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AFRINIC draft would let the Board cancel an election by revoking NomCom
Proposed Article 9.8 would make a two-thirds Board vote against the Nomination Committee trigger an immediate stop and a complete election restart. Written notice and public reasons are safeguards, but the same Board would define the failure, decide the case and activate the…
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AFRINIC draft would let an election-day vote become tomorrow's rule
Proposed Article 10.2 keeps consensus first but adds a vote when members present cannot resolve an unprovided-for election issue. The result would bind future elections as precedent, even though the clause does not name the electorate, threshold, immediate reasons or a route for…
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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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AFRINIC draft moves mandatory conflict recusal into Board policy
The proposed Constitution widens conflict controls across the organisation, but it removes the present rule that a conflicted Director must not vote. Mauritius law makes that relocation consequential because an interested Director of a private company may vote after disclosure…
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AFRINIC draft adds payment thresholds but keeps a 12-hour emergency override
The proposed Constitution tightens ordinary high-value signatures, then preserves a clause that begins by displacing Articles 23.1 to 23.6. Its only express post-decision control is an email to the Board within 12 hours.
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AFRINIC asks for Article 24 comments before publishing the clause
The second constitutional consultation closes on 21 August, but its new governing-law and dispute-resolution article contains only a heading and a note that the actual text will follow external legal advice.
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The election timetable made invoice status a voting precondition on 16 June
At 23:59 Mauritius Time on 16 June 2025, a field in AFRINIC’s commercial records was due to become a gate to participation in an internal corporate vote. The deadline itself was clear. The harder institutional question was whether the account-status snapshot behind it could be…
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The Week Before the Meeting: AFRINIC’s Hybrid Ballot and the Missing Join
On 29 April 2025, AFRINIC announced that electronic voting would open on 16 June, a full week before members met for in-person voting on 23 June. That choice widened access for a dispersed membership, but it also split one election into two custody systems. The decisive…
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The receiver fixed 30 June as the deadline for Board reconstitution
On 21 April 2025, AFRINIC's receiver published two dates that compressed a difficult institutional transition into a visible public clock: an election on 23 June and completion of Board reconstitution by 30 June. The dates gave members a focal point, but the communiqué did not…
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Restored, Not Merely Unblocked: The Court’s Operative Choice for AFRINIC
On 15 October 2024, the Court of Civil Appeal did more than dispose of an appeal brought without valid corporate authority. It expressly restored the 12 September 2023 order that had placed AFRINIC under a preservation and governance-reconstitution mandate. That separate remedial…
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Larus Cloud Service Limited’s requested voice disappeared when the host case ended
Two short orders from the Supreme Court of Mauritius show how a party can have serious commercial or operational reasons to care about a corporate dispute without acquiring an automatic right to enter it. Larus Cloud Service Limited sought to intervene in a case brought by former…
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When the Registry Met Ordinary Law: Larus Cloud’s 2023 Injunction Against AFRINIC
On 31 January 2023, a Mauritian judge temporarily stopped AFRINIC and Executive Services Limited from giving effect to a written directors’ resolution touching six of the registry’s most consequential corporate controls. The order did not settle the merits or hand Larus Cloud…
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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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The Credential That Joined AFRINIC's Ballot to Its Technical Ledger
AFRINIC's warning about a false Board election request exposed a problem larger than the message itself: a single member credential stood close to votes, corporate records and several kinds of Internet resource administration that ought to answer to different grants of authority.
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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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When Private Coordination Looks Upward: The NRO’s Mauritius Appeal
On 12 July 2022, the Number Resource Organization published a letter asking two Mauritian officials to attend to pressures on AFRINIC after court orders had affected the registry’s bank access and director election. The appeal came from four executives of AFRINIC’s peer…
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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…