Resource delegation audit update: Q2 2025
APNIC’s resource delegation audit program continued to progress as planned.
Statement from the Number Resource Organization regarding AFRINIC elections
Guest Post: The NRO fully supports ICANN’s efforts to bring transparency and accountability to the AFRINIC election process.
How Let’s Encrypt reduced the impact of zombie clients
Guest Post: A new rate limit has significantly reduced the load on Let’s Encrypt’s infrastructure.
Event Wrap: CommunicAsia 2025
Adli Wahid moderated a panel discussion on cybercrime at CommunicAsia 2025, held in Singapore from 27 to 29 May 2025.
[Podcast] Downloading the root
Geoff Huston discusses the DNS root zone and how query load at the root could be reduced by using trusted local copies of the zone.
Ossification and the Internet
Why IP, transport, routing, and DNS protocols can harden and what that means for the future of the public network.
The scourge of excessive AS-SETs
Guest Post: Many AS-SETs have grown so large they effectively whitelist most of the routing table, defeating their purpose. How are AS-SETs actually used for filtering, and what can be done when they get too big?
Event Wrap: INNOG 8 and India ISP Conclave 2025
APNIC conducted training and presented at INNOG 8, held in conjunction with the 2nd India ISP Conclave (IISPC2025) in Delhi, India from 23 to 28 May 2025.
Event Wrap: Phoenix Summit 2025
APNIC delivered training and presented at the Phoenix Summit 2025, held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 19 to 24 May 2025.
Is ‘Postel’s law’ causing protocol ‘ossification’?
A recent routing incident sparks renewed debate on protocol design, error handling, and whether Postel’s law is helping or hurting the Internet’s evolution.