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1. Re: [members-discuss] Joint statement on the current AFRINIC
situation from the African Regional RENs (AFRINIC Communication)
2. Re: TESPOK_KENYA STATEMENT ON AFRINIC (Noah)
3. TESPOK_KENYA STATEMENT ON AFRINIC (Sylvain Baya)
4. Re: Share About Cloud Innovation Ltd and their business (Mirriam)
5. Re: TESPOK_KENYA STATEMENT ON AFRINIC (Owen DeLong)
6. Gems from the Archives (Ronald F. Guilmette)
7. Gems from the Archives (Sylvain Baya)
8. Re: Community-Discuss Digest, Vol 820, Issue 1 (Daniel Yakmut)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 18:06:42 +0400
From: AFRINIC Communication <[email protected]>
To: Paul Wollner <[email protected]>
Cc: Community Discuss <[email protected]>, "habib.youssef"
<[email protected]>, members-discuss
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [members-discuss] Joint statement on
the current AFRINIC situation from the African Regional RENs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Mr Wollner,
The Code of Conduct was not applied as Mr. Habib publicly apologised to the
mailing list.
Regards,
AFRINIC Communications
On 11 Aug 2021, at 11:15, Paul Wollner <[email protected]> wrote:
I am curious as to why AFRINIC is silent when comes to enforcing CoC on its
vice chairman of the board? Why has the board member not resigned after such an
improper public comment?
Regards
Paul
---- On Tue, 03 Aug 2021 11:41:29 +0200 habib.youssef via Members-Discuss
<[email protected]> wrote ----
Thanks Boubakar, Yousef and Matthews for your support.
What Lu Heng and company have started to do since several years to go is
criminal by all standards.
I hope Afrinic will get out stronger from crisis.
--Habib.
Sent from my Galaxy
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From: Boubakar Barry <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: 03/08/2021 08:49 (GMT+01:00)
To: Members Discuss <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: [members-discuss] Joint statement on the current AFRINIC situation
from the African Regional RENs
Dear All,
On behalf of the three African regional RENs, please find attached our joint
statement on the current situation at AFRINIC.
It says:
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ASREN, UbuntuNet Alliance and WACREN are the regional research and education
networks interconnecting national research and education networks (NRENs)
across the continent (Northern Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, West and
Central Africa).
African RENs provide connectivity and other services to millions of end users
in the education and research community (students, faculty, researchers,
administrators, etc.), and INRs are critical for the delivery of these services.
The REN community is following with interest but also with concern the heated
debate on the current lawsuit against AFRINIC that led to the freezing of its
bank accounts, thus jeopardizing its operations.
Many years ago, members of the REN community expressed concerns about a risk
for AFRINIC, when a resource member publicly said that AFRINIC will face
bankruptcy if it dares consider reclaiming resources that many members thought
were assigned wrongly, or at least were not used as initially indicated. It
was, at that time, recommended to address this issue seriously.
And here we are.
Anyway: the current situation is very serious and our community and the
friends of the African Internet community should stand together and fight
against those who want to destroy and bury AFRINIC.
Yes, there are things to improve at AFRINIC. But in this critical situation, we
urge all to stand by and support the Board and Management of our organization.
We say no to any attempt to move the management of Internet number resources
attributed to Africa to any other organization.
Therefore, we, as representatives of the African REN community, express our
full support to AFRINIC Board and Management and invite all Africans and
friends of Africa to do the same.
Signed:
For ASREN (www.asrenorg.net <http://www.asrenorg.net/>): Dr. Yousef Torman,
Co-MD
For Ubuntunet Alliance (www.ubuntunet.net <http://www.ubuntunet.net/>): Dr.
Matthews Mtumbuka, CEO
For WACREN (www.wacren.net <http://www.wacren.net/>): Dr. Boubakar Barry, CEO
________________________________________________________________
Best wishes,
Boubakar Barry
--
CEO/Directeur G?n?ral, WACREN
Web: http://www.wacren.net <http://www.wacren.net/>
***Keep it simple, as simple as possible, but not simpler. (A. Einstein)***
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:52:52 +0300
From: Noah <[email protected]>
To: Fiona Asonga <[email protected]>
Cc: General Discussions of AFRINIC <[email protected]>,
AfriNIC Discuss <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] TESPOK_KENYA STATEMENT ON AFRINIC
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Hi Fiona,
Thank you so much for the statement from the Technology Service Providers
of Kenya (*TESPOK*) on AFRINIC.
Cheers,
*./noah*
neo - network engineering and operations
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 3:33 PM Fiona Asonga <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear All
TESPOK- Technology Service Providers Of Kenya has issued the following
statement regarding the current situation at AFRINIC.
<https://www.tespok.co.ke/?p=14010>It reads:
10th August 2021
*STATEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY SERVICE PROVIDERS OF KENYA (TESPOK) ON AFRINIC*
Technology Service Providers of Kenya (TESPOK) is a professional non-
profit organization representing interests of Technology Service Providers
in Kenya and it runs the Kenya Internet Exchange Point.
TESPOK and its 80+ members are dependent on the internet resources
acquired as members of AFRINIC, thus AFRINIC plays a crucial role as the
sole delegated administrator of critical Internet resources for the African
region as Kenya internet users rely on AFRINIC to provide and efficiently
distribute internet number resources, support internet technology usage to
be able to connect to the Internet and to conduct business online.
