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Before the Ballot: Resolution 201404.196 and the Discipline of Rules Fixed in Advance
AFRINIC’s brief April 2014 resolution did something institutionally important before the next Board ballot: it approved a revised election rulebook. The enduring question is not whether that act made AFRINIC a public authority—it did not—but whether a private registry coordinator…
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The Charter at the Centre of AFRINIC’s 2014 CEO Search
AFRINIC’s approval of a CEO search charter looks like a procedural moment, but it carries a larger institutional question: can a private infrastructure coordinator show where confidential search work ends and accountable Board authority begins when the governing instrument itself…
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AFRINIC called transfer-policy criticism “mischievous.” The authority case is still open
AFRINIC answered outside criticism of its transfer policy by declaring its Board properly constituted, defending a bottom-up process and directing members to official channels. Its own litigation page now records the challenge to that Board’s ratification as ongoing. The gap is…
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The Check Before the Allocation: What AFRINIC Resolution 201411.214 Did—and Did Not—Authorise
On 25 November 2014, AFRINIC's Board recorded a unanimous decision giving its chief executive discretion to use available methods to authenticate resource-allocation applications. Yet the institution left two materially different public traces of that act. Its Board register…
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The Search Before the Succession: What AFRINIC’s 2014 CEO Committee Actually Controlled
AFRINIC’s October 2014 decision to name a five-person CEO Search Committee was a small entry in a Board register and a consequential act of institutional design. Read alongside the Board’s immediate November actions and the bylaws then in force, it reveals both the beginning of…
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The Ten-Name Slate and the Unseen Gate in AFRINIC's 2013 Board Election
In May 2013, AFRINIC's Board approved a list of candidates for the following month's Board election, but the surviving public record says almost nothing about what that approval involved. Resolution 201305.176 therefore matters less as a clue to any individual candidacy than as a…
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The Deputy’s Boundary: What AFRINIC’s 2013 Vice-Chair Appointment Did—and Did Not—Authorize
Resolution 201308.179 gave AFRINIC a named vice-chair and a fixed date on which that appointment ended. Its significance lies less in personal succession than in institutional continuity: a deputy could keep a meeting moving when the chair could not preside, while the Board’s…
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The Chair’s One-Year Clock: What Resolution 201308.178 Did—and Did Not Do
In August 2013, AFRINIC’s Board recorded a narrow but consequential act: Resolution 201308.178 appointed Badru Ntege as Chairman of the Board for one year, ending on 30 June 2014. The fixed term offered continuity without permanence. Read alongside the archived Bylaws, the…
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Four Names Before the Ballot: What AFRINIC’s 2013 NomCom Appointment Controlled
In April 2013, AFRINIC’s Board put Douglas Onyango, Pierre Dandjinou, Tim McGuiness and Mark Elkins on NomCom 2013. The resolution was only a sentence long, but the committee defined by the bylaws stood at a consequential gate: it could seek candidates, set eligibility criteria…
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AFRINIC’s First Three Elders: Memory, Concentration and the Limits of Appointment
In April 2013, Resolution 201304.174 put three names into a newly created advisory structure. Read with the governing bylaw, that short appointment reveals a consequential institutional choice: AFRINIC filled half of a six-seat ceiling from its own former-chair class, gaining a…
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Three Names at the Treasury Gate: What AFRINIC’s 2013 Signatory Slate Made Visible
In April 2013, Resolution 201304.169 placed three senior executives by name inside AFRINIC’s principal bank-signatory perimeter. That act made potential execution authority identifiable, but the public record stopped short of saying how the three-person mandate was meant to…
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The Missing Handshake in AFRINIC’s 2013 Banker Notification
In April 2013, AFRINIC’s Board directed that its bankers be furnished with relevant policies and resolutions, including Resolution 201304.172 itself. That compact instruction recognised a decisive boundary: a banking-authority change recorded inside an organisation cannot become…
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AFRINIC’s Two-Office Reserve: What Resolution 201304.170 Did—and Left Unsaid
In April 2013, AFRINIC placed a Board representative in Mauritius and its human-resources director behind three principal bank signatories as a two-office reserve. Resolution 201304.170 addressed a real continuity problem, but its concise public wording leaves open the chain that…
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A Door for Memory, Not a Throne: What AFRINIC Created in April 2013
In April 2013, AFRINIC’s Board approved the creation of a Council of Elders under article 16 of its 2012 Bylaws. The act was precise but incomplete by design: it constituted an advisory body of former chairs without appointing anyone, transferring any Board power, or explaining…
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AFRINIC’s 2013 USD 100,000 Restatement: A Familiar Limit in a New Authority Matrix
In April 2013, AFRINIC’s Board again reserved approval for transactions above USD 100,000, but it did so after adopting Delegation of Authority 002-2013 and reorganising the people around that limit. The amount was old; the institutional setting was new. That distinction makes…
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AFRINIC named four election gatekeepers. It did not show how its Board chose them
AFRINIC’s 2026 Nomination Committee decided who reached final slates for seven governance positions. The Board published the four appointees and later identified a chair, but the fixed public record does not show the applicant pool, the appointment assessment, conflict…
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When a removal did not end a term: AFRINIC's 2013 director-record puzzle
In February 2013, AFRINIC recorded the consented removal of two directors. Yet its later records continued to place them in governance roles and eventually said that both completed their terms in June 2015. The puzzle is not a licence to invent a dispute. It is a case study in…
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Three names, two elections and one corporate register
In February 2013, AFRINIC placed three directors into a single resolution. The sentence looks complete until it is compared with the elections that preceded it and the corporate records that should follow it. That comparison turns a short appointment notice into a test of whether…
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The Treasury Policy AFRINIC Approved but Did Not Show
In February 2013, AFRINIC’s Board approved investment policies and guidelines submitted by the Secretariat. The surviving resolution proves that the organisation created a treasury-governance instrument, but it does not disclose a single operative rule. That gap matters because…
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AFRINIC sought an HR audit. Its Remuneration Committee’s follow-through is not public
AFRINIC opened an unusually specific HR consultancy process in April: test the skills of 41 staff, review performance appraisal and build a succession plan for business continuity. Four months later, the public procurement notice remains easy to find. The award, signing date…
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