Re: [Community-Discuss] Accountability assessment - quorum

Hi, On 10/4/2016 10:44 PM, Boubakar Barry wrote: > In many countries, and not only in Africa, people buy votes and/or vote > differently than instructed. > > By limiting the number of proxies one can carry, we won't eliminate this > risk, but we would at least reduce it. I would argue that the

Re: [Community-Discuss] Accountability assessment - quorum

Hi, On 9/30/2016 5:29 PM, Omo Oaiya wrote: > As you have repeated but that is by the way. What is clear is that > electronic voting has solved the issue with proxies so we don’t need > them. If the companies act is restrictive and does not support better > accountability, proxies can be limited

Re: [Community-Discuss] Accountability assessment - quorum

Hi Alain, On 10/1/2016 4:54 PM, ALAIN AINA wrote: ... > Referring to the Act beyond what its applied to "Registered members" > seems inappropriate and can lead to questioning may other things… ... I want to ask and not assume. Do you mean that "questioning other things" is a bad thing? Or was

Re: [Community-Discuss] Accountability assessment - quorum

Hi, On 9/30/2016 9:21 PM, Hountomey Jean Robert wrote: >> And will make AfriNIC procedures legal under Mauritius law. > > Great. > > Are we trying to fix a mistake we have all made in the pass ? There is room for misunderstandings, and I don't want any to happen. What action or omission do

Re: [Community-Discuss] Bylaws changes

Hi Alan, all, thanks for this! Few minor things. about 7. (on page 5) If I understand correctly, if we have "no more than two from the same sub-region" then we already have "no more than two from the same country" (because no country is in multiple sub-regions, and no director is from multiple

Re: [Community-Discuss] IPv6 Chapter 254

On 10/14/2016 3:39 PM, Noah wrote: > On 14 Oct 2016 15:23, "Saul Stein" > wrote: >> As things stand: >> >> 1) AFRINIC makes money from assigning v4 space > > I doubt AFRINIC is in the business of making money. and nobody said that.

Re: [Community-Discuss] IPv4 depletion in AFRINIC will speed up IPv6 adoption - myth or fact?

On 10/28/2016 1:58 AM, Omo Oaiya wrote: > Like others, I would like to see widespread v6 adoption but we do need > to be careful to explain the stats we provide especially for those who > advocate to other stakeholders. route-views6.routeviews.org> sh bgp ipv6 u 2001:43f8:1d0::/48 % Network not

Re: [Community-Discuss] Liquid Telecom warns of looming address shortage - Daily Nation

On 10/10/2016 9:01 AM, Ali Hussein wrote: > 3. How can we move the needle faster? conf t int . ip address 2xxx::::xxx/yyy end wr ___ Community-Discuss mailing list Community-Discuss@afrinic.net

Re: [Community-Discuss] [rpd] How good was Afrinic-27 ?

Hi, On 12/6/2017 7:42 PM, Badru Ntege wrote: > On 5 Dec 2017, at 23:02, Dr P Nyirenda >  >> I am gravely concerned that it appears that people are being coached >> to write these >> messages on this stream ... >> >> But it would be great ... if

Re: [Community-Discuss] Issue with non-AFRINIC Fellowship to Meeting -

Hi, inline... On 12/12/2018 22:20, Owen DeLong wrote: Actually, it isn’t. AfriNIC can enforce the RSA without this review policy. This review policy doesn’t enable AfriNIC to do anything AfriNIC can’t already do. Yes. Agree. What it does do is (potentially) force AfriNIC to take on

Re: [Community-Discuss] Questions about AfriNIC Allocations

Hi, see inline On 04/12/2018 15:10, S Moonesamy wrote: Hi Andrew, At 11:24 PM 03-12-2018, Andrew Alston wrote: Now – I realize this is still early December 2018 – but we’re almost at the end of the year and unless there are a LOT of ASN’s about to be issued – I see that AFRINIC is running at

Re: [Community-Discuss] Questions about AfriNIC Allocations

On 05/12/2018 00:39, ALAIN AINA wrote: Use different source: https://afrinic.net/stats/asn thanks. Frank ___ Community-Discuss mailing list Community-Discuss@afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss

Re: [Community-Discuss] AfriNIC whois servers down

Interesting. I have no luck getting the AfriNIC website. reachability is ok. server connects. and then nothing. [frank@fisi ~]$ wget https://afrinic.net/ --2019-02-05 10:06:05--  https://afrinic.net/ Resolving afrinic.net... 2001:42d0:0:200::6, 196.216.2.6 Connecting to

Re: [Community-Discuss] Gratitude

Dear AfriNIC board members, reference is made in below email, and also in several other discussion items regarding AfriNIC and its governance, to an NDA that board members are to adhere to. Can you share the document please? I'm convinced that people have seen it before they signed the NDA.

