AFRINIC election proceeds after ICANN’s attempt to replace officials fails

Elections at troubled regional internet registry the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) will continue, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN’s) attempt to appoint new officials to oversee the poll failed. AFRINIC oversees allocation and management of IP addresses for 54 nations across …

[Pascal Monett]

Unbelievable

Who would have thought that a job that can be described as simply maintaining a registry of numbers would become such a complicated political mess ?

[frankvw]

Re: Unbelievable

Sometimes you really know you're in Africa.

(And yes, I live there.)

[JessicaRabbit]

There is a distinct smell of corruption about this, which given AFRINIC's history isn't too surprising.

[MiguelC]

Is good to see that an entity as clean as ICANN is looking into it....