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Membership Accountability
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What AFRINIC can audit and what it can show
AFRINIC is examined through auditability and transparency as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the Africa region.

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AFRINIC fees, reserves and incentive design
AFRINIC is examined through fees, reserves, and incentives as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the Africa region.

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ARIN auditability and the work of transparency
ARIN is examined through auditability and transparency as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the North America region.

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Fees, reserves and incentives in ARIN's institutional bargain
ARIN is examined through fees, reserves, and incentives as a registry-governance and institutional-economics problem for the North America region.

Europe and Middle East Cloud Services
Host-World OU: A Global-Sounding Name, but Evidence Points to a Small, Tightly Run Hosting Business
Host-World OU is worth studying not for its VPS sales, common in Europe, but for the gap between its 'global infrastructure' branding and the thin public evidence: RIPE NCC membership, few IP resources, and an asset-light sales shell. It resembles a small hosting reseller rather…

Africa Regional ISP
Abidjan, Peering, and the Price of Keeping Traffic at Home
The core question is not whether Côte d’Ivoire has an Internet exchange point in any formal sense. It does. CIVIX is a functioning national IXP in Abidjan, established in 2013, managed by the telecom regulator ARTCI, visible in major routing and peering directories, and carrying…