Re: [Community-Discuss] Gratitude

Dear Alan, Thanks very much. Regards, Frank On 31/05/2019 20:54, Alan Barrett wrote: > > >> On 28 May 2019, at 14:49, Frank Habicht wrote: >> >> Dear AfriNIC board members, >> >> reference is made in below email, and also in several other discussio

Re: [Community-Discuss] Gratitude

Hi, reading https://www.afrinic.net/ast/pdf/2018-minutes/20181231-minutes.pdf especially: SO stated that he had requested via email for the Board to announce the status of the AGMM quorum court case. He stated that the Chair had refused to do so, and the Chair had alleged that SO was looking

Re: [Community-Discuss] Gratitude

To update: On 28/05/2019 16:38, Frank Habicht wrote: > any commitment to do that would probably gain the candidate some extra > votes > ;-) this does not apply any more. Frank ___ Community-Discuss mailing list Community-Discuss@afrinic.

Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Borad Elections

Hi, I don't want to speak for Andrew, but I think these 2 links can be helpful: https://lmgtfy.com/?q=apparent+authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_authority I think Andrew was encouraging own initiative of the reader. Regards, Frank On 04/07/2019 10:51, Sami Salih wrote: > Andrew 

Re: [Community-Discuss] Ongoing thefts of AFRINIC Legacy Resources -- Ongoing collusion?

On 20/08/2020 07:52, Frank Habicht wrote: > Now an observation I just made: > from Feb 2007 until May 2014 "ORG-IA41-AFRINIC" was an LIR! > and a change from LIR to "MEMBER-ONLY" (at 2014-05-26 13:15) should have > come with removal of all resources, I believe.

Re: [Community-Discuss] Ongoing thefts of AFRINIC Legacy Resources -- Ongoing collusion?

Hi Ronald, I found this: https://afrinic.net/become-member - under "3. Type of Resource Membership" is some explanation. LIRs provide internet services to other entities, and give IP addresses to those other entities to use on their devices. "EU" - end user organisations do not give IPs or

[Community-Discuss] requesting database cleanup

Hi, sorry for the disturbance in the regular programming. I was about to ask (on this list or another) for a contact to help clean up a suspicious entry in the RADB IRR - yes, not related to AfriNIC. but looking at the entry: $ whois AS64500 [Querying whois.radb.net] [whois.radb.net] aut-num:

Re: [Community-Discuss] Yet more data base problems/inconsistancies

Hi Ronald, in the file i found: ; Source AFRINIC 203.196.in-addr.arpa. NSns1.ati.tn. 203.196.in-addr.arpa. NSns2.ati.tn. if there is a delegation for the "/16 equivalent" then one can't create a delegation for an enclosed "/24 equivalent" zone. [1] So probably

Re: [Community-Discuss] Yet more data base problems/inconsistancies

Hi, On 06/11/2020 01:55, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > In message , > Frank Habicht wrote: > >> in the file i found: >> ; Source AFRINIC >> 203.196.in-addr.arpa. NSns1.ati.tn. >> 203.196.in-addr.arpa. NSns2.ati.tn. >> &

Re: [Community-Discuss] Fwd: [members-discuss] Unsolicited Requests

On 30/05/2021 11:33, Paschal Ochang wrote: > Well said Ronald. Jordis point of disqualification sounds like the > judge, jury and executioner and is hasty in all ramifications. Even if > there were some facts to prove the points, it may be possible that the > candidate is not even aware of such

[Community-Discuss] The purpose

Hi. Subject changed. used to be "Re: [rpd] More confusion from Noah" Also, this is not about resource policy development, so trying to move to community-discuss, as i think all participants are there. On 10/07/2021 04:48, Owen DeLong via RPD wrote: >> On Jul 4, 2021, at 04:38 , Noah >

Re: [Community-Discuss] Notice to all the legacy netblocks holders in AfriNIC

Hi Owen, On 05/02/2021 03:56, Owen DeLong wrote: > > >> On Feb 2, 2021, at 4:29 AM, Noah > > wrote: >> FWIW, an LIR in Afrinic documentation means: “*Any Network Operator >> that provides Internet services to distinct end-users and end-sites.*” >> In the same context,

