Cloud Innovation calls for AFRINIC’s court-led dissolution, urging a decentralised IP system as ICANN issues an ICP-2 warning.
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AFRINIC gained ICANN recognition in 2005, but without the support and resources it needed, the RIR quickly fell apart.
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Before AFRINIC, Africa’s IP address allocations were handled by global registries through structured, neutral processes. This article explains how Cloud Innovation lawfully received its resources and how courts later upheld those rights against efforts by AFRINIC to revoke them.
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Institutional gridlock and eroding community trust AFRINIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa, is responsible for managing IP address allocations and…
AFRINIC: The catalyst that backfired As ICANN attempts to control the narrative at the UN’s WSIS+20 summit, digital sovereignty advocate…