Summary

  • AFRINIC’s second consultation on a draft amended Constitution ran from 4 August to 21 August 2026 at 23:59 UTC.
  • The announcement set out later stages but did not give dates for external legal review, Board consideration or a Special General Members Meeting.

AFRINIC gave its second constitutional consultation a clear public deadline. The 4 August announcement said the platform let participants compare existing provisions, proposed amendments and the rationale for each change, then comment section by section.

It also published an ordered path after consultation. The Bylaws Review Committee would consider comments and make revisions it considered appropriate. A final draft would then receive independent external legal review before recommendations went to the AFRINIC Board. Subject to Board approval, the proposal would be presented to members at a Special General Members Meeting.

The sequence is visible, but its downstream calendar is not. On the page frozen for this article, no date is stated for completing comment review, legal review, Board submission or decision, or the members’ meeting. The Overview’s Published date is BTW metadata, not one of those process dates.

This does not prove that the later stages have not occurred or that dates were not communicated elsewhere. It does not allege that comments were ignored or that the process was improper. The narrower finding is that the announcement pairs a dated input window with an undated path to final consideration.