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Courtesy of Ocaasi (and copied here by Bwoodcock who is conflicted by dint of being the executive director of the organization):

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Packet Clearing House has vital internet properties some of which are critical net infrastructure:

Packet Clearing House is an expert in DNS matters in the news :

They have been party to serious hacks:

Note the Quad9 DNS service in partnership with IBM:

Packet Clearing House has profiles at USAID and ProPublica

Berkman Center has paper archives on both PCH and its founder

https://cyber.harvard.edu/ixp/library.htm

Conflict-of-interest tag

This article got tagged for a conflict of interest back in 2022, but no one seems to have talked about it here on the talk page. There have been 35 edits since then from other people, updating most of the page. So, is the conflict tag still needed? I read the page about that and it says there should be discussion on the talk page, and that the conflict tag isn't intended to stay there forever. What more clean-up should be done? ChiTownBGP (talk) 05:33, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a diff of all changes since the COI tag was added. I would challenge the characterization of these edits as updating most of the page - most of the prose remains unchanged, and looking through the edit history, much of it was originally added by a declared COI editor or confirmed sockpuppet thereof. That said, you're right that no "specific, articulable, fixable problem" has been identified on this talk page. I've added a {{Connected contributor}} template here, which the {{COI}} docs suggest might be more appropriate when no such articulation has been made. DefaultFree (talk) 16:06, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]