In message <[email protected]>, Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote:
>So far, we have no indication that the stability fund has actually >agreed to support AFRINIC (requires unanimous consent of all 5 RIR >CEOs), nor do we have any confirmation that this is the alleged >alternative source of funding. Indeed, AFRINIC has been quite opaque >about where these alternate funds are coming from, possibly because they >are concerned about their secret stash of cash also getting attached. Since I am in a position to do so, I'd like to help clear up this mystery now so as to prevent there from being any idle speculation on this mailing list. (It would be a real pity if the worldwide reputation of this mailing list for being a source of nothing but factual information were to be tarnished at this late date on the basis of any unsupported speculations that might, in future, be posted here.) In light of AFRINIC's current financial predicament, and through my personal international banking connections, I have graciously agreed to facilitate a short term and very limited set of bridge financing arrangements for AFRINIC. In order to forestall any possible suspicions that these financing arrangements might be provided by persons or entities outside of the AFRINIC region who might have less than noble motives, as an integral part of these arrangements I have enlisted the assistance of my old friend and mentor, Prince Oogalaboogala of Nigeria. He has provided me with the utmost and most solemn assurances that as soon as I am able to to effectuate a bank transfer to him of $695 USD (in order to cover ceratin unavoidable and associated out-of-pocket fees and costs) that he will then be in a postion to provide AFRINIC with a guaranteed credit line, up to the amount of 50 million Mauritian rupees (some $1,168,862.50 USD) in order to provide for daily operational expenses @ AFRINIC. The entire amount of this bridge financing will itself of course be subject to Mauritian legal action, if and when it should come to that. I hope that this public disclosure on my part puts the matter to rest. I can certainly understand the concern of both Owen and Cloud Innovation that in the event that the latter ultimately prevails in court, thus bankrupting AFRINIC, it would be self-evidently unfair for it to then be denied full rights to also check between the couch cushions in the AFRINIC break room for any possible remaining loose change, or for any as-yet undonated blood plasma. Regards, rfg _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
