@Ronald F. Guilmette are you LIR or member of Afrinic? Any comment on https://bgp.he.net/AS35916#_prefixes They are announced in USA via Multacom
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Re: [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources > (yamadu) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:04:22 +0300 > From: Noah <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: General Discussions of AFRINIC <[email protected]>, > Afnog <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the > misappropriation of IPv4 resources > Message-ID: > <CAEqgTWbeKYuBoS-hKD19PiM13mZNP-YnyShAPH=ef9q9ns0...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On Fri, 18 Dec 2020, 14:06 thomas brenac, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ..and the worse is that with the ongoing Inter-RiR transfer policy plan in >> discussion these stolen subnets will be one day transferred / sold at >> higher value to another RIR and no one will then be able to do anything. >> > Thomas, > > Ooh Yes and that is the strategy with an Inter-RIR transfer policy proposal > which intends to ease some businesses around IPv4 addresses with zero role > for AFRINIC with: > > ? Source resource holders subject to receiving RIR policies > ? No need based justification > ? No checking of valid ? right to use? and no dispute. > ? The list is endless > > The community caught them and is discovering more and more about the actors > and their intentions and motivation which are 100% not for the best > interests of the AFRICAN region. > >> my 2 cents >> > You are spot on. > > Cheers, > Noah > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/attachments/20201219/f0a56a75/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:38:06 +0100 > From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > To: Noah <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Cc: General Discussions of AFRINIC <[email protected]>, > Afnog <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the > misappropriation of IPv4 resources > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > >> On 19 Dec 2020, at 18:09, Noah <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> ? >> >>> On Fri, 18 Dec 2020, 14:06 thomas brenac, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> ..and the worse is that with the ongoing Inter-RiR transfer policy plan in >>> discussion these stolen subnets will be one day transferred / sold at >>> higher value to another RIR and no one will then be able to do anything. >>> > No wonder the urgency in getting the policy ratified ......! > >> Thomas, >> >> Ooh Yes and that is the strategy with an Inter-RIR transfer policy proposal >> which intends to ease some businesses around IPv4 addresses with zero role >> for AFRINIC with: >> >> ? Source resource holders subject to receiving RIR policies >> ? No need based justification >> ? No checking of valid ? right to use? and no dispute. >> ? The list is endless >> >> The community caught them and is discovering more and more about the actors >> and their intentions and motivation which are 100% not for the best >> interests of the AFRICAN region. >> >>> my 2 cents >>> >> >> You are spot on. >> >> Cheers, >> Noah >> _______________________________________________ >> afnog mailing list >> https://www.afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/attachments/20201219/ce51cefd/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 16:20:59 -0800 > From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <[email protected]> > To: General Discussions of AFRINIC <[email protected]>, > [email protected], Afnog <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the > misappropriation of IPv4 resources > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > In message <[email protected]>, > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >@Mr. Ronald I was reading your email and findings over and over again > >yesterday > >night and this morning... Thank you very much for bringing all of this into > >our attention and YES - we "will" or "have" > >to do whatever it's necessary to revert this situation and to ensure > >that AFRINIC returns to AFRINIC as it should be. > > Thank you for yor support. > > I suppose that it should be apparent to all that I am upset and angry > about many of the things that have gone on within the AFRINIC region. > But the various IP block thefts themselves are, to my way of thinking, > the least of it all. > > Quite some time ago now, Eddy announced to everyone that AFRINIC was > going to be performing an exhaustive audit of all AFRINIC WHOIS changes, > back to the beginning of time, with the intent obviously being to ferret > out any -more- instances of questionable IPv4 allocations, above