From mark.tinka at seacom.com  Wed Dec 16 09:58:23 2020
From: mark.tinka at seacom.com (Mark Tinka)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 11:58:23 +0200
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Fwd: [apnic-talk] APRICOT 2021 call for
	presentations
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FYI.

Mark.


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Subject: 	[apnic-talk] APRICOT 2021 call for presentations
Date: 	Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:52:26 +1000
From: 	Philip Smith <pfsinoz at gmail.com>
Organization: 	PFS Internet Development Pty Ltd
To: 	apnic-talk at lists.apnic.net
CC: 	APRICOT PC Chairs <pc-chairs at apricot.net>



Hi everyone,

As I mentioned last week when I sent out the Call for Volunteers for the 
APRICOT PC, APRICOT 2021 will be online in February next year. Same 
dates as we had planned for the in-person meeting.

I've included the call for presentations below - looking forward to 
receiving your presentation proposals!

Thanks!

philip
--



CALL FOR PAPERS
===============

The APRICOT 2021 Programme Committee is now seeking contributions for
Presentations and Tutorials for the APRICOT 2021 Conference.

We are looking for presenters who would:

- Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic;
- Participate in the technical conference sessions as a speaker;
- Convene and chair panel sessions of relevant topics;

Please submit on-line at:

http://papers.apricot.net/user/login.php?event=128

Tutorials will take place during the week of 22nd February.
Conference sessions and the Peering Forum will take place on the week
of 1st March. All APRICOT 2021 sessions times will be one hour long,
with up to four sessions scheduled per day.

CONFERENCE MILESTONES
---------------------

Call for Papers Opens: Now
Draft Program Published: As Papers Confirmed
Final Deadline for Submissions: 7 February 2021
Final Program Published: 14 February 2021
Final Slides Received: 21 February 2021

*SLOTS ARE FILLED ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS, REGARDLESS OF
PUBLISHED DEADLINES*

PROGRAMME CONTENT
-----------------

The APRICOT Conference Programme consists of three parts, these being
Tutorials, the Peering Forum, and Conference Sessions.

Topics proposed must be relevant to Internet Operations and Technologies:

- IPv4 / IPv6 Routing and Operations
- Internet backbone operations
- Peering, Interconnects and IXPs
- Network Function Virtualisaton
- Network Automation/Programming
- Content Distribution Network technology & operations
- Research on Internet Operations and Deployment
- Network infrastructure security
- IPv6 deployment on fixed and Wireless/Cellular networks
- DNS / DNSSEC
- Access and Transport Technologies, including Cable/DSL, LTE/5G,
wireless, metro ethernet, fibre, segment routing
- Content & Service Delivery and "Cloud Computing"


PEERING FORUM
-------------

Due to APRICOT 2021 being held online, the PC will only accept Peering
Personals prior to the event starting. Submissions must be of a
single slide listing the operator's PeeringDB entry. Please refer to
https://tinyurl.com/y46954n5 for how to create a successful Peering
Personal presentation.


CfP SUBMISSION
--------------

Draft slides for both tutorials and conference sessions MUST be
provided with CfP submissions otherwise the submission will be
rejected immediately. For work in progress, the most current
information available at time of submission is acceptable.

All draft and complete slides must be submitted in PDF format only.
Slides must be of original work, with all company confidential marks
removed.

Final slides are to be provided by the specified deadline for
publication on the APRICOT website.

Prospective presenters should note that the majority of speaking slots
will be filled well before the final submission deadline. The PC may,
at their discretion, retain a limited number of slots up to the final
submission deadline for presentations that are exceptionally timely,
important, or of critical operational importance. Every year we turn
away submissions, due to filling up all available programme slots
before the deadline. Presenters should endeavour to get material into
the PC sooner rather than later.

Any questions or concerns should be addressed to the Programme
Committee by e-mail at:

pc-chairs at apricot.net

We look forward to receiving your presentation proposals.

Mark Tinka, Marijana Novakovic & Philip Smith
Co-Chairs, APRICOT 2021 Programme Committee
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From eddy at afrinic.net  Thu Dec 17 13:49:52 2020
From: eddy at afrinic.net (Eddy Kayihura)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 17:49:52 +0400
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4
	resources
Message-ID: <01e101d6d47b$7f2586c0$7d709440$@afrinic.net>

Dear Colleagues,

 

It is my hope that you are keeping safe and well.

 

I would like to share some updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 number
resources case.

 

You may recall that we undertook to publish a comprehensive report following
the completion of our internal audit exercise. I am pleased to inform you
that the report is almost complete and is now under legal vetting. A copy
thereof will be published once the Board of Directors has taken cognizance
of the same. 

