<div dir="auto">Hi Arnaud<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The lessons learning by APNIC from our region did help indeed in preventing their EC council from being potentially captured by a single organisation or interest group.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The community in the AFRINIC region if you will remember has been very active in defending our region from the Larus and NRS ideas and activism for quit a while now.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If you will remember how we managed to come together to defend the PDP process and the RPD list from sock puppets and misleading policies from that group.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If you will remember, in the previously elections, Mark Elkins win for the board seat on Southern Africa was a statement of our communities resolve that we will not accept the Larus and NRS activist when we rejected the likes of Paul Wolner who is now the chairman of NRS.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You remember how the AFRINIC community refused and rejected the vote buying behaviour from becoming the new normal.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">While their ideas were now being spread across the APNIC region, the community there saw it fit to reject them completely and that vote of no confidence in the NRS is exciting and a statement that the community is happy with the RIR system and will fight to defend the system.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Noah</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 10 Mar 2023, 14:09 Arnaud A. A. A., <<a href="mailto:arnaud.amelina@togorer.tg">arnaud.amelina@togorer.tg</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div><div style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px;direction:ltr"><div>Yeah !!! It seems they learned from AFRINIC's Mistakes.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope AFRINIC, will learn from their experience, in order to never fall in situation like this. <span lang="en"><span><span>Anyway we are there to raise the bar by all legal means.</span></span></span></div><div><span lang="en"><span><span><br></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="en"><span><span>Regards</span></span></span></div><div><span lang="en"><span><span><br></span></span></span></div><div><span lang="en"><span><span>Arnaud<br></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:16px"></div><br><br><div></div><br><br><div>Le mer., mars 8, 2023 à 08:07, Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> a écrit:</div><blockquote><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>It's exciting to see <b>APNIC</b> 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. <br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Cheers,</div><div><b>.</b><b>/noah</b></div><div><b><br></b></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 10:55 AM Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" rel="external noreferrer" target="_blank">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Members,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I thought that I should share with you the outcome of the recently concluded APNIC board elections outcome.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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 <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You can read more here FYI <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/02/apnic_election_results/" rel="external noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/02/apnic_election_results/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div dir="auto">Noah</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="333333">"A name indicates what we seek. <b>An address indicates where it is</b>. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel</font><font size="2" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
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