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AFRINIC’s Legal Committee has four names—and no public charter
AFRINIC’s Board and Receiver created a Legal Committee in October 2025 to inventory every ongoing case, optimise legal resources and review information about allegedly fraudulent election documents. Nearly ten months later, AFRINIC’s public register names the four committee…
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The Narrow Margin Behind AFRINIC’s 2010 Fee Ledger
AFRINIC’s published figures for 2010 describe an institution whose fees came close to paying its operating bill but did not quite cover it alone. Grants and sponsorship completed the operating-income mix, leaving modest headroom before a separately presented cost line and an even…
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The Rulebook That Worked Before Its Machinery Was Ready
At its first meeting under AFPUB-2010-GEN-005, AFRINIC enforced a new safeguard against late policy text and improvised the selection of the people meant to administer it. That contrast reveals both the value and the unfinished limits of a private registry’s redesigned control…
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AFRINIC's 2010 infrastructure reinvestment jumped to USD 346,203—but the office took most of it
AFRINIC's own presentations show a Board-authorised capital programme whose largest disclosed result was a new office, not a documented technical transformation. The useful question is not whether premises can count as infrastructure, but whether each capital decision can be…
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AFRINIC named six bylaw reviewers—but not the members they represent
AFRINIC says its Board, acting with the Receiver’s consent, selected one person from each of six sub-regions for a committee that would filter public input and draft bylaw changes. The invitation had been limited to representatives of Resource Members. Yet the 2 March appointment…
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AFRINIC’s docket shows a live policy challenge—not a court-validated ratification
AFRINIC’s public case list separates three Skyconnect proceedings: a 9 March plaint challenging the Board’s ratification of the inter-RIR transfer policy, an interim-order application marked declined and not served, and an appeal filed on 7 April. All three entries are labelled…
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AFRINIC's 2009 accounts showed only USD 14,157 of surplus after a foreign-exchange loss
AFRINIC's registry services produced a positive operating result in 2009, yet almost nine tenths of it disappeared through the net effect of foreign exchange and interest. The arithmetic is unusually clear; the authority and treasury trail behind it is not.
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AFRINIC-11 sent Soft Landing back a second time
On 27 November 2009 in Dakar, a substantially revised IPv4 Soft Landing proposal failed to reach consensus for the second public meeting, leaving evidence consistent with a dispute that had moved beyond drafting detail to the limits of what a private registry should decide when…
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After the Withdrawal: AFRINIC-11 and the Missing Fiscal Handoff Ledger
In Dakar, a technical policy proposal was withdrawn and its affordability problem was handed to an author, staff and a private Board; the enduring question is not whether that boundary was sensible, but whether the alternative ever became visible enough to audit.
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AFRINIC-10's 59% mailing-list finding—and the participation it could not prove
At AFRINIC-10 in Cairo, a small survey finding exposed a large governance problem: opening a channel is not the same as carrying people across it. The meeting report said 59 percent were subscribed to an unspecified AFRINIC mailing list, but supplied neither the item count nor…
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AFRINIC published a 106-34 vote—but not the electorate behind the extra year
Both candidates won AFRINIC’s two community seats on the NRO NC / ASO AC without opposition. A separate vote then gave Musa Stephen Honlue a term through 2029 and Nitin Kelawon Sookun a term through 2028. AFRINIC’s meeting minutes disclose the 106-34 tally and a five-to-two…
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Seventeen Proxies and the Chain AFRINIC-10 Did Not Show
At Cairo’s AFRINIC-10 meeting, a called bundle of seventeen proxy votes plus one associated vote was counted, questioned and counted again. The surviving record confirms that signed proxies carried real ballot weight on 21 May 2009, but it does not let an outside reader…
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The AFRINIC-10 election committee promised a process-review report after ballot disputes
AFRINIC’s own account of its May 2009 meeting records a specific promise: gather the election criticisms, report them to the Board and return appropriate recommendations to the community. The enduring governance question is not whether later election work occurred, but whether…
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The AFRINIC-10 election used green, double-stamped ballots as its authenticity control
On 21 May 2009, the AFRINIC-10 election committee gave voters a test they could perform with their own eyes: a valid ballot was green and bore an AFRINIC stamp on both its front and its back. That modest paper rule matters because it reveals both the value and the limit of…
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The Rule AFRINIC Had Not Changed
At AFRINIC's 21 May 2009 meeting, a dispute over whether a candidate could vote became a precise test of institutional authority: a new bylaw could empower the Board to change an election regulation, counsel said, but neither expectation nor practice could perform the Board's…
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AFRINIC-10's useful survey—and the denominator that limits its claims
AFRINIC's post-meeting report preserved something more valuable than an uncomplicated satisfaction story: enough arithmetic to show both what 42 respondents could teach the registry and what they could never authorise on behalf of 135 event entities, a membership, or a continent.
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AFRINIC called for two policy chairs, appointed one and left the consensus record incomplete
AFRINIC’s Board-approved 2026 rules opened two staggered PDWG co-chair seats. The meeting record says two people applied, one was found eligible, one was accepted by a show of hands for a two-year term and the second seat was put off until November. The same public packet does…
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AFRINIC-10 changed its certified electorate from 36 to 40 before voting
A number on a presentation slide became a live test of how a private registry turns its accounts into a corporate voter roll: the official account of AFRINIC-10 records 36 certified eligible voters at slide time, a correction to 40 before the ballot, 41 ballots cast and 40 found…
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A /48 for local networks—and a subsidy with no named payer
AFPUB-2009-v6-001 tried to solve a precise access problem with a technically disciplined IPv6 offer. Its unresolved question was not the size of the address block, but who would finance the special path and on whose authority.
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AFRINIC’s legal review says dashboard punishment rules are still unwritten
AFRINIC’s 23 June assessment of a proposed automated compliance dashboard warns that the draft leaves staff to define essential sanction rules, omits adequate due process and data protections, and gives the Board a vague exception power. The proposal was still “Under Discussion”…