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NANOG
The Corporation NANOG Built—and the Networks It Did Not Own
When NANOG left Merit’s institutional shelter, the decisive transfer concerned a trademark, a domain, archives, contracts and financial responsibility—not routers, address space or the authority to speak for North America’s autonomous networks.
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Resolution 201804.407 Renewed the CEO Contract Before Final KPIs and Performance Evaluation
AFRINIC’s Board approved a three-year renewal on the same employment terms at a special meeting on 19 April 2018, even as its own resolution deferred finalising the chief executive’s KPIs and performance evaluation until May. The surviving sequence supports a precise governance…
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AFRINIC’s Interim Management Committee Was Given Six Months. Who Renewed It?
AFRINIC gave three senior employees collective responsibility for day-to-day management during its CEO vacancy and said the arrangement would last six months or until a new chief executive arrived. The announcement was public; the full authority chain was not. Using the…
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The Deadline Had Two Doors
On 26 June 2025, a Mauritian court turned AFRINIC’s stalled return to ordinary governance into a test with three coordinates: conduct a new election process, constitute a Board, and do both by one outer date. The discipline of Order SC/COM/MOT/000467/2025 lies not in the calendar…
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The ICANN case made the official transcript the court record
On 19 June 2025, a Mauritian court gave a digitally recorded oral proceeding a decisive procedural status: it would be the official transcript. That narrow act matters because, when institutional commitments are spoken rather than set out in a self-contained written order, the…
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AFRINIC’s Accounts Show $3.289 Million in Legal Spending. Who Authorised Each Dollar?
AFRINIC’s own disclosures put its legal spending at $3,289,408 from 2022 through 2025. The figure is not an allegation; it is arithmetic drawn from the registry’s published accounts. The unresolved question lies one layer below the totals. Which engagement, invoice, approver…
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RIPE NCC’s Dubai Company Has One Member. Where Do the Association’s Members Enter?
The member register of RIPE NCC Middle East FZ-LLC has the shortest possible answer: one corporate member, the Dutch RIPE NCC association. That clarity is useful. It also exposes the real governance question. Ordinary RIPE NCC members elect the parent association’s Executive…
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LACNIC Counted 978 Organisations and 2,145 Weighted Votes. One Denominator Is Still Missing.
LACNIC’s 2026 extraordinary Board election published enough numbers to reproduce a seven-percent organisation turnout and the winning margin. It did not publish the total voting power held by all eligible organisations. In a system where one member can carry eleven times another…
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ARIN’s 2026 Election Officer Is a Sitting Trustee. Who Audits the Certification Chain?
ARIN’s published rules give one non-candidate Trustee a view across candidate problems, the voter list and the final tally before the Board confirms the result. That is a real internal control. It is not the same thing as independent election assurance—and the distinction matters…
IETF
The Public ENUM Response Date Has Passed. The Decision Has Not.
An ITU-T consultation on possible closure of E.164 country-code delegations in `e164.arpa` named 15 August 2026 for Member State responses. The public record still does not state an outcome.
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APNIC Moved Its One Share Into a Corporate Trustee. Who Controls the Trustee?
The reform removed a real one-person vulnerability. It did not remove the one-share legal machine. APNIC’s own trust deeds, company constitutions and by-laws show where authority now travels—and why collective control should not be confused with independent trusteeship or direct…
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AFRINIC’s remote-board clause can hear a quorum. It still cannot identify one
Draft Article 19.3 preserves remote Board meetings, but its test stops at a working audio channel. For an institution whose decisions can bind members, move money and restrict exit, that is not yet an evidence standard.
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When AFRINIC Could Not Authorise Itself, Company Law Supplied an Agent
Four directors could still turn up, staff could still know the work and lawyers could still know the file. None of that answered the decisive corporate question in September 2023: who could lawfully speak and act for AFRINIC when its Board needed five directors for a quorum, its…
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AFRINIC draft opens a wide advice channel without an advice register
The proposed Article 16 would replace the Council of Elders with flexible committees and let the Board seek nonbinding input from almost any interested person or body. Its committee safeguards are detailed; its separate advisory-engagement trail is not.
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AFRINIC draft creates an acting CEO office without a maximum term
Proposed Article 17.5 would require an appointment after a vacancy or temporary incapacity, but it does not say how long an acting chief may remain, whether the office carries Board Seat 9, or which removal and conflict rules apply.
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AFRINIC draft drops the CEO nationality ban but leaves the Board to define disqualifying conflict
Proposed Article 17.3 replaces a blanket exclusion with a more defensible individual test. It still does not say what evidence the Board must use, who must recuse, what the candidate may answer, or how a disputed decision can be reviewed.
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AFRINIC draft puts employee pay behind a Board policy that members may never see
Proposed Article 17.4 adds a real budget and policy check on the CEO’s remuneration power, plus a written-delegation rule. It does not require publication, exception records, conflict controls, monitoring reports or a route for an affected employee to challenge a decision.
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AFRINIC retains a six-vote route to remove its CEO without making the Board’s record visible
Draft Article 17.2 leaves the existing CEO-removal power unchanged: on a full nine-seat Board, six of the eight other directors can end the appointment, subject to labour law. The same draft adds “justifiable cause” elsewhere but does not require a non-confidential reason, tally…
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AFRINIC draft would let one remaining director form an election-only quorum
Proposed Article 13.10 creates a narrow escape from Board paralysis: if fewer than five directors remain in office, whoever remains would be treated as a quorum solely to restore an elected, quorate Board. The safeguard is real, but the clause does not itemise “incidental or…
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AFRINIC draft makes one year the line between a member election and a Board appointment
Proposed Article 13.9 would require an election when more than one year remains in a vacant Board seat, but would let the Board appoint the replacement when one year or less remains. That is clearer than AFRINIC’s current interim rule, yet the draft does not fix when the…