Summary

  • AFRINIC said its Board constituted a five-member Appeal Committee, effective immediately through 31 December 2026.
  • The 28 August notice names the members and their constituency roles but does not give the Board decision date, meeting, resolution or selection record.

AFRINIC published the constitution of its Appeal Committee on 28 August 2026. It said every appointment took effect immediately and would run until 31 December. The named members are 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.

That list matches the five constituency categories in AFRINIC's published Terms of Reference. The same page describes the committee as the body that reviews appeals under the Policy Development Process when there is disagreement about actions taken by PDWG co-chairs. Its task is to examine the decision-making process, not to replace the working group or decide consensus for it.

The event notice establishes the membership, role and public term boundary. It does not state the date or meeting at which the Board made its decision, identify the candidate or volunteer pool, describe the assessment for each seat, record conflicts or recusals, or link to a resolution, vote or minutes. Those are absences from this notice, not proof that no such material exists elsewhere.

The Terms of Reference add useful context but do not fill that evidentiary gap. Version 4 is marked as approved on 23 August 2021. It says the Board should ensure appointees are able to exercise independent judgment and act impartially and with integrity. The frozen sources do not establish whether that version was the only rule applied in 2026 or how the Board assessed those qualities for any person.

No allegation against AFRINIC or any committee member follows from the missing detail. The record reviewed here does not show misconduct, invalidity, conflict or lack of independence. It also does not say whether any appeal has been filed or decided in 2026. The narrow finding is that the public announcement states the outcome without exposing the underlying appointment decision record.