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The ledger behind the call: what AFRINIC needed to show for Resource Transfer Policy Draft 4
On 5 October 2020, a fourth version of AFRINIC’s Resource Transfer Policy became the text that mattered. The public meeting in September had discussed the policy project, but it could not have approved words that had not yet been submitted. Once AFPUB-2019-V4-003-DRAFT04 arrived…
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The Longer Clock and the Shorter Fuse: AFRINIC’s Draft 2 Abuse-Contact Paradox
AFRINIC’s second abuse-contact draft relaxed the timetable for proving that a mailbox worked, yet sharpened what could happen when the proof failed. The proposal’s real significance lies in that mismatch: a modest record-accuracy test was redesigned as a possible gateway to loss…
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JANOG58 turned a sponsor annex into its first local-5G operations trial
JANOG58’s most consequential wireless result was not a headline speed test. Faced with an overflow of sponsor booths in a separate annex, the meeting team assembled a licensed local-5G service, provisioned it through CPE routers and operated it across three conference…
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Four Repairs, Four Gates: The Private Authority Map Inside AFRINIC’s PDP Bis Draft 4
On 29 October 2018, AFRINIC published a proposed rulebook in which PDWG chairs would have up to two weeks to pronounce on consensus, yet their decision still sat inside a longer chain: a Board-appointed committee could review process, the Board could remand a proposal on…
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The Million-Address Switch: What SL-Update Draft 1 Actually Changed
On 28 October 2018, three authors published a proposal that would rewrite a single paragraph in AFRINIC’s Soft Landing policy. The change was compact, but the reserve behind it was not: an unused /12, containing 1,048,576 IPv4 addresses. SL-Update Draft 1 proposed taking the…
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The record outside the contract: AFRINIC’s first legacy-transfer draft
AFRINIC said it maintained inherited Internet number records for organisations with which it had no ordinary contract. That arrangement could persist while an address block stayed put. A proposed transfer made the anomaly urgent: the registry needed reliable evidence of who could…
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A routing identity without a second upstream: how Draft 1 challenged AFRINIC’s multihoming proxy
A routing identity without a second upstream: how Draft 1 challenged AFRINIC’s multihoming proxy intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure…
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The reciprocal bridge AFRINIC drafted before it had a transfer path
A 2018 proposal tried to solve a deceptively practical problem: how two regional registries could recognise the same cross-border resource transfer without mistaking their shared recordkeeping for ownership of the resource. Its best provisions made the ledger follow reality; its…
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What the Simple PDP Update Took Away—and Where Its Discretion Went
AFRINIC’s Simple PDP Update Draft 1 approached process reform with a red pen: shorten notices, move the moment of decision, narrow the objections that counted at Last Call, and make mailing-list participation less subordinate to a meeting room. That subtraction offered a credible…
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The resolution with two numbers: what AFRINIC’s IPv6 PI ratification did — and did not — put into effect
AFRINIC’s August 2018 adoption of an IPv6 provider-independent addressing update removed an obsolete eligibility barrier and added a useful correction route, but the organisation’s own records disagree over the resolution number and show that implementation continued after the…
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Two words, two directions: AFRINIC’s IPv6 sub-assignment redline
On 22 August 2018, the words “semi-permanent connectivity” appeared in an AFRINIC proposal about IPv6 provider-independent assignments. They seemed to tighten a familiar prohibition. Yet the same revision removed a numerical limit, discarded a peculiar restriction on…
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AFRINIC called an interim takedown order a legal confirmation. The order says less
The Mauritius Supreme Court temporarily barred Cloud Innovation from falsely attributing judicial approval to AFRINIC-address leasing and ordered related material removed. AFRINIC then presented that ex parte order as confirmation of a wider legal position. The published ruling…
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The five-day mailbox: when AFRINIC Draft 1 turned contactability into compliance
Two messages, one code and five business days separated a useful registry check from a proposed breach finding. AFRINIC’s first Abuse Contact Policy Update draft began with the practical need for a reachable network-abuse desk, then crossed into prescribing how that desk must…
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The IPv6 door that opened without an IPv4 past
An African enterprise planning a second upstream faces a deceptively simple choice: accept provider-assigned IPv6 and prepare to renumber if the commercial relationship changes, or seek a provider-independent prefix that can preserve its public network identity across both paths.…
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AFRINIC's 2017 accounts: approval before completion
Resolution 201803.403 fixed an important responsibility: AFRINIC's Board approved the 2017 financial statements before the auditors signed their report, then authorised the chief executive and chair to sign both the accounts and a representation letter. That sequence was orderly…
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The seven-year error in AFRINIC’s IPv6 manual
Seven years after newer Internet guidance had displaced an old formula for sizing IPv6 assignments, AFRINIC’s working manual still directed members and staff towards the obsolete text. The proposal that repaired the mistake looked like housekeeping. In fact, it exposed a serious…
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The narrow door through AFRINIC’s secrecy wall
Resolution 201803.402 did something modest but indispensable: it allowed directors and former directors to give an independent investigation committee confidential information that was reasonably necessary for its work. That permission stopped AFRINIC’s own secrecy rule from…
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The Seat That Members Refused to Fill
Resolution 201803.401 solved a real nomination conflict by building a one-seat route back to AFRINIC’s members, but its unwritten bylaw foundation and the Board’s proximity to the candidate gate made refusal—not institutional confidence—the decisive test of legitimacy.
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Ratification was not implementation: the 107-day chain behind AFRINIC’s IPv6 manual repair
A unanimous Board vote on 8 August 2018 settled one institutional question but left two practical jobs visibly unfinished. AFRINIC still had to notify the policy chairs and put the adopted IPv6 reference update into its working manual. The resulting chain—from recommendation to…
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The Forecast at the Registry Door: AFRINIC’s 2018 IPv6 Allocation Rewrite
AFRINIC’s second draft of the IPv6 Initial Allocation Update tried to make the registry fit real networks rather than force every applicant through a narrow service-provider model. It widened who an LIR could serve, allowed evidence for an initial block larger than `/32`, offered…
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