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registries
- 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
- Aug 4, 2025 Reserved Values and the Practice of Keeping Extension Points Alive How unallocated code points, GREASE values, and deliberate noise keep implementations honest about skipping unknown fields, and what that costs on the wire. internet protocols
- Jun 18, 2024 How a Package Name Becomes a Download: Registry Lookup Order and Confusion The chain from a bare name in a manifest to a fetched artifact, how registries and scoped namespaces are consulted in order, and why that order is exploitable. software engineering
- 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