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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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Massimo Candela and the interfaces that turn routing data into action
From BGPlay and RIPE Atlas interfaces to BGPalerter and geofeed monitoring, Massimo Candela has built tools that turn partial internet measurements into something operators can investigate. Their value depends on preserving the sources, thresholds and maintenance ownership behind…
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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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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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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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Four AS Identities Around Internetmanufaktur Karlsruhe
Public records around Internetmanufaktur Karlsruhe become useful when company chronology, number-resource ledgers, routing observations, exchange metadata and bounded measurements remain separate evidence layers.