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Welcome to APNIC 62

By Timothy Hildred

APNIC welcomes you to Mumbai, India for APNIC 62. Here is what you can look forward to over the coming days.

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WSIS Forum 2026: From commitments to measurable implementation 

By Joyce Chen

WSIS Forum 2026 marked the start of a new phase for global digital development, shifting the focus from commitments to measurable implementation. 

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Join us online for APNIC 62.
Get a front row seat to all the action! APNIC 62 is streaming live from 8 to 10 September 2026. Registration is still open for online participation.  
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Community consultation on increasing diversity in APNIC community leadership: Stage 1 report released

By Kenny Huang

The APNIC Executive Council has released the Stage 1 report on APNIC’s community consultation on increasing diversity in APNIC community leadership. The discussion will continue at APNIC 62 in Mumbai, with remote participation available.

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What part of ‘No!’ is so hard for the DNS understand?

By Geoff Huston

At APNIC Labs we've been experimenting with understanding how the DNS handles requests to resolve nonexistent names to make the DNS more resilient to random name attacks.

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[Podcast] Measuring the impact of locally served root zone

By George Michaelson

An analysis of the traffic impacts of locally served root zones, by Ilyas Rahimi at UvA.

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Beeline: Enforcing application-layer policies in eBPF

By Brandner Laurin

Guest Post: While many L7 protocols are complex to parse, the logic needed to enforce L7 policies tends to be simple. For the vast majority (89%) of L7 policies in the wild, Beeline can eliminate the service proxy from the critical path.

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Recommended Draft RIR Governance Document, Rationale report, and next steps

By Hervé Clément

The NRO NC has published the Recommended Draft RIR Governance Document, including a redline version and rationale document.

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The invisible heartbeat of our networks

By Luca Cicchelli

Guest Post: The recent Telstra outage highlighted a critical but often overlooked dependency in modern networks: Accurate time synchronization.