Hi all,
I’ve already submitted some points directly to AFRINIC, and I will like your to consider them as well:
1) “Internet Community” actual definition is wrong and contradicts other sections of the bylaws and CPM. But even worst it against ICP-2 and the new version being worked out. The wrong point is stating “living or operating in the AFRINIC service region”. Just removing that will work, because there is a single Internet, and all the people in any RIR region, has the right to participate in others as well. What is being done in one region, can have impact in others.
2) 11.2 In other RIRs, there is no such strict link among bylaws and PDP and Public Policy Meetings. This should be left to the community by means of the PDP. The link between policies and obligation of members to comply with that, is stablished via the RSA. Probably this section just need to say that AFRINIC must provide the means for the PPMs to happen or something similar.
3) 11.4/5 are very broken. In none of the RIRs there is such provision. If the board decide to do something very wrong, the effects are irreversible and can bring a lot of courts legal issues. What other RIRs do is that there is a urgency process for the PDP (as the variance in the process in our PDP, 3.6), so it is already getting the consensus with the community, not *after*.
4) There must be a way to avoid the situation that happened already twice in AFRINIC of having no quorum for calling for the meeting. For example, a fall-back mechanism so a minimum of “n” members can call for it.
El 7 may 2026, a las 11:46, Elaine Zinn via zanog-discuss <zanog-discuss@lists.nog.net.za> escribió:
Dear ZANOG
AFRINIC is currently conducting a public review of its by-laws. ISPA requested its Mauritian lawyers to review the by-laws to ensure that they are consistent with the Mauritian legal framework and to identify potential changes that could protect AFRINIC from future legal challenges as much as possible.
A first draft of this review has been attached.
If you wish to provide additional comments to ISPA for consideration by the lawyers, please submit your feedback by no later than 09:00 tomorrow morning (2026-05-08). The deadline for submissions to AFRINIC is Sunday, 10 May 2026.
Kind regards
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