Re: [Community-Discuss] Notice to all the legacy netblocks holders in AfriNIC

Owen??? On 05/02/2021 14:53, AFRINIC Communication wrote: > Dear Frank, > > AFRINIC has not approved any application for IP space for the > purpose of leasing despite having received such requests. > > Regards, > > Ashil > >> On 05/02/2021 03:56, Owen DeLong wrote: >>> Yes. It does not

Re: [Community-Discuss] Notice to all the legacy netblocks holders in AfriNIC

Hi, On 05/02/2021 16:43, Owen DeLong wrote: > Originally, the space was used for some rather specialized connectivity > services. Due to changes in the market and the legal environment, those > services became less lucrative and the organization pivoted.  > > Hardly any organization that has

Re: [Community-Discuss] Breach of the Code of Conduct by Mr Ronald Guilmette

Hi, On 25/02/2021 21:33, Sylvain Baya wrote: > ...out of the right to be forgotten [1]; which i  > think we should first agree on its applicability into  > our midst :-/ > > Is modifying a public mailinglist archive a good practice? > __ > [1]:

Re: [Community-Discuss] Blog: A Comprehensive audit of the AFRINIC WHOIS Database

On 13/02/2021 14:58, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > In message <56ff34f4-04c8-48f3-bfc6-699669f55...@delong.com>, > Owen DeLong wrote: >> However, unannounced legacy resources are mostly in an unknown state of >> utilization and it is essentially impossible to determine whether or not >> they are

Re: [Community-Discuss] Multinational ISPs

Ronald, just to confirm, are you talking about organisation "ORG-HLta1-RIPE" - per RIPE DB ? [1] The one that has 185.2.48.0/22 and 178.236.224.0/20 from RIPE? [2] Both of which have the same maintainer for their route objects - "mnt-routes: hk-larus-1-mnt" which appears to be located in

Re: [Community-Discuss] Share About Cloud Innovation Ltd and their business

On 29/07/2021 05:06, Owen DeLong via Community-Discuss wrote: >> On Jul 28, 2021, at 14:43 , JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss >> wrote: >> If I said "I'm going to setup a network connecting 8 million users in a, b >> and c African countries, please allocate 9 million addresses to me".

Re: [Community-Discuss] ICANN ( NRO ) vs LARUS (NRA)

On 02/08/2021 16:48, Lamiaa Chnayti wrote: > So yes, Africa > has always and will always have my support, but not AFRINIC.. Sad to see you go, but well - it is what it is. Frank ___ Community-Discuss mailing list Community-Discuss@afrinic.net

Re: [Community-Discuss] [members-discuss] STATEMENT OF TANZANIA ISP ASSOCIATION (TISPA) - Regarding AFRINIC

You know what I think: On 29/07/2021 23:49, Paul Wollner wrote: > ... > I for one call that at this stage, AFRINIC should be seriously looking > into ways transition it’s service to other RIRs to mitigate the risk > that they have mentioned today to the press. Destroying it rather than fixing

Re: [Community-Discuss] Call for AFRINIC’s registry service migration to other RIRs

On 01/08/2021 20:54, Owen DeLong wrote: >> On Aug 1, 2021, at 08:27 , Frank Habicht wrote: >> I think Cloud Innovation dropping all lawsuits would have the same >> effect, and that is the way I would like to suggest. > > OK, for the sake of argument, what would you h

Re: [Community-Discuss] Call for AFRINIC’s registry service migration to other RIRs

Hi, first the part from the end that prompted me to respond... > In fact I find the amount of legal posturing on this > list to be nothing short of bizarre - let the courts do their work - - how dare you use the singular I expected 2 lists, but then saw many more (which I'm not

Re: [Community-Discuss] [ripe-list] Call for AFRINIC’s registry service migration to other RIRs

On 01/08/2021 14:58, Lamiaa Chnayti wrote: > ... There’s too much to risk > if we don’t get any help from another RIR as soon as possible.. I have a question about the "we". How would any non-functioning of any AfriNIC service affect you or any employer of yours? [other than the ability to post

Re: [Community-Discuss] Call for AFRINIC’s registry service migration to other RIRs