and > beyond those that I and journalist Jan Vermeulen already brought to > light last year (2019). Eddy even said that technical personnel and > representatives of one of the more senior RIRs (APNIC) were being > brought in to help with this effort. > > That was many MANY months ago now. (Also, as I'm sure many of you know, > Ernest's malfeasance has been known about by the AFRINIC Board and > management for over an entire calendar year now.) > > So this raises the obvious question: Why didn't Eddy and the Board > already know about the apparent connections bewteen the AFRINIC IPv4 > allocations held by Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta long long before my > posting the other day about those? And if they did know, then why did > they elect to give both Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta a pass, allowing > them both to *keep* the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations that appear > to have been provided to them... presumably in fundamentally crooked > transactions... by the now disgraced and long ago terminated ex-employee > Ernest Byaruhanga? > > It has to be one or the other. There is no third possibility. > > Either Eddy & the Board knew, and elected to do nothing and keep silent, > or else their much heralded "exhaustive audit" of the history of all > AFRINIC allocations was so fundementally flawed and incomplete that > it failed to catch obviously questionable allocations of great swaths > of AFRINIC non-legacy IPv4 address space, totaling well over a million > IPv4 addresses. > > I'm not sure which of these two possibilities is worse. Either the > so-called "audit" was done in a glaringly incompetent manner, or else > Eddy and the Board have been complicit in trying to sweep under the > carpet the questionable nature of the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations > held by -both- Mr. Abizeid -and- Mr. Mehta... neither of whom is either > located in the AFRINIC region, and neither of whom, it appears, is > providing -any- services whatsoever within the AFRINIC region. > > I look forward to Eddy and the Board clarifying when they learned about > the apparent connections between the IPv4 holdings of Mr. Abizeid and > Mr. Mehta and the fradulent "ITC" fake corporation that for years served > to hide so many of the thefts of Ernest Byaruhanga. > > If Eddy and the Board only learned about those connections from my public > posting of a couple of days ago, then maybe it is time, at long last, for > them to grant me access to the historical AFRINIC WHOIS information that > I have been repeatedly requesting for more than a year now, so that I can > perform a proper sort of audit and analysis of those records. > > On the other hand, if they are none too pleased with me having been able > to find and expose the many AFRINIC WHOIS anomalies that I have already > managed to find and expose... even with very limited WHOIS access... then > I guess they will continue to want to keep me as far away as possible > from any historical WHOIS information, above and beyond what all ordinary > man-on-the-street netizens are privy to. > > > Regards, > rfg > > > P.S. I am more than a little inclined to believe that Eddy and the > AFRINIC Board do want to, and have wanted to just sweep these matters > under the carpet, as much as possible. My belief is based on the > fact that Eddy & The Board have quite clearly made a decision... > privately and without even having the courtesy of informing the > AFRINIC membership... to allow the crooks, Mr. Uerlings & Mr. Cohen, > to keep any and all of the legacy IPv4 address blocks that they had > successfully stolen, and for which no rightful owner has showed up to > protest. > > The result has been an inconsistant hodge-podge with things only > partially set right. The City of Cape Town, the commercial South > African firm Columbus Stainless, the South African state-owned oil > company, Sasol, and others have all managed to get their legacy > IPv4 blocks back from the clutches of the fraudsters, Mr. Cohen and > Mr. Uerlings, simply by showing up to assert their rightful claims. > > Other legitimate legacy block holders have, unfortunately, been either > too lazy, too confused, or too timid to even assert their rights, > and this has allowed Eddy and the Board to simply ignore those rights > as a matter of expediency. This is not a shining example of either > honor or courage on their part. It is rather a capitulation to criminals, > and an abdication of their responsibilities to act in the best interests > of the AFRINIC members and community. > > Giving in to corruption only leads to even more corruption. And frankly, > I remain surprised that this simple fact is not by