Cloud Innovation Statement on AFRINIC Member Rights
Response to AFRINIC’s communiqué of 31 October 2026.
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Our position
Every resource member of AFRINIC should be recognised in its register and protected by company law. The Registrar of Companies’ records show our name in AFRINIC’s register of members from 9 October 2026; AFRINIC’s communiqué of 31 October 2026 says it has demanded our removal. We ask AFRINIC to respect the register, recognise every resource member and hold its elections under its own constitution, as the Supreme Court required in September 2023. We pursue this in court and publish the documents, including AFRINIC’s.
On the record
The court decisions behind our position. Each one links to the document.
See the full timelineInterim injunction protected our membership
On our application, the Judge in Chambers of the Supreme Court of Mauritius restrained AFRINIC from terminating our resource membership, pending the final determination of the dispute.
Recorded in 2022 SCJ 253, pages 1 and 10Court set aside AFRINIC's abuse-of-process objection
The Supreme Court held that we could not be blamed for turning to an independent court to safeguard our rights, and set aside the objection that our application was an abuse of process. Both parties had accepted there was a serious matter to be tried.
Read 2022 SCJ 253, pages 10 and 16–17Official Receiver appointed for AFRINIC
On our application, the Supreme Court of Mauritius appointed the Official Receiver as receiver of AFRINIC, to preserve its assets and to see that elections are held under its constitution. The court found that we were entitled to bring the application.
Read the judgment, PDF pages 8–10
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