Re: [Community-Discuss] Closure: was: Board Statement on Board Member's Conduct

2017-06-11 Thread Consolate Gabriella A. Wangwe
: [Community-Discuss] Closure: was: Board Statement on Board Member's Conduct On 09 Jun 2017, at 19:31, Danny <afahou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Local host should always ensure high availability by having at least 2 > service providers regardless of how many fiber link

Re: [Community-Discuss] Closure: was: Board Statement on Board Member's Conduct

2017-06-09 Thread Noah
On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Sunday Folayan wrote: > The community protested the dramatic shutdown with strong words at the > mic that day. > > +1 Sunday Very complex social/political and economic issues for poor Afrinic PDP to deal beyond the back/forth. AIS2017

Re: [Community-Discuss] Closure: was: Board Statement on Board Member's Conduct

2017-06-09 Thread Badru Ntege
Members I would like to ask that we close this thread. The main objective of the AIS17 event was that we had a successful workshop week. We also had an engaging meeting week. The organisation had challenges but besides all challenges the community came together discussed, and ended the

Re: [Community-Discuss] Closure: was: Board Statement on Board Member's Conduct

2017-06-09 Thread Ismail Settenda
+1 I too disagree it was abuse...a painful example maybe but if it is good manners you advocating for then lets first be appreciative then complain. As it is I didnt see any email apperiacating the speed and good internet beforehand ... then not escalate things needlessly..! Regards -- Ismail

Re: [Community-Discuss] Closure: was: Board Statement on Board Member's Conduct

2017-06-09 Thread Nishal Goburdhan
On 09 Jun 2017, at 19:31, Danny wrote: > Local host should always ensure high availability by having at least 2 > service providers regardless of how many fiber links one provider can bring > into the conference after all even during the workshop week, Liquid internet >

Re: [Community-Discuss] Closure: was: Board Statement on Board Member's Conduct

2017-06-09 Thread McTim
On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Danny wrote: > Dear Mark, > > Ben Roberts behavior was another abuse of this community's patience. I disagree. I recall a RIPE meeting where the v4 connectivity was shut off to demonstrate what that was like, and no one batted an eye. I

Re: [Community-Discuss] Closure: was: Board Statement on Board Member's Conduct

2017-06-09 Thread Andrew Alston
et> Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] Closure: was: Board Statement on Board Member's Conduct Dear Mark, Ben Roberts behavior was another abuse of this community's patience. What if liquid was not sponsoring connectivity. How would Ben have demonstrated his unnecessary shutdown? Doing such shutdo

Re: [Community-Discuss] Closure: was: Board Statement on Board Member's Conduct

2017-06-09 Thread Chevalier du Borg
2017-06-09 21:31 GMT+04:00 Danny : > Ben Roberts behavior was another abuse of this community's patience. > > What if liquid was not sponsoring connectivity. How would Ben have > demonstrated his unnecessary shutdown? > > > Doing such shutdown on a sponsored link under SLA

Re: [Community-Discuss] Closure: was: Board Statement on Board Member's Conduct

2017-06-09 Thread Danny
Dear Mark, Ben Roberts behavior was another abuse of this community's patience. What if liquid was not sponsoring connectivity. How would Ben have demonstrated his unnecessary shutdown? Doing such shutdown on a sponsored link under SLA for a major regional event (AIS) does not give honor to

Re: [Community-Discuss] Closure: was: Board Statement on Board Member's Conduct

2017-06-09 Thread Sunday Folayan
Dear Benjamin, There is nothing to investigate on that matter. The community protested the dramatic shutdown with strong words at the mic that day. An apology was tendered by Ben Roberts on the floor immediately. I thought the community closed the matter then. The AIS Programme Committee is in

Re: [Community-Discuss] Closure: was: Board Statement on Board Member's Conduct

2017-06-09 Thread Mark Elkins
I'm sorry, but what is to investigate? Ben from Liquid stated that he was going to initiate a partial shutdown of the Internet for demonstration purposes (to demonstrate what it felt like) for the duration of his talk on "Internet Shutdowns" policy. He kept to his word. This was obviously planned

Re: [Community-Discuss] Closure: was: Board Statement on Board Member's Conduct

2017-06-09 Thread Benjamin Eshun
Dear Sunday, Thank you for the information. Have we investigated the Internet shutdown which occurred during the AFRINIC Public Policy meeting at AIS2017, in order to clarify the responsibilities of Connectivity sponsor and of AIS NOC team on the Incident ? How come AIS2017 was run with only

[Community-Discuss] Closure: was: Board Statement on Board Member's Conduct

2017-06-08 Thread Sunday Folayan
Dear Community, In my previous communication to the community dated 29th May 2017, AFRINIC board undertook to further investigate the matter under reference. During the course of the investigation, statements were obtained from Prof. Quaynor as well as others who personally witnessed the