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AFRINIC’s Reverse-DNS Rule Meets the Delete Key
An operator says the database makes him remove reverse-domain records before he can repair the address records that justify them. A tidy rule has acquired a messy exit.
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AFRINIC’s Policy Draft Has More Clocks Than a Station and No Wall Chart
Version 4 of AFRINIC’s PDP proposal puts deadlines on impact analysis, list discussion, chair decisions and appeals. The hard part is making those clocks run in one order.
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AFRINIC built a policy escape hatch. It opens only when the Board is gone.
The draft’s summary says a petition can rescue policy when the Board cannot act or refuses to explain itself. The clause that would make the rescue work sets a narrower trigger: no duly constituted and operative Board, followed by 15 resource-member contacts from at least three…
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AFRINIC Has Four IPv4 Drawers. The Queue Is the Fifth.
A draft policy gives recovered addresses a holding pen, a history lesson and a destination. When two pools hit zero, the waiting list takes over—and every decision has to leave a ledger trail.
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AFRINIC’s Policy Digest Has a 20-Message Door Policy
A new proposal repairs broken email threads, then hands digest access to a traffic counter.
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AFRINIC’s No-Clash Rule Leaves One Question: Who Sets the Calendar?
AFRINIC wants its policy meetings clear of competing dates and announced a year ahead. The proposal sounds tidy until two useful events want the same week: then someone has to decide what counts as a clash, whose calendar wins, and who gets to call an exception unavoidable.
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AFRINIC’s IXP Reserve Needs a Ledger Before It Needs a Bigger Block
AFRINIC’s own policy record raises a practical question about the IPv4 held for Internet exchange points: can the community see which parts are used, which remain contiguous, and who is waiting? Until that picture is public, a debate over whether a `/16` should become a `/15` is…
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AFRINIC’s 2025 surplus fell 65% while income rose
AFRINIC’s audited accounts show three different signals: income edged higher, the surplus before finance items contracted sharply, and cash generated from operations fell further. A currency swing softened the annual decline without reversing it.
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AFRINIC’s 2025 Audit Opinion Does Not Decide Its Litigation Risk
AFRINIC’s signed financial statements give members an unmodified opinion on the accounts while drawing particular attention to the directors’ judgment about ongoing legal proceedings. Those two statements answer different questions. Reading them together shows what the audit…
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AFRINIC-38 Draws a Line Between Sponsor Visibility and Policy Voice
AFRINIC sells a five-minute Platinum welcome at the same meeting whose draft agenda gives the opening five minutes before policy discussion begins. The timing raises a concrete question for delegates: what, exactly, is the sponsor buying, and where does the policy microphone…
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AFRINIC’s Country Export Counts Prefixes, Not Operators
A country table can count registry records or sum the address units inside them. AFRINIC’s raw export shows why those measures diverge—and why neither tells a reader how many providers operate a network or how much capacity people can use.
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AFRINIC-38’s Draft Agenda Gives PPM Dates the Dashboard’s Identifier
An October 13 schedule pairs the Public Policy Meeting (PPM) Dates item with an identifier assigned to the Policy Compliance Dashboard. AFRINIC’s current register gives the two proposals separate records.
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AFRINIC logged 17 hours of MyAFRINIC access trouble without defining its scope
The status record gives the incident a start and an end, while the component list labels the portal operational. Neither says which member workflows were affected or how recovery was verified.
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AFRINIC’s 2024 RPKI baseline cannot be rebuilt from its current daily export
AFRINIC’s 2025 annual report gives a precise four-number picture of RPKI at the end of 2024. Its public daily file now gives a different picture: two of those numbers sit together on 31 December, two others on 1 January, and no date in the downloaded history brings all four…
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IANA’s AFRINIC page now shows 918 available ASNs
Two days after AFRINIC’s file and IANA’s dashboard pointed in opposite directions, both now show 918 as available. The figures carry different data dates, and the public record does not explain the change in IANA’s eligibility label.
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AFRINIC needs a host. The host needs to know how many days.
Nine meeting rooms, a large plenary hall, several connectivity sponsors: AFRINIC is quite specific about what hosting entails. Yet its invitation describes a six-day stand-alone meeting and gives it a three-day date window. That is a small gap on a webpage and a consequential one…
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AFRINIC's address reserve cannot promise an easy move
NAPafrica told a policy meeting that an address change begun eight years earlier was still unfinished. The problem facing a growing Internet exchange is not only finding more addresses, but finding them where its network can use them.
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AFRINIC's AI argument began with an email subject line
A quarrel over mailing-list digests became a debate about who was really doing the writing. Fixing a reply thread and proving misconduct call for different evidence.
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AFRINIC's receiver was named in the court papers all along
An appointment order, a letter from ICANN and a pending discharge application tell a more useful story than an allegedly anonymous supervisor: how a registry keeps making decisions while its leadership changes.
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Who Held the Handover? The RIPE NCC → AFRINIC Transition and the Missing Record of Verification
In 2005 AFRINIC became the fifth Regional Internet Registry, and registry services and responsibilities covering the African region were migrated from the RIPE NCC to AFRINIC as part of that recognition ([RIPE NCC news archive — AFRINIC becomes the fifth…