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- Nov 25, 2025 Registry Allocation Policy and the Cost of a Code Point How IANA registries decide who gets a number, why allocation policy is a protocol design decision, and how scarce identifier spaces shape what can be built. internet protocols
- Jan 30, 2023 Registry Allocation: First Come, First Served and Its Failure Modes How a single registry clerk in the early Internet years allocated namespaces, why the policy scaled badly, and what the replacement bodies inherited. computing history