ARIN · RIR Watchdog

2005-4: AFRINIC Recognition Policy

Start here for the proposal-by-proposal record: what changed, why it mattered, who argued for what, how positions evolved, what was decided, and where the evidence still has gaps.

Source facts

Policy ID: ARIN-2005-4
RIR: ARIN
Official status: Unknown
Normalized status: Unknown
Introduced: Unknown
Last source update: Oct 7, 2026
Coverage: Partial

Who actually shaped the debate?

1Total participants

1Discussion contributors

UnknownFormal actors

1Discussion messages

1Effective participants

100%Top-five discussion share

1People covering 50%

1People covering 80%

BTW Analysis

What changed

No policy change can be established from the supplied verified facts. The policy chronology is empty, and no proposal text, version history, formal action, or implementation evidence was supplied.

What the debate was really about

The substance of the debate cannot be determined because there are no recorded messages, participant statements, stance timelines, issue statements, or competing arguments in the supplied evidence.

Decision vs debate

Neither a discussion record nor a decision outcome is established. The snapshot contains zero messages, zero discussion participants, zero formal actors, zero stance participants, and no formal decision evidence; it therefore cannot support a claim that ARIN 2005-4 was adopted, rejected, abandoned, superseded, withdrawn, or implemented.

Participation concentration

Participation concentration is not measurable from this snapshot because its activity base is empty: zero messages and zero participants. The zero top-one, top-five, and top-ten shares, zero HHI, zero effective participant count, and zero core-participant counts do not indicate broad, equal, or decentralized participation; they indicate that no observed participation distribution exists in the supplied dataset.

Chokepoint analysis

No procedural, institutional, or participant chokepoint can be identified from the supplied evidence. There are no dated stages, formal actors, governing-body actions, participant contributions, or decision-mechanism records from which agenda control, blocking power, or concentrated influence could be inferred.

Uncertainties

It is uncertain whether the zero metrics mean no debate occurred, the selected source contained no debate, or relevant records were outside the extraction scope.
No dated policy chronology, proposal-version history, policy text, rationale, or issue statement was supplied.
No participant statements or stance timelines were supplied, so competing positions and stance changes cannot be reconstructed.
No formal decision, vote, consensus determination, governing-body action, or implementation status was supplied.
The source coverage is not described, so the completeness of the empty participation record cannot be determined.
The Doctrine package establishes only a partial official position for this subject and cannot supply the missing historical facts.

Policy evolution

Debate timeline

Entities

Freshness: Stale · Last refresh: Oct 5, 2026, 9:24 AM · The latest refresh failed. The last successful result is shown.

Member Services · Identity unresolved
Discussion messages1
First activityMay 25, 2005
Last activityMay 25, 2005
First explicit stanceUnknown
Latest explicit stanceUnknown
Stance changes0
Viewpoint consistencyNo explicit position stated
Other policies22