now better understood > and appreciated through the African continent. > > Eddy and the Board can and should stop their silent charade, tell the > members what they have decided to do, or not do, about the various stolen > AFRINIC legacy blocks that to this day remain stolen and in the hands of > messers Uerlings & Cohen, and they should be prepared to defend their > decisions in an open forum. > > The global reputation of AFRINIC has already been buffeted by repeated > public scandals in recent years. Repairing that global reputation cannot > even begin as long as the AFRINIC Board and management are still hiding > their decision making process behind the same closed doors that protected > Ernest Byaruhanga and his criminal machinations from public view for so > many years. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 19:20:49 -0800 > From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <[email protected]> > To: General Discussions of AFRINIC <[email protected]>, > [email protected], Afnog <[email protected]> > Subject: [Community-Discuss] Current routing summaries for LiquidWeb, > Inc. and Fiber Grid, Inc. > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Included below are summraies of the current routing of the various > AFRINIC-assigned blocks belonging to ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC (LiquidWeb, Inc.) > and also ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC (Fiber Grid, Inc.) I am providing these to > the AFRINIC community in support of my prior assertion that no part > or portion of the AFRINIC-assigned blocks of these two companies are, > at present, being routed to any country within the AFRINIC region, nor > to any country or countries that are even adjacent to the AFRINIC region. > > The routing summaries below were computed based upon raw data specifying > the specific ASNs that are routing each of the constituent /24 "C" blocks > that make up the totality of the registered AFRINIC blocks currently > assigned to ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC and ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC respectively. That > raw data was obtained by me, programatically, via the "RESTful" web > interface of the RIPEStat data base. The raw data from which the > summaries below were computed may obtained via the following two links, > or alternatively, directly fronm RIEPStat, for the benefit of anyone > wishing to independently confirm my analysis. > > ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC: > https://pastebin.com/raw/rzWSckCs > > ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC: > https://pastebin.com/raw/sgFGNjwH > > Additionally, the Perl scripts that I have used to fetch the above raw > data from RIPEStat, as well as the scripts I have used to compute from > that raw data the routing summary tables shown below are all availiable > from me upon request. I would be more than happy to have others > independently perform the same routing analysis as I have done with > respect to the IPv4 space currently assigned to ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC and > ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC. > > The routing summary tables below each contain four fields as follows: > > 1) Number of constituent /24 "C" blocks routed by the given ASN. > 2) The AS number. > 3) The applicable two-letter ISO 3166 country code. > 4) The full name of the ORGanization to which the ASN is registered. > > Note that a good deal of the IPv4 space registered to ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC > is currently being routed by RIPE-issued ASNs registered to "Inter > Connects Inc". > > Upon information and belief, "Inter Connects Inc" is a Delaware (US) > corporate entity for which Mr. Deepak Mehta is either a beneficial > owner or else possibly THE beneficial owner. Mr. Mehta is of course > free to dispute this contention, as and when he sees fit. Please note > however that an entity calling itself "Inter Connects Inc" is also > currently represented within the RIPE WHOIS data base where it is > designated via the handle ORG-DMF2-RIPE and that the RIPE WHOIS > history of that organization handle indicates that it was previously > associated with "Deepak Mehta FIE": > > https://pastebin.com/raw/wnF8g2gh > > Please note that AS393489, which appears in the second table below, is > officially a bogon (unassigned) AS number at present. Prior to the > reclamation of this ASN by ARIN, this specific ASN was assigned to a > U.S. company named "ADT Systems, Inc." and that company appears to > still be using AS393489, even though AS393489 is now officially a > bogon ASN. > > Please take note also that the organization to which the RIPE-issued > AS58110 