Thank you Owen for the email, I do not appreciate private emails as the matter was published and is being publicly discussed.
This is a practice of bad actors in the community. Daniel On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 13:56, Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote: > Daniel, > > Responding in private since this is off-topic for the list. > > This really has nothing to do with the AFRNIC PDP and has to do with > things I want to be able to say and advocate for in the ARIN region. > > There is no conflict between my activities in AFRINIC PDP and my role on > the ARIN AC. > > As to my interest in the AFRINIC PDP, you should note that I’m also at > various times active in APNIC, LACNIC, RIPE, and ARIN PDPs. > > I make my living as a consultant and I have at various times had clients > all over the world and some clients with global networks. As a result, I am > often asked to pay attention to the PDP in those regions. > > I am also someone with a strong sense of community service. As such, since > I am obliged to monitor the process for my client(s) anyway, I will often > work towards what I perceive as the best interests of the community > (regardless of whether it is best for my client or not) and I will often > advocate as such. In general, I select clients who are generally > ideologically aligned with me. > > One exception is Cloud Innovation. While I am not ideologically 100% in > agreement with them and do not necessarily favor the current state of > policy which benefits them, I am even more concerned that the RIRs cannot > simply make up policy or randomly interpret policy to suit their > ideological goals and must, instead, follow the policy as written until it > is amended through the proper community process. > > AFRINIC has a long history of corruption, election irregularities, > financial misdeeds, and failure to properly follow its own rules in both > its governance process and in its management of the IP registry database. > As such, I have maintained a high level of interest in AFRINIC’s doings in > an effort to do what I can to help resolve those issues. > > Owen > > On Jul 14, 2021, at 03:38 , DANIEL NANGHAKA <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear Marcus, > > I strongly agree, that there are policy updates from the other RIRs, what > is catching my interest at the moment is that Owen has been one of the very > active participants on PDP and I believe AFRINIC has a high level of > freedom of expression. > When he gives a reason that he wants to have greater freedom and > flexibility to advocate for changes in the internet community, some of > which would be considered a conflict of interest with his role as an > Advisory Council member. I begin to realise that Owen could have been > having a high conflict of interest which conflicted with his position on > the AC. > > Dear Owen, > Owen, kindly advise how we could deal with the Conflict of Interest in the > PDP as you state it clearly in your reason. Furthermore, I still have > question marks as to why the AFRINIC PDP is of high interest to you - yet > the Policies discussed are for the development of the Internet in Africa. > Is something wrong with the AFRINIC PDP that stimulates high interest for > your participation in AFRINIC Process that the Africa participants have > failed to solve which requires your expertise? > > Is ARIN more superior than AFRINIC? > > Thanks > Daniel > > > ᐧ > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 13:26, Marcus K. G. Adomey <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Dear Owen and PDWG, >> >> I don’t think this is an off-topic. There are reasons why we always have >> session on “policy update from other RIRs” at every PPM…it’s like we care >> for what happened at ARIN PDP through its AC and possible impact on our >> PDP and related issues >> >> In response to the statement below, one would like to know why is Owen >> talking about “ was not forced to resign”? Nobody said so AFAIK, how >> come the position at ARIN constitute restraint to speech and why only now? >> >> And question for this community is how do we deal with conflict of >> interest in our PDP? >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> Marcus >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Owen DeLong via Community-Discuss <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 13, 2021 5:03:19 PM >> *To:* Arnaud AMELINA <[email protected]> >> *Cc:* General Discussions of AFRINIC <[email protected]>; >> AfriNIC Resource Policy Discussion List <[email protected]> >> *Subject:* Re: [Community-Discuss] [rpd] ARIN without Owen Delong ? >> >> Apologies to the list for this off-topic posting, but given the >> unwarranted attention already paid to the >> matter and the escalating level of speculation, I beg your indulgence. >> This will (hopefully) be the >> only post I make on the matter here. >> >> For clarity: >> >> 1. I chose to resign my position on the ARIN AC. I was not forced to >> resign. I did not have to resign. >> So your speculation is neither accurate, nor appropriate and the >> implications are offensive. >> >> 2. I chose to resign in order to have greater freedom and flexibility to >> advocate for changes in the >> internet community, some of which would be considered a conflict of >> interest with my role as >> an Advisory Council member. While I have been outspoken by most >> standards, the reality is >> that my position on the AC did serve as a significant restraint to my >> speech in many cases. >> The time has come where I felt the need to remove that restraint in order >> to best serve the >> community. >> >> Reading anything other than the above into it would be a mistake and >> further speculation is very >> unlikely to produce any accurate conclusions. >> >> If anyone has questions about my resignation, they are free to ask me >> directly, but this really is >> not an appropriate topic for this list. >> >> Owen >> >> >> On Jul 13, 2021, at 05:56 , Arnaud AMELINA <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> @Taiwo >> >> We all would like to know why Owen, so active in our PDP, has to resign >> from his position at ARIN AC which serves in an advisory capacity to the >> Board of Trustees on Internet number resource policy and related matters. >> >> -- >> Arnaud >> >> Le lun. 12 juil. 2021 à 12:37, Taiwo Oye <[email protected]> a >> écrit : >> >> Benjilo. >> How is this of concern to you or to any of the members of the afrinic >> community. Kindly direct your question to the appropriate quarters - >> [email protected] - >> >> >> On Jul 11, 2021, at 19:27, Paschal Ochang <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Great question Daniel. >> >> On Sunday, July 11, 2021, DANIEL NANGHAKA <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Is this worth discussing on the rpd or mailing lists? >> >> On Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 8:36 PM Marcus K. G. Adomey <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> Out of curiosity, does anyone know why Owen Delong active in AFRINIC PDP >> resigned from ARIN AC? >> >> https://www.arin.net/about/welcome/ac/meetings/2021_0617/ point 10 >> >> >> >> Marcus >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Community-Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss >> >> >> >> -- >> Kind regards, >> >> Paschal. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> RPD mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Community-Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss >> > > ᐧ
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