How about just providing simple text answers to the questions? I don’t think 
webinars are necessary. I think that the questions need to be addressed and 
that there is really no difficulty to do so in text.

Owen


> On Aug 5, 2021, at 06:03 , AFRINIC Communication <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dear Mr Wollner,
> 
> This is a follow-up to our previous response to you regarding questions.
> 
> We have planned to address these questions through a series of webinars. 
> However, these AFRINIC webinar series that we started on 19 July 2021 
> (https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/announce/2021/002306.html 
> <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/announce/2021/002306.html>) have since 
> been put on hold for now due to ongoing matters. 
> 
> We shall communicate the new dates for the webinar series in due course.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> AFRINIC Communications
> 
>> On 3 Aug 2021, at 13:33, Paul Wollner <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear AFRINIC, 
>> 
>> It has been just over a month now since the mail below was sent and I feel 
>> that we still do not have any direct answer on the 4 questions that were 
>> raised.
>> 
>> Can we please get a clearcut answer from AFRINIC on these questions?
>> 
>> Regards
>> Paul Wollner
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ---- On Fri, 02 Jul 2021 14:24:05 +0200 Paul Wollner 
>> <[email protected]> wrote ----
>> 
>> Mr. Kayihura,
>> 
>> I refer to your email dated 30 June 2021.
>> 
>> In it, you claim that Questions 1 to 3 were addressed during the open mic 
>> session held on 4 June 2021.
>> 
>> The reality is that none of those questions were satisfactorily answered. 
>> They were addressed to the extent that the questions were acknowledged, then 
>> an attempt was made to obfuscate them and answer different questions while 
>> pretending to answer the questions asked, then a claim was made that the 
>> questions would be answered at a later date.
>> 
>> In reality, no such answer has been forthcoming from AFRINIC. We recognize 
>> that these questions are likely inconvenient and come at what is almost 
>> certainly an inopportune time to be asking. Nonetheless, these are valid 
>> questions and as a resource member, we feel that we are being held at unfair 
>> disadvantage if AFRINIC will not provide a clear and direct answer to each 
>> of the questions about how it interprets policies in these areas.
>> 
>> There’s too much at stake to allow AFRINIC staff to simply make it up as 
>> they go a long. We need a public commitment to the official interpretation 
>> of these areas of potential ambiguity in the current policy regime.
>> 
>> As to the fourth item, while it is not our intent to micro-manage AFRINIC 
>> staff decisions, it is our conclusion that even if Madhvi did not actively 
>> participate in the fraudulent resource registrations and embezzlement, she 
>> surely must have either turned a blind eye (aiding and abetting) or she 
>> failed to notice it which at best displays a level of incompetence and 
>> failure to meet her duty of care in such a position.
>> 
>> In summary, we renew our request for factual, reliable, direct answers to 
>> each of the queries and request that AFRINIC eschew further obfuscation and 
>> sophistry in the process.
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> 
>> Paul Wollner
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ---- On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 13:04:19 +0200 Eddy Kayihura <[email protected]> 
>> wrote ----
>> 
>> Mr Wollner,
>> 
>> I refer to your email dated 24 June 2021.
>> 
>> Questions 1 to 3 were addressed during the open mic session held on 4 June 
>> 2021 and we undertook an action to organise a webinar within 2 months to 
>> discuss with the community the definition of “need-based” in the AFRINIC 
>> policies and bylaws.
>> 
>> We are delighted to see that the discussion amongst the community has 
>> already started.
>> 
>> 
>> Regarding question 4, we cannot penalise a staff member unless we find 
>> concrete proof of their involvement in the misappropriation of the IP 
>> resources. As of now, we do not have such evidence on any of AFRINIC’s 
>> current staff members. 
>> 
>> The appropriate channel for such inquiry or complaint is to submit it via 
>> our Whistleblowing platform. 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Eddy Kayihura
>> 
>> Chief Executive Officer,
>> African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC)
>> …………………………………………………….
>> 
>> 
>> M. Wollner,
>> 
>> Je me réfère à votre courriel du 24 juin 2021.
>> 
>> Les questions 1 à 3 ont été abordées lors de la session 'open mic' qui s'est 
>> tenue le 4 juin 2021 et nous avons entrepris une action visant à organiser 
>> un webinaire dans un délai de 2 mois afin de discuter avec la communauté de 
>> la définition de "need-based" dans les politiques et les statuts d'AFRINIC.
>> 
>> Nous sommes ravis de voir que la discussion au sein de la communauté a déjà 
>> commencé.
>> 
>> En ce qui concerne la question 4, nous ne pouvons pas pénaliser un membre du 
>> personnel à moins de trouver des preuves concrètes de son implication dans 
>> la manipulation non autorisée des ressources IP. A ce jour, nous n'avons pas 
>> de telles preuves sur aucun des membres actuels du personnel d'AFRINIC.
>> 
>> Le canal approprié pour une telle requête ou plainte est de la soumettre via 
>> notre plateforme de whistleblowing.
>> 
>> 
>> Cordialement,
>> Eddy Kayihura
>> Directeur général,
>> African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) 
>> 
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