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ASO opens Seat 9 search for full term as Oscar Robles completes vacancy service
The ASO’s 15 September call starts the regular search for a three-year ICANN Board term expected to begin after the 2027 annual meeting. Oscar Robles remains in Seat 9 only to complete the separate term left vacant by Alan Barrett.
Story
The LACNIC Board ballot is set for November. Its English call says October.
LACNIC’s election index and dated timelines put the 2026 Board vote on 3–10 November. One English field in the detailed call instead says voting opens a month earlier; the Spanish call gives the November date.
History
Five Seats in the Call, Six Elected: ISOC’s First Trustee Election, 1992–93
The Internet Society’s first Board began with appointments. A year later, an election notice promised five seats; the secretariat and the Board recorded six winners. The surviving documents show how members gained a real route to choose trustees—and where the public record stops.
CASE FILE
MAS proposes board-independence tests that follow financial groups
Singapore’s regulator would look beyond the licensed institution to ask who can influence its operations, while allowing a documented rebuttal in some parent- and sister-company cases.
CASE FILE
ITU’s 1 October list names 12 states without PP-26 voting rights
The International Telecommunication Union’s corrected Document 34-E records 12 Member States as not entitled to vote on its 1 October position date. The roster is a dated status notice, not a final roll for November’s conference.
CASE FILE
UICC’s 2026 ballot page lists two opening times
UICC’s General Assembly election is due to open on 13 October, but its official page gives two start times nearly nine hours apart. With the vote a week away, eligible member organizations need one authoritative instruction.
CASE FILE
A-WEB’s Manila vote links its next vice-chair to the 2028 host role
At A-WEB’s 7th General Assembly, member election bodies are due to choose a Vice-Chair institution that is also expected to host the next Assembly in 2028 and later assume the Chair. The same meeting will fill 11 Executive Board vacancies under a published regional allocation.
NANOG
Five Candidates, Two Seats: NANOG’s Ballot Outlasts Its Meeting
NANOG’s 2026 Board contest puts five candidates before members for two staggered seats. Candidate presentations are scheduled during NANOG 98 in Miami, but voting opens on the same date and stays open after the meeting ends: the published window runs from 20 through 26 October…
APRICOT
APNOG Put Its Board on a March Clock. The Handover Is the Test.
APNOG says its Board terms will run from March to March, rather than exactly with the annual general meeting. The stated purpose is practical: give outgoing and incoming directors time to hand over work and let new directors apply for an Australian director ID before appointment.
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RIPE NCC members face a CEO Board-vote decision in October
The proposed Articles would keep seven member-elected non-executive seats and place the CEO on the same Board as an executive member with a vote. The Executive Board has approved the text for member consideration; it is not yet in force.
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RIPE NCC October 2026 General Meeting: The Board Structure Vote and What It Says About Member Control
The RIPE NCC has published a draft agenda for its October 2026 General Meeting that goes beyond routine housekeeping: alongside the 2027 budget discussion, an Arbiter Panel election and a surplus-distribution vote, members will be asked to approve Articles of Association…
Number Resource Society
The October 2025 RIPE NCC General Meeting Had No Executive Board Election — and the Record Proves It
The RIPE NCC's General Meeting of 22–24 October 2025 in Bucharest was billed alongside RIPE 91 as a major governance gathering, but the registry's own agenda, minutes and voting report show a meeting with a single resolution and no Executive Board election at all. The one…
Story
Call for Nominations to the RIPE NCC Executive Board: What the 2026 Record Actually Publishes
The RIPE NCC has run a complete Executive Board nomination cycle for its May 2026 General Meeting. Reading the registry's own instruments — the call for nominations, the candidate and nomination procedure pages, and the document submission guidelines — shows a process that is…
Number Resource Society
The nomination funnel behind RIPE NCC's Executive Board election: what the May 2025 record actually shows
Every three years, the RIPE NCC membership nominates, supports and elects the people who sit on the body that governs the world's largest regional internet registry by membership count. The May 2025 election left a complete public record: a call for nominations under Article 9.1…
Story
How AFRINIC's Board Was Rebuilt: The Bylaws Provisions That Actually Governed the 2025 Election
When AfriNIC Ltd — the regional internet registry for Africa, better known as AFRINIC — entered receivership, its governing crisis became a test of which written rules actually bind an institution when its board is empty. The answer, on the evidence of the 2025 election record…
Europe and Middle East Institutional
DFKI's Governance in the Public Record: A Chair Succession the Documents Can Carry
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH describes itself as Germany's largest AI research institute. Unlike many research brands, its governance leaves a dated paper trail: a supervisory board drawn from ministries, universities and industrial shareholders…
Afrinic SAGA
AFRINIC's authority over African number resources: contract, court, receiver
A member's addresses can be taken away by a clause, a court order or a board vote — and African internet governance is currently living through the argument about which of those three actually applies to any individual holder.
CASE FILE
Internet Society Approved Its 2026–2027 Election Clock. Now It Needs an Activation Record
On 14 September, Internet Society’s Board completed two acts in one written resolution: it added four people to the committees supervising the next trustee-selection cycle, and it approved that cycle’s timetable “as attached”. The corporate decision is visible. The exact public…
North America Institutional Trends
Gen Digital’s Board Kept Its Mandate. Executive Pay Lost the Vote
Gen Digital’s annual meeting did not produce a general rebellion. It produced a split instruction. All nine directors were re-elected, each with far more votes for than against. On the same ballot, 307.1 million shares opposed executive compensation and only 209.9 million…
Story
ARIN’s Board Slate Has One Candidate Beyond Three Seats
Three seats. Four candidates. ARIN’s 2026 Board slate satisfies the rule that there must be more names than vacancies, but it does so at the narrowest possible margin. That fourth name is not decorative competition. It is the point at which an elected choice remains a contest and…