 

Further, the police inquiry about the misappropriation of IPv4 number
resources from AFRINIC's pool is also on-going and further statements may be
provided to the police based on the outcome of the aforesaid audit exercise.

 

Concerning the case SC/COM/WRT/000295/2020 (Afri Holdings Ltd, Netstyle A.
Ltd & Elad Cohen  v/s African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) LTD), you
may note that the matter is still pending before the Hon. Judge in Chambers
of the Mauritian Supreme Court as we are still at the stage of exchange of
pleadings (i.e. affidavits). Otherwise, AFRINIC stands advised that
proceedings before the Judge in Chambers are very confidential in nature and
access to the pleadings is limited to parties and of course the judge only.

 

Unfortunately, certain events are beyond our control and we solicit your
understanding.

Thank you all for your patience.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Eddy Kayihura

 

AFRINIC CEO

 

---

 

Chers coll?gues,

 

J'esp?re que vous vous portez bien.

 

J'aimerais vous faire part de quelques mises ? jour sur l'affaire concernant
la manipulation non autoris?e des ressources num?riques IPv4.

 

Vous vous souvenez que nous nous sommes engag?s ? publier un rapport complet
? l'issue de notre exercice d'audit interne. Je suis heureux de vous
informer que le rapport est presque termin? et qu'il est maintenant en cours
d'examen juridique. Une copie sera publi?e d?s que le conseil
d'administration en aura pris connaissance.

 

En outre, l'enqu?te de police concernant la manipulation non autoris?e des
ressources num?riques IPv4 du pool de l'AFRINIC est ?galement en cours et
d'autres d?clarations pourraient ?tre fournies ? la police en fonction des
r?sultats de l'exercice d'audit susmentionn?.

 

En ce qui concerne l'affaire SC/COM/WRT/000295/2020 (Afri Holdings Ltd,
Netstyle A. Ltd & Elad Cohen c/s African Network Information Centre
(AfriNIC) LTD), vous pouvez noter que l'affaire est toujours pendante devant
le juge en chambre de la Cour supr?me mauricienne car nous en sommes
toujours au stade de l'?change des  plaidoiries (c'est-?-dire des
d?clarations sous serment). Par ailleurs, AFRINIC est inform?e que les
proc?dures devant le juge en chambre sont de nature tr?s confidentielle et
que l'acc?s aux plaidoiries est limit? aux parties et, bien entendu, au juge
uniquement.

 

Malheureusement, certains ?v?nements ?chappent ? notre contr?le et nous
sollicitons votre compr?hension.

 

Nous vous remercions tous de votre patience.

 

Cordialement,

 

Eddy Kayihura

 

AFRINIC CEO

 

 

 

 

 

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From amelnaud at gmail.com  Thu Dec 17 23:13:52 2020
From: amelnaud at gmail.com (Arnaud AMELINA)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 23:13:52 +0000
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
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English version :

Mr Ronald Guilmette,


*If everything you report is true, then, on behalf of the entire AFRINIC
community, I would like to express our gratitude to you. For all the
information provided. We promise to hold accountable the Members of the
Board as well as the CEO and his staff of AFRINIC, for the apparent
inaction to which you refer. *


*In light of what I just read, we understand some knee-jerk reactions from
some members of the community, hum! They are just defending themselves. *


* We will do what is necessary to ensure that what is for AFRINIC returns
to AFRINIC. *

* Good evening to all.*

*Regards *

--
Arnaud



Le jeu. 17 d?c. 2020 ? 22:59, Arnaud AMELINA <amelnaud at gmail.com> a ?crit :

