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The Year Added Before the Rule Was Repaired
AFRINIC’s Board made Seat 6’s calendar add up by extending its incumbent for a year. The arithmetic was simple; the allocation of power was not. Resolution 202202.676 shows why a private institution should repair the rule before personalising the remedy—or make any temporary…
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The Judgment That Stopped Before the Merits
The Supreme Court of Mauritius Court of Civil Appeal said it did not propose to deal with the merits of the remaining grounds of appeal. That sentence is the boundary of *Cloud Innovation Ltd v African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) Ltd*, 2022 SCJ 51—and the part…
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The Succession Clock That Had to Beat the Quorum Line
AFRINIC’s January 2022 reconstitution of its Audit Committee shows why institutional continuity is decided by sequence, not by the mere existence of a replacement rule: the appointing Board must use its ordinary authority before vacancies make that authority unavailable.
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The Promise Behind AFRINIC’s Open-Ended Defence
At an urgent online meeting, AFRINIC’s directors had to consider a motion that named directors individually—and then decide whether the company would carry every legal cost arising from their defence. The protection could preserve independent judgment in a moment of personal…
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The Flag Must Stop at the Gate: AFRINIC Draft 2 and Notice Without Punishment
An automated check sees an IPv6 assignment that is not publicly announced. That may look irregular, yet the member may be using the assignment legitimately inside its own network. On 16 November 2021, that example was offered in discussion of AFRINIC’s Policy Compliance Dashboard…
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When Consensus Cannot Supply Consent: AFRINIC Draft 2 and the Missing Authority to Disclose
A proposal to publish summaries of successful internet-number requests met an obstacle in AFRINIC’s own assessment: the registry had thousands of old files, no standard summaries, and no express permission from the members whose information would be repurposed. The resulting…
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The Empty Chair and the New Charter: AFRINIC’s Version 4 Legitimacy Test
On 23 August 2021, AFRINIC’s Board recorded that it had heard feedback about the rules for an internal appeal body, retired a charter that was only weeks old, and approved another before the next day’s search for volunteers. That sequence was responsive, but responsiveness and…
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The Board Resolution That Put a Contract Dispute on a 90-Day Registry Clock
Resolution 202107.623 did more than announce AFRINIC’s view of a private disagreement. With four numbered instructions, its Board moved from membership termination to an account freeze, outward notice to users and eventual number-resource reclamation after 90 days. Each…
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The Appeals Stayed; AFRINIC Changed the Forum
In July 2021, with three policy appeals still unresolved, AFRINIC’s Board immediately withdrew both the charter and the members of its internal appeal forum and approved a replacement charter. The defensible purpose was to restore a correction mechanism that had stopped working.…
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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…