predate […]
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Note:4 On Data Sovereignty: Technical vs Practical Realities
Global discussions on data sovereignty often confuse technical ideals with operational realities. At the Interconnect World Forum 2025 in Tokyo, […]
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Note:3 On Decentralising IP Addresses
The Internet has been steadily moving toward decentralisation for decades. From infrastructure to applications, from blockchain to Web3, almost every […]
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Note:1 On AFRINIC, RIR Governance, and the Myth of “Community Ownership”
I write this note not as a commentator, but as someone who has been directly involved in the realities of […]
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