Mr. Folayan, Let me begin by saying that I greatly apperciate your thoughtful response.
At the moment, I have only a few brief comments to add, above and beyond what I have already said and what Jan Vermeulen has already written. In message <[email protected]>, Sunday Folayan <[email protected]> wrote: >I am sure you want to see the issues addressed, and not that we should >conduct a requiem mass for AFRINIC right away. The former is much more >honourable and deserves the support of every right-thinking stakeholder. >It is the later that I seek to ensure is not your intention. Please allow me to give you my most sincere assurances about that. Neither I nor Jan Vermeulen have either any intention or any wish to see the demise or disappearance of AFRINIC. That is quite certainly not a goal for either of us, and as far as I am concerned, at least, is, as you have said, not even something that any right-thinking stakeholder should wish for. AFRINIC is and has been an integral part of global Internet governance. I cannot even envision things as being otherwise. No rational man would tear down an entire house at the first sign of a few cracks in the foundation, nor even at the second. And to use an even move vivid analogy, I cannot, at present, envision the ongoing smooth functioning on the global Internet without AFRINIC any more than I can envision a horse deprived of one leg galloping across the plains. If I had been present and involved back in 2004, when AFRINIC was being formed, I have no doubt that I would almost certainly have suggested that some things might be done differently, but that ship has already sailed, a long long time ago, and by my own choice I wasn't on it, being preoccupied, as I was, elsewhere. Now I may stand on the comfortable shore and express some disagreement about the direction of travel, but I do not question the utility of the journey. The problems that I and Jan have brought to light are, I think, matters of implementation and not of fundamental design or purpose. Time will tell if that is an accurate assesment. Regards, rfg _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
