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The committee that did not yet exist: AFRINIC’s five-to-six-month accountability gap
AFRINIC’s Resolution 201602.270 altered a calendar, not a constitution. Yet by moving the first Governance Committee election and appointment from the May/June 2016 meeting window to November/December, the Board also postponed the arrival of a new place for structured advice…
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The USD 10,000 Decision: Tracing AFRINIC’s IETF Endowment Commitment
On 26 June 2015, AFRINIC’s Board turned an online resolution into a narrow corporate commitment: USD 10,000, once only, for the IETF Endowment. The amount was modest and the recipient’s work was closely connected to the technical standards on which address coordination depends.…
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Who Watches the Pay Committee? The Governance Test Inside AFRINIC Resolution 201411.221
In November 2014, AFRINIC’s Board approved the charter of a Remuneration & Compensation Committee. The public entry is only a sentence, and the charter itself is absent from the record examined here. Yet that small act exposes a large design problem: how can directors create a…
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The Authority Map Missing from AFRINIC’s Collated Policy Manual
In October 2014, AFRINIC’s Board approved an already collated Policy Manual. The short public act records consolidation and approval, but not the manual’s identity, sources, hierarchy or operative history. That gap matters because a corporate manual is most useful when it makes…
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The Two-Page Threshold: What Resolution 201401.200 Put in Public View
AFRINIC chose speed with an explicit promise of completion: two headline statements would appear while signatures were pending, then a signed 31-page package would take their place. The surviving files show the disclosure boundary clearly. What they do not show is the dated…
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The Rotation Test: What AFRINIC’s 2014 Auditor Change Actually Controlled
AFRINIC’s move from Ernst & Young to KPMG mattered not because one global accounting name replaced another, but because the change exposed a chain of private-company accountability in which selection, recommendation, appointment, assurance and review belonged to different hands.
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AFRINIC called transfer-policy criticism “mischievous.” The authority case is still open
AFRINIC answered outside criticism of its transfer policy by declaring its Board properly constituted, defending a bottom-up process and directing members to official channels. Its own litigation page now records the challenge to that Board’s ratification as ongoing. The gap is…
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The Search Before the Succession: What AFRINIC’s 2014 CEO Committee Actually Controlled
AFRINIC’s October 2014 decision to name a five-person CEO Search Committee was a small entry in a Board register and a consequential act of institutional design. Read alongside the Board’s immediate November actions and the bylaws then in force, it reveals both the beginning of…
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The Deputy’s Boundary: What AFRINIC’s 2013 Vice-Chair Appointment Did—and Did Not—Authorize
Resolution 201308.179 gave AFRINIC a named vice-chair and a fixed date on which that appointment ended. Its significance lies less in personal succession than in institutional continuity: a deputy could keep a meeting moving when the chair could not preside, while the Board’s…
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The Chair’s One-Year Clock: What Resolution 201308.178 Did—and Did Not Do
In August 2013, AFRINIC’s Board recorded a narrow but consequential act: Resolution 201308.178 appointed Badru Ntege as Chairman of the Board for one year, ending on 30 June 2014. The fixed term offered continuity without permanence. Read alongside the archived Bylaws, the…
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Four Names Before the Ballot: What AFRINIC’s 2013 NomCom Appointment Controlled
In April 2013, AFRINIC’s Board put Douglas Onyango, Pierre Dandjinou, Tim McGuiness and Mark Elkins on NomCom 2013. The resolution was only a sentence long, but the committee defined by the bylaws stood at a consequential gate: it could seek candidates, set eligibility criteria…
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AFRINIC’s First Three Elders: Memory, Concentration and the Limits of Appointment
In April 2013, Resolution 201304.174 put three names into a newly created advisory structure. Read with the governing bylaw, that short appointment reveals a consequential institutional choice: AFRINIC filled half of a six-seat ceiling from its own former-chair class, gaining a…
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The Missing Handshake in AFRINIC’s 2013 Banker Notification
In April 2013, AFRINIC’s Board directed that its bankers be furnished with relevant policies and resolutions, including Resolution 201304.172 itself. That compact instruction recognised a decisive boundary: a banking-authority change recorded inside an organisation cannot become…
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AFRINIC’s 2013 USD 100,000 Restatement: A Familiar Limit in a New Authority Matrix
In April 2013, AFRINIC’s Board again reserved approval for transactions above USD 100,000, but it did so after adopting Delegation of Authority 002-2013 and reorganising the people around that limit. The amount was old; the institutional setting was new. That distinction makes…
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AFRINIC named four election gatekeepers. It did not show how its Board chose them
AFRINIC’s 2026 Nomination Committee decided who reached final slates for seven governance positions. The Board published the four appointees and later identified a chair, but the fixed public record does not show the applicant pool, the appointment assessment, conflict…
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Three names, two elections and one corporate register
In February 2013, AFRINIC placed three directors into a single resolution. The sentence looks complete until it is compared with the elections that preceded it and the corporate records that should follow it. That comparison turns a short appointment notice into a test of whether…
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The Treasury Policy AFRINIC Approved but Did Not Show
In February 2013, AFRINIC’s Board approved investment policies and guidelines submitted by the Secretariat. The surviving resolution proves that the organisation created a treasury-governance instrument, but it does not disclose a single operative rule. That gap matters because…
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AFRINIC sought an HR audit. Its Remuneration Committee’s follow-through is not public
AFRINIC opened an unusually specific HR consultancy process in April: test the skills of 41 staff, review performance appraisal and build a succession plan for business continuity. Four months later, the public procurement notice remains easy to find. The award, signing date…
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The Office at the Bank: What AFRINIC’s 2013 COO Signatory Resolution Actually Changed
In April 2013, AFRINIC’s Board placed the Chief Operating Officer inside the organisation’s bank-execution perimeter. The decision was concrete but narrower than a casual reading might suggest: it changed an internal delegation for a member-funded private coordinator, while the…
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When “Remove” Does Not Mean Punish: AFRINIC’s 2013 Padayatchy Resolution
Resolution 201302.164 used a hard corporate verb—“remove”—while recording both the written approval of all present registered directors and Viv Padayatchy’s own written consent. Read at its proper scale, that combination describes a bounded transition in a private-company office…