WCAANWilling Citizens' Authority
for Assigned Names

Evidence of public acts

Public record

The record follows an external act from filing through decision, implementation, and later correction. An empty register means that WCAAN has published no entry under the current procedure. It does not manufacture a claim about earlier history.

Delegation register

CETNIC.cet

Member delegation. Registry policy and operation are held by CETNIC.

Active
CETNIC.cet.is

Member delegation. Registry policy and operation are held by CETNIC. The namespace is loaned by Tan's Network.

Active
WCAAN.wcaan

Authority-operated registry.

Active

Machine-readable delegation register

Gazette

6 August 2026WCAAN-P/2026/005 to 006

Root-change publication and incident-disclosure rules issued as provisional founding instruments.

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6 August 2026WCAAN-T/2026/001 to 002

Delegation-change and DNSSEC requirements issued as provisional founding instruments.

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6 August 2026WCAAN-F/2026/002

The separate form set was replaced by one controlled filing packet. Electronic filing remains closed.

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Current registers

CasesPublic docket

No cases are published. No authenticated filing channel is open.

Empty
DecisionsExternal effect

No external-effect decision is entered under the current procedure. Existing root state appears in the delegation register.

Empty
ConsultationsOpen and closed proceedings

No consultation has opened or closed under the current procedure.

Empty
NoticesCase and implementation events

No defect, implementation, emergency, withdrawal, or correction notice is published.

Empty
Withholding decisions

No records. A future entry must identify the material category, reason, authority, and review date.

Corrections

No records. A correction must preserve or describe the prior text and state the evidence requiring change.

Material incidents

No entries exist under the present disclosure rule. This does not establish that no earlier incident occurred.

Technical exceptions

No records. An exception must state its scope, compensating controls, expiry, and correction plan.

Annual assurance

No member NIC assurance has been published under the current procedure.

Machine-readable register collection

How to read the record

A decision marked current has operative effect. Superseded means that a later decision replaced it. Withdrawn means that it ceased to have effect without replacement. Corrected means the published text contained an error and both the prior statement and correction remain identifiable.

The record distinguishes authority from implementation. WCAAN may approve a state that Tan's Network cannot safely apply. In that case, the decision remains a WCAAN act while the implementation state remains refused. Treating approval and publication as one event would conceal the disagreement precisely where partners most need to see it.

The absence of a record proves only what the register says. It may establish that no entry has been published under the current procedure. It does not establish the absence of an event, a private deliberation, or evidence not yet sufficient for publication.

What a future case entry will show

Identity

Stable case reference, filing class, affected namespace or institution, received date, and completion date.

State

Current stage, party expected to act, target date where applicable, pause history, and last update.

Evidence and decision

Public filing material, consultation record, relevant facts, decision, reasons, conditions, and review route.

Implementation

Whether the approved state was applied, refused, rolled back, or left partially applied, with the evidence available for that claim.