> Monsieur Ronald Guilmette,
>
> Si tout ce que vous rapportez est av?r?, alors, je voudrais au nom de
> toute la Communaut? d'AFRINIC, vous manifester toute notre gratitude. Pour
> toutes les informations fournies. Nous vous promettons de demander des
> comptes aux Membres du Board ainsi qu'au CEO et son Staff d'AFRINIC, sur
> l'apparente inaction ? laquelle vous faites allusion.
>
> ? la lumi?re de tout ce que je viens de lire, nous comprenons certaines
> r?actions ?pidermiques de certains membres de la communaut?, hum ! Ils ne
> font que se d?fendre.
>
> Nous ferons le n?cessaire pour que ce qui est ? AFRINIC, revienne ?
> AFRINIC.
>
>  Bonne soir?e ? tous.
>
> Cordialement
>
> --
> Arnaud
>
> Le jeu. 17 d?c. 2020 ? 18:34, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
> a ?crit :
>
>> I'm sorry friends, but I have to say that this really chaps my hide.
>>
>> Once again we get an "update" from Eddy in which he says... well...
>> absolutely nothing.  He apparently writes just to tell the AFRINIC
>> community that everything is still cloaked in secrecy, I guess because
>> you are all children and can't handle and/or are not entitled to know
>> what's really going on.
>>
>> Unlike Eddy, I certainly have a great many bits of hard-won facts and
>> evidence to share with the community, and I would have done so long
>> before now if I didn't have a life and other pressing matters to
>> attend to, including other Internet-based criminal enterprises that
>> I am actively investigating and working with journalists on, even as
>> we speak.
>>
>> For today, I'll just drop a couple of things on you that you all may
>> perhaps find new and interesting.
>>
>> My friend, juornalist Jan Vermeulen has informed me that according to
>> his calculations (which were based on numbers given to him by Eddy)
>> there are still around one million+ IPv4 addresses that AFRINIC already
>> knows were stolen, and that were NOT included in any of the reports
>> that Jan has published in mybroadband.co.za.  That's one hell of a
>> lot of valuable IPv4 real estate!  So where is it all and why hasn't
>> AFRINIC reclaimed it?  (Note:  I'm not even talking about the stolen
>> legacy blocks, which Eddy and the board are still dragging their feet
>> on, and refusing to do anything about, even after a full year of knowing
>> about those, and even after seeing the compelling evidence that Cohen
>> and Uerlings registered a lot of contact email domains with the clear
>> and deliberate intent to cover up their gigantic theft scheme.)
>>
>> So anyway, I do know where at least some of those other stolen 1 million
>> IP addreses have gone, and I'm frankly stunned that neither Eddy nor
>> anybody else in the AFRINIC hierarchy have lifted a finger to reclaim
>> any of this other IPv4 space that has been stolen.  What are they
>> waiting for?  An engraved invitation?  Do they just need to have either
>> Jan or myself expose thesse additional thefts first, so as to take any
>> possible legal heat off them?
>>
>> I call your attention to the following listing of the historical
>> WHOIS data for the 196.52.0.0/14 block.  Please note that the name "ITC",
>> under which this block was originally registered is one that I and Jan
>> long ago concluded was a totally made-up name for a fake corporate entity
>> that never existed anywhere, and one that was invented out of whole cloth
>> by Ernest Byaruhanga as a kind of WHOIS cover story for many of his
>> thefts...
>> thefts which have now been effectively confirmed by virtue of that fact
>> that AFRINIC has already reclaimed all of the blocks that were still
>> registered to "ITC" as of December of last year.
>>
>> https://pastebin.com/raw/DW4nGii3
>>
>> The bottom line here is clear.  The 196.52.0.0/14 block was another one
>> of Ernest's thefts from the free pool, and one that was subsequently
>> sold or gifted to the proprietor of LogicWeb, Inc. of New York, USA,
>> i.e. a certain Mr. Chad Abizeid:
>>
>> https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ny/3034414
>>
>> It should be noted that some time after he received this large chunk of
>> property that was stolen by Ernest from AFRINIC... a chunk of real estate
>> worth well over $5 million dollars, USD, at current market prices... Mr.
>> Abizeid tried to sell off the entire thing in one big chunk (for one big
>> payday):
>>
>>
>> https://www.facebook.com/mailchimp/posts/im-trying-to-get-in-touch-with-whomever-is-in-charge-of-your-ip-addresses-i-own-/10152414268080777/
>>
>> I want everyone to note also that, the last time I checked anyway, not
>> a single IP address of this huge IPv4 block was being routed to or used
>> anywhere even close to the AFRINIC region.
>>
>> So there are several problems here.
>>
>> First and foremost, the history indicates quite persuasively that this /14
>> block was stolen by Ernest.
>>
>> Second, Eddy and the board appear to already have known this to be true
>> for some time now, but just as in the case of the legacy blocks, they have
>> been dragging their feet and steadfastly AVOIDING doing anything about it,
>> simply because this is the path of least resistance for them.  It does not
>> appear that they care at all about what is right, or about doing what is
>> right,
