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Registry Governance
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Asia-Pacific Regional ISP Trends
PXNET and the Records Behind Network Operations
PXNET appears in public records through more than one network identifier and through several evidence systems that answer different operational questions. Read carefully, those records show how registry entries, operator-maintained directories, observed routing and origin…
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When a removal did not end a term: AFRINIC's 2013 director-record puzzle
In February 2013, AFRINIC recorded the consented removal of two directors. Yet its later records continued to place them in governance roles and eventually said that both completed their terms in June 2015. The puzzle is not a licence to invent a dispute. It is a case study in…
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Three names, two elections and one corporate register
In February 2013, AFRINIC placed three directors into a single resolution. The sentence looks complete until it is compared with the elections that preceded it and the corporate records that should follow it. That comparison turns a short appointment notice into a test of whether…
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The Treasury Policy AFRINIC Approved but Did Not Show
In February 2013, AFRINIC’s Board approved investment policies and guidelines submitted by the Secretariat. The surviving resolution proves that the organisation created a treasury-governance instrument, but it does not disclose a single operative rule. That gap matters because…
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AFRINIC sought an HR audit. Its Remuneration Committee’s follow-through is not public
AFRINIC opened an unusually specific HR consultancy process in April: test the skills of 41 staff, review performance appraisal and build a succession plan for business continuity. Four months later, the public procurement notice remains easy to find. The award, signing date…
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The Office at the Bank: What AFRINIC’s 2013 COO Signatory Resolution Actually Changed
In April 2013, AFRINIC’s Board placed the Chief Operating Officer inside the organisation’s bank-execution perimeter. The decision was concrete but narrower than a casual reading might suggest: it changed an internal delegation for a member-funded private coordinator, while the…
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When “Remove” Does Not Mean Punish: AFRINIC’s 2013 Padayatchy Resolution
Resolution 201302.164 used a hard corporate verb—“remove”—while recording both the written approval of all present registered directors and Viv Padayatchy’s own written consent. Read at its proper scale, that combination describes a bounded transition in a private-company office…
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A 106–34 tally is not an electorate
AFRINIC disclosed the vote that assigned an extra year, but not the voter register, turnout denominator or complete eligibility record needed to audit it.
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An interim refusal does not decide the policy
AFRINIC’s docket lists a policy challenge, a declined and unserved interim application, and an appeal. All remain ongoing; none is a published merits judgment.
Europe and Middle East Regional ISP Trends
INTERBIT and the Boundaries of Network Identity
A company name can appear to offer a simple answer to a network question. In practice, the identity behind an Internet service is distributed across legal records, number-resource registries, declared routing policy, observed routes, service descriptions and the equipment that…
Global Regional ISP Trends
PacketExchange records need a current clock
Legal, registry and interconnection records can identify PacketExchange without showing what its network does now.
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AFRINIC’s PDWG consensus needs an audit record
Two people applied for staggered co-chair seats; one was accepted and the other seat deferred. The public packet omits counts and eligibility reasons.
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AFRINIC’s election bill needs the authority chain
The itemised 2025 figures put a price on two election processes, including $300,000 in Receiver fees. The supporting contracts and approvals remain missing.
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ARIN records coordinate resources, not networks
ARIN allocates number resources and maintains public records in its service region. Operators still decide how addresses and routes behave.
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The RIPE NCC combines registry service and community
The RIPE NCC operates number-resource services while the wider RIPE community develops policy. Keeping those roles visible is part of accountability.
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APNIC capacity connects records, routes and members
A regional registry is more than an allocation database. In Asia Pacific, usable capacity also depends on routing security, local skills and member accountability.
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The Small Surplus That Made AFRINIC’s 2013 Budget Testable
Resolution 201301.161 occupies a single line in AFRINIC’s public Board register, yet the budget it approved did something consequential: it exposed a private technical coordinator’s expectations about membership growth, fee income, operating costs, infrastructure renewal and…
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The Constitution That Started Before Its Paper Trail Ended
At the turn of 1 January 2013, AFRINIC said a new constitution had become operative. The 48-page text mapped membership, elections, meetings, fees, Board authority and an orderly transition to a new nine-seat structure. What the surviving public record does not map with equal…
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The USD 64,327 question on AFRINIC’s 2012 infrastructure page
Printed page 30 of AFRINIC’s 2012 annual report asks a reader to hold two infrastructure figures at once. Its narrative says approximately USD 309,000 was spent on infrastructure during the year, while a table on the same page reports USD 244,673 as “Reinvestment in…
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What AFRINIC’s 2012 Cost Jump Proves—and What It Does Not
AFRINIC’s reported operating expenses climbed by nearly a third in one year, with staffing the largest visible driver. The arithmetic is clear; the public chain connecting the approved budget, recorded categories, individual commitments and accepted results is not.