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Thank you note

"A thank you note is the simplest form of showing gratitude". I am both humbled and honored that you have placed your confidence and support in me by electing me for the NRO NC Member and NIR SIG Co-Chair position. I sincerely thank you for casting your valuable vote in my favor and making me win the election seeing all the required capabilities as a leader in me. I feel and believe that your support will boost my confidence to discharge my duties and responsibilities in a righteous manner. I want to extend my special and sincere thanks for the immense support, valuable time and opportunity from Sh R.S. Mani (my boss), Dr Seema Khanna, Sh Anil Jain (CEO NIXI), Mr Tarun Dua (my mentor), Mr Vivek from Hapihhost, Sh Shailesh Gupta, Mr Naveen Sharma, Mr Anurag Bhatia, Mr Daryll Swer, Mr Abhishek Mishra, APNIC team and all others who supports me directly or in-directly by encouraging me to use my temperament in the right direction to give out the best result. Thanking yo
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Is APNIC policy of Members Voting Rights doing the Justice with NIRs and Corresponding Countries

APNIC (the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) is the regional Internet address registry (RIR) for the Asia-Pacific region, service 56 economies, including India, Bangladesh, China, Australia, Japan and others. APNIC is one of the world's five RIRs and is part of the Number Resource Organization (NRO). As of date, the following 7 NIRs (National Internet Registries) are registered with APNIC for serving the local community a b c -- NIR Serving Economy Member under each NIR d APJII (ID) Indonesia 2916 e CNNIC (CN) China  1399 IRINN (IN) India  3368 JPNIC (JP) Japan   474 KISA (KR) Korea Not Available TWNIC (TW) Taiwan   299 VNNIC (VN) Vietnam   624 APNIC Membership is classified into 7 tiers depending on the IP holding by each member. Each membership tier has voting rights. These voting rights play a crucial role in governance and policies matt

How to - Configure Firefox to use only DoH and not to fallback to OS native resolver

In this post, i will talk about configuring firefox browser to use DoH and not to fallback to OS native resolver  Step 1 :- Configure DoH like the way it is mentioned here - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https . I am using  https://doh.nkn.in/dns-query   (which is the DoH server of https://www.nkn.in and in alpha testing stage) as my DoH server in firefox browser. Step 2 :- Check you configuration by typing  about:networking#dns in the browser address bar. Most probably, you will see something like this --  Here, the DoH Mode option handles how firefox manages your DNS queries.  This document (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Trusted_Recursive_Resolver) talks about the options available under 'DoH Mode'. So, if you want to use only DoH and not to fallback to native OS resolver, you can change the value of this parameter to '3'.  Step 3 :- For changing the value of 'DoH Mode' parameter, type  about:config in the browser's address bar and