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Eight applications in one annex: How to read a procedural map without inventing eight judgments

In 2022 SCJ 51, the Supreme Court of Mauritius placed eight related injunction applications into a single annex. That compact record shows why a filing count can reveal genuine procedural pressure while still saying almost nothing, by itself, about how many underlying rights were…

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The Succession Clock That Had to Beat the Quorum Line

AFRINIC’s January 2022 reconstitution of its Audit Committee shows why institutional continuity is decided by sequence, not by the mere existence of a replacement rule: the appointing Board must use its ordinary authority before vacancies make that authority unavailable.

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Bruce Maggs and the algorithms that turned distance into an infrastructure business

Akamai did not shorten the internet; it built a system that made distant content behave as though it were nearby. Bruce Maggs helped turn placement, mapping, caching and failure algorithms into commercial infrastructure, while the scale of that achievement belongs to the team and…

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The Promise Behind AFRINIC’s Open-Ended Defence

At an urgent online meeting, AFRINIC’s directors had to consider a motion that named directors individually—and then decide whether the company would carry every legal cost arising from their defence. The protection could preserve independent judgment in a moment of personal…

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When Nine Applications Still Do Not Make a Merits Judgment

AFRINIC counted repeated applications and said Cloud Innovation Ltd was seeking the same protection for its Resource Member membership yet again. The Judge in Chambers asked a harder question: had the same merits issue ever been finally decided, and had the operating position…

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AFRINIC’s Transfer Draft 3 and the Institution You May Need to Leave

Three days in November 2021 put a difficult governance question into unusually sharp relief: can a number-resource transfer route count as a genuine right of exit when the incumbent registry remains the institution that decides whether the holder may use it?

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Six Proposals, One Narrow Mandate: Reading the AFRINIC-34 Decision Docket

Across two online mornings in November 2021, AFRINIC’s policy forum confronted six different ways in which private registry administration could become more explicit—and potentially more powerful. At the same time, AFRINIC and Cloud Innovation were in active litigation over…

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The Resolution Between Consensus and Execution

Resolution 202201.673 crossed a narrow but consequential threshold: AFPUB-2019-GEN-006-DRAFT03 was the same proposal before and after the AFRINIC Board acted in January 2022, yet the private corporation’s responsibility was not. Consensus had recommended a course; ratification…

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When “Perpetual” Is Not Permanent: The Seychelles Injunction Record and Registry Power

On AFRINIC’s official case index, a proceeding that asked for the most permanent-sounding form of restraint ends with two spare words: “Application set-aside.” That contrast in CS 103/2021 is more than a curiosity of court terminology. It shows why a private number registry must…

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The Mandate AFRINIC-34 Did Not Let Through

At AFRINIC-34, a proposal to make resource-request justifications more visible met a necessary institutional limit: unresolved concerns about confidentiality, legal authority, retroactivity and implementation could not be converted into duties merely by moving the text forward.…

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AFRINIC’s Own Warning: A Dashboard Status Could Not Decide RSA Renewal or Termination

When AFRINIC published the second draft of its Policy Compliance Dashboard proposal, the most important part was not the promise of a clearer member view. It was the brake applied by AFRINIC’s own staff: information shown in MyAFRINIC could aid visibility, but it could not be…

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The Flag Must Stop at the Gate: AFRINIC Draft 2 and Notice Without Punishment

An automated check sees an IPv6 assignment that is not publicly announced. That may look irregular, yet the member may be using the assignment legitimately inside its own network. On 16 November 2021, that example was offered in discussion of AFRINIC’s Policy Compliance Dashboard…

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When Consensus Cannot Supply Consent: AFRINIC Draft 2 and the Missing Authority to Disclose

A proposal to publish summaries of successful internet-number requests met an obstacle in AFRINIC’s own assessment: the registry had thousands of old files, no standard summaries, and no express permission from the members whose information would be repurposed. The resulting…

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AFRINIC Draft 2 and the Four Couplers That Would Not Meet

Four counterpart registries examined the same proposed transfer lane and found that it did not connect to the way they worked. The lesson of AFRINIC's second Resource Transfer Policy draft was not that management needed more freedom to wave a transaction through. It was that…

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The Two-Year Switch: When Registry Transparency Becomes a Second Data Demand

AFRINIC’s Publication of Information proposal began with a deceptively simple clock: evidence given privately to justify an accepted resource request would move towards publication two years later. The hard question was not whether registry decisions should be visible, but…

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The Empty Chair and the New Charter: AFRINIC’s Version 4 Legitimacy Test

On 23 August 2021, AFRINIC’s Board recorded that it had heard feedback about the rules for an internal appeal body, retired a charter that was only weeks old, and approved another before the next day’s search for volunteers. That sequence was responsive, but responsiveness and…

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The mandate that stopped at the office door

Resolution 202108.630 gave AFRINIC a practical way to manage urgent litigation through a serving chief executive. What it did not provide was a perpetual institutional power of attorney. When the named office-holder left, a later appeal exposed the difference between a company…

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A USD 600,000 Ceiling Is Not a USD 600,000 Transaction

In August 2021, AFRINIC’s Board placed a number on an emergency power: its CEO could enter into “recognition of debts” with third parties up to USD 600,000, for the stated purpose of keeping the company afloat while damages cases brought by Cloud Innovation Ltd remained pending.…

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When Authority Failed, Protection Fell — Not the Contract Case

On 7 July 2021, the Supreme Court of Mauritius upheld preliminary objection 3(a), declined to examine the other points and set aside Cloud Innovation Ltd’s application with costs. That procedural ruling removed the vehicle on which an interim restraint protecting Resource Member…

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The Bridge Behind the Filing: AFRINIC’s Retrospective Litigation Authority

AFRINIC’s Board described a sequence that moved in two directions at once. In Resolution 202108.626, it looked backward, expressly endorsing and ratifying action already taken for an application to vary a provisional attachment order. In Resolution 202108.627, it looked forward…