+1 @Noah Le sam. 2 janv. 2021 à 10:09, Noah <[email protected]> a écrit :
> Ronald, > > Don't mind the sock puppets and trolls, like my good friend Nishal > indicated after all its often hard to dispute facts because fact are facts. > > Noah > Your apparent sidekick :-) > > On Fri, 1 Jan 2021, 04:57 Ronald F. Guilmette, <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I am pleased to inform you all that there has been at least some minimal >> progress with respect to AFRINIC wrestling back control of many or most >> of the legacy IPv4 blocks that were effectively stolen from their >> rightful owners by Mr. Cohen, Mr. Uerlings, and others. >> >> Quietly, and without any public fanfare, it appears that AFRINIC staff, >> since around December 19th, have been adding annotations to the WHOIS >> records of many of these stolen blocks to indicate AFRINIC's recognition >> that these blocks were in fact stolen. >> >> For example, the WHOIS record for the 196.16.0.0/14 block which was >> stolen >> from the South African national government's in-house IT arm... formerly >> called "Infoplan" and long ago renamed to "SITA"... now contains the >> following annotations: >> >> remarks: ============REMARK=================== >> remarks: The custodianship of this IP prefix is presently >> remarks: deemed to be in dispute. Consequently, >> remarks: no change request pertaining to this particular >> remarks: prefix will be entertained by AFRINIC until the >> remarks: issue is finally resolved between the disputants >> remarks: themselves or by a competent authority. >> remarks: Further, whilst the current holder of the said prefix >> remarks: continues to hold same, AFRINIC shall bear no >> remarks: responsibility whatsoever in relation thereto and >> remarks: disputants are encouraged to resolve the said >> remarks: dispute expeditiously. >> remarks: ============REMARK==================== >> >> The AFRINIC WHOIS history of this block is shown here: >> >> https://pastebin.com/raw/m0LVuppe >> >> As anyone can clearly see, the block was originally assigned to "Infoplan" >> in South Africa, even in the AFRINIC records which, in the case of this >> specific block, have been partially "disappeared" via a process that >> AFRINIC has yet to explain. >> >> Additional records relating to this same block, and which go back even >> further in time... all the way back to January 28, 1994... are readily >> available from ARIN's "WhoWas" historical data service. These even >> earlier historical records also confirm 100% that this block was formally >> assigned to Infoplan (now named SITA) in January, 1994. >> >> As anyone can also see from the AFRINIC historical records for this block, >> the contact mailing address for this block was changed, on or about >> 2015-01-23, to be an address in the Seychelles Islands. So you have to >> ask yourself: Why would an entity that is part of the South African >> national government suddely relocate itself to the Seychelles Islands? >> >> Obviously, it wouldn't. That is nonsensical on the face of it. So what >> really happened here? >> >> There are only two plausible possibilities: Either (a) the block was >> simply >> stolen, by messers Cohen, Uerlings, and Byaruhanga, via some clever and >> illicit manipluation of the relevant AFRINIC WHOIS records, or else (b) >> someone within the South African government received some payment in >> exchange for the legitimate rights to this block... either with or without >> the knowledge and consent of the South African government itself. >> >> Personally, I find the second possibility, (b), to be implausible, not >> because I believe that South African government officials are universally >> immune to a little private bribery, but only because I have personally >> spoken to a number of the other parties and entities that have also and >> likewise had their legacy AFRINIC IPv4 address blocks stolen out from >> under them, for example, the South African commercial metals company known >> as Columbus Stainless (160.115.0.0/16), and also to managers and >> technical >> people associated with South Africa's state-owned oil company, Sasol, >> which also had its 155.237.0.0/16 block "liberated" from their control, >> temporarily at least, in some still-mysterious way. >> >> These are just two examples of the several AFRINIC legacy block holders >> that have had their stuff stolen, and that I have personally spoken to >> on multiple occasions. IN ALL CASES, when I was able to make contact >> with the real and legitimate legacy block owners those legitimate owners >> universally expressed astonishment when I informed them that they were >> no longer in control of their own assigned IP address assets. Since my >> initial contacts with these various victim organizations, several of them, >> including the two mentioned above, as well as the City of Cape Town and >> others, have moved swiftly to regain control of what was stolen from them. >> >> Were insiders at literally ALL of these commercial companies and >> government- >> owned organizations bribed to give up company assets to messers Cohen and >> Uerlings? I don't think so. That notion really stretches the bounds of >> credibility. >> >> That leaves us with possibility (a) which is just that -somehow- the WHOIS >> records were illicitly manipulated in some manner, by some party, so as >> to provide effective control of the blocks to messers Cohen and Uerlings, >> and also to Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta. >> >> Nonetheless, Mr. Cohen has gone to court, ostensibly to reclaim his rights >> with respect to more than 20 different large AFRINIC legacy blocks, all >> /16 >> or larger, which he claims to have legitimately paid for. >> >> An honest man has nothing to hide, and Mr. Cohen could clear this all up >> very easily by just showing us all copies of the checks he claims to have >> written in order to purchase all of these 20 or so AFRINIC legacy blocks. >> >> So far he seems entirely reluctant to do that. It doesn't take a genius >> to figure out why. If he did show us the checks, this entire ludicrous >> and convoluted theft scheme would come crashing down around him, and he >> knows it. (He may have written those checks to his cohort in crime, Mr. >> Uerlings or to one of Mr. Uerlings shell companies, or he may have written >> the checks to Ernest, or to one of Ernest's shell companies, or he may >> even have written the checks to some other and different crooked >> high-level >> AFRINIC insider who held an even more senior position than Ernest, back in >> the 201-2015 time frame, but he most certainly DID NOT write those checks >> to any of the actual and legitimate legacy blocks owners.) >> >> Instead of just showing us his payment checks, or even the purchase >> reciepts >> for the IP address assets that he claims to have legitimately "bought", >> Mr. Cohen has instead tried repeatedly and in every way he can think of >> to simply browbeat, harass, and intimidate AFRINIC into submission. His >> delusional rantings here got him banned, so now he has invented multiple >> sock puppet email accounts to circumvent that ban so that he can continue >> his delusional and fact-free public ranting.... as if anybody is at all >> likely to believe anything that either he or his multiple sock puppets >> might say at this point. >> >> Unfortunately for Mr. Cohen, none of his rather silly attemps to >> intimidate >> AFRINIC are working, and none of them will work, because there are just >> too >> many actual and independently verifiable facts on the table at this point. >> But Mr. Cohen has several million reasons ($$$) to hope against hope that >> he can somehow still keep his stolen stuff, so he is motivated to keep on >> trying, even though literally all of the facts are against him. This >> pitiful public spectacle is sad to watch, but like our Mr. Trump here in >> the U.S., Mr. Cohen is in denial, and is simply having trouble emotionally >> processing the fact that he has already lost. >> >> >> Regards, >> rfg >> >> >> P.S. I suppose that whoever is administering the AFRINIC mailing lists >> could be doing a somewhat better job of filtering out posting from Cohen's >> various sock puppet free email accounts, but I personally don't mind if >> they don't. Every time he posts to the mailing lists using one of his >> sock puppet identities he simply adds to the already abundant evidence >> that he thinks the rules don't apply to him, and he also adds to the >> equally abundant evidence that he's not an entirely well man. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Community-Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ > Community-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss >
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