Well put well put Ronald. You spelt it out clearly. I hope they have listened well.
Sent from my iPhone > On 2 Aug 2021, at 04:48, Ronald F. Guilmette <[email protected]> wrote: > > In message <[email protected]>, > Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote: > >> While people often mistake ICANN for some form of authority, the reality is >> that for number >> resources, ICANN is a puppet at the end of the strings pulled by the NRO > > If thing go as you & Lu clearly hope it will, then we may perhaps be > able to witness an actual test of that hypothesis, i.e. we may find out > what the ICANN position is on all this, and what it may do or may be > willing and able to do in the event of some ACTUAL crisis... a crisis > which provably DOES NOT EXIST at the moment. > >> I will also note, for the sake of completeness, that the NRO so far has not >> announced any >> approval, disbursement, or activation of the NRO stability fund. > > Why should they? The lights are still on at AFRINIC, the servers are > still running and performing their assigned duties... you just sent an > email through one of them... and as far as I am aware, none of the > actual AFRINIC employees who administer and operate any of AFRINIC's > critical online systems have quit their jobs to look for gainful > employment elsewhere. > > This is all a phony crisis... a tempest in a teacup... which has only > been given a thin veneer of reality by a small number of sock puppets > who are all quite clearly pushing the Cloud Innovation party line. > > If, as I expect, the financial freeze order is lifted this coming Wedneday... > once BOTH PARTIES are at last before the judge and allowed to speak on > this matter... then this completely fake "crisis" will disappear like > a puff of smoke in the wind. > > > Regards, > rfg > > _______________________________________________ > 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
