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Three identical blank document plates sit inside a brass denominator ring; exactly two amber assent seals feed one resolution block and a closed minute book behind frosted glass.

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AFRINIC draft preserves two-thirds written Board decisions without a meeting

A Board decision can be assembled across separate documents and become as effective as one passed in a duly convened meeting. Draft Article 19.11 keeps AFRINIC’s longstanding two-thirds route for doing so. The urgent question is not whether written decisions should exist, but…

Aug 15, 2026
A Board-minutes folio reaches an amber approval gate and illuminated evidence case while a blank clock and long corridor separate it from a closed public display.

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AFRINIC draft makes Board minutes evidence without a fixed public deadline

An approved Board record could acquire prima facie evidentiary weight before Members can read it online. Draft Article 19.10 would give AFRINIC a genuine new publication duty, but it leaves the date of the next meeting, the approval interval and the final publication clock…

Aug 15, 2026
AFRINIC draft keeps a Chair-triggered fast lane around the 14-day Board notice rule

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AFRINIC draft keeps a Chair-triggered fast lane around the 14-day Board notice rule

Three-fourths of Directors can collectively accept shorter notice, but the same result follows if the Chairperson alone considers the business urgent. The retained Article 19.2 mechanism sends notice to every Director while leaving the minimum preparation time, urgency record and…

Aug 15, 2026
AFRINIC draft would let executives terminate resource members while Board authority is still under legal review

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AFRINIC draft would let executives terminate resource members while Board authority is still under legal review

The 4 August Constitution proposal adds written delegation, an appeal and a public decision register. But its own explanatory note says external legal advice is still awaited on whether the Board has the underlying termination power—and AFRINIC’s current contract links…

Aug 14, 2026
AFRINIC draft would let an unfinished verification decide whether a member is represented

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AFRINIC draft would let an unfinished verification decide whether a member is represented

Proposed Article 12.11 gives the Company legitimate tools to authenticate proxies, authorised representatives and powers of attorney. It also lets the Company refuse recognition when its own checks are incomplete, without specifying an independent pre-meeting review or a way to…

Aug 14, 2026
AFRINIC draft would rank eight different seat races to decide Board term lengths

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AFRINIC draft would rank eight different seat races to decide Board term lengths

Proposed Article 13.5 would use raw valid-vote totals across six regional and two competency seats to award three, two or one-year terms in 2028. The rule is more objective than Board self-allocation, but the draft does not yet say how unlike contests become one auditable…

Aug 14, 2026
AFRINIC draft would let the Board cancel an election by revoking NomCom

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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…

Aug 14, 2026
AFRINIC draft would let an election-day vote become tomorrow's rule

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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…

Aug 14, 2026
AFRINIC draft keeps emergency Board policy alive even after rejection

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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.

Aug 14, 2026
AFRINIC draft keeps a Board veto over ten-member AGMM proposals

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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.

Aug 14, 2026
AFRINIC draft keeps open-ended termination while legal opinion is pending

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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.

Aug 14, 2026
AFRINIC draft moves mandatory conflict recusal into Board policy

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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…

Aug 14, 2026
AFRINIC draft adds payment thresholds but keeps a 12-hour emergency override

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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.

Aug 14, 2026
AFRINIC asks for Article 24 comments before publishing the clause

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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.

Aug 14, 2026
Conceptual still life, not a real AFRINIC record, showing a blank ledger and account cards beside a clock near midnight, with a correction slip caught beneath a glass threshold and a ballot envelope beyond it.

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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…

Aug 13, 2026
Conceptual editorial image of one authorised ballot token forking into an early remote channel and a meeting-day physical channel beside eight empty Board chairs, then rejoining through separately sealed inputs in a transparent reconciliation chamber; not a real AFRINIC meeting, election system, ballot or facility.

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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…

Aug 13, 2026
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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…

Aug 13, 2026
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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…

Aug 13, 2026
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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…

Aug 13, 2026
Conceptual illustration of a blank directors’ resolution stopped beneath a transparent legal plane, with six brass decision tokens, empty chairs and closed corporate and technical ledgers

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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…

Aug 13, 2026