>> but they do quite obviously care about minimizing their own hassle factor,
>> and they are apparently afraid that if they do the Right Thing and take
>> back
>> this blatantly stolen block... which was apparently sold by Ernest on the
>> black market, that Mr. Abizeid will complain about that, and maybe even
>> file suit, as Mr. Cohen has done.  So justice and fairness for the rest of
>> the AFRINIC members goes out the window, sacrificed for the sake of
>> expediency.
>>
>> Lastly, as I have said, the last time I checked, which was admittedly some
>> months ago now, not a single scrap of this /14 IPv4 block was routed to
>> anywhere
>> within a thousand miles of the AFRINIC region, thus placing this "member"
>> in
>> clear violation of even the minamalist a and remarkably weak requirements
>> of
>> the AFRINIC Bylaws which state explicitly that AFRINIC is to serve members
>> who provide AT LEAST *some* token level of service to the AFRINIC region.
>>
>> If Mr. Abizeid is indeed failing to do that, then his resources can and
>> should
>> be reclaimed just on that basis alone, even if AFRINIC elects to totally
>> ignore the even more significant fact that this /14 was quite evidently
>> stolen
>> by Ernest.
>>
>> So why hasn't Eddy reclaimed the 196.52.0.0/14 block?  It's an utter
>> mystery
>> to me.  But like I said, maybe he has just been waiting for Jan or myself
>> to
>> break the ice about this, so that he wouldn't have to.  Now that this
>> theft
>> is also out in the open however, he's got no more excuses, and he should
>> reclaim this stolen block for the benefit of AFRINIC's legitimate members
>> just as he has already done with all of the other Ernest "ITC" stolen
>> blocks.
>>
>> And speaking of which, I encourage you all to take a look also at the
>> WHOIS
>> history of the 165.231.0.0/16 block, which originally belonged to a
>> legitimate Internet Service Provider in Guinea, but which, on 2010-10-08,
>> somehow magically also ended up registered to Ernest's fake "ITC" company:
>>
>> https://pastebin.com/raw/dJjdGYLm
>>
>> After being registered to Ernest's fake "ITC" company for a couple of
>> years,
>> on 2012-11-06 this valuable /16 block, itself worth well over $1,3 million
>> USD onthe open market, was once again magically reassigned, this time to
>> something or someone whose name is allegedly "Fiber Grid Inc." and which
>> is allegedly domiciled in the Seychelles Islands.
>>
>> In this case, the apparent beneficiary of Ernest's corrupt largess was a
>> certain Mr. Deepak Mehta, a gentleman apparently of Indian ancestry whose
>> current physical location is somewhat uncertain but who appears to have
>> incorporated multiple businesses, including one named "Fiber Grid" (as
>> well
>> as an apparently failed catering business) in the Baltic nation of
>> Estonia...
>> rather far from the AFRINIC region, I would say.
>>
>> FIBER GRID O?
>> https://www.teatmik.ee/en/personlegal/12183141-FIBER-GRID-O%C3%9C
>>
>> Sonjara O?
>> https://www.teatmik.ee/en/personlegal/12626354-Sonjara-O%C3%9C
>>
>> https://www.teatmik.ee/en/personlegal/12183141-FIBER-GRID-O%C3%9C
>> https://www.teatmik.ee/en/personlegal/14097138-O%C3%9C-Asian-Express
>>
>> I have no idea what other credits he may have to his name, but speaking
>> just personally, my only knowledge of this Mr. Deepak Mehta and his
>> character has been derived from a public blog post by network security
>> journalist Brian Krebs, published back on August 26, 2016, and purporting
>> to show Mr. Mehta participating in a multi-party chat session where the
>> one and only topic of discussion was the planning for an upcoming
>> criminal DDoS attack on the well-known anti-spam outfit Spamhaus:
>>
>>
>> https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/08/inside-the-attack-that-almost-broke-the-internet/
>>
>> Note that whereas the evidence indicates, to me anyway, that the
>> 165.231.0.0/16 block is yet another block that was purloined from the
>> AFRINIC free pool (and thus from the AFRINIC membership) by Ernest.
>> After that, the 165.231.0.0/16 block somehow made its way into the
>> hands of Mr. Mehta.
>>
>> Note also however that that one /16 block, valuable and large though
>> it may be, is quite certainly not the only valuable AFRINIC IPv4
>> address block currently assigned to Mr. Mehta's apparently Estonia-based
>> "Fiber Grid" company.  Far from it!  Despite neither he nor his company
>> being the least bit African, or even within a thousand miles of Africa,
>> as far as I can tell, Mr. Mehta, via some process that remains totally
>> cloaked in secrecy, has somehow managed to amass a grand total of nearly
>> a million (983,040) AFRINIC IPv4 addresses, worth well over $20 milliion
>> USD.
>>
>> The full list of Mr. Mehta's assigned AFRINIC blocks is as follows:
>>
>> 165.231.0.0/16
>> 196.48.0.0/16
>> 196.56.0.0/16
>> 196.57.0.0/16
>> 196.58.0.0/16
>> 196.59.0.0/16
>> 196.196.0.0/16
>> 196.197.0.0/16
>> 196.198.0.0/16
>> 196.199.0.0/16
>> 196.240.0.0/15
>> 196.242.0.0/15
>> 196.244.0.0/16
>> 196.245.0.0/16
>> 196.247.0.0/16
>>
>> How a non-African, such as Mr. Mehta, who, like Mr. Abizeid, appears to
>> provide exactly -zero- services to the AFRINIC region, somehow managed to
>> be awarded almost a million AFRINIC IPv4 addresses is, quite frankly, more
