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AFRINIC draft would rank eight different seat races to decide Board term lengths
Proposed Article 13.5 would use raw valid-vote totals across six regional and two competency seats to award three, two or one-year terms in 2028. The rule is more objective than Board self-allocation, but the draft does not yet say how unlike contests become one auditable…
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AFRINIC draft would let the Board cancel an election by revoking NomCom
Proposed Article 9.8 would make a two-thirds Board vote against the Nomination Committee trigger an immediate stop and a complete election restart. Written notice and public reasons are safeguards, but the same Board would define the failure, decide the case and activate the…
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AFRINIC draft would let an election-day vote become tomorrow's rule
Proposed Article 10.2 keeps consensus first but adds a vote when members present cannot resolve an unprovided-for election issue. The result would bind future elections as precedent, even though the clause does not name the electorate, threshold, immediate reasons or a route for…
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AFRINIC draft keeps emergency Board policy alive even after rejection
Proposed Articles 11.4 and 11.5 would preserve a Board power to implement an urgent number-resource policy before the ordinary public process. The next policy meeting could reject it, but actions already taken would remain valid.
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AFRINIC draft keeps a Board veto over ten-member AGMM proposals
Article 7.2A would require support from ten Resource Members in Good Standing before a proposal reaches AFRINIC's annual meeting. Even then, two-thirds of all Directors could keep it off the agenda, provided they give written reasons.
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AFRINIC draft keeps open-ended termination while legal opinion is pending
The proposed Constitution adds a written delegation, appeal and public register around membership termination. It also preserves a clause letting the Board define other grounds over time, while the draft itself says legal advice on that authority is still awaited.
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AFRINIC draft moves mandatory conflict recusal into Board policy
The proposed Constitution widens conflict controls across the organisation, but it removes the present rule that a conflicted Director must not vote. Mauritius law makes that relocation consequential because an interested Director of a private company may vote after disclosure…
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AFRINIC draft adds payment thresholds but keeps a 12-hour emergency override
The proposed Constitution tightens ordinary high-value signatures, then preserves a clause that begins by displacing Articles 23.1 to 23.6. Its only express post-decision control is an email to the Board within 12 hours.
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AFRINIC asks for Article 24 comments before publishing the clause
The second constitutional consultation closes on 21 August, but its new governing-law and dispute-resolution article contains only a heading and a note that the actual text will follow external legal advice.
Europe and Middle East Datacenter Trends
RWE says two data centre site deals near agreement
RWE is moving two data centre sites towards customer agreements as it tests how existing power infrastructure can support new European capacity.
Europe and Middle East National Telecom
VMO2 says equipment reuse avoided 5,262 tonnes CO₂e
A 10-year equipment recovery programme with TXO shows how refurbished network hardware can reduce waste and the need for newly manufactured replacements.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Optus launches mission to extend D3 satellite life
Optus has sent the hardware for extending D3's life into orbit, but the propulsion pod still has to reach and attach to the satellite.
North America Datacenter Trends
Waterloo Region seeks data-centre impact report
The review will assess economic benefits alongside power, water and environmental impacts without changing the local planning approval process.
North America Datacenter Trends
Oakville imposes one-year moratorium on data centres
Oakville has paused new data-centre development for one year while it studies planning rules, with no application filed for the proposed 320MW project.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Envision commissions Ulanqab AI campus
The Galaxy Campus is designed to scale beyond 2GW, but Envision has not disclosed how much IT capacity is currently operating.
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RIPE NCC postmortem traces NRTM desynchronisation to invalid RPSL handling
RIPE NCC’s latest postmortem narrows an August NRTM mirroring failure to a pair of software behaviours: an invalid RPSL object could enter the database, and the stream stopped rather than passing that entity with an error record.
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RIPE NCC puts routing intent on the agenda with a live IRR webinar
RIPE NCC’s 13 August Internet Routing Registry Webinar makes a small but consequential point for network operations: an intended route is useful only when other networks can inspect and turn it into a decision.
ICANN
IANA marks Root KSK Ceremony 62 complete — what the public record actually says
IANA now labels Root KSK Ceremony 62 complete. Its public record identifies a 12 August operation for 2026Q4 ZSK signing and retirement of two HSMs; it does not itself publish an independent audit conclusion.
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NRO put US$250,000 behind AFRINIC’s legal defence. The public ledger stops before the case
AFRINIC’s newly published audit lets readers match a US$250,000 line of 2022 income to an NRO Executive Council resolution adopted that February. The two records establish material support. They still do not identify the paying RIRs, funded matter, lawyers, invoices, conditions…
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AFRINIC carried US$1.66 million of member fees into 2024 as service obligations. The public trail stops at the accounting line
AFRINIC’s newly published 2023 audit shows that money already collected from members was not yet revenue at year-end: it represented services still to be transferred. The roll-forward is sound accounting. It is not the service, remedy and fee-to-function ledger that members need…