Summary

  • AFRINIC said its Board constituted the Appeal Committee and that every appointment took effect immediately for a term ending 31 December 2026.
  • The announcement names five members and links the committee’s function to appeals under the Policy Development Process Conflict Resolution provisions; it does not decide any future appeal.

AFRINIC published the constitution of its Appeal Committee on 28 August 2026. The notice lists Silvio Cabral as a former AFRINIC director, Sami Salih as a former PDWG co-chair, Oluwaseun Ojedeji as an active PDWG participant, Nitin Kelawon Sookun as the NRO NC / ASO AC representative, and Eddy Lareine as the Governance Committee representative.

The announcement establishes three useful facts: who was named, when the appointments became effective, and when the stated term ends. Those facts make the appointment record time-bounded. They do not establish when the Board reached its decision, when each appointee accepted, or how any future appeal will be allocated, heard or decided.

AFRINIC says the committee considers appeals arising from the Conflict Resolution provisions of the Policy Development Process. That describes its institutional function. It is not evidence that an appeal is pending, that any member has taken a position, or that a particular outcome is likely.

The notice also links to the committee’s current Terms of Reference. Read together, the announcement and the referenced rules give readers a public starting point for checking mandate and procedure. A later case record would still be needed to establish participation, recusals, quorum, reasoning, dates and disposition for a specific appeal.

The fixed endpoint matters because membership records otherwise risk being read as indefinite authority. Here, the public statement bounds the appointments through 31 December 2026. What happens after that date—renewal, replacement, vacancy or reconstitution—is not stated in this announcement.

Sources

https://www.afrinic.net/constitution-of-the-afrinic-appeal-committee