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One resolution, two proof burdens: what AFRINIC had to preserve in 202002.552
One resolution, two proof burdens: what AFRINIC had to preserve in 202002.552 intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may…
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The USD 200 Question: What AFRINIC’s Communications Reimbursement Needed to Show
In May 2020, when remote board work could make ordinary connectivity an institutional necessity, AFRINIC’s directors authorised communications reimbursements of up to USD 200 per director per month. The ceiling was modest, but that is what makes Resolution 202005.553 revealing: a…
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A Confidential Poll at the Gate
On 12 February 2020, AFRINIC’s Board used a confidential poll, a tie-break and an uncontested nomination to appoint the four people who would shape the candidate field before members saw a ballot. The minutes disclose the five first-round vote totals, the second-round result and…
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Before the Ballot: What AFRINIC Resolution 202001.547 Put in Place
In January 2020, AFRINIC’s Board adopted a new Election Processes and Guidelines rulebook covering the path from nomination and candidate screening to voter eligibility, proxies, electronic and paper ballots, counting, ties, disputes and publication of results. Resolution…
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The Policy Compliance Dashboard appeal tested reviewability of a non-consensus assessment
The Policy Compliance Dashboard looked like an administrative instrument, but its classifications sat upstream of notices and potentially serious registry actions. When the co-chairs concluded that significant objections remained, the ensuing appeal posed a more important…
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The date that made the appeal: Draft 4 and the limits of internal review
On 7 October 2020, after a last call begun on 21 September and amid disagreement over whether changes in Draft 4 had received enough final review, the co-chairs said consensus was maintained. The two appeal records that followed did not ask the Appeal Committee to choose whether…
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When ‘No Consensus’ Must Give Reasons: The 2020 RPKI AS0 Draft 2 Appeal
In 2020, a proposal for a machine-readable routing-security signal was halted by a distinctly human judgement: AFRINIC’s co-chairs assessed that its second draft lacked consensus. The ensuing appeal put the negative decision itself under scrutiny. Its enduring significance lies…
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The dashboard that could reveal a difference but could not create a punishment
A proposed MyAFRINIC screen promised to put payment records, documents, contact history, routing-adjacent signals and transfer questions in one private view. That convenience could have made registry records easier to correct. It also risked making fundamentally different kinds…
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The Fee at the Prefix Boundary: What Resolution 202001.546 Actually Authorised
In January 2020, AFRINIC's Board drew new Mini and Micro membership-fee lines around IPv4 prefix bands. The lines were easy to state, but the surviving evidence does not show the economic bridge from a member's recorded prefix to the charge it was expected to bear. That…
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Before the Ledger Moves: What AFRINIC Resolution 202002.550 Required
AFRINIC’s February 2020 disclosure matters less as a scandal notice than as a test of sequence: when an internal record appears wrong, the registry must preserve the evidence, refer suspected wrongdoing to competent investigators, keep its live register accurate and repair the…
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The Six-Month Return Clock: Draft 8 and the Limit of AFRINIC’s RSA Power
For an operator, six months is not an abstract grace period. It can be the interval between an adverse registry finding and the forced unwinding of part of a live address portfolio: customer migrations, reverse-DNS changes, routing-security dependencies, transfer choices, legal…
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AFRINIC's current Board is making decisions, but its resolutions archive still stops at 2022
AFRINIC says its Board publishes resolutions and the minutes of the meetings where they were taken. As of 13 August 2026, the page making that promise listed years only through 2022—even though the purported current Board has since announced decisions on management, committees…
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The Penalty Draft 4 Left Undefined
AFRINIC’s fourth abuse-contact proposal looked softer because it erased an elaborate failure ladder and its express route toward revocation procedures. Yet the shorter text preserved the power that mattered most: discretion to warn a resource holder and block unspecified services…
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Two Clauses, One Broken Bridge
AFRINIC’s third draft of its Resource Transfer Policy changed only two provisions: section 5.7.3.2 imposed a twelve-month post-transfer restriction on a source seeking more AFRINIC IPv4 space, and section 5.7.4.3 preserved the legacy status of transferred legacy resources.…
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Eighteen Days to Redraw a Boundary: What AFRINIC’s Draft 5 Left Unsettled
AFRINIC’s official details and current proposal list place eighteen days between Draft 4 and Draft 5 of its abuse-contact proposal, then only twelve days between Draft 5 and the AFRINIC-31 discussion. That narrow interval matters because the new draft made a genuine concession…
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Four Weeks to Show the Work: Evidence Before AFRINIC Consensus
At AFRINIC-31, a proposal about impact analysis exposed a harder question than whether staff could meet a deadline. It asked whether people should have a timely, shared account of technical, operational, financial and legal effects before they were asked to accept a rule—and what…
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The Zero That Had to Move First: AFRINIC’s First AS0 Draft and the Design of Reversible Warning
On 4 November 2019, AFRINIC published its first proposal to originate AS0 ROAs for address space recorded as unallocated. The idea offered operators a useful authenticated warning: ordinary public routing should not emerge from space that the registry ledger said nobody had been…
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The Electorate Behind the Chair: What AFRINIC’s 2019 Draft Could—and Could Not—Authorise
In November 2019, a proposal to formalise elections for the chairs of AFRINIC’s Policy Development Working Group offered a six-month mailing-list electorate, electronic voting and a full procedural calendar. It also placed candidate screening, objections, ratification, vacancy…
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A Contact Test Is Not an Abuse Trial: AFRINIC Draft 3 and the Boundary It Exposed
When AFRINIC published the third draft of its Abuse Contact Policy Update in June 2019, it made a distinction with consequences far beyond mailbox administration: proving that an operator can be reached is not the same thing as deciding whether that operator handled an abuse…
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Draft 7 offered six months, but did not clearly offer a cure
On 6 April 2019, AFRINIC published Version 7.0 of its Internet Number Resources Review proposal, AFPUB-2016-GEN-001-DRAFT07. Its one stated change from Draft 6 sounded protective: an organisation would have at least six months, and perhaps longer, before resources were recovered.…
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