Hi, On 01/08/2021 17:54, Thizwilondi Malupa wrote: > Hi Robert ,  > > I think Andrew made a very good point, despite your argument that he is > pushing for the  transfer  policy for some other reasons. Passing a > transfer policy would  by all means reduce the risk of having AFRINIC > badly

Re: [Community-Discuss] Associated Press article

Hi Ronald, just commenting briefly on one part only On 02/10/2021 00:21, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > I have asked here to see those original Cloud Innovation justification > documents and that request has been met only with stony silence in reply. While I would "love to" see Cloud

Re: [Community-Discuss] [apnic-talk]Re: [arin-ppml] Update on Litigation Between AFRINIC and Cloud Innovation ltd

On 31/12/2021 16:45, Cheken Chetty wrote: Good day all, chairs, I would like to call out a violation of the Code of Conduct by Ronald. His statements are clearly against section B, numbers 2, 3 and 4 within the AFRINIC code of conduct. His actions and statements are defamatory and quite

Re: [Community-Discuss] Final Call for Comments on Code of Conduct

Hi, On 16/07/2021 16:49, AFRINIC Communication wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Consistent with the Governance Committee’s Terms of Reference > (https://afrinic.net/govcom#tor), the Committee had been requested by > AFRINIC’s Chief Executive Officer to review the current Code of Conduct. > > On

Re: [Community-Discuss] Why does AFRINIC continue to violate the court order?

Hi Owen, On 16/07/2021 23:28, Owen DeLong via Community-Discuss wrote: >> >> As of 12:26 PM Mauritius time, Wed. July 14, 2021: >> >> whois -h whois.afrinic.net >> 154.88.0.0                                                    >>          

Re: [Community-Discuss] Why does AFRINIC continue to violate the court order?

Hi Sylvain, On 16/07/2021 22:36, Sylvain Baya wrote: > Please download the file from AFRINIC: > > https://ftp.afrinic.net/pub/pub/dbase/afrinic.db.gz > > > > Could the DB manager, please, help us to do this? > I don't

Re: [Community-Discuss] Why does AFRINIC continue to violate the court order?

Hi Anthony, On 17/07/2021 15:09, Anthony Ubah wrote: > Dear AfriNIC Community, > > While it is inappropriate to comment on the ongoing legal process > between AFRINIC and Cloud Innovation, may I say that this litigation has > more so highlighted a lot of rot on how AfriNIC's processes are run? 

Re: [Community-Discuss] Share About Cloud Innovation Ltd and their business

Hi, did any of those make any commitment like "we are using these to connect our customers in Africa" ? Did CI? Thanks, Frank PS: I count connectivity to a VM hosted by CI as ok, but not leasing just the IP to an entity without providing them any connectivity. On 27/07/2021 08:24, Owen DeLong

Re: [Community-Discuss] Share About Cloud Innovation Ltd and their business

Hi Owen, On 27/07/2021 08:28, Owen DeLong via Community-Discuss wrote: > > >> On Jul 26, 2021, at 04:01 , Noah > > wrote: >> So while checking some statistics with a good friend over the weekend, >> we just noted that actually Cloud Innovation has more IPv4 addresses >>

Re: [Community-Discuss] Share About Cloud Innovation Ltd and their business

Hi Owen, On 27/07/2021 19:09, Owen DeLong wrote: >> On Jul 27, 2021, at 00:26 , Frank Habicht wrote: >>> It also serves more end users than the population of all of those >>> countries combined. What is your point? >> >> "serves" ...? > Yes.>

Re: [Community-Discuss] Share About Cloud Innovation Ltd and their business

On 27/07/2021 19:27, Owen DeLong wrote: >> On Jul 27, 2021, at 00:31 , Frank Habicht > <mailto:ge...@geier.ne.tz>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> did any of those make any commitment like "we are using these to connect >> our customers in Africa&q

Re: [Community-Discuss] Share About Cloud Innovation Ltd and their business

mation/documents will become public. I certainly would like to have AfriNIC ask the courts to consider them. I was hoping that was clear from my previous emails. Frank > > Regards, > Jordi > @jordipalet > > > > El 27/7/21 21:12, "Frank Habicht" es

Re: [Community-Discuss] [members-discuss] ATTENDANCE & PARTICIPATION AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEMBERS’ MEETING (AGMM)

Hi, I think there is a wrong assumption... On 02/06/2022 00:38, DANIEL NANGHAKA wrote: Some of you want to create confusion over small logical issues. A corporation cannot be created by one individual. Corporation are represented by one Administrator despite of have many members in the