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AFRINIC’s Interim Management Committee Was Given Six Months. Who Renewed It?
AFRINIC gave three senior employees collective responsibility for day-to-day management during its CEO vacancy and said the arrangement would last six months or until a new chief executive arrived. The announcement was public; the full authority chain was not. Using the…
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Eight elected seats in one notice: what AFRINIC’s 12 September result proves
AFRINIC’s brief announcement did something institutionally significant: it named an occupant for every member-elected Board seat in a single exceptional reconstitution cycle. Yet the notice remains a declaration, not a complete result receipt. Its evidentiary value becomes clear…
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The Deadline Had Two Doors
On 26 June 2025, a Mauritian court turned AFRINIC’s stalled return to ordinary governance into a test with three coordinates: conduct a new election process, constitute a Board, and do both by one outer date. The discipline of Order SC/COM/MOT/000467/2025 lies not in the calendar…
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Three Days, One Election, and the Missing Logic of a Total Annulment
The Receiver’s decision to annul AFRINIC’s entire 2025 Board-election process converted an unspecified irregularity into a universal consequence. The central governance question is not whether the concern deserved attention, but what public reasoning should connect a protected…
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When a Membership Label Becomes a Ballot Gate
AFRINIC’s court-directed explanation of its member categories exposed a consequential but usually hidden junction: the point where a private corporate record becomes an input to election administration. Making that junction visible was valuable. It was not the same as proving…
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The ICANN case made the official transcript the court record
On 19 June 2025, a Mauritian court gave a digitally recorded oral proceeding a decisive procedural status: it would be the official transcript. That narrow act matters because, when institutional commitments are spoken rather than set out in a self-contained written order, the…
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AFRINIC’s Accounts Show $3.289 Million in Legal Spending. Who Authorised Each Dollar?
AFRINIC’s own disclosures put its legal spending at $3,289,408 from 2022 through 2025. The figure is not an allegation; it is arithmetic drawn from the registry’s published accounts. The unresolved question lies one layer below the totals. Which engagement, invoice, approver…
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RIPE NCC’s Dubai Company Has One Member. Where Do the Association’s Members Enter?
The member register of RIPE NCC Middle East FZ-LLC has the shortest possible answer: one corporate member, the Dutch RIPE NCC association. That clarity is useful. It also exposes the real governance question. Ordinary RIPE NCC members elect the parent association’s Executive…
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LACNIC Counted 978 Organisations and 2,145 Weighted Votes. One Denominator Is Still Missing.
LACNIC’s 2026 extraordinary Board election published enough numbers to reproduce a seven-percent organisation turnout and the winning margin. It did not publish the total voting power held by all eligible organisations. In a system where one member can carry eleven times another…
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India’s Routing-Security Coverage Is Rising Faster Than Invalid-Route Filtering
APNIC’s latest India ecosystem review points to rapid gains in RPKI coverage alongside a much smaller reported share of networks filtering invalid announcements. The gap is a monitoring problem, not a verdict on national resilience.
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ARIN’s 2026 Election Officer Is a Sitting Trustee. Who Audits the Certification Chain?
ARIN’s published rules give one non-candidate Trustee a view across candidate problems, the voter list and the final tally before the Board confirms the result. That is a real internal control. It is not the same thing as independent election assurance—and the distinction matters…
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APNIC Moved Its One Share Into a Corporate Trustee. Who Controls the Trustee?
The reform removed a real one-person vulnerability. It did not remove the one-share legal machine. APNIC’s own trust deeds, company constitutions and by-laws show where authority now travels—and why collective control should not be confused with independent trusteeship or direct…
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AFRINIC’s remote-board clause can hear a quorum. It still cannot identify one
Draft Article 19.3 preserves remote Board meetings, but its test stops at a working audio channel. For an institution whose decisions can bind members, move money and restrict exit, that is not yet an evidence standard.
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When AFRINIC Could Not Authorise Itself, Company Law Supplied an Agent
Four directors could still turn up, staff could still know the work and lawyers could still know the file. None of that answered the decisive corporate question in September 2023: who could lawfully speak and act for AFRINIC when its Board needed five directors for a quorum, its…
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ARIN consults on retiring legacy directory services in favour of RDAP
ARIN has opened a consultation on a roadmap to consolidate four directory-service protocols around RDAP. The proposal is not a shutdown notice: it asks users how the retirement of older interfaces should be staged, with different earliest dates for each service.
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AFRINIC draft makes one year the line between a member election and a Board appointment
Proposed Article 13.9 would require an election when more than one year remains in a vacant Board seat, but would let the Board appoint the replacement when one year or less remains. That is clearer than AFRINIC’s current interim rule, yet the draft does not fix when the…
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AFRINIC draft opens a wide advice channel without an advice register
The proposed Article 16 would replace the Council of Elders with flexible committees and let the Board seek nonbinding input from almost any interested person or body. Its committee safeguards are detailed; its separate advisory-engagement trail is not.
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AFRINIC draft lets presence count as a yes vote unless a Director expressly dissents
A chair can be occupied without a hand being raised. Under draft Article 19.9, that presence can still enter AFRINIC’s decision record as agreement and an affirmative vote unless the Director expressly dissents or votes against. The rule is not new, but the consultation is an…
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AFRINIC retains a six-vote route to remove its CEO without making the Board’s record visible
Draft Article 17.2 leaves the existing CEO-removal power unchanged: on a full nine-seat Board, six of the eight other directors can end the appointment, subject to labour law. The same draft adds “justifiable cause” elsewhere but does not require a non-confidential reason, tally…
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AFRINIC draft adds “justifiable cause” but leaves Director removal procedure outside Article 14
AFRINIC’s proposed Article 14.1(c) would let two-thirds of all other Directors remove a Director for “justifiable cause”. The phrase improves the current Constitution, which gives the same Board-controlled route without an express cause test. Yet the draft’s explanation promises…
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