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Who Gets to Authorise an Election Check? AFRINIC’s 15 December Non-Response Instruction
AFRINIC’s direction that members should not answer an enquiry unless it was formally sanctioned by AFRINIC turned a narrow privacy question into a test of institutional authority: who may verify a private registry’s public election record, on what evidence, and under whose…
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AFRINIC’s Three-Year Audit Still Needs an Authority Trail
AFRINIC’s three overdue audits answered a real need for financial visibility. They did not answer who lawfully appointed the auditor, who fixed the fee, which legal entity accepted the engagement, or whether a later member vote could cure an earlier gap. The distinction matters…
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AFRINIC still has not published the result of its $3.29m legal-spend vote
Forty-six days after members were due to decide whether to approve four years of accounts, AFRINIC's public AGMM page still shows the proposed resolutions but no result, tally or 2026 minutes. The missing record leaves members unable to tell what was approved—and whether anyone…
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NRS urged members to reject AGMM Resolutions III through VI
The instruction issued on the eve of AFRINIC’s 2026 annual meeting was unusually concrete: cast four negative votes, lodge a formal objection, put both the objection and each vote into the minutes, and refuse to let aggregated accounts stand in for the missing chain of…
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AFRINIC’s post-June-2022 review: an audit line is not a power to erase
AFRINIC’s purported new Board drew a line through June 2022 and placed every Resource Member joining after it under review, without publishing why that date governs, how individual cases will be tested, or what protects running networks while the legal questions remain open. The…
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AFRINIC’s USD 20,000 top-tier fee—and the denominator history did not preserve
On 27 April 2005, AFRINIC recorded unanimous approval of a one-third increase in the annual fee for its highest IPv4 LIR billing band. The arithmetic is simple; the institutional consequences are not. The surviving record shows a fee-linked exposure at the open-ended > /14 tier…
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The USD 6,000 Question Behind AFRINIC’s Large-LIR Fee Rise
AFRINIC’s reported decision in Maputo to lift the Large IPv4 LIR annual fee from USD 7,000 to USD 13,000 was arithmetically clear and economically consequential, yet the surviving record leaves the essential implementation ledger unfinished: which members were billed, when the…
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The Middle Pays More: What AFRINIC’s 2005 Medium Fee Can—and Cannot—Explain
AFRINIC’s decision to lift the standard annual fee for a Medium local internet registry from USD 5,000 to USD 6,500 looks precise, but precision in a price is not the same as precision in its justification. The surviving record makes it possible to see how the charge…
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A US$100 doorway into AFRINIC: what the 2005 associate-fee cut did—and did not—buy
AFRINIC’s decision to reduce its annual fee for membership without allocated number resources from US$400 to US$100 was more than a price edit and less than a constitutional revolution. Read against the constitution in force immediately before the decision, it lowered the cash…
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The Election With Two Seat Numbers: What AFRINIC’s 2005 Central Africa Record Can Actually Prove
AFRINIC’s first regional Board renewal after recognition as an Internet registry delivered a named primary, a named alternate and a five-person Central Africa slate. It did not leave a reproducible public count. More awkwardly, the AFRINIC-2 report calls the contest Seat 5 while…
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Three Seats, Three Lines of Authority: AFRINIC's 2005 NRO Number Council Entitlement
On 25 April 2005, AFRINIC acquired an equal three-person place in the NRO Number Council, whose members also served as the ICANN ASO Address Council. That institutional equality was real, but it was never a blank cheque: the AFRINIC Board appointed and could replace only one…
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The Indian Ocean seat that the record can name but not reproduce
AFRINIC’s April 2005 renewal of Board Seat 6 returned the same two Mauritius-coded directors chosen at the founding election, satisfying the visible regional design while leaving a harder question unanswered: which member organisations authorised the ballot, and how did their…
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The Symbolic Price of Joining the NRO
AFRINIC entered the global registry coordination compact in 2005 without the financial capacity to bear an ordinary pro-rata share of its costs. The solution was neither free admission nor reduced institutional standing: it was a negotiated initial contribution, explicitly…
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AFRINIC-1: The Meeting Where One Room Held Six Different Kinds of Authority
AFRINIC's first public policy-and-member meeting was an effective act of institutional assembly, but not a moment when everyone in Dakar became one constitutional body. The durable lesson of 23–24 May 2004 is that attendance, policy participation, corporate membership, election…
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Cairo After Recognition: What AFRINIC-3 Could Decide—and What It Could Not
AFRINIC-3 brought policy discussion, IPv6 advocacy, registry reporting, training, partnership-making and Internet-governance debate into the same Cairo venue. That concentration made the meeting useful, but it did not create a single electorate or a continental mandate. The…
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The five-minute appointment that left AFRINIC’s “consensus” unexplained
AFRINIC’s appointment of Haitham El-Nakhal as a PDWG Co-Chair produced a clear officeholder but an unclear public account of the process: one eligible candidate, two advertised seats, a rule prescribing acclamation, and a result announced as consensus.
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When the ballot decides years, not seats: AFRINIC's 2026 election bridge
AFRINIC's election rules for 2026 did more than tell people how to choose officeholders. They placed three different constituencies beneath one temporary instrument and converted electoral preference into unequal periods of institutional influence. That design offers a credible…
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Three Seats, No Mandate: What AFRINIC’s 2026 Governance Committee Election Actually Created
AFRINIC’s members elected Daniel K. Nanghaka, Afaf El Maayati and Maud Adjeley Ashong Elliot to a committee designed to advise, not govern. Their staggered expiries make the order of victory visible, but unpublished aggregate voting statistics and an unfinished public record of…
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The Four People Before the Ballot: Auditing AFRINIC’s 2026 NomCom Appointment
On 1 April 2026, AFRINIC’s Board named four people to the committee that would decide which candidates could advance toward seven governance and policy positions. The written rules contain genuine safeguards. The public evidence showing how the screeners themselves were selected…
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The Rulebook That Cannot Become AFRINIC’s Constitution
AFRINIC’s proposed overhaul of its Policy Development Working Group contains a serious answer to paralysis and a dangerous shortcut around constitutional authority. The distinction will decide whether continuity rests on lawfully delegated procedure or on a policy manual…