In message <[email protected]>, AFRINIC Communication <[email protected]> wrote:
>Following complaints received from several community members on the >virulence of exchanges on AFRINIC mailing lists and the growing number >of one-off posts from incognito aliases that the community dubbed as >"Internet trolls"... Please note that a "troll" and what is usually refered to as a "sock puppet" are two different things. I cannot speak to the issue of "trolls" per se, but I would just like to mention some historical RIPE WHOIS information which was sent to me recently and which seems to suggests that a person who recently posted some really quite inflamitory posts to this list, soliciting for people and/or companies that might want to sue AFRINIC, may not have been quite what he seemed: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003862.html https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2021-January/003868.html A simple Google search for a "Ron Robario" turns up nothing at all, suggesting that this identity may have been artificially manufactured, rather than being one that belongs to an actual human being with an actual life history. It has been brought to my attention that this same mystery person, who seems to be non-existant as far as a simple Google search is concerned, may actually be an employee or a sock puppet of Deepak Mehta's Fiber Grid. Here is a purported relevant historical RIPE WHOIS record dating from the 2012-2013 time frame: person: Ron Robario address: Kalmar SE phone: +46700905277 nic-hdl: RON24-RIPE mnt-by: mnt-fibergrid changed: [email protected] 20120901 source: RIPE Note that since the time (2012-2013) during which the above record was present in the RIPE WHOIS data base, most or all of the related RIPE WHOIS records have been disappeared from the RIPE data base. For example records for the RON24-RIPE handle and for the MNT-FIBERGRID handle, together with any and all of the other records whose mnt-by was set to MNT-FIBERGRID have been swept clean out of the RIPE WHOIS data base. Perhaps the mysterious Mr. Robario would like to explain all this, and most specifically his connection(s) to Mr. Mehta's Fiber Grid, Inc. (Seychelles) as well as the 1+ million IPv4 addresses that Mr. Mehta somehow brilliantly finagled out of AFRINIC (and which AFRINIC has not yet reclaimed) to wit: 165.231.0.0/16 196.48.0.0/16 196.56.0.0/16 196.57.0.0/16 196.58.0.0/16 196.59.0.0/16 196.196.0.0/16 196.197.0.0/16 196.198.0.0/16 196.199.0.0/16 196.240.0.0/15 196.242.0.0/15 196.244.0.0/16 196.245.0.0/16 196.247.0.0/16 The above blocks, all assigned to ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC, comprise some 1,114,112 individual IPv4 addresses, none of which, at my last check, were being routed anywhere near the AFRINIC region. Current open market value of all of the above is estimated at around $27.2 million USD, based on a current market price of $1.6 million per /16 block. Regards, rfg P.S. For those of you who may not already be aware, the email address [email protected] is serviced by a company in Switzerland, Protonmail, that specializes in providing anonymous and untracable email accounts. _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
