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Botswana’s IPv6 Plan Sets a 2026 Target. What Counts Toward 100%?
BOCRA’s roadmap assigns IPv6 targets through 2026, while Botswana’s accelerator records engineers trained and projects chartered. The missing public question is not whether work began; it is how a reader can distinguish readiness from measured deployment without exposing…
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AFRINIC ratifies three policies, but each now faces a different implementation clock
The 25 September approvals cover recovered IPv4 space, utilisation exceptions and new AS-SET names. AFRINIC’s own documents show why “ratified” is not the same as “in force.”
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Durable or Reversible: A Ledger of AFRINIC's Rebuilt Governance, Control by Control
When the Supreme Court of Mauritius placed AfriNIC Ltd — the registry the internet world knows as AFRINIC — into receivership on 12 September 2023, the court's findings were stark: there was no quorate board and no chief executive at the organisation that allocates internet…
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AFRINIC Logs Four Fliber Blocks to Level 7; BGP’s Origin Shifts Later
AFRINIC records a 24 September transfer event involving four IPv4 prefixes. RIPE NCC’s route collectors later observed a different origin for those prefixes, but the two records do not establish that the transfer caused the routing change.
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Who Watched While the Board Emptied: AFRINIC's Control Surface Before the Receivership
A court-ordered receiver now administers the African Network Information Centre, but the accountability question that matters most is upstream of the receivership: which prevention and detection mechanisms existed in 2023, why they did not fire, and what independent evidence now…
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AFRINIC v Cloud Innovation: the control surface nobody's instrument has closed
The dispute over Africa's internet registry has produced a stack of overlapping instruments — a restored receivership order, a terminated registration agreement, a contested register-of-members order, an interim take-down directive and an ICANN intervention — and as of the latest…
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AFRINIC’s New IPv6 Tally Is 120 Below Its 2023 Figure. The Bases Differ.
AFRINIC’s September invitation reports 257 deployment milestones. A 2023 blog reported 377 across Deployathons and DO Helpdesk. The numerical gap is real; a like-for-like decline is not established.
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The Exit That Stayed Undecided: AFRINIC's Receivership Endgame Is a Docket With No Disposition
Nine months after the Receiver of the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) asked the Supreme Court of Mauritius to end his own tenure, the public record still contains no judgment granting or refusing that relief — and the organisation's newest governance instruments…
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The Consent Formula: AFRINIC's Newest Instruments Read Against an Undecided Receivership Exit
On 24 August 2026, AFRINIC's Board announced the appointment of Mike Silber as CEO Designate "with the consent of the Receiver." Three weeks later, on 1 September 2026, the NRO Number Council published a Recommended Draft RIR Governance Document that rewrites how any registry…
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The Remedy Path Audit: What AFRINIC's Appeal Committee Can and Cannot Hear Under Receivership
When AFRINIC's Board appointed a CEO designate on 24 August 2026, it wrote four words into the first sentence of its own announcement: "with the consent of the Receiver." Four days later, when the same Board constituted the Policy Development Appeal Committee, those words were…
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The Consent Recital Is the Evidence: Reading AFRINIC's Board Instruments After 24 August 2026
When the AFRINIC Board announced a CEO designate in August 2026, it chose to record — in the first sentence of its own communiqué — that it acted "with the consent of the Receiver." Four days later, when the same Board constituted an Appeal Committee, that phrase was absent. This…
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AFRINIC in 2026: who holds the ring when a registry is run by court order and committee at the same time
A Mauritius receivership that was supposed to be temporary is now old enough to have shaped a board election, an annual audit, a chief-executive search and an intervention by ICANN. Reading AFRINIC's public record from September 2025 to August 2026 shows a registry whose…
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AFRINIC Allocation Authority: Three Powers, One Pending Judgment
An African network operator that needs IPv4 or IPv6 space in September 2026 cannot answer a simple question from AFRINIC's org chart: who is entitled to say yes? The assignment right sits in a contract, the operational custody sits with a court-appointed Receiver, and external…
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AFRINIC Asked Quiet French Readers to Speak. The Survey Opens in English
AFRINIC wants its next policy webinars to answer the barriers that stop people from posting to RPD or taking a PPM microphone. The 23 September invitation is unusually direct about seeking those quiet voices. Yet the advertised French route returned the English landing page…
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AFRINIC Can Fund the Trip. It Cannot Replace the Policy Record
An engineer from Malawi arrived at AFRINIC-37 on a ticket enabled by a new member-support programme, learned the room and spoke from her own network experience. That is a real opening. It is also a limited kind of evidence. The more exact test of AFRINIC's experiment is whether a…
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AFRINIC's Power to Revoke Number Resources Sits in a Contract, Not a Constitution
Every dispute about AFRINIC's internet number resources eventually resolves into a narrower question than the one the headlines ask. The registry's authority to suspend, revoke or refuse to renew African IP address space is not a constitutional attribute of a regional internet…