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Registry Governance
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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 Its two Board appointments remain unpublished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…
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AFRINIC named six bylaw reviewers—but not the members they represent
AFRINIC says its Board, acting with the Receiver’s consent, selected one person from each of six sub-regions for a committee that would filter public input and draft bylaw changes. The invitation had been limited to representatives of Resource Members. Yet the 2 March appointment…
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The Mandate in the Margin: What AFRINIC-13 Actually Agreed on Soft Landing
On 25 November 2010, AFRINIC’s public-policy meeting did not approve a finished Soft Landing policy. It agreed to move an identifiable proposal to Last Call while assigning three changes to be incorporated afterward and deliberately leaving a disputed /27 minimum unchanged. That…
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The Notice Was Part of the Soft Landing Decision
The decisive entity in June 2010 was not only a proposal about scarce IPv4 space. It was the notice that told people which proposal they were being asked to examine. By carrying a complete draft into a dated review window, then allowing corrections and objections to change the…
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AFRINIC changed Soft Landing's reference and left the redline to readers
On 12 May 2010, a materially revised scarcity proposal acquired a new documentary identity in AFRINIC's later history, but the message that carried the text did not carry the identifier. That mismatch shows both the value of version numbers and their limit: metadata can locate a…
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The rulebook that audited itself: what GEN-004 admitted about AFRINIC’s 2008 PDP
AFRINIC’s 2010 replacement policy did more than propose new procedure. It recorded the faults of the procedure it was meant to replace—and a later implementation note revealed how much discretion survived the repair.
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The text that consensus had not yet finished: AFRINIC-12 and Soft Landing
In Kigali, the decisive word was not simply “consensus” but the qualification that followed it: the IPv4 Soft Landing proposal had consensus with modifications. That formulation moved the proposal forward while leaving consequential language to be settled after the room had…
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AFRINIC called the ASN amendment implemented before it became global policy
AFRINIC called the ASN amendment implemented before it became global policy intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may…
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AFRINIC’s docket shows a live policy challenge—not a court-validated ratification
AFRINIC’s public case list separates three Skyconnect proceedings: a 9 March plaint challenging the Board’s ratification of the inter-RIR transfer policy, an interim-order application marked declined and not served, and an appeal filed on 7 April. All three entries are labelled…