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  <title><![CDATA[CircleID]]></title>
  <link>https://circleid.com/topics/internet_governance</link>
  <description>CircleID - Internet Governance</description>
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  <dc:rights>Copyright 2026, unless where otherwise noted.</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-09-01T16:03:00+00:00</dc:date>

  
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      <title><![CDATA[When a Link Becomes a Border: The Quiet Geopolitics of Internet Access]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/when&#45;a&#45;link&#45;becomes&#45;a&#45;border&#45;the&#45;quiet&#45;geopolitics&#45;of&#45;internet&#45;access</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[A LinkedIn short-link anomaly in Iran reveals how sanctions, corporate compliance and geolocation controls can translate geopolitical boundaries into infrastructure-level restrictions, creating an Internet that remains globally connected while becoming functionally unequal.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-05T11:15:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Thirty-Five Years Later, Moscow Comes Looking for the Soviet Union&#8217;s Domain]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/thirty&#45;five&#45;years&#45;later&#45;moscow&#45;comes&#45;looking&#45;for&#45;the&#45;soviet&#45;unions&#45;domain</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Russia is imposing state identity verification on .su, the Soviet Union's surviving domain, as researchers uncover criminal infrastructure across the namespace and ICANN pursues a retirement process that could eventually remove it from the global root.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-09-01T08:35:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Researchers Warn EU AI Rules Are Deepening Reliance on Big Tech]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/researchers&#45;warn&#45;eu&#45;ai&#45;rules&#45;are&#45;deepening&#45;reliance&#45;on&#45;big&#45;tech</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Researchers argue the EU's AI framework increasingly makes major technology companies co-stewards of regulation, raising concerns that reliance on private infrastructure and technical expertise could strengthen incumbents' influence over how AI rules are implemented.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-31T15:15:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Digital Embassies: Could Africa Rethink Digital Sovereignty?]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/digital&#45;embassies&#45;could&#45;africa&#45;rethink&#45;digital&#45;sovereignty</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Estonia's data embassy model offers African governments a different approach to digital sovereignty, combining cross-border infrastructure, legal safeguards and geographic redundancy to keep critical state systems secure, recoverable and operational during major disruptions.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-31T09:24:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Is Rewriting the Internet. But in Whose Language?]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/ai&#45;is&#45;rewriting&#45;the&#45;internet&#45;but&#45;in&#45;whose&#45;language</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI is becoming a gateway to the internet, but thousands of languages remain excluded. Closing the gap requires multilingual infrastructure, representative training data and policies that make linguistic inclusion a foundation of the AI era.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-27T11:20:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Beyond Protocol and Policy: Why Project Jake is Reshaping the Architecture of Internet Trust]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/beyond&#45;protocol&#45;and&#45;policy&#45;why&#45;project&#45;jake&#45;is&#45;reshaping&#45;the&#45;architecture&#45;of&#45;internet&#45;trust</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Project Jake aims to bridge the divide between internet protocols and policy, offering registries, law enforcement and rights holders a decentralised framework for accessing domain-registration data securely while navigating privacy laws and institutional gridlock.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-24T10:49:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[DNS Abuse and Criminal Infrastructure: Beyond Definitions and Blocklists]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/dns&#45;abuse&#45;and&#45;criminal&#45;infrastructure&#45;beyond&#45;definitions&#45;and&#45;blocklists</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Research suggests criminals may control a striking share of newly registered gTLD domains, raising questions about whether ICANN's definitions, contractual safeguards and enforcement mechanisms are keeping pace with the industrial scale of technology-facilitated harm.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-21T08:35:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[After the Close: What the 2026 gTLD Round Has Already Revealed]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/after&#45;the&#45;close&#45;what&#45;the&#45;2026&#45;gtld&#45;round&#45;has&#45;already&#45;revealed</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[ICANN's 2026 gTLD round drew more than 1,600 applications, led by ambitious portfolio investors. But scant brand disclosures and new rules banning private settlements could make contention costlier and reshape the economics of domain ownership.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-19T09:35:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[AFRINIC&#8217;s Constitution Is Africa&#8217;s Next Internet Stress Test]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/afrinics&#45;constitution&#45;is&#45;africas&#45;next&#45;internet&#45;stress&#45;test</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[AFRINIC's proposed Constitution offers Africa's troubled internet registry a chance to turn years of litigation, disputed elections and institutional paralysis into durable governance, provided reforms constrain external capture, internal concentration and administrative overreach alike.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-19T07:29:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[AI Duties Are Being Written but the Protocol Layer Is Missing]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/ai&#45;duties&#45;are&#45;being&#45;written&#45;the&#45;protocol&#45;layer&#45;is&#45;missing</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Recent AI containment failures expose a governance gap: harmful model behavior is often visible at the network boundary but poorly monitored. Adapting proven internet protocols could give governments and companies practical tools to enforce accountability.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-18T15:23:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[What Reagan-Era Cyber Strategists Can Teach America Today]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/what&#45;reagan&#45;era&#45;cyber&#45;strategists&#45;can&#45;teach&#45;america&#45;today</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Reagan-era cyber strategists anticipated today's transnational threats, proposing international treaties, public-private cooperation and infrastructure protections. As America again considers aggressive action against cybercriminals, their largely forgotten blueprint offers both lessons and warnings.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-17T12:01:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Dual-Front Challenge: Why Route Security (RPKI) is the Prerequisite for Quantum Readiness (PQC)]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/why&#45;route&#45;security&#45;rpki&#45;is&#45;the&#45;prerequisite&#45;for&#45;quantum&#45;readiness&#45;pqc</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Internet security risks advancing unevenly: post-quantum cryptography may protect data while vulnerable routing still enables hijacks. Universal RPKI adoption, paired with cryptographic agility, is essential to build an Internet trust architecture ready for quantum threats.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-17T11:08:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Whose Precedent Gets Remembered? Selective Amplification Has Its Own Amnesia]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/whose&#45;precedent&#45;gets&#45;remembered&#45;selective&#45;amplification&#45;has&#45;its&#45;own&#45;amnesia</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[DotConnectAfrica's landmark .AFRICA IRP victory established an ICANN accountability precedent later expressly invoked by Amazon. Selective amplification has since detached that precedent from its origins, distorting the historical record.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-17T10:33:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[ICANN Should Immediately Clarify if Applicants for the Same String Can Communicate Before Reveal Day]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/icann&#45;should&#45;clarify&#45;pre&#45;reveal&#45;communication&#45;between&#45;same&#45;string&#45;applicants</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[With more than 1,600 applications filed for ICANN's 2026 new gTLD Round, self-revealing applicants face uncertainty over whether pre-Reveal Day communications and agreements about overlapping strings could violate strict rules against privately resolving contention sets.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-16T19:38:00-07:00</dc:date>
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      <title><![CDATA[Poland Excluded from Starlink&#8217;s European Region: What Musk Dispute Reveals About Digital Sovereignty]]></title>
      <link>https://circleid.com/posts/poland&#45;excluded&#45;from&#45;starlinks&#45;european&#45;region</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Poland's exclusion from Starlink's new European roaming region has triggered a dispute with Warsaw, exposing how private infrastructure providers can shape cross-border connectivity and raising questions about digital sovereignty, accountability, and internet governance in Europe.]]></description>
      <dc:date>2026-08-13T08:02:00-07:00</dc:date>
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