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The Vacancy Ledger: When a Resignation Has to Reach Every Register
On 26 July 2021, AFRINIC's Board recorded two linked decisions: it accepted Mark Elkins' resignation, then directed that the Registrar of Companies be notified and that the Registers of Members and Directors be updated. That compact sequence reveals a larger governance problem. A…
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Three Keys, One Narrow Door: What Resolution 202106.616 Actually Authorised
On 9 June 2021, AFRINIC's Board did not authorise publication to the world. It named three people, allowed any one of them to act, and opened a narrow channel through which two classes of corporate information could be provided when a competent authority requested them under…
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The Handoff the Election Could Not Make
On 9 June 2021, AFRINIC's Board did not pretend that a recent election had automatically refreshed the smaller bodies through which some of its internal work was organised. It recorded a need to reconstitute its standing committees and adopted Resolution 202106.615 as a separate…
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Five Days That Made a Vote Legible: AFRINIC’s Resolution 202106.613
AFRINIC’s June 2021 election did not become an auditable corporate handoff through the count alone. Across five days, a declared choice moved from a members’ meeting into a board resolution that instructed changes to the organisation’s director and member records and to the list…
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Two offices, three years: what AFRINIC’s 4 June 2021 election result actually authorised
AFRINIC’s 4 June 2021 announcement did something modest but institutionally necessary: it named Mark Elkins for Board Seat 5 and Simon Balthazar for the Governance Committee, giving each a three-year term. Read closely, the result is a useful example of how a private member…
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Two Names at the Attestation Gate: What AFRINIC Resolution 202105.610 Made Executable
Eddy M. Kayihura, the Chief Executive Officer, and Subramanian Moonesamy, the Chairman of the Board, were the two people AFRINIC placed at the signature line in May 2021. Resolution 202105.610 approved the company’s financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020…
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Before the vote, the notice: Resolution 202105.609 and AFRINIC’s chain of authority
In May 2021, AFRINIC’s Board recorded a one-sentence decision: Resolution 202105.609 approved the notice for the Annual General Members’ Meeting to be held on 4 June 2021. The sentence looks administrative. Read against the bylaws then in force, however, it marks the first…
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The version gap inside AFRINIC’s transfer-policy appeal
AFRINIC’s 2020 transfer-policy dispute exposed a deceptively hard problem: when a draft changes while other internet registries are still assessing it, an appeal cannot prove compatibility—or incompatibility—by attaching an old reply to new words. It needs a versioned record that…
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Three seats were enough on paper: AFRINIC’s disputed quorum repair
A five-seat review body lost two members while three appeals needed somewhere to go. AFRINIC’s Board answered with a temporary permission: the three survivors could carry on. They answered in turn that they would not. That compact reversal exposes a larger institutional…
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AFRINIC’s one-sentence election decision and the missing public version receipt
On 20 January 2021, AFRINIC’s Board said in a single sentence that it had reviewed the Election Processes and Guidelines and adopted the new text “as amended”. Beneath that economical corporate act lay a much more elaborate public mechanism for nominations, screening, voting and…
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AFRINIC ended a technical committee. The missing question is what survived it
Resolution 202101.594 may have been an entirely sensible corporate sunset: an inactive committee had, the Board said, finished its original work and drifted into matters better owned by operations. But ending an organ is not the same as demonstrating that its useful controls…
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The order that kept AFRINIC’s membership switch from deciding the case
On 29 March 2021, a Judge in Chambers of the Supreme Court of Mauritius restrained AFRINIC from terminating, suspending or revoking Cloud Innovation’s membership as an AFRINIC Resource Member while the application remained pending. The intervention preserved an operating state…
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The Gate Before the Ballot: AFRINIC’s 2021 Geography Rule
On 20 January 2021, four appointments turned a short bylaw restriction into a practical gate: before AFRINIC members could vote for Board candidates, geography had already helped decide who was allowed to sit on the committee that would shape the choice put before them.
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The mailbox test that entered a meeting without a defined consequence
AFRINIC’s sixth Abuse Contact Policy Update arrived with a precise timetable for checking contact records but no operative answer to the most consequential question: what, exactly, would follow a failed check? Its passage through an online meeting exposed why delivery, response…
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What AFRINIC’s 2019 Audit Assured—and What It Left Open
In June 2020, AFRINIC’s Board approved annual accounts carrying an unmodified BDO opinion while a separate investigation into alleged allocation malversation was already under way. The importance of that juxtaposition lies not in a sensational claim that the two records…
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What USD 71,217 Can — and Cannot — Prove About AFRINIC’s RPKI Priority
In June 2020, AFRINIC’s Board chose to move a single total of USD 71,217 from the MyAFRINIC and infrastructure budgets to the RPKI project. The precision of the sum makes the choice inspectable, but it does not turn an approval into delivery: the consequential story lies in the…
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The Gate and the Missing Receipt: AFRINIC’s USD 100,000 Board Checkpoint
Resolution `202006.559` placed a clear numerical gate in AFRINIC’s banking process: a bank transaction above USD 100,000 required Board approval. The gate is intelligible and defensible, yet the public record leaves open the practical questions that decide whether any transaction…
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The emergency ledger: what Resolution 202006.556 proves—and what it leaves unauditable
In June 2020, AFRINIC’s Board placed a numbered decision in its corporate record: Resolution `202006.556`, adopting an organisational contingency policy. The decision could represent sensible preparation. A registry should not wait for systems, credentials, staffing or essential…
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The USD 200 Question: What AFRINIC’s Communications Reimbursement Needed to Show
In May 2020, when remote board work could make ordinary connectivity an institutional necessity, AFRINIC’s directors authorised communications reimbursements of up to USD 200 per director per month. The ceiling was modest, but that is what makes Resolution 202005.553 revealing: a…
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A Confidential Poll at the Gate
On 12 February 2020, AFRINIC’s Board used a confidential poll, a tie-break and an uncontested nomination to appoint the four people who would shape the candidate field before members saw a ballot. The minutes disclose the five first-round vote totals, the second-round result and…