Do the NSA revelations have anything to do with Internet governance?

Editors note: This blog post is based on a talk given at the New America Foundation December 5, 2013. Thanks to Tim Maurer and Kevin Bankston for hosting the talk The evolution of Internet governance has been characterized by a tension between the Internet’s organically evolved governance institutions and nation-states....

RIPE gets it right again

Last week, we covered the RIPE community's passing of ripe-604, focused on removing ex ante needs analysis from market transfers of IPv4 addresses.  In yet another sign of a liberalization, RIPE nearly simultaneously passed policy ripe-605, which opens to door to legacy holders in order to maintain accurate registration records. Importantly, ripe-605...