Thanks Paul for the detailed explanation of the situation and actions taken in the interest of all the RIR communities. APNIC has been very supportive of AFRINIC.It is important that AFRINIC stands back on its feet earliest. Gaurav concerns raised by you are genuine. APNIC has robust risk management policy and financials in place. The first agenda point, if I remember correctly, at each EC meeting is to review risk factors and mitigation.
Perhar On Thu, 18 Aug 2022, 14:20 Gaurav Kansal, <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for sharing the clarification on the AFRINIC issue. Most of us do > appreciate APNIC's stand on this issue, but at the same time this raises > some serious concerns on what would be the implications if a similar > situations happens with APNIC. We need to build in appropriate resilience > at various levels of the core institutions of APNIC in order to prevent any > major disruptions to the operations of APNIC. To start with we can explore > the feasibility of setting up a regional office of APNIC in any other > member country and distribute some of the resources of APNIC across > different geographies, So that any legal/regulatory actions of one host > country doesn't bring the operations of APNIC to a standstill. > > Regards, > Gaurav Kansal > > On 18-Aug-2022, at 11:37, [email protected] wrote: > > Dear friends and colleagues, > > I do understand the interest by members of the APNIC community in the > letter from the NRO to the government of Mauritius, dated on 12 July. > Accordingly, I provided background and explanation of this action in an > APNIC blogpost on 22 July: > > https://blog.apnic.net/2022/07/22/why-the-nro-is-defending-afrinic/ > > As explained in this blogpost, the primary reason for the NRO’s > correspondence was to highlight the risks to the global Internet operations > from unintended consequences of decisions made by the Mauritian courts, in > the course of recent legal proceedings. The letter was a product of the NRO > and it expressed the NRO’s commonly held concerns about the potential for > serious damage to important Internet operations, a matter which is of > common concern to all RIRs and, we believe, of great importance to all RIR > communities. > > A secondary reason for the correspondence was to express support for > AFRINIC’s previous requests to Mauritius for recognition of its status as > an international organisation. Whether such recognition is granted and what > this process entails under Mauritian law, are matters for the discretion of > the Mauritian Government and for AFRINIC. However it should be noted that > LACNIC has held a similar status for many years in its host country of > Uruguay, as one of numerous organisations in the same category. > > Finally, regarding the process for AFRINIC Board appointments, which were > not mentioned in the NRO letter or my blog post: my understanding is that > if ANY Mauritian company becomes unable to complete its usual board > appointment or election process, the Mauritian courts have discretion to > appoint board members in order to allow the company to function. > > In AFRINIC’s case, the court was provided with a list of suggested > candidate names, which had been solicited from the ATU (African > Telecommunications Union) as a recognised independent and authoritative > body, and along with other names from other sources (to my understanding). > As the court is entirely free to accept or reject any of these candidates, > this does not in any way represent an appointment BY the ATU. Under the > current circumstances this appears to be an entirely legitimate process to > enable the AFRINIC board to function and convene elections in accordance > with their by-laws. > > I hope that these answers are useful and informative to interested parties. > > Paul. > ------------------------------ > > Paul Wilson, Director-General, APNIC [email protected] > http://www.apnic.net @apnicdg > _______________________________________________ > apnic-talk - https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > > <https://amritmahotsav.nic.in/> > > _______________________________________________ > apnic-talk - https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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