>> than a little puzzling.  It is altogether apparent however that it is in
>> the interests of AFRINIC staff and board members to keep the entire
>> process
>> by which such awards were made, and by which such awards are still being
>> made,
>> entirely hidden from public view.  Certainly, Ernest Byaruhanga would not
>> now be enjoying a comfortable retirement in his hilltop estate in Uganda
>> if
>> the process by which AFRINIC IP addresses had been awarded within the
>> AFRINIC
>> region had been transparent from the beginning.
>>
>> Nor would Mr. Abzeid and Mr. Mehta still be enjoying -their- apparently
>> Ernest-provided AFRINIC blocks if AFRINIC management and the board
>> decided,
>> even at this late date, to come clean about what they are or, more
>> properly,
>> are not doing to really clean up the whole mess.
>>
>> Of course transparency, even at this late date would likely not help the
>> interests of Mr. Lu Heng either.  Mr. Heng, as at least some of you may
>> know, as a 24 year old mainland Chinese kid with no apparent history of
>> networking experience whatsoever, somehow managed to be awarded two
>> giagantic /12 AFRINIC IPv4 blocks as well as two even more gigantic
>> AFRINIC /11 blocks (total current market value, over $150 million USD),
>> some of which he has since doled out to the very same people who are
>> currently aiding and abetting Mr. Cohen's ongoing misuse of the AFRINIC
>> legacy blocks... the very ones which AFRINIC has so far been dragging its
>> feet on and refusing to reassigned back to their rightful owners:
>>
>> https://bgp.he.net/AS18013#_prefixes
>> https://bgp.he.net/AS137951#_prefixes
>>
>> Note that AS18013 - Asline (Hong Kong) and AS137951 - Clayer (Hong Kong)
>> are, as we would say here inthe States, effectively "joined at the hip",
>> that the latter is routing much stolen AFRINIC legacy space, and that
>> the former has leased or purchased quite a lot of IPv4 space from Mr.
>> Heng's Cloud Innovation Ltd.
>>
>> I tried asking Mr. Heng via private email why he would be supporting
>> criminals in Hong Kong who are adiding and abetting Mr. Cohen and his
>> ongoing thefts from the AFRINIC region, but I guess either my email fell
>> into Mr. Heng's spam folder or else he just didn't much feel like
>> discussing the matter.  In any case, I received no reply from him to my
>> recent polite inquiry.
>>
>> To summarize, there has been one hell of a lot of crooked crap that has
>> gone on in AFRINIC, over time, and it isn't even nearly all cleaned up
>> yet.  Worse, management and the board do not seem to have the will to
>> actually and fully clean up the mess, once and for all.  This tends to
>> cast a certain degree of suspicion on them and their motivations also.
>>
>> The fundamental problem is and has been the utter and total lack of
>> transparency, and neither the current board nor current management has
>> lifted a single finger to address that.  One might get the impression
>> that they really don't want to.
>>
>> If this is the way you folks who are the dues paying members of AFRINC
>> want to run your region, then you can have all of the corruption and
>> lethargic and cowardly inaction you want.  That's your choice.  I just
>> wish that you all would stop selling, stealing, or giving away IP
>> addresses to Internet criminals who are going to use those addresses
>> to spam and DDoS us innocent and law abiding folks in other regions.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> rfg
>>
>>
>> P.S.  After more than a year of trying, I am -still- being stonewalled
>> with respect to my request to have access to full historical AFRINIC WHOIS
>> data.  I can only surmise that the board and/or management really don't
>> want me finding any MORE evidence of historical insider corruption, above
>> and beyond the gigantic piles of such I have already found and documented.
>>
>> As I say, it is for you, the dues paying members of AFRINIC, to decide if
>> you think this is reasonable or not, and to pro-actively ask that I be
>> given
>> full access if you think that would be productive.  All I can do, as an
>> outsider, is to hope that someday either the AFRINIC board or AFRINC
>> management
>> will stop trying to play "hide the ball" and will allow the full facts to
>> come out regarding everything that has gone on.
>>
>> But that's up to you folks.. the dues paying members... not me.
>>
>>
>> P.P.S.  Mr. Abzeid may be perfectly happy to obtain his IPv4 address space
>> from the AFRINIC region, but I rather doubt that he would be at all
>> amenable
>> to having any of the Black residents of the AFRINIC region date his
>> daughter.
>> You see, Mr. Abzeid has had a longstanding membership on a certain US web
>> site
>> called Gab.Com, described by Wikipedia as (among other things) a white
>> supremacist social networking web site:
>>
>> https://gab.com/chad_abizeid
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)
>>
>>
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From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Fri Dec 18 00:10:47 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:10:47 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
	IPv4 resources
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Thank you for your kind words of encouragement Arnaud.

