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AFRINIC

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1,174Stories
95Policies
21People with verified identities
95Source accounts awaiting identity resolution
56Participated in 2+ policies
19Participated in 5+ policies
37.5%Top-five discussion share
UnknownMedian effective participants
9People covering 50%

Participation concentration

Who actually shaped this RIR?

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Recurring people and organisations
  1. Owen DeLong15 Policies participated · 115 Discussion messages
  2. Seun Ojedeji14 Policies participated · 91 Discussion messages
  3. Alan Barrett11 Policies participated · 34 Discussion messages
  4. S. Moonesamy9 Policies participated · 102 Discussion messages
  5. Tim McGinnis9 Policies participated · 71 Discussion messages
  6. Mark J Elkins9 Policies participated · 35 Discussion messages
  7. Adiel Akplogan9 Policies participated · 20 Discussion messages
  8. SM8 Policies participated · 59 Discussion messages
  9. Ernest Byaruhanga8 Policies participated · 11 Discussion messages
  10. Sunday Folayan7 Policies participated · 37 Discussion messages

Policy records

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  1. AFPUB-2026-v6-001-DRAFT03

    IPv6 in Soft Landing

    Under discussion · Official status: Under Discussion
    Introduced: Dec 7, 2020 · Latest activity: Sep 17, 2026
    6Policy versions
    3Total participants
  2. AFPUB-2026-GEN-003-DRAFT01

    PPM Dates

    Under discussion · Official status: Under Discussion
    Introduced: Aug 29, 2026 · Latest activity: Aug 29, 2026
    1Policy versions
    1Total participants
  3. AFPUB-2026-IPv4-001-DRAFT02

    IPv4 Soft Landing

    Accepted · Official status: Ratified
    Introduced: Jun 16, 2026 · Latest activity: Jun 16, 2026
    4Policy versions
    357Discussion messages
    47Total participants
    15.8Effective participants
    48.7%Top-five discussion share
  4. AFPUB-2026-IPv4-003-DRAFT01

    IPv4 Pools Exhaustion

    Under discussion · Official status: Under Discussion
    Introduced: Jun 8, 2026 · Latest activity: Jun 8, 2026
    3Policy versions
    2Discussion messages
    3Total participants
    2Effective participants
    100%Top-five discussion share
  5. AFPUB-2026-ASN-001-DRAFT02

    AS-SETs Hierarchical Names

    Accepted · Official status: Ratified
    Introduced: Jun 8, 2026 · Latest activity: Jun 8, 2026
    6Policy versions
    2Total participants

Latest stories

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Illustration of a text-free parchment document with a wax seal on a dark table, a row of small circular abstract emblems facing one larger emblem, representing the negotiated balance of authority between ICANN and the regional registries under the Version 3 governance draft

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Two-Thirds, Not Unanimity: How the RIR Governance Document's Version 3 Rewrites Who Decides

The draft that would replace ICP-2 does not merely modernise twenty-five-year-old criteria for recognising Regional Internet Registries. Its Version 3 quietly redraws the voting arithmetic of recognition, derecognition and amendment — and those thresholds, not the prose around…

Oct 1, 2026
Stylized network map of Africa with a ballot and scales-of-justice motif representing the AFRINIC 2025 board election under receivership oversight

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How AFRINIC's Board Was Rebuilt: The Bylaws Provisions That Actually Governed the 2025 Election

When AfriNIC Ltd — the regional internet registry for Africa, better known as AFRINIC — entered receivership, its governing crisis became a test of which written rules actually bind an institution when its board is empty. The answer, on the evidence of the 2025 election record…

Sep 30, 2026
Empty executive chair at the head of a long conference table overlaid with abstract network topology lines, symbolising the absent Chief Technology Officer function at AFRINIC under receivership

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The CTO Who Isn't There: Who Held Technology Control at AFRINIC While the Database Remembered a Role

Ask who the Chief Technology Officer of AFRINIC is, and the internet's own records give you two contradictory answers. The registry's current public staff roster lists departments, named engineers and heads of function — but no position titled Chief Technology Officer. Meanwhile…

Sep 30, 2026
Abstract illustration of a network map of Africa with a balance scale and a blank wax-seal shape

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AFRINIC's Instrument Chain: What Each Deciding Body Actually Ordered, Granted or Refused

The public record on AFRINIC's receivership is full of titles — court judgments, board communiqués, ICANN letters, receiver notices. Titles are not authority. This article reads back through the recorded instruments of the AFRINIC saga and extracts what each one actually…

Sep 29, 2026