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

Fri Jun 9 17:52:37 UTC 2017

You complain because it is abuse – that is what we say about governments shutting down the Internet
You say it was unnecessary – but your complaining about it is illustrating the exact point we wished to make – shutdowns hurt – shutdowns upset people – shutdowns are abusive – shutdowns are bad for business.  You are very clearly demonstrating everything we are saying about shutdowns.

As for the 2 hour outage – router failure – well – not exactly – someone unplugged it… and further more – irrespective of multiple providers – BGP at AIS meetings is announced from a central router – and if said router dies – it’s not going to help much – especially if it dies after someone unplugs it LOL

And by the way – there was always the option for another provider to be there – unfortunately – one of the providers you mentioned declined on the basis that they wanted exclusivity, something that the provider at the conference never requested or suggested.

But, Danny, I just want to thank both you and Seun for so clearly illustrating the point of how damaging shutdowns are and how they upset people – it is hugely appreciated – had that shutdown happened and no one had complained or noticed – well, it wouldn’t have gone very far to illustrating the point.  Much appreciated.

Andrew

From: Danny <afahounko at gmail.com>
Date: Friday, 9 June 2017 at 20:31
To: Sunday Folayan <sfolayan at gmail.com>
Cc: General Discussions of AFRINIC <community-discuss at afrinic.net>
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 shutdown  on a sponsored link under SLA for a major regional event (AIS) does not give honor to liquid telecom.

I would suggest that the AIS conveners signal this to liquid telecom top management in their thank you message.

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 was down for 2 hours due to router failure and if there was a second provider like Safaricon, Wananchi or Seacom such outage would have been avoided.

Local host should ensure more than 1 provider in future AIS event after such premeditated situations.

Thanks.

2017-06-09 14:24 GMT+02:00 Sunday Folayan <sfolayan at gmail.com<mailto:sfolayan at gmail.com>>:
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 the best position to respond and address the issue of sole connectivity provider. They know what to learn/unlearn from Nairobi.

Cheers.

Sunday.

On Jun 9, 2017 12:24, "Benjamin Eshun" <benjamin.eshun at gmail.com<mailto:benjamin.eshun at gmail.com>> wrote:
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 one Connectivity provider ?

Thanks
Benjamin

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Sunday Folayan <sfolayan at gmail.com<mailto:sfolayan at gmail.com>> wrote:
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 incident.
Mr Alston, has admitted having made the improper remarks, the subject matter of the incident under reference, in a subsequent apology to the Board.
Prof Quaynor has equally apprised the Chairman and Vice- Chairman of the Board that Mr Alston has privately apologized to him.
The Board has, after considering the apology tendered, and the nature of the remarks made, issued a written warning to Mr Alston.
This is for the information of the Community.
Kind Regards,
Sunday Folayan.
Chair, AFRINIC Board.

On 29/05/2017 14:24, Sunday Folayan wrote:
Dear Community,

The attention of the AFRINIC Board has been drawn to an incident which occurred in the hall/lobby of the Boma Hotel, on Saturday 27 May 2017, where AIS 2017 is being held.

It has further been confirmed that a sitting board member was involved in the said incident in which Dr Nii Quaynor, a senior and respected member of the African Internet community was allegedly subjected to verbal molestation and humiliation.

The AFRINIC Board vehemently condemns any inappropriate act that does not take into consideration the diversity in the community and acceptable norms within African societies and will not condone such acts.

The above incident is being further investigated and the Community will be informed of the outcome.

Sunday Folayan

Chair, AFRINIC Board.

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