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The Meaning of “End”: AFRINIC’s Draft 3 and the Discipline of Negative Routing Assertions
One sentence added to an AFRINIC policy proposal in April 2021 drew a vital line: reclaimed number resources should enter the registry’s AS0 coverage only after reclamation ends. That line can protect routing security, but only if “the end” is made into a state that outsiders can…
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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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Resolution 202104.602 and AFRINIC’s Twenty-Four-Hour Appointment Bridge
On 9 April 2021, AFRINIC’s Policy Liaison named Vincent Ngundi and Darwin da Costa as the Policy Development Working Group’s consensus choice but left their term lengths unresolved; on 10 April, the Board crossed that remaining gap by assigning Vincent two years and Darwin one…
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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…
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What Changed When AFRINIC Consulted on Its Mailing-List Terms?
AFRINIC’s Board approved mailing-list Terms of Use for implementation on 20 January 2021, AFRINIC opened comments from 2 to 28 February, and the Board unanimously approved a stated revised proposal on 3 March. Yet the surviving public page comparison reveals only a repaired…
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The order that kept AFRINIC’s membership switch from deciding the case
On 29 March 2021, a Judge in Chambers of the Supreme Court of Mauritius restrained AFRINIC from terminating, suspending or revoking Cloud Innovation’s membership as an AFRINIC Resource Member while the application remained pending. The intervention preserved an operating state…
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The Gate Before the Ballot: AFRINIC’s 2021 Geography Rule
On 20 January 2021, four appointments turned a short bylaw restriction into a practical gate: before AFRINIC members could vote for Board candidates, geography had already helped decide who was allowed to sit on the committee that would shape the choice put before them.
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The Decision Before the Invitation: Resolution 202101.595 and the Order of Consent
AFRINIC’s mailing-list rules acquired two approval dates and one public comment window. The awkward fact is that the first approval came before the invitation to comment. That does not make the consultation worthless, but it does change what the consultation can honestly be said…
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The Resolution That Opened the Ledger — and No More
On 20 January 2021, AFRINIC’s Board approved publication of a report that put numbers against weaknesses in the registry’s public word. The decision made part of the institution’s bookkeeping open to inspection, an important act in a system where operators and outsiders may rely…
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The mailbox test that entered a meeting without a defined consequence
AFRINIC’s sixth Abuse Contact Policy Update arrived with a precise timetable for checking contact records but no operative answer to the most consequential question: what, exactly, would follow a failed check? Its passage through an online meeting exposed why delivery, response…
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What AFRINIC’s 2019 Audit Assured—and What It Left Open
In June 2020, AFRINIC’s Board approved annual accounts carrying an unmodified BDO opinion while a separate investigation into alleged allocation malversation was already under way. The importance of that juxtaposition lies not in a sensational claim that the two records…
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What USD 71,217 Can — and Cannot — Prove About AFRINIC’s RPKI Priority
In June 2020, AFRINIC’s Board chose to move a single total of USD 71,217 from the MyAFRINIC and infrastructure budgets to the RPKI project. The precision of the sum makes the choice inspectable, but it does not turn an approval into delivery: the consequential story lies in the…
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AFRINIC notified members of a no-approval meeting. Its draft minutes record a 99% adoption
AFRINIC's 23 March notice said the 2021 accounts would only be received and noted on 14 April because no approval was required. The draft minutes record a different operative text: receive, note and adopt. They report a 99%-1% poll but publish no ballot totals. That missing…
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Consensus could move Draft 2. It could not create the power the draft assumed
In September 2020, AFRINIC’s co-chairs declared consensus on a second draft about Board prerogatives in the Policy Development Process. That procedural judgement could move an identified text through a private coordination process. It could not answer the prior question that…
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Five Minutes at the Registry, Longer on the Network
AFRINIC’s second draft of its RPKI AS0 proposal introduced a narrow but important restraint: a separate trust anchor could let networks choose whether to receive the registry-generated warning and let observers measure it apart from ordinary holder authorisations. That choice…
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The Gate and the Missing Receipt: AFRINIC’s USD 100,000 Board Checkpoint
Resolution `202006.559` placed a clear numerical gate in AFRINIC’s banking process: a bank transaction above USD 100,000 required Board approval. The gate is intelligible and defensible, yet the public record leaves open the practical questions that decide whether any transaction…
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The two-page contract behind a shared registry
Five private regional registries signed a two-page instrument because a globally shared registry can fail at the seams between regional administrators. AFRINIC’s Board first authorised its chief executive to sign; the five organisations then accepted four duties and extended a…
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AFRINIC 32 and the virtual policy floor without a denominator
When AFRINIC moved its public policy meeting online in September 2020, it kept a consequential private coordination process alive; it also made the quality of access, identity, speaking order and public evidence inseparable from any claim about what the virtual room meant.