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

[Eddy Kayihura]

Hi Ron,

You have raised quite some questions in your emails.

Some of the questions you asked have answers in the monthly updates to the
community, and others do not.

We will provide comprehensive feedback to your questions by Wednesday next
week.  To manage your expectations, the items that are still under
investigation may not have all the details you would expect.

Regards,

Eddy

-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> 
Sent: Thursday, 20 August 2020 18:23
To: community-discuss at afrinic.net
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] Ongoing thefts of AFRINIC Legacy Resources
-- Ongoing collusion?

In message <49BF4107-8FC6-4107-99F9-155C138FFA3A at gmail.com>,
Mike Silber <silber.mike at gmail.com> wrote:


>Ad hominem attacks such as these are not welcome on this list or in this

community.

>

>While Mr Guilmette expressed his disappointment at the fact that his

queries were not responded to in a transparent manner - I did not see any
allegation such as you have made.

I did far more than merely expressing my disappointment at the utter lack of
transparency.  I said quite plainly that I have been stonewalled for months
by AFRINIC management and staff AND that I have no idea why AFRINIC is
(purportedly) being sued by Mr. Cohen, since AFRINIC management and staff
have allowed Mr. Cohen to keep nearly 100% of his stolen booty for more than
8.5 months now.... a clear and provable fact for which no one has yet
provided *any* explanation.  (Jan Vermeulen's big article about all of the
thefts in AFRINIC was published on December 4th, 2019.
That was actually a full 8.5 months ago!)

Mike, rather than haranguing this A.T. Jane person for bad manners, why
don't you, as a member of the community, start asking some of the questions
that I have asked, and that management and the board are all clearly quite
reluctant to provide answers for, such as:

    *)  Why after 8.5 months have none of the legacy block illicit WHOIS
    modifications been undone?  Who is responsible for un-doing these
    illicit changes to the WHOIS and why hasn't that person been doing
    their job?  Isn't Eddy the ultimate responsible party here?  What is
    his excuse for allowing these problems to languish, with no end in
    sight?

    *)  What is Mr. Cohen -actually- suing AFRINIC for?  AFRINIC management
    and staff have -provably- allowed Mr. Cohen to keep nearly all of his
    ill-gotten booty... all except the parts that the actual legacy holders
    themselves took back (e.g. Sasol, the City of Cape Town, and Columbus
    Stainless).  So why on earth would Cohen be suing AFRINIC?

    *) Why has every single reasonable request I have made, e.g. for
historical
    WHOIS information needed to complete my investigation of these matters,
    been consistantly and 100% stonewalled by both Eddy and Madhvi?

    *) Who permanently "disappeared" part of the WHOIS history for the
    196.16.0.0/14 block, and why?

    *)  Why is the legal complaint in this alleged legal action, by Mr.
Cohen,
    and against AFRINIC, being kept secret from both the public and even
from
    the dues-paying members of AFRINIC who have a clear right to see it?
And
    why do the dues-paying members of AFRINIC even tolerate this attempt to
    hide the facts which they have a right to know?  More to the point, who
    is benefitting from this attempt by management and/or the board to hide
    the full facts from the dues-paying members?

    *)  Who did Mr. Cohen allegedly "buy" all of the stolen legacy blcoks
from?
    It had to be some AFRINIC insider... someone who could fiddle the WHOIS
    records at will.  So who ELSE, in addition to Ernest, has been profiting
    from the looting of AFRINIC?

    *)  Who else did Ernest implicate when he was confronted with the
evidence
    of his crimes by the board and management at the AFRINIC meeting in
    Luanda, Angola in early December, 2019?

Mike, rather than spending your electrons chastizing list posters for their
bad manners, wouldn't it be a more productive use of your time to join me in
seeking answers to the above unanswered questions?  Don't you think that it
is about time that this colossal mess and this colossal and ongoing scandal
finally got cleaned up, and isn't it already well past time for the full
facts to be revealed and disclosed, at least to the dues-paying members?

Or should things just continue to go on they way they have been, with
AFRINIC still crooked and still a worldwide object of scorn and ridicule?

It's your RiR and your choice.  The members can just continue to turn a
blind eye to all of this, but you cannot now do so without without knowing,
for certain, that MANY facts and answers are being deliberately hidden.


Regards,
rfg

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