Summary

  • AFRINIC’s Call for Hosting 2026 page invites organisations to propose hosting future meetings and sets out venue, connectivity and local-support expectations.
  • The frozen landing page says proposals should be submitted early, but it does not state a submission deadline, evaluation period, decision date or named selection authority.

AFRINIC is asking organisations to help bring its future meetings to cities across Africa and the Indian Ocean region. Its Call for Hosting 2026 page describes the opportunity, gives a contact address and links to an official hosting guide.

The public page supplies a practical first layer of requirements. It asks for access through an international airport, a modern conference venue with capacity for at least 350 participants, multiple rooms for parallel sessions and reliable high-speed internet. It also says a local host should assist with logistics, outreach, introductions to possible sponsors and local guidance.

Those details tell an interested organisation what kind of operational capacity AFRINIC expects. The page also encourages organisations to submit proposals “well in advance”. In the rendered landing-page text frozen for this article on 5 September 2026, however, there is no date by which a proposal must arrive. The page does not set out an evaluation window, a shortlist stage, a selection date or the body that will make the decision. The Published date in the Overview is BTW article metadata; it is not presented as the AFRINIC page’s publication date.

This is a page-level finding, not a claim that no such information exists anywhere. AFRINIC links to a PDF hosting guide, but that document’s contents were not used as evidence here. A deadline or fuller process may also have been communicated through another channel. The publication time of the landing page and the opening time of the call are likewise unknown in the frozen source set.

There is no allegation of unfairness, exclusion or improper selection. Nor does the source set establish whether a host has already been chosen for any meeting. What can be said is narrower: the public landing page explains the hosting proposition without giving readers a dated intake and decision timetable.