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Four committees, twelve seats, and the mandate record AFRINIC members could not see in one place
On 8 July 2016, AFRINIC’s Board considered a committee composition table already discussed informally at its retreat, reconstituted four temporary bodies with twelve seats between them, and adopted the resolution with one proxy-represented director abstaining. The act looks like…
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Three Smaller Rooms: AFRINIC’s 2016 Standing-Committee Control Map
Two committee chairs crossed the boundary between finance and audit, but they did not cross on equal terms. That small asymmetry in AFRINIC’s July 2016 committee roster reveals what the resolution really was: a private-company arrangement for moving information, framing…
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From Ballot to Ledger: What AFRINIC Resolution 201607.287 Actually Did
Five days after new Board terms began, AFRINIC recorded a precise piece of corporate housekeeping: remove Aminata Amadou Garba and add Seun Ojedeji on the List of Directors and Members at the Registrar of Companies of Mauritius, effective 1 July 2016. Resolution 201607.287…
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The Signature After the Vote: What AFRINIC’s 2015 Accounts Approval Really Carried
On 6 June 2016, AFRINIC’s Board approved financial statements that the record described as already prepared and audited, while the auditor’s signature was still expected to follow. That sequence can support accountability—but only if every handoff, omission and unresolved control…
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The auditor’s return: what AFRINIC’s 2016 reappointment record can — and cannot — show
AFRINIC’s decision to retain PwC for the 2016 financial year looks simple only from a distance. Read closely, the public record describes a sequence of distinct acts: committee review, Board recommendation and member approval. That sequence created a route for accountability, but…
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When an audit becomes a claim to power: AFRINIC’s first resource-review draft
On 18 May 2016, four authors published a proposal for AFRINIC to audit the number-resource records of its members. The administrative premise was serious: a registry cannot keep a dependable ledger if it cannot test stale, contradictory or false information. But…
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The Boundary in the Room: What AFRINIC’s 2016 Conduct Code Could—and Could Not—Do
AFRINIC’s Board adopted Resolution 201605.283 to govern behaviour in meetings and mailing lists, where a well-aimed intervention can protect participation but an overextended one can redistribute institutional power. The enduring significance of the code lies in that boundary. A…
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Seven Days, a Different Instrument: How Soft Landing BIS Draft 2 Turned a Patch into a Replacement
The most consequential change between the first two Soft Landing BIS drafts was not a newly tightened address threshold. It was a change in form: within seven days, a selective amendment became a self-contained replacement, altering how readers would identify, interpret and audit…
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The Final Pool Was a Ledger, Not a Realm
Soft Landing BIS Draft 1 offered a concrete bargain for the dwindling IPv4 pool: cut the largest Phase 1 award, move to the next phase at a declared pool threshold, and preserve separate routes for shared infrastructure, first-time applicants and needs not yet foreseen. The…
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The committee that did not yet exist: AFRINIC’s five-to-six-month accountability gap
AFRINIC’s Resolution 201602.270 altered a calendar, not a constitution. Yet by moving the first Governance Committee election and appointment from the May/June 2016 meeting window to November/December, the Board also postponed the arrival of a new place for structured advice…
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The USD 10,000 Decision: Tracing AFRINIC’s IETF Endowment Commitment
On 26 June 2015, AFRINIC’s Board turned an online resolution into a narrow corporate commitment: USD 10,000, once only, for the IETF Endowment. The amount was modest and the recipient’s work was closely connected to the technical standards on which address coordination depends.…
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Who Watches the Pay Committee? The Governance Test Inside AFRINIC Resolution 201411.221
In November 2014, AFRINIC’s Board approved the charter of a Remuneration & Compensation Committee. The public entry is only a sentence, and the charter itself is absent from the record examined here. Yet that small act exposes a large design problem: how can directors create a…
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The chair before the socket: Resolution 201411.218 and AFRINIC’s bylaw gap
AFRINIC’s November 2014 election-guideline decision joined a sensible procedural redesign to a constitutional change that still lay in the future. The central issue is not whether preparation was permissible, but whether a proposed Election Committee Chair could be kept dormant…
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A seat is not a mandate: what AFRINIC Resolution 201411.216 actually authorised
AFRINIC’s Board put three named people on a technical coordination team in November 2014. The surviving record is precise about that corporate act and strikingly quiet about any larger constituency behind it. That distinction matters: useful participation can be fast, expert and…
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The Boardroom Gate: AFRINIC Resolution 201411.211 and the Members’ Right to Know
On 23 November 2014, AFRINIC’s Board adopted a confidentiality rule by six votes, with none against and one abstention. Resolution 201411.211 protected a real institutional need: directors require space for candid discussion of personnel, legal advice, security and negotiation.…
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A Clock at the Service Desk: AFRINIC Draft 1 Without Sovereignty
On 26 October 2014, a proposal marked `Under Discussion` tried to turn delay, shifting evidence demands and intrusive questions into measurable service problems. Its importance lies not in making AFRINIC a regulator, but in showing how firm private obligations could constrain a…
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The Authority Map Missing from AFRINIC’s Collated Policy Manual
In October 2014, AFRINIC’s Board approved an already collated Policy Manual. The short public act records consolidation and approval, but not the manual’s identity, sources, hierarchy or operative history. That gap matters because a corporate manual is most useful when it makes…
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The Seven-Day Ledger: AFRINIC’s 2014 Registration Proposal and the Line It Could Not Cross
An assignment of eight IPv4 addresses could have started a seven-business-day countdown: under a 2014 proposal, an AFRINIC member would have had to turn that customer or infrastructure allocation into a documented WHOIS record. The discipline was practical and potentially…
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The Two-Page Threshold: What Resolution 201401.200 Put in Public View
AFRINIC chose speed with an explicit promise of completion: two headline statements would appear while signatures were pending, then a signed 31-page package would take their place. The surviving files show the disclosure boundary clearly. What they do not show is the dated…
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The Rotation Test: What AFRINIC’s 2014 Auditor Change Actually Controlled
AFRINIC’s move from Ernst & Young to KPMG mattered not because one global accounting name replaced another, but because the change exposed a chain of private-company accountability in which selection, recommendation, appointment, assurance and review belonged to different hands.
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