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Before the Ledger Moves: What AFRINIC Resolution 202002.550 Required
AFRINIC’s February 2020 disclosure matters less as a scandal notice than as a test of sequence: when an internal record appears wrong, the registry must preserve the evidence, refer suspected wrongdoing to competent investigators, keep its live register accurate and repair the…
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Draft 7 offered six months, but did not clearly offer a cure
On 6 April 2019, AFRINIC published Version 7.0 of its Internet Number Resources Review proposal, AFPUB-2016-GEN-001-DRAFT07. Its one stated change from Draft 6 sounded protective: an organisation would have at least six months, and perhaps longer, before resources were recovered.…
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Four Repairs, Four Gates: The Private Authority Map Inside AFRINIC’s PDP Bis Draft 4
On 29 October 2018, AFRINIC published a proposed rulebook in which PDWG chairs would have up to two weeks to pronounce on consensus, yet their decision still sat inside a longer chain: a Board-appointed committee could review process, the Board could remand a proposal on…
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The record outside the contract: AFRINIC’s first legacy-transfer draft
AFRINIC said it maintained inherited Internet number records for organisations with which it had no ordinary contract. That arrangement could persist while an address block stayed put. A proposed transfer made the anomaly urgent: the registry needed reliable evidence of who could…
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AFRINIC's 2017 accounts: approval before completion
Resolution 201803.403 fixed an important responsibility: AFRINIC's Board approved the 2017 financial statements before the auditors signed their report, then authorised the chief executive and chair to sign both the accounts and a representation letter. That sequence was orderly…
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The seven-year error in AFRINIC’s IPv6 manual
Seven years after newer Internet guidance had displaced an old formula for sizing IPv6 assignments, AFRINIC’s working manual still directed members and staff towards the obsolete text. The proposal that repaired the mistake looked like housekeeping. In fact, it exposed a serious…
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The narrow door through AFRINIC’s secrecy wall
Resolution 201803.402 did something modest but indispensable: it allowed directors and former directors to give an independent investigation committee confidential information that was reasonably necessary for its work. That permission stopped AFRINIC’s own secrecy rule from…
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The Seat That Members Refused to Fill
Resolution 201803.401 solved a real nomination conflict by building a one-seat route back to AFRINIC’s members, but its unwritten bylaw foundation and the Board’s proximity to the candidate gate made refusal—not institutional confidence—the decisive test of legitimacy.
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Ratification was not implementation: the 107-day chain behind AFRINIC’s IPv6 manual repair
A unanimous Board vote on 8 August 2018 settled one institutional question but left two practical jobs visibly unfinished. AFRINIC still had to notify the policy chairs and put the adopted IPv6 reference update into its working manual. The resulting chain—from recommendation to…
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The constitution in the quiet room
PDP Bis Draft 3 tried to make AFRINIC’s policy machinery legible: four phases, named objections, reasons at the Board gate and a timed internal appeal. Its clarity was real. So was its deeper problem. A private technical registry can organise deliberation and protect the…
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The Fairer Lottery That Could Not Supply AFRINIC’s Missing Mandate
Draft 6 widened AFRINIC’s proposed random resource-review lottery from a few named membership categories to the entire membership. That was a genuine correction of unequal exposure. Yet a fairer pool cannot answer the prior question: what may a private registry inspect, on whose…
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When resignation waited for a signature: the narrow strength and wider silence of AFRINIC Resolution 201803.397
Two emailed intentions to leave AFRINIC’s leading Board offices created the appearance of a transition before they created an effective one. Resolution 201803.397 handled that immediate problem with unusual care: successors could be chosen, but not activated until signed letters…
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AFRINIC’s 2026 budget reached members after the decision
At AFRINIC’s 2026 annual meeting, members were shown an annual plan that the Board had already approved and were asked to vote on accounts from earlier years. That sequence may fit the company’s Bylaws, but it leaves a harder question unanswered: when nearly all operating revenue…
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The rule beneath the rewrite: AFRINIC’s Draft 2 and the threshold of reverse-DNS cleanup
A resolver is sent to a nameserver that is dead, silent or unable to answer authoritatively. The apparent remedy is modest: correct the parent record so that it no longer points towards a service that is not there. Yet the correction is not consequence-free. In reverse DNS…
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The RIR governance draft changed hands before the public could inspect version 3
On 28 July, the ASO Address Council delivered its recommended RIR Governance Document to the NRO Executive Council and transferred responsibility for the text. The document, the explanation of changes from version 2 and the redline were not published with that handoff. The next…
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AFRINIC’s March 2018 continuity test: two interim offices, one elected seat
Between 22 and 26 March 2018, AFRINIC’s Board moved through a tightly sequenced leadership transition: it sought signed resignations, installed Abibu Ntahigiye and Christian Bope as interim chair and vice-chair, put a review deadline on those appointments, and treated Sunday…
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Five Seats, Fourteen Days: What AFRINIC’s Second Appeal Charter Actually Changed
On 26 November 2017, AFRINIC approved a redesign of five reviewer seats while leaving an appellant just fourteen calendar days to challenge a policy chair’s decision. That juxtaposition matters. A filing window determines whether an objection can be heard; a composition rule…
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The consensus receipt Draft 7 never showed
On 26 December 2017, AFRINIC’s co-chairs described a Last Call dominated by repeated petition letters and one substantive objection, then urged immediate Board ratification. A later official review looked at that same procedural stage and found considerable opposition, no…
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AFRINIC continuity depends on verifiable records
A regional registry is trusted through accurate number-resource records, accountable decisions and a continuity plan that survives institutional dispute.
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After the Silence: What AFRINIC’s 2017 Written Cure Needed to Prove
AFRINIC’s members heard the audited statements without recorded objection, yet the annual meeting never adopted them. A later 78 per cent resolution offered a sensible repair—but only a distinct, traceable member act could close the gap left by silence.