Unfortunately, it seems that AFRINIC is still operating in the mode
of attempting to suppress evidence, information, and any comments
which might be in the least bit ctitical of the current leadership
of the organization.

Thus, it is a good thing that I elected to cross post my comments also
here on the AFNOG mailing list, which is not something that current
AFRINIC management can directly and unilaterally censor, I guess.

If however one takes a look at the December archives for the AFRINIC
community-discuss mailing list, then you will notice that my last
message posted here, which was also cross-posted to that very relevant
mailing list, has been suppressed and censored by AFRINIC.  That is
certainly one way to try to prevent the truth and the real bad news
from getting out to the AFRINIC membership, but it is ineffective,
and only makes the current AFRINIC leadership look that much more
inept and/or complicit.

And please note that according to what I have read online about
AFRINIC history, this is not the first time the management and/or
the board have tried to sweep matters under the carpet, and suppress
the evidence of their own ineptitude or malfeasance by just unilaterally
censoring the AFRINIC mailing lists in whatever way suits them, and
their agenda, at the moment.

You here have all now read what I wrote, I hope.  My message was
pointed, direct, and blunt about remaining open issues and remaining
apparently stolen AFRINIC blocks, as well as the various specific
involved parties.  This information and the associated hard evidence
on which it is based has not been previously made public and I made
it public only as a service to the AFRINIC community. I did not do this
because I have any axe to grind.  I have -zero- financial involvement
with AFRINIC or with AFRINIC number resource assets.  My goal from
the very beginning of my 18 month AFRINIC investigation was only to
try to see to it that AFRINIC number resources do in fact get
distributed, as they should be, openly and honestly, to *Africans*,
and *not* to modern-day "robber baron" colonialists who only seek to
mine valuable assets from the African continent, and leave gaping
holes in the ground and impoverished people in their wake.  And I have
quite certainly been even-handed about this. I don't care if the
theives are from India, from China, or from my own country, the
United States.  I would like to see them all stop victimizing the
African people, and I would also like to see the African people stop
allowing themselves to be victimized and exploited by these modern
21st century colonialists.

So anyway, yes, I often speak frankly and bluntly, and some people may
on occasion take offense at that.  But other than some over-sensitive
hurt feelings, why should the new and never before publicized evidence
that I have today presented, about *additional* and never-before-revealed
cases of apparently stolen AFRINIC resources be suppressed and censored
by AFRINIC?  What is AFRINIC's motivation for doing so, and who specifically
in the organization decided that my posts should be censored?

I leave it to you good people to seek an answer to that question, if any
of you have a mind to do so.


Regards,
rfg



From oloyede.aa at unilorin.edu.ng  Fri Dec 18 06:08:53 2020
From: oloyede.aa at unilorin.edu.ng (ABDULKARIM OLOYEDE)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 07:08:53 +0100
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
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Dear Ronald,
Thank you for this eyeopener email of yours.
AK

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 12:19 AM Arnaud AMELINA <amelnaud at gmail.com> wrote:

