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Sunset Clauses as Institutional Memory
An emergency rule is easiest to defend on the day the emergency arrives. The facts feel urgent, alternatives look slow and the institution knows it will explain the measure later. Years afterwards, the rule may still exist while the trigger, promised limits and rejected…
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Regulatory Capture Without a Regulator
Regulatory capture is usually pictured as an industry bending a government agency to its will. Internet number registries complicate that picture. They are private or membership-based institutions, not ministries, yet they administer records, membership conditions, transfer…
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Data-Protection Authorities and the Independence Budget Test
An oversight body can have an independent name, a distinguished chair and no practical freedom. The institution it supervises may appoint every member, lend the staff, approve travel, decide whether counsel can be hired, control the records, narrow the cases and reduce next…
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RIPE NCC's 2012 Last /8 Rule and the New Entrant It Could Not Save
*The one-/22 rule did what rationing can do: it stopped the first large claimant from consuming RIPE NCC's final block and kept a small allocation available to thousands of later LIR accounts. It did not give a new operator enough IPv4 for open-ended growth, equalise historical…