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Registry Governance
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The $15,000 constitutional maintenance question
AFRINIC authorised no more than US$15,000 for a requested two-day Governance Committee working session in Kenya on 23–24 April 2022, with one stated assignment: address the election-sequence problem already recorded in Resolution 202202.677. That modest-looking budget line offers…
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Who Could Select, Not Who Could Stand: AFRINIC’s 2022 Regional NomCom Rule
Northern and Western Africans were not barred from AFRINIC’s planned 2022 Board election. Residents of those two regions were required for the corresponding regional candidacies, but they were ineligible to sit on the four-person Nomination Committee that filtered nominations…
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The Confidential File and the Missing Receipt
On 9 March 2022, with a director’s personal deadline due to expire the following day, AFRINIC’s Board authorised the company to cover directors’ defence costs and opened an NDA-bounded channel between its Legal Department and their lawyers. The urgent protection can be justified…
ICANN
ICANN’s 2026 application window has closed; registry operations now become the practical test
At 23:59 UTC on 12 August, ICANN’s 2026 new-gTLD application window and its Registry Service Provider evaluation window both closed. The deadline does not decide which labels will reach the DNS; it moves attention to the operating capability that will have to support any…
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AFRINIC says outside sponsors funded 39 travel records in a no-budget year. Twenty-two name NRO
AFRINIC's newly published 2023 finance summary says it used none of its own funds for outreach or travel because no budget had been approved. Yet its travel register lists 39 third-party-sponsored records—37 for staff and two for others—and 22 sponsor fields mention NRO. The…
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The Trip That Turned a Board Into a Routing Queue
AFRINIC’s directors spent part of February 2022 deciding whether their chief executive could attend a two-day meeting. Their response on 2 March was to replace one approval gate with notification—but only for official international engagements already inside a Board-approved…
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The Application Ended; the Transfer-Policy Question Did Not
A one-page order from the Supreme Court of Mauritius records two letters received on the same day and one spare procedural act: the present application was set aside with costs. Its brevity is not an invitation to supply the missing story. It is the central institutional fact.…
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The Appeal That a Later Order Made Academic
Cloud Innovation’s appeal did not become useless because the Supreme Court of Mauritius endorsed the decision under challenge. It became useless because a newer, wider interim order was already doing the practical protective work the appeal sought to recover—a distinction that…
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When AFRINIC’s election rules reached the same date
On 2 March 2022, AFRINIC’s Board put an unusually precise institutional problem on the record: two seats filled after casual vacancies were due to return to election at the next annual meeting, yet giving their successors the ordinary three-year tenure would break the regional…
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The Consequential Verb Was Publish: AFRINIC’s Resolution 202201.673 and the Limits of an AS0 Mandate
In January 2022, AFRINIC’s Board ratified a policy that asked the registry to do something concrete with its own cryptographic machinery: identify IPv4 and IPv6 inventory recorded as unallocated or unassigned, create covering AS0 Route Origin Authorisations, and publish the…
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A Complete Ballot Cannot Repair the Wrong Seats
AFRINIC’s 2022 election rulebook answered almost every practical question about how a vote should run. The unresolved question was more fundamental: whether the seats placed into that machinery, and the terms attached to their winners, preserved a lawful and workable succession.…
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The Year Added Before the Rule Was Repaired
AFRINIC’s Board made Seat 6’s calendar add up by extending its incumbent for a year. The arithmetic was simple; the allocation of power was not. Resolution 202202.676 shows why a private institution should repair the rule before personalising the remedy—or make any temporary…
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The Judgment That Stopped Before the Merits
The Supreme Court of Mauritius Court of Civil Appeal said it did not propose to deal with the merits of the remaining grounds of appeal. That sentence is the boundary of *Cloud Innovation Ltd v African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) Ltd*, 2022 SCJ 51—and the part…
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Eight applications in one annex: How to read a procedural map without inventing eight judgments
In 2022 SCJ 51, the Supreme Court of Mauritius placed eight related injunction applications into a single annex. That compact record shows why a filing count can reveal genuine procedural pressure while still saying almost nothing, by itself, about how many underlying rights were…
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The Succession Clock That Had to Beat the Quorum Line
AFRINIC’s January 2022 reconstitution of its Audit Committee shows why institutional continuity is decided by sequence, not by the mere existence of a replacement rule: the appointing Board must use its ordinary authority before vacancies make that authority unavailable.
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The Promise Behind AFRINIC’s Open-Ended Defence
At an urgent online meeting, AFRINIC’s directors had to consider a motion that named directors individually—and then decide whether the company would carry every legal cost arising from their defence. The protection could preserve independent judgment in a moment of personal…
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When Nine Applications Still Do Not Make a Merits Judgment
AFRINIC counted repeated applications and said Cloud Innovation Ltd was seeking the same protection for its Resource Member membership yet again. The Judge in Chambers asked a harder question: had the same merits issue ever been finally decided, and had the operating position…
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AFRINIC’s Transfer Draft 3 and the Institution You May Need to Leave
Three days in November 2021 put a difficult governance question into unusually sharp relief: can a number-resource transfer route count as a genuine right of exit when the incumbent registry remains the institution that decides whether the holder may use it?
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Six Proposals, One Narrow Mandate: Reading the AFRINIC-34 Decision Docket
Across two online mornings in November 2021, AFRINIC’s policy forum confronted six different ways in which private registry administration could become more explicit—and potentially more powerful. At the same time, AFRINIC and Cloud Innovation were in active litigation over…
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The Resolution Between Consensus and Execution
Resolution 202201.673 crossed a narrow but consequential threshold: AFPUB-2019-GEN-006-DRAFT03 was the same proposal before and after the AFRINIC Board acted in January 2022, yet the private corporation’s responsibility was not. Consensus had recommended a course; ratification…