> English version :
>
> Mr Ronald Guilmette,
>
>
> *If everything you report is true, then, on behalf of the entire AFRINIC
> community, I would like to express our gratitude to you. For all the
> information provided. We promise to hold accountable the Members of the
> Board as well as the CEO and his staff of AFRINIC, for the apparent
> inaction to which you refer. *
>
>
> *In light of what I just read, we understand some knee-jerk reactions from
> some members of the community, hum! They are just defending themselves. *
>
>
> * We will do what is necessary to ensure that what is for AFRINIC returns
> to AFRINIC. *
>
> * Good evening to all.*
>
> *Regards *
>
> --
> Arnaud
>
>
>
> Le jeu. 17 d?c. 2020 ? 22:59, Arnaud AMELINA <amelnaud at gmail.com> a
> ?crit :
>
>> Monsieur Ronald Guilmette,
>>
>> Si tout ce que vous rapportez est av?r?, alors, je voudrais au nom de
>> toute la Communaut? d'AFRINIC, vous manifester toute notre gratitude. Pour
>> toutes les informations fournies. Nous vous promettons de demander des
>> comptes aux Membres du Board ainsi qu'au CEO et son Staff d'AFRINIC, sur
>> l'apparente inaction ? laquelle vous faites allusion.
>>
>> ? la lumi?re de tout ce que je viens de lire, nous comprenons certaines
>> r?actions ?pidermiques de certains membres de la communaut?, hum ! Ils ne
>> font que se d?fendre.
>>
>> Nous ferons le n?cessaire pour que ce qui est ? AFRINIC, revienne ?
>> AFRINIC.
>>
>>  Bonne soir?e ? tous.
>>
>> Cordialement
>>
>> --
>> Arnaud
>>
>> Le jeu. 17 d?c. 2020 ? 18:34, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
>> a ?crit :
>>
>>> I'm sorry friends, but I have to say that this really chaps my hide.
>>>
>>> Once again we get an "update" from Eddy in which he says... well...
>>> absolutely nothing.  He apparently writes just to tell the AFRINIC
>>> community that everything is still cloaked in secrecy, I guess because
>>> you are all children and can't handle and/or are not entitled to know
>>> what's really going on.
>>>
>>> Unlike Eddy, I certainly have a great many bits of hard-won facts and
>>> evidence to share with the community, and I would have done so long
>>> before now if I didn't have a life and other pressing matters to
>>> attend to, including other Internet-based criminal enterprises that
>>> I am actively investigating and working with journalists on, even as
>>> we speak.
>>>
>>> For today, I'll just drop a couple of things on you that you all may
>>> perhaps find new and interesting.
>>>
>>> My friend, juornalist Jan Vermeulen has informed me that according to
>>> his calculations (which were based on numbers given to him by Eddy)
>>> there are still around one million+ IPv4 addresses that AFRINIC already
>>> knows were stolen, and that were NOT included in any of the reports
>>> that Jan has published in mybroadband.co.za.  That's one hell of a
>>> lot of valuable IPv4 real estate!  So where is it all and why hasn't
>>> AFRINIC reclaimed it?  (Note:  I'm not even talking about the stolen
>>> legacy blocks, which Eddy and the board are still dragging their feet
>>> on, and refusing to do anything about, even after a full year of knowing
>>> about those, and even after seeing the compelling evidence that Cohen
>>> and Uerlings registered a lot of contact email domains with the clear
>>> and deliberate intent to cover up their gigantic theft scheme.)
>>>
>>> So anyway, I do know where at least some of those other stolen 1 million
>>> IP addreses have gone, and I'm frankly stunned that neither Eddy nor
>>> anybody else in the AFRINIC hierarchy have lifted a finger to reclaim
>>> any of this other IPv4 space that has been stolen.  What are they
>>> waiting for?  An engraved invitation?  Do they just need to have either
>>> Jan or myself expose thesse additional thefts first, so as to take any
>>> possible legal heat off them?
>>>
>>> I call your attention to the following listing of the historical
>>> WHOIS data for the 196.52.0.0/14 block.  Please note that the name
>>> "ITC",
>>> under which this block was originally registered is one that I and Jan
>>> long ago concluded was a totally made-up name for a fake corporate entity
>>> that never existed anywhere, and one that was invented out of whole cloth
>>> by Ernest Byaruhanga as a kind of WHOIS cover story for many of his
>>> thefts...
>>> thefts which have now been effectively confirmed by virtue of that fact
>>> that AFRINIC has already reclaimed all of the blocks that were still
>>> registered to "ITC" as of December of last year.
>>>
>>> https://pastebin.com/raw/DW4nGii3
>>>
>>> The bottom line here is clear.  The 196.52.0.0/14 block was another one
>>> of Ernest's thefts from the free pool, and one that was subsequently
>>> sold or gifted to the proprietor of LogicWeb, Inc. of New York, USA,
>>> i.e. a certain Mr. Chad Abizeid:
>>>
>>> https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ny/3034414
>>>
>>> It should be noted that some time after he received this large chunk of
>>> property that was stolen by Ernest from AFRINIC... a chunk of real estate
