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APNIC's Impact Assessments Leave the Both-Pass Outcome Undefined
The word `nibble` will appear twice on APNIC 62's policy agenda. One proposal would move the minimum IPv6 allocation from `/32` to `/40`. The other would leave `/32` untouched and align a larger, already-validated request. A shared hexadecimal convenience hides two different…
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A Verified RFC Erratum Corrects the Record Without Rewriting It
An RFC erratum can identify a real defect, supply corrected wording and be verified by the responsible parties. It still does not silently replace the published specification. That separation lets implementers learn from mistakes while preserving the text the community actually…
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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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The affidavit AFRINIC could not author
In March 2023, AFRINIC had lawyers but filed no response affidavit to a motion lodged by Cloud Innovation Ltd. The missing document exposed a narrow yet consequential institutional failure: a private technical registry may keep operating and counsel may keep appearing, while no…
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Holding the Ring: Where AFRINIC’s Receiver’s Mandate Ended
The Supreme Court of Mauritius gave the Official Receiver enough authority to keep a disabled company intact and restore its governing organs. It did not turn temporary custody of AFRINIC into a licence to govern the Internet or decide the rights attached to number resources.
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Holding the Ring: Where AFRINIC’s Receiver’s Mandate Ended
The Supreme Court of Mauritius gave the Official Receiver enough authority to keep a disabled company intact and restore its governing organs. It did not turn temporary custody of AFRINIC into a licence to govern the Internet or decide the rights attached to number resources.
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Holding the Ring: Where AFRINIC’s Receiver’s Mandate Ended
The Supreme Court of Mauritius gave the Official Receiver enough authority to keep a disabled company intact and restore its governing organs. It did not turn temporary custody of AFRINIC into a licence to govern the Internet or decide the rights attached to number resources.
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Holding the Ring: Where AFRINIC’s Receiver’s Mandate Ended
The Supreme Court of Mauritius gave the Official Receiver enough authority to keep a disabled company intact and restore its governing organs. It did not turn temporary custody of AFRINIC into a licence to govern the Internet or decide the rights attached to number resources.
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A Plaint Cannot Live on Filing Alone
For nearly six months, an election-related court file sat still. Crystal Web (Pty) Ltd had sued African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) Ltd and four others in `SC/COM/PWS/000596/2022`, but the Supreme Court of Mauritius recorded that the matter had remained idle on the…
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The Noun That Held the Procedure Together
On 21 June 2022, AFRINIC’s sixth draft of its working-group guidelines replaced the CEO with the Appeal Committee as the actor whose decision would end one internal appeal. The change was only a few words long. It nevertheless exposed the real subject of the proposal: not…
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Who Held the Proposal After Consensus? AFRINIC’s Unfinished Withdrawal Rule
On 28 July 2022, AFRINIC recorded consensus, a report sent to its Board, and an author’s withdrawal against the same proposal. The record captures a procedural collision but does not settle it. What it reveals is a missing transfer point between personal authorship, collective…
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Consensus at the Threshold: AFRINIC’s Draft 3 Handoff Without Ratification
On 28 July 2022, AFRINIC’s Policy Development Working Group crossed one procedural threshold and stopped before another: consensus on Update PDP Draft 3 was announced, and the chairs sent a ratification report to the Board. The distinction between those acts and a Board decision…
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Four Lamps, One Boundary: What the Peer RIR Message to AFRINIC Could—and Could Not—Authorize
Four registry executives turned AFRINIC’s difficulties into a matter of global concern while drawing a line around their own authority. Their June 2022 message is most useful not as a declaration of institutional solidarity, but as an unfinished test of what one private technical…
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Five routes to one duty: AFRINIC’s 2022 Appeal Committee and the meaning of an independent seat
AFRINIC filled five Appeal Committee seats through five prescribed experience channels in April 2022. That architecture promised continuity and informed review, yet its real test lay elsewhere: whether each route ended in a person exercising independent judgment, rather than in…
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The rulebook under load: AFRINIC’s Draft 3 and the limits of private consensus
On 18 May 2022, a seventeen-page proposal sought to rebuild the procedure through which AFRINIC made policy, just as the registry was approaching a public meeting and facing a documented risk to ordinary Board quorum. The design promised firmer clocks, earlier evidence and…
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The Application Ended; the Transfer-Policy Question Did Not
A one-page order from the Supreme Court of Mauritius records two letters received on the same day and one spare procedural act: the present application was set aside with costs. Its brevity is not an invitation to supply the missing story. It is the central institutional fact.…
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The Consequential Verb Was Publish: AFRINIC’s Resolution 202201.673 and the Limits of an AS0 Mandate
In January 2022, AFRINIC’s Board ratified a policy that asked the registry to do something concrete with its own cryptographic machinery: identify IPv4 and IPv6 inventory recorded as unallocated or unassigned, create covering AS0 Route Origin Authorisations, and publish the…
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AFRINIC’s Transfer Draft 3 and the Institution You May Need to Leave
Three days in November 2021 put a difficult governance question into unusually sharp relief: can a number-resource transfer route count as a genuine right of exit when the incumbent registry remains the institution that decides whether the holder may use it?