APNIC Board Elections Outcome: NRS Reform Activists Rejected

[Noah]

It's exciting to see *APNIC* resource members exercise their rights to vote
for candidates with great standing to the APNIC EC Council. The candidates
who were successfully elected had no affiliations with the NRS.

Cheers,
*.**/noah*



On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 10:55 AM Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:

> Members,
>
> I thought that I should share with you the outcome of the recently
> concluded APNIC board elections outcome.
>
> The NRS endorsed candidates, that is, Lu Heng and his other affiliates
> were seriously rejected by the APNIC resource members and lost. This is the
> second time Lu Heng has been rejected after attempting to contest for an EC
> position on the APNIC EC which is basically similar to the AFRINIC board.
>
> It's exciting to see AFRINIC resource members exercise their rights to
> vote for candidates with great standing to the APNIC EC Council. The
> candidates who were successfully elected had no any affiliations with the
> NRS.
>
> This is a powerful statement and a vote of no confidence in Lu Heng and
> his fellow NRS candidates who attempted to stack its associates to another
> RIR board in this case APNIC. In fact the new EC
>
> You can read more here FYI
> https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/02/apnic_election_results/
>
> We should welcome this news with great optimism that the Internet Numbers
> Community is now paying more attention to Lu Heng and the so called NRS
> very seriously and their activities are no longer isolated to the AFRINIC
> region alone but are spreading across the entire RIR system and we must
> reject them vehemently as the Numbers Community. The RIR system has stood
> the taste of time in the last 3 decades serving the global internet address
> system so well that all these recent attempts to make the system
> dysfunctional shall not succeed with more resource members becoming more
> and more aware of the threat.
>
> Cheers,
> Noah
>
> "A name indicates what we seek. *An address indicates where it is*. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>
>
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