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Institutional Legitimacy
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Five restraints, one corporate perimeter: what the Mauritius Court froze at AFRINIC
Relocation, takeover, merger, restructuring and management control were not five ways of describing the same danger. Together, they drew a boundary around the legal home, ownership, organisation and command of a private registry at a moment when its ordinary governance could not…
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The Case That Went Quiet Before It Could Become a Rule
Crystal Web asked the Supreme Court of Mauritius to stay `SC/COM/MOT/000500/2022` until it obtained leave to intervene. Its linked application, `SC/COM/WRT/000509/2022`, then sat idle on the e-filing system from 21 October 2022. After a circular dated 7 February 2023 drew no…
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Who Gets to Choose? The Boundary in the NRO’s AFRINIC Re-engagement Proposal
On 26 March 2023, the Number Resource Organization asked ICANN to help re-engage the AFRINIC community around a fair and transparent Board election with active membership and community involvement. That was a constructive destination for a registry in need of functioning…
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NRO put US$250,000 behind AFRINIC’s legal defence. The public ledger stops before the case
AFRINIC’s newly published audit lets readers match a US$250,000 line of 2022 income to an NRO Executive Council resolution adopted that February. The two records establish material support. They still do not identify the paying RIRs, funded matter, lawyers, invoices, conditions…
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AFRINIC carried US$1.66 million of member fees into 2024 as service obligations. The public trail stops at the accounting line
AFRINIC’s newly published 2023 audit shows that money already collected from members was not yet revenue at year-end: it represented services still to be transferred. The roll-forward is sound accounting. It is not the service, remedy and fee-to-function ledger that members need…
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AFRINIC’s US$100,000 stability pledge is an uncalled promise. The current control chain must show what it would save
AFRINIC’s newly published 2023 audit carries a US$100,000 promise to help an RIR in crisis. The mechanism has formal safeguards, but no pooled cash and no current public chain connecting trigger, authority, budget, use and essential-service results.
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AFRINIC’s audited Note 23 calls the election “successfully concluded”. That is not an authority certificate
AFRINIC’s new audit records a Board election, court orders and a Receiver still awaiting discharge. The financial statements carry real accounting assurance, but the purported Board and its supporters still need to show the executable source and present status of each governance…
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AFRINIC’s audit says litigation may be material—and leaves the probability bridge off the page
Note 22 says an outflow was not probable, so AFRINIC recognised no provision and considered no contingent-liability disclosure necessary. The unmodified auditor’s report gives that accounting conclusion real weight, but it does not validate every legal instruction, fee or…
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Mauritius ordered an investigation into AFRINIC. The public trail stops at the promise
General Notice No. 1045 required an inspector and report; AFRINIC and its Receiver promised full cooperation. AFRINIC later said its declared-company status remained in force, yet the bounded public record still does not identify the process stage or what governance consequence…
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AFRINIC staff proposed an emergency Board exception inside a community-continuity draft
The 21 June impact assessment did not merely flag drafting defects. It recommended residual Board power whose urgent branch would survive absent consultation—forcing AFRINIC’s policy community to decide who can interrupt the independence the draft promises.
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AFRINIC renewed six fixed deposits in 2023. Its audit verifies the money, not who authorised the decision
AFRINIC's newly released 2023 accounts put US$6.38 million of strategic reserves on the balance sheet and say six fixed deposits were automatically renewed during the year. The audit confirms the closing value, interest-rate range and maturity window. It does not publish the…
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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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Three seats, five for quorum: AFRINIC’s succession circuit breaker
On 28 April 2022, AFRINIC’s Governance Committee offered a strikingly simple answer to a complicated succession problem: never open more than three Board seats at one Annual General Members’ Meeting. Its schedule placed Seats 1, 2 and 7 in 2022, Seats 3, 4 and 8 in 2023, and…
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The line an election cannot cross: AFRINIC’s three-year term boundary
In April 2022, AFRINIC’s Governance Committee confronted a deceptively simple succession problem: a temporary appointee could be required to leave at the next annual general members’ meeting, yet the director then elected would ordinarily receive a full three-year term inside a…
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The $15,000 constitutional maintenance question
AFRINIC authorised no more than US$15,000 for a requested two-day Governance Committee working session in Kenya on 23–24 April 2022, with one stated assignment: address the election-sequence problem already recorded in Resolution 202202.677. That modest-looking budget line offers…
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The Confidential File and the Missing Receipt
On 9 March 2022, with a director’s personal deadline due to expire the following day, AFRINIC’s Board authorised the company to cover directors’ defence costs and opened an NDA-bounded channel between its Legal Department and their lawyers. The urgent protection can be justified…
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AFRINIC says outside sponsors funded 39 travel records in a no-budget year. Twenty-two name NRO
AFRINIC's newly published 2023 finance summary says it used none of its own funds for outreach or travel because no budget had been approved. Yet its travel register lists 39 third-party-sponsored records—37 for staff and two for others—and 22 sponsor fields mention NRO. The…
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When AFRINIC’s election rules reached the same date
On 2 March 2022, AFRINIC’s Board put an unusually precise institutional problem on the record: two seats filled after casual vacancies were due to return to election at the next annual meeting, yet giving their successors the ordinary three-year tenure would break the regional…
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The Judgment That Stopped Before the Merits
The Supreme Court of Mauritius Court of Civil Appeal said it did not propose to deal with the merits of the remaining grounds of appeal. That sentence is the boundary of *Cloud Innovation Ltd v African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) Ltd*, 2022 SCJ 51—and the part…