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Story

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…

Oct 1, 2026
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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…

Oct 1, 2026
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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…

Sep 30, 2026
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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…

Sep 30, 2026
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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…

Sep 30, 2026
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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…

Sep 27, 2026
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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.

Sep 25, 2026
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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…

Sep 20, 2026
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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…

Sep 13, 2026
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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…

Sep 10, 2026
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Story

APNIC’s Electoral-Committee Recusal Safeguard Lives in a Blog Comment

APNIC has a sensible answer to an awkward governance question: Executive Council members who may seek re-election do not help choose the committee that polices the election. The trouble is not the answer. It is where the answer lives—and how little of the annual record shows the…

Sep 10, 2026
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ICANN

ICANN's NomCom Invites Process Advice, Not Candidate Testimonials

The 2027 consultation puts contributors' views on the public record. It does not turn the selection process into an endorsement campaign.

Sep 8, 2026
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Story

ARIN's Smaller Slate Keeps the Withdrawals in View

The September candidate list offers a useful governance test: account for the people who leave the field without inventing the reason they left.

Sep 8, 2026
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Story

APNIC’s leadership-diversity consultation needs a measurable participation funnel

APNIC has documented who joined the first stage of its leadership-diversity consultation and what barriers they described. The next test is whether it can connect outreach, participation and proposed remedies to a broader leadership pipeline without identifying individual…

Sep 8, 2026
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North America Institutional Trends

GAMG Created a 125 Million-Vote Ceiling. It Did Not Disclose an Issuance.

GAMG's new preferred-stock certificate makes a large number easy to calculate and easy to misstate. The filing establishes capacity for 125 million votes; it does not show that those votes have entered the shareholder register.

Sep 5, 2026
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Leaders

Artem Izbaenkov and the Cost of Representation at RIPE NCC

Artem Izbaenkov’s 2024 campaign for a seat on the RIPE NCC Executive Board turned an operator’s career in DDoS defence and cloud security into a wider argument about who can participate effectively in registry governance—and what language, fees and institutional attention have to…

Sep 5, 2026
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CASE FILE

CIRA’s 20-Endorsement Threshold Has a Separate Conflict Test

CIRA’s September endorsement window gives members a route onto the election ballot. The twenty-supporter threshold works alongside conflict-of-interest rules that treat the two nomination routes differently.

Sep 3, 2026
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North America Cloud Services Trends

Data443’s Voting Sunset Leaves a Conversion Right Behind

The proposed Four Leaf combination puts a time limit on enhanced votes. It does not make the preferred shares disappear, or turn each remaining preferred share into one ordinary vote.

Sep 3, 2026
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Global Cloud Services Trends

GitLab's Supervotes Ended in August. Two Board Seats Run to 2029

Equal votes do not produce a new board overnight. GitLab's conversion to one outstanding class of common stock removed a voting multiplier, while leaving director mandates, meeting access and amendment procedures on different timetables. The distinction matters for anyone…

Sep 3, 2026
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Story

RIPE NCC’s Two Voting Codes Need a Credential Map

RIPE NCC tells October’s voters to expect two codes in two emails. That is a useful instruction, but it is not yet an account of the control. The names “Code 1” and “Code 2” describe a user journey; they do not show what each credential proves, who can recreate it, or when a…

Aug 30, 2026