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The Board’s Narrow No: AFRINIC’s July 2021 Corporate-Law Stop
When `Board Prerogatives on the PDP` reached AFRINIC’s Board for ratification, the Board did not seize the policy process, rewrite the proposal or rule on anyone’s rights. It stopped the text at the company’s own approval gate. Resolution 202107.621 is therefore strongest as a…
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The Handoff the Election Could Not Make
On 9 June 2021, AFRINIC's Board did not pretend that a recent election had automatically refreshed the smaller bodies through which some of its internal work was organised. It recorded a need to reconstitute its standing committees and adopted Resolution 202106.615 as a separate…
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Five Days That Made a Vote Legible: AFRINIC’s Resolution 202106.613
AFRINIC’s June 2021 election did not become an auditable corporate handoff through the count alone. Across five days, a declared choice moved from a members’ meeting into a board resolution that instructed changes to the organisation’s director and member records and to the list…
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Two offices, three years: what AFRINIC’s 4 June 2021 election result actually authorised
AFRINIC’s 4 June 2021 announcement did something modest but institutionally necessary: it named Mark Elkins for Board Seat 5 and Simon Balthazar for the Governance Committee, giving each a three-year term. Read closely, the result is a useful example of how a private member…
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The Mailbox and the Case File: Drawing Draft 7’s Contactability Boundary
AFRINIC’s seventh abuse-contact proposal contained both a sensible directory rule and the seeds of a much larger institutional role. Its most important sentence placed the definition and escalation of abuse outside the registry’s remit. Its most consequential ambiguity was that…
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AFRINIC’s Reserve Lock Was Stronger Than Its Release Plan
In May 2021, AFRINIC placed an additional USD 2 million behind a fixed-deposit account and a demanding approval chain: the chief executive, the head of finance, and one of two senior board officers all had to agree before money could leave. That architecture made internal…
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Two Names at the Attestation Gate: What AFRINIC Resolution 202105.610 Made Executable
Eddy M. Kayihura, the Chief Executive Officer, and Subramanian Moonesamy, the Chairman of the Board, were the two people AFRINIC placed at the signature line in May 2021. Resolution 202105.610 approved the company’s financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020…
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Before the vote, the notice: Resolution 202105.609 and AFRINIC’s chain of authority
In May 2021, AFRINIC’s Board recorded a one-sentence decision: Resolution 202105.609 approved the notice for the Annual General Members’ Meeting to be held on 4 June 2021. The sentence looks administrative. Read against the bylaws then in force, however, it marks the first…
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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…