Didin't [email protected] already close this thread?

Here's another bait email trolling the community.

*Best Regards,*

*Anthony*


On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 5:45 AM Lili Au <[email protected]> wrote:

> A funny discussion. Anyway, I saw many LOA that is CI authorise LARUS ( a
> Hong Kong company too) then LARUS authorise to their clients. Leo is
> correct.
>
> —
>
> > Frank Habicht <[email protected]>於2021年7月27日 15:32寫道:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > did any of those make any commitment like "we are using these to connect
> > our customers in Africa" ?
> >
> > Did CI?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Frank
> >
> > PS: I count connectivity to a VM hosted by CI as ok, but not leasing
> > just the IP to an entity without providing them any connectivity.
> >
> >> On 27/07/2021 08:24, Owen DeLong via Community-Discuss wrote:
> >> If you think this is a shocking amount of address space, please consider
> >> the amount of space
> >> held by:
> >>
> >> Non-LIRs (end users):
> >> Hewlett Packard
> >> Apple Computer
> >>
> >> Unclear whether to classify as LIR or not:
> >> Amateur Radio (AMPR)
> >>
> >> LIRs:
> >> XFINITY/Comcast
> >> Verizon
> >> Akamai
> >> XO Communications
> >> Amazon
> >> Microsoft
> >> Google
> >> etc.
> >>
> >> The equivalent of 1.5 /10s (75% of a /9) is far less than any of the
> >> above organizations.
> >>
> >> Owen
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Jul 26, 2021, at 01:11 , Leo S <[email protected]
> >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Ronald
> >>> Maybe your number is correct, whether it is 6.3M or 7M,This is a
> >>> shocking number for everyone especially in 201x such a large block
> >>> allocated. This is not in 199x year.
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 4:25 AM Ronald F. Guilmette
> >>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>    In message
> >>>    <calm9cbn+r9oen9+9ybjfbk5ggtcmemz1yhxgdfw04otc3mx...@mail.gmail.com
> <mailto:
> calm9cbn%2br9oen9%[email protected]>>
> >>>    Meriem Dayday <[email protected]
> >>>    <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> This is a direct violation of the CoC.
> >>>
> >>>    No, actually, it isn't.
> >>>
> >>>    The information about how Cloud Innovation is presently making use
> of
> >>>    it's assigned 6,291,456 AFRINIC-administered IPv4 addresses is
> >>>    effectively
> >>>    public information, and it is not difficult to derive from any
> >>>    number of
> >>>    public sources (e.g. RIPEStat, bgp.he.net <http://bgp.he.net/>,
> etc.)
> >>>
> >>>    If you lived in the time of Galileo Galilei, would you consider it
> an
> >>>    affront to public decency if some people elected to look through the
> >>>    telescope and then just describe what they saw?  And if so, then
> what
> >>>    is next?  Book burning?
> >>>
> >>>> Disclosing such information and data without the company's
> >>>    consent is a
> >>>> clear attempt of defamation and can have legal consequences on the
> >>>> concerned person.
> >>>
> >>>    OK, let's parse that statement, because it conjoins two different
> >>>    obvious
> >>>    logical problems.
> >>>
> >>>    First, the Internet is *not* a private network.  Fact's about what
> >>>    various
> >>>    companies are doing on the Internet are possible to see, and to
> learn,
> >>>    without needing the consent of the companies inolved.  That is the
> >>>    nature
> >>>    of the Internet.  If you want to run your own closed private
> intranet,
> >>>    then go head.  Nobody will stop you and you can then keep every last
> >>>    detail of your corporate operations utterly secret.  But the
> >>>    minute any
> >>>    company obtains Internet number resources and starts using those, it
> >>>    *voluntarily* gives up some of its corporate secrecy in exchange
> >>>    for being
> >>>    a part of, and a participant on this great communications
> >>>    experiment we
> >>>    call the Internet.
> >>>
> >>>    I personally am not now, and never have been a customer of Cloud
> >>>    Innovation.
> >>>    And yet even well before today I already determined for myself
> >>>    that well
> >>>    more that 90% of Cloud Innovation's assigned AFRINIC-administered
> IPv4
> >>>    address space was being deployed to other continents.  This is not
> >>>    a state
> >>>    secret by any means, and the information may be derived from 100%
> >>>    public
> >>>    sources.  Anyone clever enough to seek it out will find the same
> >>>    information.
> >>>
> >>>    Whether the manner in which Cloud Innovation is using/deploying its
> >>>    assigned number resources does or does not comport with its specific
> >>>    RSA and/or with community approved regulations is a separate
> question,
> >>>    and one which I myself do not have an answer to.  In any case, the
> >>>    courts will sort out those questions in due course, I imagine.
> >>>    But the
> >>>    mere facts of how Cloud Innovation has deployed its AFRINIC-assigned
> >>>    resources, or how it would appear to make money, based on the
> >>>    available
> >>>    public evidence, are *not* corporate secrets.  Any attempt to
> portray
> >>>    them as such is just an attempt at heavy-handed censorship.
> >>>
> >>>    The second logical problem with the statement above is contained
> >>>    in the
> >>>    part that says "... attempt of defamation and can have legal
> >>>    consequences
> >>>    on the concerned person."
> >>>
> >>>    Exactly so!  If the guy who posted the material you are reacting
> >>>    to was
> >>>    willing to take the legal risk to post that material, IN SPITE OF
> the
> >>>    possibility that he could, at least in theory, be sued for
> defamation,
> >>>    then why are YOU worried about it?  Why should AFRINIC be worried
> >>>    about
> >>>    it?  Obviously, this (theoretical) possibility of a defemation
> lawsuit
> >>>    is only a problem for the guy who posted the (allegedly) defamatory
> >>>    text, and he obviiously was willing to take the risk in order to
> >>>    express
> >>>    his opinion, SO WHAT IS THAT TO YOU?
> >>>
> >>>    Here again, shouting down in the original poster in this manner
> >>>    appears
> >>>    to me to be just another a heavy-handed attempt at pointless
> >>>    censorship.
> >>>
> >>>    I hope that we here can all have open and frank discusions of all
> >>>    of the
> >>>    issues now of concern to AFRINIC without these kinds of attempts to
> >>>    muzzle dissenting viewpoints based on perfectly silly arguments.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>    Regards,
> >>>    rfg
> >>>
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