is registered (IP Volume LTD - UK) may or may not have any > connection whatsoever to the registrant organization for AS202425 > (IP Volume, Inc. - Seychelles) which has for some time announced a > route to the stolen AFRINIC legacy block 196.16.0.0/14, said block > being the rightful property of the South African national government's > IT arm, "SITA", accoring to all reliable historical evidence. > > The country codes listed in the following two summary tables, if accurate, > support my view that the AFRINIC-assigned IPv4 address blocks of both > ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC and ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC are likely not, at present, being > routed to any geographical points within the AFRINIC region, thus placing > both of these AFRINIC member organizations in clear violation of the > legally binding AFRINIC Bylaws. > > This, of course, is in addition to and on top of the fact that both > organizations appear to have obtained some or all of their AFRINIC- > assigned IPv4 address space illicitly, most probaby by way of the > dismissed and disgraced Ernest Byaruhanga. > > > Current routing summary for ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC: > --------------------------------------------- > 3795 0 ?? UNROUTED IP SPACE > 233 58065 UK Packet Exchange Limited > 164 41564 UK Packet Exchange Limited > 79 57858 US Inter Connects Inc > 30 204353 UK Global Offshore Limited > 13 63119 US Inter Connects Inc > 10 60485 US Inter Connects Inc > 8 46805 US Inter Connects Inc > 7 48950 UK Global Colocation Limited > 6 57972 US Inter Connects Inc > 4 37518 SC Fiber Grid INC > 2 40676 US Psychz Networks > 1 50304 NO Blix Solutions AS > > Current routing summary for ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC: > --------------------------------------------- > 280 0 ?? UNROUTED IP SPACE > 111 12025 US Iron Mountain Data Center > 68 3356 US Level 3 Parent, LLC > 64 1273 GB Vodafone Group PLC > 58 43233 IR Fara Negar Pardaz Noor Khuzestan Co.JSP > 49 35554 GB 8K Cloud Ltd > 48 53271 US Phenix Cable > 36 133847 MY Anpple Tech Enterprise > 34 7029 US Windstream Communications LLC > 26 36290 KN The Cable of St. Kitts > 20 32181 US GigeNET > 12 13768 CA Aptum Technologies > 12 265515 MX Televera Red S. A. P. I. De C.V. > 12 14123 US Midnight Proxies LLC > 12 397373 US H4Y Technologies LLC > 10 36445 CA Coextro > 8 62217 GB VooServers Ltd > 8 39535 GB VooServers Ltd > 8 14935 US Monticello Networks, Inc. > 8 18710 US Gkg.Net, Inc > 8 40676 US Psychz Networks > 7 209181 GB Zenex 5ive Limited > 6 49367 IT Seflow S.N.C. Di Marco Brame' & C. > 6 17511 JP OPTAGE Inc. > 5 56309 TH Siamdata Communication Co.,ltd. > 5 6327 CA Shaw Communications Inc. > 5 17676 JP Softbank BB Corp. > 5 28458 MX Ientc S De Rl De Cv > 4 17941 JP Equinix Jpapan Enterprise K.K. > 4 13213 GB UK-2 Limited > 4 396356 US Maxihost LLC > 4 36217 US NetActuate, Inc > 4 137199 AU Emerge Internet Pty Ltd > 4 397026 US Wi-Fiber, Inc. > 4 54133 CA UnmeteredInternet.com > 4 395046 US Sexing Technologies > 4 202211 ES Manuel Mariposa Consulting SL > 3 174 US Cogent Communications > 3 7018 US AT&T Services, Inc. > 3 32780 US Hosting Services, Inc. > 2 262239 BZ Speednet Communications Limited > 2 398252 US Big Red Communications LLC > 2 393670 US Southern Fibernet Corporation > 2 63073 US The University of Tampa > 2 36351 US SoftLayer Technologies Inc. > 2 393489 ?? {{unknown organization}} > 2 397582 US WOW-World of Wireless > 2 62904 US Eonix Corporation > 2 26341 US Open Solutions LLC > 2 25645 US Momentum Telecom, Inc. > 2 63018 US Dedicated.com > 2 46562 US Performive LLC > 2 397336 US Virtual Sprout > 2 23005 US Switch, Ltd > 2 54900 US Alianza Inc. > 1 28317 CR Boomerang Wireless S.A. > 1 133120 AU Hosted Network Pty. Ltd. > 1 60781 NL LeaseWeb Netherlands B.V. > 1 52356 CR R&H International Telecom Services SA. > 1 396459 US County of Venango > 1 27362 US Archon Development Corp. > 1 26375 US Airespring, Inc. > 1 54578 US FiberComm LC > 1 131455 AU Onsite Computers > 1 59955 LB Advanced Broadband Services S.A.L > 1 60257 GB Origin Broadband Limited > 1 141158 MY Hiero7 (M) Sdn. Bhd. > 1 397256 US Epyon Technologies > 1 58110 UK IP Volume LTD > 1 20473 US Choopa, LLC > 1 14333 US On-Ramp Indiana, Inc. > 1 30277 US DFW Datacenter > 1 64286 US LogicWeb Inc. > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 12:05:27 +0400 > From: AFRINIC Communication <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the > misappropriation of IPv4 resources > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > [Version en fran?ais au bas] > > Dear AFRINIC Community, > > AFRINIC is governed by certain processes, PDP policies and legal frameworks > that we need to