Sources and coverage

Official policy sources

Public discussion archives

arin-ppml
Earliest captured
Sep 1, 1999
Latest captured
Sep 19, 2026
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Oct 7, 2026
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30,661
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0
www.arin.net
arin-arin-announce
Earliest captured
Aug 4, 2026
Latest captured
Sep 28, 2026
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Oct 7, 2026
Coverage
Source coverage is incomplete.
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2,940
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0
arin-arin-consult
Earliest captured
Aug 14, 2026
Latest captured
Sep 15, 2026
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Oct 7, 2026
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Source coverage is incomplete.
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2,455
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0
arin-arin-discuss
Earliest captured
Aug 2, 1999
Latest captured
Aug 21, 2007
Last refresh
Oct 7, 2026
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Source coverage is incomplete.
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716
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0
arin-arin-issued
Earliest captured
Aug 2, 2026
Latest captured
Oct 6, 2026
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Oct 7, 2026
Coverage
Source coverage is incomplete.
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5,806
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0
arin-arin-ppml
Earliest captured
Aug 2, 2026
Latest captured
Sep 25, 2026
Last refresh
Oct 7, 2026
Coverage
Source coverage is incomplete.
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4,774
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0
arin-arin-regrws
Earliest captured
Unknown
Latest captured
Unknown
Last refresh
Oct 7, 2026
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Source coverage is incomplete.
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0
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0
arin-arin-rpki-pilot
Earliest captured
Jul 7, 2009
Latest captured
Jul 7, 2009
Last refresh
Oct 7, 2026
Coverage
Current
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0
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0
arin-arin-suggestions
Earliest captured
Aug 26, 2026
Latest captured
Sep 4, 2026
Last refresh
Oct 7, 2026
Coverage
Source coverage is incomplete.
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1,093
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0
arin-arin-tech-discuss
Earliest captured
Aug 13, 2026
Latest captured
Oct 5, 2026
Last refresh
Oct 7, 2026
Coverage
Source coverage is incomplete.
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1,628
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0
arin-arin-whoisrws
Earliest captured
Oct 9, 2009
Latest captured
Sep 6, 2010
Last refresh
Oct 7, 2026
Coverage
Source coverage is incomplete.
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0
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0
arin-clew
Earliest captured
May 6, 1999
Latest captured
Nov 7, 2002
Last refresh
Oct 6, 2026
Coverage
Source coverage is incomplete.
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56
Known gaps
0
arin-dbwg
Earliest captured
Apr 22, 1999
Latest captured
Dec 30, 2004
Last refresh
Oct 6, 2026
Coverage
Source coverage is incomplete.
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443
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0
arin-iana-transition
Earliest captured
Oct 13, 2014
Latest captured
Jun 9, 2016
Last refresh
Oct 6, 2026
Coverage
Source coverage is incomplete.
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145
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0
arin-icp2_review
Earliest captured
Apr 14, 2025
Latest captured
Nov 10, 2025
Last refresh
Oct 6, 2026
Coverage
Source coverage is incomplete.
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0
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0
arin-naipr
Earliest captured
Jan 1, 1997
Latest captured
Nov 3, 1997
Last refresh
Oct 6, 2026
Coverage
Source coverage is incomplete.
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1,964
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0
arin-nrr-blueprint
Earliest captured
Oct 9, 2002
Latest captured
Oct 29, 2002
Last refresh
Oct 6, 2026
Coverage
Current
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0
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0
arin-policy
Earliest captured
Oct 12, 1999
Latest captured
Mar 26, 2003
Last refresh
Oct 6, 2026
Coverage
Source coverage is incomplete.
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100
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0
arin-rtma
Earliest captured
Apr 18, 2000
Latest captured
Dec 28, 2001
Last refresh
Oct 6, 2026
Coverage
Source coverage is incomplete.
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269
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0
arin-services-wg
Earliest captured
Apr 20, 2016
Latest captured
Jan 20, 2018
Last refresh
Oct 6, 2026
Coverage
Source coverage is incomplete.
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29
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0
arin-v6wg
Earliest captured
Nov 8, 2000
Latest captured
Mar 1, 2005
Last refresh
Oct 6, 2026
Coverage
Source coverage is incomplete.
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145
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0
arin-vwp
Earliest captured
Oct 18, 2000
Latest captured
Jul 10, 2001
Last refresh
Oct 6, 2026
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Source coverage is incomplete.
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232
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0
arin-general-members
Earliest captured
Jun 3, 2022
Latest captured
Jun 25, 2026
Last refresh
Oct 6, 2026
Coverage
Source coverage is incomplete.
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129
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0

Coverage

Partial
Earliest captured: Jan 1, 1997
Latest captured: Oct 7, 2026

Freshness

Freshness: Stale · Last refresh: Oct 7, 2026, 1:07 AM

Known gaps

www.arin.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
www.arin.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-ppml: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
www.arin.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-arin-announce: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-arin-consult: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-arin-discuss: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-arin-issued: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-arin-ppml: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-arin-regrws: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-arin-suggestions: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-arin-tech-discuss: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-clew: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-dbwg: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-iana-transition: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-naipr: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-policy: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-rtma: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-services-wg: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-v6wg: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-vwp: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
arin-general-members: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.