<div dir="auto"><br style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">At present, the only explicit reference to a community-triggered investigation is the extremely high ICANN audit threshold. It is hard to argue that this is meaningfully community-accessible. If a Board becomes non-responsive, or its interpretive stance shifts into something more extractive or defensive, the community has no procedural foothold until the fire has already consumed the room.</span><br style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">The proposal here is simply to prevent “late-stage pathology”. A Member-initiated compliance review allows mid-range correction.</span><br style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">If 5% of Members — or 100 Members (the lower of the two) — sign a petition, the NRO Executive Council must perform a compliance review of that RIR’s governance conduct against both the global governance document and the RIR’s own corporate requirements.</span><br style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">The RIR must cooperate — data, documents, reasoning, evidence.</span><br style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">The NRO EC must publish the results.</span><br style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">If sustained failures are identified, the NRO EC may recommend corrective measures which can include censure of directors and/or a recommendation that the community consider removal under that RIR’s own bylaws. There is no bypassing the RIR’s local constitution — but there must be a bridge between nothing — and derecognition.</span><br style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">This makes accountability real rather than rhetorical.</span><br style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">Portability is infrastructure neutrality, not a “commercial perk” </span><br style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">There is still no IPv6 inter-RIR transfer regime at all. AFRINIC has no inter-RIR transfer regime for v4. The current system can thus be described — bluntly — as territorial. One global namespace, fractured by administrative regional non-interoperability.</span><br style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">The telephone number portability analogy is apt: people should not be punished for switching operator, geography, or both.</span><br style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">Thus Article 4.1 should contain an obligation that each RIR must support the portability of Internet Number Resources (IPv4 and IPv6) across both providers and regions, with only necessary stewardship exceptions — i.e. genuine registry integrity guard-rails.</span><br style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">In addition, it must not be lawful for an RIR to refuse a transfer merely because the Member declines newly-inserted RSA language.</span><br style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(49,49,49);font-family:'-apple-system',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:1px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">A global registry is either global — or it isn’t. Portability is the line.</span></div>