comply with as an organisation. We can only act within the > established framework or the ramifications could be extremely damaging. > > Access to the bulk whois data is granted once anyone who requires the data > fully completes the process published at: > > https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data > > > We welcome any information provided on the misappropriation of Internet > number resources. However, as mentioned above, at this stage, we are unable > to comment on what we know or do not know regarding the information shared. > > We trust that once we are able to publish the audit report, it will bring > clarifications to the community's concerns on the misappropriation of > Internet number resources. > > Regards > > Ashil Oogarah > on behalf of AFRINIC Communications and PR Team > > ??????????????????????.. > > Ch?re Communaut? d'AFRINIC, > > AFRINIC est r?gie par certains processus, politiques et cadres juridiques que > nous devons respecter en tant qu'organisation. Nous ne pouvons agir dans ce > cadre ?tabli, sinon les cons?quences pourraient ?tre extr?mement > dommageables. > > L'acc?s aux donn?es whois est accord? une fois que toute personne ayant > besoin de ces donn?es compl?te le processus publi? ? > > https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data > > > Toute information sur la manipulation non autoris?e des ressources num?riques > Internet est la bienvenue. Toutefois, comme mentionn? ci-dessus, nous ne > sommes pas en mesure, ? ce stade, de faire des commentaires sur ce que nous > savons ou ne savons pas concernant les informations partag?es. > > Nous esp?rons qu'une fois que nous serons en mesure de publier le rapport > d'audit, il apportera des ?claircissements sur les pr?occupations de la > communaut? concernant la manipulation non autoris?e des ressources num?riques > internet. > > Regards > > Ashil Oogarah > au nom de l'?quipe Communications et RP d?AFRINIC > > >> On 20 Dec 2020, at 04:20, Ronald F. Guilmette <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> In message <[email protected]>, >> "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> @Mr. Ronald I was reading your email and findings over and over again >>> yesterday >>> night and this morning... Thank you very much for bringing all of this into >>> our attention and YES - we "will" or "have" >>> to do whatever it's necessary to revert this situation and to ensure >>> that AFRINIC returns to AFRINIC as it should be. >>> >> >> Thank you for yor support. >> >> I suppose that it should be apparent to all that I am upset and angry >> about many of the things that have gone on within the AFRINIC region. >> But the various IP block thefts themselves are, to my way of thinking, >> the least of it all. >> >> Quite some time ago now, Eddy announced to everyone that AFRINIC was >> going to be performing an exhaustive audit of all AFRINIC WHOIS changes, >> back to the beginning of time, with the intent obviously being to ferret >> out any -more- instances of questionable IPv4 allocations, above and >> beyond those that I and journalist Jan Vermeulen already brought to >> light last year (2019). Eddy even said that technical personnel and >> representatives of one of the more senior RIRs (APNIC) were being >> brought in to help with this effort. >> >> That was many MANY months ago now. (Also, as I'm sure many of you know, >> Ernest's malfeasance has been known about by the AFRINIC Board and >> management for over an entire calendar year now.) >> >> So this raises the obvious question: Why didn't Eddy and the Board >> already know about the apparent connections bewteen the AFRINIC IPv4 >> allocations held by Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta long long before my >> posting the other day about those? And if they did know, then why did >> they elect to give both Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta a pass, allowing >> them both to *keep* the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations that appear >> to have been provided to them... presumably in fundamentally crooked >> transactions... by the now disgraced and long ago terminated ex-employee >> Ernest Byaruhanga? >> >> It has to be one or the other. There is no third possibility. >> >> Either Eddy & the Board knew, and elected to do nothing and keep silent, >> or else their much heralded "exhaustive audit" of the history of all >> AFRINIC allocations was so fundementally flawed and incomplete that >> it failed to catch obviously questionable allocations of great swaths >> of AFRINIC non-legacy IPv4 address space, totaling well over a million >> IPv4 addresses. >> >> I'm not sure which of these two possibilities is worse. Either the >> so-called "audit" was done