Dear Mr Guilmette,
At 01:09 PM 23-12-2020, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
I thank "S. Moonesamy" <[email protected]> for at least attempting
to make some pretense of addressing this issue, which I have raised,
however it is easy to demonstrate that this response is silly in the
extreme.
It is hasty to conclude that I consider the issue as addressed.
Apparently the "applicable" Mauritian law DOES NOT prevent AFRINIC
from publishing, via its traditional port 43 WHOIS service, the names,
addresses, and phone numbers (PII) associated with person: records
that are currently present in the data base... a fact that anyone
can easily verify just by querying the WHOIS for the handle associated
with any person: record.
The above description is simplistic. One of the
purposes of Whois is to facilitate network
operations. The "person" record for AS33764 is:
person: CTO AFRINIC
address: 11th Floor, Standard Chartered Tower
address: Cybercity, Ebène
address: Mauritius
phone: tel:+230-403-5100
nic-hdl: CA15-AFRINIC
mnt-by: CTO-MNT
source: AFRINIC # Filtered
I doubt that there is a person with that
name. The "address" is a business address. The
"phone" is not a personal phone number.
Despite this obvious fact, the community is asked to believe that somehow,
magically, Mauritian law DOES prevent AFRINIC from providing this same
data to qualified and well-vetted researchers if the data from two or
more person: records is provided at the same time (bulk) or if the
data associated with a person: record that was removed fom the data base
last week (historical) is provided.
These alleged constraints, which allegedly spring from Mauritian law,
are in fact just ridiculous double-talk, made up within the minds of
S. Moonesamy and others within the current AFRINIC hierarchy, who are
just simply searching for some vaguely plausible excuse to prevent
any independent investigators, such as myself, from finding the whole
truth of what has happened in the data base, over time.
There is no basis in law for this. AFRINIC and S. Moonesamy are simply
stonewalling.
What is the basis in law which permits a researcher to access the date in bulk?
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Board Chair, AFRINIC
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