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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…
Global Cloud Services
CoreWeave Must Turn Financed Capacity Into Real AI Uptime
CoreWeave reports 43 data centres and over 850 MW in service, with approximately 3.1 GW under contract; Microsoft accounts for 67% of its 2025 revenue. The network beneath the GPUs must convert this financed expansion into reliable, diversified services—otherwise capital costs…
Global Cloud Services
CoreWeave's Network Must Turn Financed Capacity into Useful AI Uptime
CoreWeave reported 43 data centres and over 850 MW of active power, versus roughly 3.1 GW contracted, while Microsoft accounted for 67% of 2025 revenue. The network under the GPUs must convert this financed expansion into reliable, diversified service before carrying costs and…
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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…
Global Cloud Services
Can CoreWeave’s Network Turn Financed Capacity into Productive AI Hours?
CoreWeave reports 43 data centres and over 850 MW of live power, with approximately 3.1 GW of contracted power and Microsoft making up 67% of its 2025 revenue. The networking stack beneath the GPUs must convert pre‑financed capital commitments into reliable, diversified services…
North America Institutional Trends
Jim Mankowich and the Campus Wireless Choice That Preserved Voice Service
When Lawson State Community College planned a campus-wide wireless network in 2009, the hard question was not simply where to put access points. The college already carried voice calls over its network. Students and employees needed different traffic boundaries. Old buildings, a…
Global Cloud Services
CoreWeave's network must turn funded capacity into productive AI time
CoreWeave reported 43 data centres and over 850 MW of active power, against about 3.1 GW contracted, while Microsoft contributed 67% of 2025 revenue. The network beneath the GPUs must convert that funded expansion into a reliable, diversified service before financing costs and…
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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…
Global Cloud Services
CoreWeave's network must turn financed capacity into usable AI time
CoreWeave reported 43 datacenters and more than 850 MW of active capacity, while around 3.1 GW was contractually secured and Microsoft accounted for 67% of 2025 revenue. The network beneath the GPUs must turn this financed expansion into reliable, diversified service before…
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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…
Global Cloud Services
The CoreWeave Network Must Turn Funded Capacity into Useful AI Time
CoreWeave disclosed 43 data centres and over 850 MW of active power, against roughly 3.1 GW contracted; Microsoft accounted for 67% of 2025 revenue. The network underneath its GPUs must turn this funded expansion into reliable, diversified service before financing costs and…
Europe and Middle East Cloud Services Trends
PerfGrid and the Infrastructure Evidence Behind Hosting
Hosting is often sold as a single service, but it is delivered through several control layers: company responsibility, server operation, address and routing records, name service, caching, suppliers, facilities, monitoring and recovery. PerfGrid’s public record offers a useful…
Global Cloud Services
CoreWeave’s network must turn financed capacity into useful AI time
CoreWeave reported 43 data centres and more than 850 MW of active power, while its contracted footprint was about 3.1 GW and Microsoft supplied 67% of 2025 revenue. The network beneath the GPUs must convert that financed expansion into reliable, diversified service before…
Africa Institutional
UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbps Core Network Constrained by Campus Endpoints
UbuntuNet’s 2023 report says core links were upgraded from around 2.5 Gbps to 10 Gbps, and new points of presence plus peering were added. Translating this regional upgrade into research capacity, however, depends on national research networks, campus systems, commercial…
Africa Institutional
UbuntuNet’s 10 Gbps core still depends on the campus edge
UbuntuNet’s 2023 report described core links upgraded from about 2.5 to 10 Gbps, along with new points of presence and peering. This regional gain only reaches researchers when national networks, campus systems, operators and recurrent funding can sustain it after each…