in a glaringly incompetent manner, or else >> Eddy and the Board have been complicit in trying to sweep under the >> carpet the questionable nature of the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations >> held by -both- Mr. Abizeid -and- Mr. Mehta... neither of whom is either >> located in the AFRINIC region, and neither of whom, it appears, is >> providing -any- services whatsoever within the AFRINIC region. >> >> I look forward to Eddy and the Board clarifying when they learned about >> the apparent connections between the IPv4 holdings of Mr. Abizeid and >> Mr. Mehta and the fradulent "ITC" fake corporation that for years served >> to hide so many of the thefts of Ernest Byaruhanga. >> >> If Eddy and the Board only learned about those connections from my public >> posting of a couple of days ago, then maybe it is time, at long last, for >> them to grant me access to the historical AFRINIC WHOIS information that >> I have been repeatedly requesting for more than a year now, so that I can >> perform a proper sort of audit and analysis of those records. >> >> On the other hand, if they are none too pleased with me having been able >> to find and expose the many AFRINIC WHOIS anomalies that I have already >> managed to find and expose... even with very limited WHOIS access... then >> I guess they will continue to want to keep me as far away as possible >> from any historical WHOIS information, above and beyond what all ordinary >> man-on-the-street netizens are privy to. >> >> >> Regards, >> rfg >> >> >> P.S. I am more than a little inclined to believe that Eddy and the >> AFRINIC Board do want to, and have wanted to just sweep these matters >> under the carpet, as much as possible. My belief is based on the >> fact that Eddy & The Board have quite clearly made a decision... >> privately and without even having the courtesy of informing the >> AFRINIC membership... to allow the crooks, Mr. Uerlings & Mr. Cohen, >> to keep any and all of the legacy IPv4 address blocks that they had >> successfully stolen, and for which no rightful owner has showed up to >> protest. >> >> The result has been an inconsistant hodge-podge with things only >> partially set right. The City of Cape Town, the commercial South >> African firm Columbus Stainless, the South African state-owned oil >> company, Sasol, and others have all managed to get their legacy >> IPv4 blocks back from the clutches of the fraudsters, Mr. Cohen and >> Mr. Uerlings, simply by showing up to assert their rightful claims. >> >> Other legitimate legacy block holders have, unfortunately, been either >> too lazy, too confused, or too timid to even assert their rights, >> and this has allowed Eddy and the Board to simply ignore those rights >> as a matter of expediency. This is not a shining example of either >> honor or courage on their part. It is rather a capitulation to criminals, >> and an abdication of their responsibilities to act in the best interests >> of the AFRINIC members and community. >> >> Giving in to corruption only leads to even more corruption. And frankly, >> I remain surprised that this simple fact is not by now better understood >> and appreciated through the African continent. >> >> Eddy and the Board can and should stop their silent charade, tell the >> members what they have decided to do, or not do, about the various stolen >> AFRINIC legacy blocks that to this day remain stolen and in the hands of >> messers Uerlings & Cohen, and they should be prepared to defend their >> decisions in an open forum. >> >> The global reputation of AFRINIC has already been buffeted by repeated >> public scandals in recent years. Repairing that global reputation cannot >> even begin as long as the AFRINIC Board and management are still hiding >> their decision making process behind the same closed doors that protected >> Ernest Byaruhanga and his criminal machinations from public view for so >> many years. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> afnog mailing list >> https://www.afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog >> > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 6 > Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 09:23:22 +0000 > From: yamadu <[email protected]> > To: AFRINIC Communication <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the > misappropriation of IPv4 resources > Message-ID: > > <pa4pr09mb47513e9fafcd3fa0fcbd890e96...@pa4pr09mb4751.