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Membership Accountability
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AFRINIC Finally Named Its Co-Chair Candidate. The Room Still Has to Decide.
Three days after the scheduled slate date, AFRINIC published one valid nomination. Sylvain Baya is the name on the page; the policy working group’s consensus meeting is still five days away.
Number Resource Society
Fifteen Recommendations, No Owners, No Dates — and One Deadline That Held
A review body published fifteen numbered recommendations to the community it serves and attached an owner to none of them and a date to none of them. The tracker that came after it carries a status for each number but no owner column and no date column. The minutes that do…
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The court orders in AFRINIC v Cloud Innovation can now be read as text. This is what they say
For five years the dispute over AFRINIC has been argued from summaries. The orders themselves sat in scanned images that no search engine could read. On 13 November 2026 Cloud Innovation published them as text, 26 pages, word for word. The sentences in them are short. One orders…
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Who owns AFRINIC? Its members. The Registrar’s record lists nine of them
AFRINIC has no shareholders. It calls itself a member-based organisation, and the record the Registrar of Companies issued on 28 October 2026 shows who its members are in law: its eight directors, and Cloud Innovation, which the Supreme Court of Mauritius ordered onto the…
Number Resource Society
The Fee Is on Your Invoice. The Vote Behind It Is Not.
RIPE NCC's articles turn a membership fee into a fraction: more than half the votes cast, abstentions parked outside the divisor and recorded anyway. In May 2026 the association published every number needed to redo that sum. The EUR 1,800 its members pay for 2026 was decided a…
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Who owns an IP address? AFRINIC’s contract denies ownership and limits liability
Every network in AFRINIC’s region signs the same form. It says the addresses the network runs on are “not property”, that AFRINIC may revoke them immediately, and that the most it can owe is the higher of the preceding six months’ fees and USD 100. Cloud Innovation’s answer to…
Europe and Middle East Institutional
MIX Names Six Platforms and Fourteen Buildings. The Matrix Between Them Is the Part It Left Out.
The Milan exchange's front page, read on 10 November 2026, counts 469 networks, a 3890 Gb/s peak and 24.02 Tb/s of capacity — and publishes no line telling a buyer which platform sits in which building, or what a single order actually reaches.
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Cloud Innovation is a Member. AFRINIC must respect the judgment.
The Court settled Cloud Innovation’s membership. The Receiver’s demand for administrative removal challenges the execution of that judgment and the rights of every entitled member.
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AFRINIC set a Friday date for its Co-Chair slate. Monday’s page still has June.
The 18 November consensus selection has a venue and a timetable. The public election page has yet to name the candidates for it.
Creators
Maria Matejka needed the hallway. RIPE 93 had no childcare.
At RIPE 93, a BIRD developer described where network work actually happens: between sessions. The conference offered a remote microphone, but no organised childcare.
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ARIN’s Committees Keep Minutes. The Public Gets the Board’s Receipt.
ARIN wrote a precise recordkeeping rule for its Board committees in January. It says who attends, who drafts the minutes, and how often the committees report. The named audience for those minutes is the Board. That matters when a committee can hire an auditor or set the…
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LACNIC Took Conciliation Out of Its Directors' Dispute Route
The registry changed a small clause with a large institutional meaning. A director who quarrels with LACNIC under the new commitment meets a three-arbitrator process in the contract text. The previous agreement first sent the parties to conciliation. The Board also wrote down…
Creators
Siena Perry gave APNIC hosts a 30-month clock. APNIC gave them two start dates.
The registry's new conference-host process promises a longer runway and public criteria. A prospective South Asian host reading APNIC's two official pages would still need to ask when the first bid window opens.
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RIPE Froze Extra LIR Accounts. Twenty-Eight Survey Replies Pointed to Permissions.
The board shut the door on new extra accounts; a member survey showed why some operators kept walking through it. The answer is partly in the access controls, not the address pool.
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RIPE NCC Raises the LIR Fee by €94. Its Registry Slice Falls by €4.
The approved 2027 account fee is higher. The draft budget's own fee chart assigns fewer euros to the Registry than the 2026 chart did. The big movements are technology and depreciation, not the address book.
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APNIC Needs Two-Thirds of Voters to Change a Rule, but Two-Thirds of Everyone to Reverse Its Board
The registry puts two very different denominators between its members and the Executive Council. One share in a separate trustee company shows how far the corporate path runs.
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RIPE NCC Can Keep Billing After the Contract Ends. The Exit Is a Form.
A 31 December snapshot makes a stopped customer relationship a registration problem. RIPE NCC accepts one exit channel, and the 2024 year-end queue shows what happens when everyone waits.
Leaders
Ray Plzak Froze Three IPv6 Fee Waivers. ARIN Gave Away Two Years, Kept the Old Bill.
ARIN set a new IPv6 price list in October 2004, then spent two board meetings deciding who would actually pay it. Ray Plzak stopped three separate waiver motions and returned with one broad exemption. The invoice already sent in 2004 survived.
Leaders
Bill Woodcock Asked Who Could Afford ARIN’s $500 Experiment
ARIN put a price on temporary address space in 2004. Woodcock saw the student researcher on the wrong side of the invoice. Four years later, a different researcher had trouble getting even a company to pay it.
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ARIN Added 713 Eligible Voters. Its Turnout Rate Still Fell.
More organizations voted in ARIN’s 2026 election than in 2025. The eligible roll grew faster, leaving a larger audience outside the ballot box.