When does administration become control?
IP addresses need dependable records. Keeping those records should not give an institution power over the future of every network using them.
The Bill of Rights of Uniqueness CoordinationText: English
Who gets to decidethe future of the Internet?
Lu Heng — The world is not a finished idea.
Websites, businesses and entire cities depend on stable Internet addresses. What happens when the organisation keeping the address records fails? I argue that networks must be able to change their registration provider without losing the addresses they already use.
Understand the problem
Who keeps the Internet running—and who gets to change its rules?
Read the full explanationWho decides which rules take effect?
People connect the Internet by running it. Why should new rules take effect through their adoption, rather than an institutional command?
Running-Code Primacy: The Patch Needed to Preserve the Internet’s Original DesignText: English
Where does change begin?
From dependable address services to replaceable registries: how these arguments connect to the work I am doing.
On Why NRS Exists — and Why Decentralization Is No Longer OptionalText: English
Where to read next
All Notes- Note 74
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Putting these ideas to work.
These ideas do not live only on the page. I put them to work through network infrastructure, the effort to make registration portable, and reporting that makes Internet power visible.
How I got here
I am Lu Heng. I left for the Netherlands on my own while I was still in high school. In my first year at university, I started a company; since then I have travelled the world alone. I founded LARUS in 2016, and working with Internet addresses and network infrastructure keeps bringing me back to one question: why should the people who build and pay for a network have to entrust its future to a registry?
My Notes follow that question through real disputes, institutional choices and proposals for change. They are where I make the argument. The photographs are where you can meet the person looking at the same world from another distance. Start with whichever question brings you here; if the way I see it matters to you, follow the work as it develops.
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The photographs show the places and moments through which I have learned to look; media and engagements show where these ideas meet other people.