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > i think we should fellow due processes to address issues as a? community. > AFRINIC has policies and legal framework that we are aware, so we should > comply with when we want to address any concern. My take.Yusif?Sent from my > Samsung Galaxy smartphone. > -------- Original message --------From: AFRINIC Communication > <[email protected]> Date: 20/12/2020 8:05 a.m. (GMT+00:00) To: > [email protected] Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] > Updates on the misappropriation of > ? IPv4 resources [Version en fran?ais au bas]Dear AFRINIC Community,AFRINIC > is governed by certain processes, PDP policies and legal frameworks that we > need to comply with as an organisation. We can only act within the > established framework or the ramifications could be extremely damaging. > Access to the bulk whois data is granted once anyone who requires the data > fully completes the process published > at:https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data > We welcome any information provided on the misappropriation of Internet > number resources. However, as mentioned above, at this stage, we are unable > to comment on what we know or do not know regarding the information shared. > We trust that once we are able to publish the audit report, it will bring > clarifications to the community's concerns on the misappropriation of > Internet number resources.RegardsAshil Oogarahon behalf of AFRINIC > Communications and PR Team??????????????????????..Ch?re Communaut? > d'AFRINIC,AFRINIC est r?gie par certains processus, politiques et cadres > juridiques que nous devons respecter en tant qu'organisation. Nous ne pouvons > agir dans ce cadre ?tabli, sinon les cons?quences pourraient ?tre extr?mement > dommageables. L'acc?s aux donn?es whois est accord? une fois que toute > personne ayant besoin de ces donn?es compl?te le processus publi? > ?https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data > Toute information sur la manipulation non autoris?e des ressources > num?riques Internet est la bienvenue. Toutefois, comme mentionn? ci-dessus, > nous ne sommes pas en mesure, ? ce stade, de faire des commentaires sur ce > que nous savons ou ne savons pas concernant les informations partag?es. Nous > esp?rons qu'une fois que nous serons en mesure de publier le rapport d'audit, > il apportera des ?claircissements sur les pr?occupations de la communaut? > concernant la manipulation non autoris?e des ressources num?riques > internet.RegardsAshil Oogarahau nom de l'?quipe Communications et RP > d?AFRINIC> On 20 Dec 2020, at 04:20, Ronald F. Guilmette > <[email protected]> wrote:> > In message > <[email protected]>, > > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:> >> @Mr. Ronald I was > reading your email and findings over and over again yesterday>> night and > this morning... Thank you very much for bringing all of this into>> our > attention and YES - we "will" or "have">> to do whatever it's necessary to > revert this situation and to ensure>> that AFRINIC returns to AFRINIC as it > should be.> > Thank you for yor support.> > I suppose that it should be > apparent to all that I am upset and angry> about many of the things that have > gone on within the AFRINIC region.> But the various IP block thefts > themselves are, to my way of thinking,> the least of it all.> > Quite some > time ago now, Eddy announced to everyone that AFRINIC was> going to be > performing an exhaustive audit of all AFRINIC WHOIS changes,> back to the > beginning of time, with the intent obviously being to ferret> out any -more- > instances of questionable IPv4 allocations, above and> beyond those that I > and journalist Jan Vermeulen already brought to> light last year (2019).? > Eddy even said that technical personnel and> representatives of one of the > more senior RIRs (APNIC) were being> brought in to help with this effort.> > > That was many MANY months ago now.? (Also, as I'm sure many of you know,> > Ernest's malfeasance has been known about by the AFRINIC Board and> > management for over an entire calendar year now.)> > So this raises the > obvious question:? Why didn't Eddy and the Board> already know about the > apparent connections bewteen the AFRINIC IPv4> allocations held by Mr. > Abizeid and Mr. Mehta long long before my> posting the other day about > those?? And if they did know, then why did> they elect to give both Mr. > Abizeid and Mr. Mehta a pass, allowing> them both to *keep* the sizable > AFRINIC IPv4 allocations that appear> to have been provided to them... > presumably in fundamentally crooked> transactions... by the now disgraced and > long ago terminated ex-employee> Ernest Byaruhanga?> > It has to be one or > the other.? There is no third possibility.> > Either Eddy & the Board knew, > and elected to do nothing and keep silent,> or else their much heralded > "exhaustive audit" of the history of all> AFRINIC allocations was so > fundementally flawed and incomplete that> it failed to catch obviously > questionable allocations of great swaths> of AFRINIC non-legacy IPv4 address > space, totaling well over a million> IPv4 addresses.