Afrinic?s Chief Executive Officer?s communication to members regarding the
dispute between AFRINIC and Cloud Innovation Limited has left TESPOK and
its membership concerned. The dispute has led to AFRINICS accounts being
frozen thus hindering AFRINIC?s ability to operate and perform its duties.
TESPOK recognizes that AFRINIC plays an important role in running critical
services for the global internet thus we at TESPOK would like to support
AFRINIC meet its operational obligations until the dispute is resolved.
We thank the AFRINIC CEO, Eddy Kayihura for the constant updates and
reassurance he has provided members and we would like to humbly appeal to
AFRINIC?s Board of Directors and Senior Management to focus on its core
mandate and ensure the stability of Africa?s internet ecosystem.
TESPOK hopes that AFRINIC will do everything within its ability to ensure
business continuity and that a swift amicable solution to the dispute shall
be reached.
*ENDS...*
*About TESPOK *
*Telecommunications Service Providers Association of Kenya (TESPOK) is a
professional, non-profit organization representing the interests of
telecommunication service providers in Kenya. Established in 1999, the
strength of the Association rests on its ability to be truly representative
of the Kenyan industry as a whole. The association has brought the issues
affecting its members into the limelight creating awareness among policy
makers and the general public as well as producing several concrete
outcomes. **More information is available
at: https://www.tespok.co.ke/?p=14010 <https://www.tespok.co.ke/?p=14010> *
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 22:55:50 +0100
From: Sylvain Baya <[email protected]>
To: General Discussions of AFRINIC <[email protected]>
Subject: [Community-Discuss] TESPOK_KENYA STATEMENT ON AFRINIC
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Dear AfriNIC's Community,
Le mercredi 11 ao?t 2021, Fiona Asonga <[email protected]> a ?crit :
Dear All
Hi Fiona,
...i thank you and all the valuable resource members from TESPOK, for this
great support.
TESPOK- Technology Service Providers Of Kenya has issued the following
statement regarding the current situation at AFRINIC.
That's a really appreciated kind of response, i
personally encourage other resource members
to endorse it...anyone should understand the risk attached to the situation
in which only few (one?) resource member(s?) have jeopardized AfriNIC,
including all those who respect the RSA they have
signed prior to receiving some INRs; to use within
the AfriNIC service region...in compliance with the
CPM.
...also, given the brutality, of that adverse action,
i ask myself if the appropriate response is not to
launch a joint similar action against that adversary
LIR? it seems to be easy to calculate the actual
value of the INRs holding by all the resource
members whose businesses could be potentially
affected by the freeze of AfriNIC's bank accounts.
...maybe TESPOK should try to coordinate with
the other potentially affected resource members
(~1900)? also note that: that "INRs War" has been
started and the other camp is actively recruiting,
publicly through their QG web site at NRA...maybe
gathering the resource members might be a good
start :-/
The risk is shared with the other RIRs which form
a unique Internet Numbers Registry System (INRS)
(RFC7020); now under the same attack...
Thanks once more.
Shalom,
--sb.
<https://www.tespok.co.ke/?p=14010>It reads:
10th August 2021
*STATEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY SERVICE PROVIDERS OF KENYA (TESPOK) ON AFRINIC*
Technology Service Providers of Kenya (TESPOK) is a professional non-
profit organization representing interests of Technology Service Providers
in Kenya and it runs the Kenya Internet Exchange Point.
TESPOK and its 80+ members are dependent on the internet resources
acquired as members of AFRINIC, thus AFRINIC plays a crucial role as the
sole delegated administrator of critical Internet resources for the African
region as Kenya internet users rely on AFRINIC to provide and efficiently
distribute internet number resources, support internet technology usage to
be able to connect to the Internet and to conduct business online.
Afrinic?s Chief Executive Officer?s communication to members regarding the
dispute between AFRINIC and Cloud Innovation Limited has left TESPOK and
its membership concerned. The dispute has led to AFRINICS accounts being
frozen thus hindering AFRINIC?s ability to operate and perform its duties.
TESPOK recognizes that AFRINIC plays an important role in running critical
services for the global internet thus we at TESPOK would like to support
AFRINIC meet its operational obligations until the dispute is resolved.
We thank the AFRINIC CEO, Eddy Kayihura for the constant updates and
reassurance he has provided members and we would like to humbly appeal to
AFRINIC?s Board of Directors and Senior Management to focus on its core
mandate and ensure the stability of Africa?s internet ecosystem.
TESPOK hopes that AFRINIC will do everything within its ability to ensure
business continuity and that a swift amicable solution to the dispute shall
be reached.
*ENDS...*
*About TESPOK *
*Telecommunications Service Providers Association of Kenya (TESPOK) is a
professional, non-profit organization representing the interests of
telecommunication service providers in Kenya. Established in 1999, the
strength of the Association rests on its ability to be truly representative
of the Kenyan industry as a whole. The association has brought the issues
affecting its members into the limelight creating awareness among policy
makers and the general public as well as producing several concrete
outcomes. **More information is available
at: https://www.tespok.co.ke/?p=14010 <https://www.tespok.co.ke/?p=14010> *
