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Registry Governance
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Four Names Before the Ballot: What AFRINIC’s 2013 NomCom Appointment Controlled
In April 2013, AFRINIC’s Board put Douglas Onyango, Pierre Dandjinou, Tim McGuiness and Mark Elkins on NomCom 2013. The resolution was only a sentence long, but the committee defined by the bylaws stood at a consequential gate: it could seek candidates, set eligibility criteria…
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AFRINIC’s First Three Elders: Memory, Concentration and the Limits of Appointment
In April 2013, Resolution 201304.174 put three names into a newly created advisory structure. Read with the governing bylaw, that short appointment reveals a consequential institutional choice: AFRINIC filled half of a six-seat ceiling from its own former-chair class, gaining a…
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Three Names at the Treasury Gate: What AFRINIC’s 2013 Signatory Slate Made Visible
In April 2013, Resolution 201304.169 placed three senior executives by name inside AFRINIC’s principal bank-signatory perimeter. That act made potential execution authority identifiable, but the public record stopped short of saying how the three-person mandate was meant to…
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The Missing Handshake in AFRINIC’s 2013 Banker Notification
In April 2013, AFRINIC’s Board directed that its bankers be furnished with relevant policies and resolutions, including Resolution 201304.172 itself. That compact instruction recognised a decisive boundary: a banking-authority change recorded inside an organisation cannot become…
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AFRINIC’s Two-Office Reserve: What Resolution 201304.170 Did—and Left Unsaid
In April 2013, AFRINIC placed a Board representative in Mauritius and its human-resources director behind three principal bank signatories as a two-office reserve. Resolution 201304.170 addressed a real continuity problem, but its concise public wording leaves open the chain that…
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A Door for Memory, Not a Throne: What AFRINIC Created in April 2013
In April 2013, AFRINIC’s Board approved the creation of a Council of Elders under article 16 of its 2012 Bylaws. The act was precise but incomplete by design: it constituted an advisory body of former chairs without appointing anyone, transferring any Board power, or explaining…
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AFRINIC’s 2013 USD 100,000 Restatement: A Familiar Limit in a New Authority Matrix
In April 2013, AFRINIC’s Board again reserved approval for transactions above USD 100,000, but it did so after adopting Delegation of Authority 002-2013 and reorganising the people around that limit. The amount was old; the institutional setting was new. That distinction makes…
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AFRINIC named four election gatekeepers. It did not show how its Board chose them
AFRINIC’s 2026 Nomination Committee decided who reached final slates for seven governance positions. The Board published the four appointees and later identified a chair, but the fixed public record does not show the applicant pool, the appointment assessment, conflict…
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP Trends
PXNET’s two ASNs need two evidence lines
PXNET’s two ASNs need two evidence lines 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 follow. The Asia-Pacific Regional ISP…
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INTERBIT’s ASN does not prove hosting control
INTERBIT’s ASN does not prove hosting control 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 follow. The Europe and Middle…
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…