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Board-election Legitimacy
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IETF
The IETF Wants Candour on Its Next Leaders. Its Feedback Form Wants Your Name.
The IETF has opened a short window for comments on people who may lead its architecture and standards bodies. The online route shows the writer’s name to the committee; the anonymous route goes through another person. That small procedural choice shapes which judgments reach the…
NANOG
NANOG Changed Four Rules. Only 178 Members Voted.
Four bylaw amendments won between 89.5% and 97.7% of votes cast in NANOG’s 2026 election. The same official record lists 702 eligible voters and 178 ballots: a 25.4% participation rate. Those are two different denominators, and the distinction is the story.
Story
Catherine Middleton says she has time for ARIN again. Her filing lists two other boards.
Catherine Middleton says a university-director job that once kept her from seeking another ARIN Board term ended in 2024. Her new candidacy rests on that change in her calendar, alongside two current board seats and a job ARIN itself describes as a 5–10-hour-a-week commitment.
Story
ARIN’s Conflict Test Has Two Stages. Tina Morris’s Disclosure Shows Why.
Her 2026 questionnaire says her Amazon Web Services team works with ARIN Registration Services as a customer and in the IPv4 transfer market. The candidate assessment and the Board’s decision on a specific transaction answer different questions.
Story
ARIN’s Conflict Test Has Two Stages. Tina Morris’s Disclosure Shows Why.
Her 2026 questionnaire says her Amazon Web Services team works with ARIN Registration Services as a customer and in the IPv4 transfer market. The candidate assessment and the Board’s decision on a specific transaction answer different questions.
Story
RIPE Re-Elected Both Plenary Gatekeepers. The Vote Count Stayed Offstage.
RIPE 93 gave two committee seats to their incumbents again. The public result named the winners, but not how many people cast a vote for the committee that selects the meeting’s plenary agenda.
ICANN
Two ICANN Board Seats, Three Failed Fetches, One Unfinished Audit
Two of ICANN's board seats are attributed, in the public descriptions a researcher reaches quickly, to a selection carried out by the Address Supporting Organization. I set out to walk that attribution down to a provision with a date and an authorising clause. What follows is an…
Story
APNIC Wants Interests on the Ballot. A Biography Is Not a Declaration.
APNIC’s board has a register of interests. Its voters get candidate biographies. The board now supports putting material interests on nomination pages, where a useful question can be asked before a vote.
Story
Three LACNIC Board Seats, Five Candidates. Brazil Is Out Before the Vote.
LACNIC's 2026 slate puts three sitting directors against two challengers. The citizenship ceiling has already narrowed the field that members will see in November.
Story
ARIN Counts 675 Members One Missed Vote From Losing Their Vote
The registry has put a number on its election's quiet second contest. Board seats are at stake; so is continued General Member status for hundreds of organizations.
Story
RIPE’s Members Face a 2027 Bill. First, They Must Get on the Vote List
If RIPE NCC runs a deficit, this week’s vote decides whether members pay in 2027 or reserves pick up the bill. At 06:24 UTC, 1,239 voting rights had made it onto the register.
CASE FILE
ITU has 48 Council seats. The Americas brought exactly nine names for nine of them.
One region arrived at the election with a perfectly packed suitcase. Four others brought spare candidates. The difference was settled before anybody picked up a ballot pencil.
ICANN
Bali elected a GAC vice-chair. His start date has two calendars.
Thiago Dal-Toe won the seat vacated by the committee's new chair. The Bali communiqué puts him on the leadership team at ICANN87's close; the published election rules and earlier notice point to the close of ICANN88. An office needs one first day.
ICANN
PTI fills two board seats through 2029. Only one has a term cap
ICANN has seated a NomCom pick and renewed its own finance chief on the board that oversees IANA services. Their clocks stop in the same year; the rules for another turn around the table do not.
ICANN
ICANN gives its new vice-chair the finance gavel, too
Sajid Rahman now holds the Board’s deputy chair and the Finance Committee chair. The most revealing line in ICANN’s new seating plan is the one that calls this an appointment with no direct fiscal impact.
Story
ARIN has 675 members at the ballot box’s trapdoor
ARIN’s election is doing double duty: choosing leaders and deciding which long-absent voters keep their General Member status. The escape hatch is almost comic. A blank ballot counts.
CASE FILE
APrIGF’s vice-chair vote shows the value—and limit—of a visible denominator
APrIGF published a result that makes its constituency and threshold unusually easy to inspect: 40 votes for one candidate, 10 abstentions, and 67 eligible members. That is a clear MSG election result, not a vote by the Asia-Pacific region.
Leaders
Lee Howard's ARIN Record Puts Registry Resilience on the Board Agenda
At an August 2026 board meeting, Lee Howard moved acceptance of ARIN’s annual audit, then raised a less tidy operational issue: manual processes were still a risk in the registry’s control-plane redesign. The draft minutes connect financial oversight to the mechanics that keep a…
Leaders
Carla Sanderson's Two Roles and the Instrument the Record Does Not Contain
On 19 October 2026 the public record places Carla Sanderson at the head of marketing for an African interconnection operator and in the Southern Africa seat of the continent's number registry at the same time. It documents the coexistence and very little else: the term of that…
Leaders
Adewole David Ajao and the Conflict Rule That Answers to the Board
A registry director's conflict-of-interest duty is written to be discharged in a room, not in a register. AFRINIC's bylaws tell a director to disclose an interest to the board and step out of the vote. They do not tell anyone to publish that it happened, and the public record…