> > I'm not sure which of > these two possibilities is worse.? Either the> so-called "audit" was done in > a glaringly incompetent manner, or else> Eddy and the Board have been > complicit in trying to sweep under the> carpet the questionable nature of the > sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations> held by -both- Mr. Abizeid -and- Mr. > Mehta... neither of whom is either> located in the AFRINIC region, and > neither of whom, it appears, is> providing -any- services whatsoever within > the AFRINIC region.> > I look forward to Eddy and the Board clarifying when > they learned about> the apparent connections between the IPv4 holdings of Mr. > Abizeid and> Mr. Mehta and the fradulent "ITC" fake corporation that for > years served> to hide so many of the thefts of Ernest Byaruhanga.> > If Eddy > and the Board only learned about those connections from my public> posting of > a couple of days ago, then maybe it is time, at long last, for> them to grant > me access to the historical AFRINIC WHOIS information that> I have been > repeatedly requesting for more than a year now, so that I can> perform a > proper sort of audit and analysis of those records.> > On the other hand, if > they are none too pleased with me having been able> to find and expose the > many AFRINIC WHOIS anomalies that I have already> managed to find and > expose... even with very limited WHOIS access... then> I guess they will > continue to want to keep me as far away as possible> from any historical > WHOIS information, above and beyond what all ordinary> man-on-the-street > netizens are privy to.> > > Regards,> rfg> > > P.S.? I am more than a little > inclined to believe that Eddy and the> AFRINIC Board do want to, and have > wanted to just sweep these matters> under the carpet, as much as possible.? > My belief is based on the> fact that Eddy & The Board have quite clearly made > a decision...> privately and without even having the courtesy of informing > the> AFRINIC membership... to allow the crooks, Mr. Uerlings & Mr. Cohen,> to > keep any and all of the legacy IPv4 address blocks that they had> > successfully stolen, and for which no rightful owner has showed up to> > protest.> > The result has been an inconsistant hodge-podge with things only> > partially set right.? The City of Cape Town, the commercial South> African > firm Columbus Stainless, the South African state-owned oil> company, Sasol, > and others have all managed to get their legacy> IPv4 blocks back from the > clutches of the fraudsters, Mr. Cohen and> Mr. Uerlings, simply by showing up > to assert their rightful claims.> > Other legitimate legacy block holders > have, unfortunately, been either> too lazy, too confused, or too timid to > even assert their rights,> and this has allowed Eddy and the Board to simply > ignore those rights> as a matter of expediency.? This is not a shining > example of either> honor or courage on their part.? It is rather a > capitulation to criminals,> and an abdication of their responsibilities to > act in the best interests> of the AFRINIC members and community.> > Giving in > to corruption only leads to even more corruption.? And frankly,> I remain > surprised that this simple fact is not by now better understood> and > appreciated through the African continent.> > Eddy and the Board can and > should stop their silent charade, tell the> members what they have decided to > do, or not do, about the various stolen> AFRINIC legacy blocks that to this > day remain stolen and in the hands of> messers Uerlings & Cohen, and they > should be prepared to defend their> decisions in an open forum.> > The global > reputation of AFRINIC has already been buffeted by repeated> public scandals > in recent years.? Repairing that global reputation cannot> even begin as long > as the AFRINIC Board and management are still hiding> their decision making > process behind the same closed doors that protected> Ernest Byaruhanga and > his criminal machinations from public view for so> many years.> > > _______________________________________________> afnog mailing list> > https://www.afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog_______________________________________________Community-Discuss > mailing > [email protected]https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/attachments/20201220/63e207e0/attachment-0001.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Community-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Community-Discuss Digest, Vol 698, Issue 1 > ************************************************* >
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