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Resolution 201110.129 and AFRINIC’s thirteen-person corporate membership bridge
One short board resolution turned seven directors and six alternates into a registrar-facing group of thirteen Full Members. The arithmetic is simple; the institutional meaning is not. The record exposes how AFRINIC’s older corporate design connected election, office, membership…
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Resolution 201110.128 and the seven-director registration chain
An October 2011 instruction to carry seven directors into Mauritius’s corporate record exposes a distinction that institutional rhetoric often obscures: choosing an office-holder, accepting office, notifying a registrar and giving outsiders a reliable record are separate acts.…
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Resolution 201110.133 constituted AFRINIC’s Finance and Audit Committee
Four Board members and a one-year term gave AFRINIC’s Finance and Audit Committee a visible outline in October 2011. The harder governance question is what the published appointment did—and did not—establish about the committee’s ability to challenge financial decisions…
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Four names and a missing control table: what Resolution 201110.130 put into public view
AFRINIC’s October 2011 bank-signatory resolution made the people at the execution edge of its treasury visible, but left the decisive operating rules outside the surviving public page. Reading that narrow record carefully shows both the value of a concrete mandate and the limits…
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Resolution 201108.124 made AFRINIC’s vice-chair visible—and its limits matter more than the title
On 12 August 2011, AFRINIC published a Board resolution appointing Mark James Elkins as vice-chair from “now” until 30 June 2012. The sentence looks routine. Its importance lies in what it did not settle. A deputy can keep a meeting moving when the chair is absent; a deputy title…
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Resolution 201106.122 defined the Council of Elders as all past AFRINIC chairs
In June 2011, AFRINIC published a Board act that said a Council of Elders would be established, made up of “all the past chairs” and intended to advise the Board as and when required. The institutional tension is visible inside that short formulation. Former chairs can preserve…
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The Twenty-Day Chair: What AFRINIC Resolution 201106.119 Could—and Could Not—Authorize
AFRINIC’s Board appointed Mark Elkins to chair its Board of Directors from 11 June to 1 July 2011, a precisely bounded 20-day bridge. That short resolution mattered because a named chair can keep a private registry company able to convene, authenticate decisions, address urgent…
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Resolution 201108.124: Maimouna Diop’s bounded term as AFRINIC Board chair
The most revealing detail in AFRINIC’s August 2011 appointment record is not the prestige of the office but the precision of its expiry: the Board named Mrs Maimouna Ndeye Diop Ep Diagne as chair after elections held on 12 August, then said the term would end on 30 June 2012.…
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One Vote, One Voice, No Spare: What AFRINIC’s 2011 Regional Seat Cut Actually Changed
In June 2011, AFRINIC published Resolution 201106.121: from 2012, each of its six election sub-regions would have one elected representative instead of two. The arithmetic looks like a vote cut, but the old pair did not cast two votes together. One was the Primary Director; the…
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AFRINIC elected three GovCom members. Its two Board appointments remain unpublished
AFRINIC completed the membership vote for three Governance Committee seats in June and opened the remaining two voting seats to Board appointment on 17 July. Applications closed on 28 July. At the 11 August evidence cut-off, the registry’s current committee page still said…
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Resolution 201106.118 created an Institutional Member class without number resources or Board voting
AFRINIC’s June 2011 record is unusually concise: the Board said it was creating an Institutional Member status with the rights of a full member, except for Board voting and numbering resources. That sentence is important, but it is not self-executing proof of authority…
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The Abuse-Contact Resolution That Ratified a Doorbell, Not a Police Power
AFRINIC’s June 2011 ratification improved the public path for reaching a network operator, but it did not authorize the registry to decide whether an allegation was true or to punish the holder of Internet number resources. Reading the resolution at its actual scale reveals a…
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JAWUG's waived fee exposed the missing terms of a named exception
In February 2011, AFRINIC's Board recorded in Resolution 201102.112 that, following a formal request from JAWUG, which it described as a South African non-profit network, it agreed to waive JAWUG's membership fee. That concise act shows who received relief and names the fee…
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AFRINIC’s Legal Committee has four names—and no public charter
AFRINIC’s Board and Receiver created a Legal Committee in October 2025 to inventory every ongoing case, optimise legal resources and review information about allegedly fraudulent election documents. Nearly ten months later, AFRINIC’s public register names the four committee…
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When 102/8 crossed the ledger boundary
On 3 February 2011, IANA placed 102/8 in AFRINIC’s regional inventory under a predetermined global rule. That entry created consequential custodial work, but it did not sell a block, convey sovereignty, assign every address, or cause a single route to appear on the Internet.
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The Narrow Margin Behind AFRINIC’s 2010 Fee Ledger
AFRINIC’s published figures for 2010 describe an institution whose fees came close to paying its operating bill but did not quite cover it alone. Grants and sponsorship completed the operating-income mix, leaving modest headroom before a separately presented cost line and an even…
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The Rulebook That Worked Before Its Machinery Was Ready
At its first meeting under AFPUB-2010-GEN-005, AFRINIC enforced a new safeguard against late policy text and improvised the selection of the people meant to administer it. That contrast reveals both the value and the unfinished limits of a private registry’s redesigned control…
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AFRINIC's 2010 infrastructure reinvestment jumped to USD 346,203—but the office took most of it
AFRINIC's own presentations show a Board-authorised capital programme whose largest disclosed result was a new office, not a documented technical transformation. The useful question is not whether premises can count as infrastructure, but whether each capital decision can be…
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The objections that reversed AFRINIC's Soft Landing last call
On 14 July 2010, a short procedural conclusion stopped a numerically consequential IPv4 proposal from moving toward ratification. The significance lies neither in the volume of mailing-list traffic nor in a claim that private entities spoke for Africa. It lies in the specific…
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The Policy AFRINIC Called Implemented Before the World Could Use It
On 11 November 2010 AFRINIC’s policy archive says that a plan for recovered IPv4 space was “Implemented”. The word sounds conclusive. The instrument was not. Its operative global machinery depended on a common text, ICANN Board ratification and action by IANA; the common proposal…