Africa's Internet Registry Placed Under Receivership

"AFRINIC, the regional internet registry for the African continent and Indian Ocean region, has been placed under receivership following an injunction obtained against it in the Supreme Court of Mauritius," writes Slashdot reader Kelerei. "This appears to be a result of poor governance at AFRINIC, and in part a consequence of an IP address assignment debacle in 2021." MyBroadband reports: Industry players on both sides of a conflict involving the registry have welcomed the Mauritian Supreme Court's latest ruling, as it potentially creates a path to reconstitute the ailing entity's board and appoint a CEO. Headquartered in Mauritius, AFRINIC found itself on the wrong side of the country's corporate governance laws after repeatedly ignoring warnings from its members and community about the danger. It also disregarded judgments on some occasions, with the courts warning AFRINIC that it was in danger of being held in contempt. The blow that finally left Afrinic without a quorate board and ultimately without a CEO was struck by Crystal Web, a defunct Internet Service Provider that used to offer consumer DSL and fiber broadband in South Africa. Although Crystal Web landed the paralyzing hit, it was hardly the primary litigant in the over 55 court cases brought against AFRINIC since June 2020.

yeesh

[Anonymous Coward]

It was a mistake to take control of the internet away from the Information Sciences Institute. Yes I know Jon Postel would not live forever but they could have waited until problems arose before "fixing what ain't broke." The US Department of Commerce should never have gotten involved and neither should any of these other idiots/corrupt assholes.

Re:yeesh

[youngone]

I don't know enough about Information Sciences Institute to refute that, but as soon as greedy, stupid capital saw the Internet as valuable it was suddenly too important to be left as a public good, and was forced to turn a profit.

APNIC going the same way

[Anonymous Coward]

APNIC is a law to themselves. They only operates in the interests of large wealth members. With the exhaustion of IPv4 space, APNIC has ramped up its efforts on smaller entities to forfeit IPv4 space for reallocation to larger members.

First they refused access to the registry for legacy IP space holders, then they demanded fees for no service or voting rights. Now they say too bad we are taking the space. Too bad so sad, asserting they have a legal jurisdiction, despite the allocations being perpetually iss

How about migrating to V6 instead ?

[stooo]

How about migrating to V6 instead of paying lawyers to get V4 adresses?