>>> worth well over $5 million dollars, USD, at current market prices... Mr.
>>> Abizeid tried to sell off the entire thing in one big chunk (for one big
>>> payday):
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.facebook.com/mailchimp/posts/im-trying-to-get-in-touch-with-whomever-is-in-charge-of-your-ip-addresses-i-own-/10152414268080777/
>>>
>>> I want everyone to note also that, the last time I checked anyway, not
>>> a single IP address of this huge IPv4 block was being routed to or used
>>> anywhere even close to the AFRINIC region.
>>>
>>> So there are several problems here.
>>>
>>> First and foremost, the history indicates quite persuasively that this
>>> /14
>>> block was stolen by Ernest.
>>>
>>> Second, Eddy and the board appear to already have known this to be true
>>> for some time now, but just as in the case of the legacy blocks, they
>>> have
>>> been dragging their feet and steadfastly AVOIDING doing anything about
>>> it,
>>> simply because this is the path of least resistance for them.  It does
>>> not
>>> appear that they care at all about what is right, or about doing what is
>>> right,
>>> but they do quite obviously care about minimizing their own hassle
>>> factor,
>>> and they are apparently afraid that if they do the Right Thing and take
>>> back
>>> this blatantly stolen block... which was apparently sold by Ernest on the
>>> black market, that Mr. Abizeid will complain about that, and maybe even
>>> file suit, as Mr. Cohen has done.  So justice and fairness for the rest
>>> of
>>> the AFRINIC members goes out the window, sacrificed for the sake of
>>> expediency.
>>>
>>> Lastly, as I have said, the last time I checked, which was admittedly
>>> some
>>> months ago now, not a single scrap of this /14 IPv4 block was routed to
>>> anywhere
>>> within a thousand miles of the AFRINIC region, thus placing this
>>> "member" in
>>> clear violation of even the minamalist a and remarkably weak
>>> requirements of
>>> the AFRINIC Bylaws which state explicitly that AFRINIC is to serve
>>> members
>>> who provide AT LEAST *some* token level of service to the AFRINIC region.
>>>
>>> If Mr. Abizeid is indeed failing to do that, then his resources can and
>>> should
>>> be reclaimed just on that basis alone, even if AFRINIC elects to totally
>>> ignore the even more significant fact that this /14 was quite evidently
>>> stolen
>>> by Ernest.
>>>
>>> So why hasn't Eddy reclaimed the 196.52.0.0/14 block?  It's an utter
>>> mystery
>>> to me.  But like I said, maybe he has just been waiting for Jan or
>>> myself to
>>> break the ice about this, so that he wouldn't have to.  Now that this
>>> theft
>>> is also out in the open however, he's got no more excuses, and he should
>>> reclaim this stolen block for the benefit of AFRINIC's legitimate members
>>> just as he has already done with all of the other Ernest "ITC" stolen
>>> blocks.
>>>
>>> And speaking of which, I encourage you all to take a look also at the
>>> WHOIS
>>> history of the 165.231.0.0/16 block, which originally belonged to a
>>> legitimate Internet Service Provider in Guinea, but which, on 2010-10-08,
>>> somehow magically also ended up registered to Ernest's fake "ITC"
>>> company:
>>>
>>> https://pastebin.com/raw/dJjdGYLm
>>>
>>> After being registered to Ernest's fake "ITC" company for a couple of
>>> years,
>>> on 2012-11-06 this valuable /16 block, itself worth well over $1,3
>>> million
>>> USD onthe open market, was once again magically reassigned, this time to
>>> something or someone whose name is allegedly "Fiber Grid Inc." and which
>>> is allegedly domiciled in the Seychelles Islands.
>>>
>>> In this case, the apparent beneficiary of Ernest's corrupt largess was a
>>> certain Mr. Deepak Mehta, a gentleman apparently of Indian ancestry whose
>>> current physical location is somewhat uncertain but who appears to have
>>> incorporated multiple businesses, including one named "Fiber Grid" (as
>>> well
>>> as an apparently failed catering business) in the Baltic nation of
>>> Estonia...
>>> rather far from the AFRINIC region, I would say.
>>>
>>> FIBER GRID O?
>>> https://www.teatmik.ee/en/personlegal/12183141-FIBER-GRID-O%C3%9C
>>>
>>> Sonjara O?
>>> https://www.teatmik.ee/en/personlegal/12626354-Sonjara-O%C3%9C
>>>
>>> https://www.teatmik.ee/en/personlegal/12183141-FIBER-GRID-O%C3%9C
>>> https://www.teatmik.ee/en/personlegal/14097138-O%C3%9C-Asian-Express
>>>
>>> I have no idea what other credits he may have to his name, but speaking
>>> just personally, my only knowledge of this Mr. Deepak Mehta and his
>>> character has been derived from a public blog post by network security
>>> journalist Brian Krebs, published back on August 26, 2016, and purporting
>>> to show Mr. Mehta participating in a multi-party chat session where the
>>> one and only topic of discussion was the planning for an upcoming
>>> criminal DDoS attack on the well-known anti-spam outfit Spamhaus:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/08/inside-the-attack-that-almost-broke-the-internet/
>>>
>>> Note that whereas the evidence indicates, to me anyway, that the
>>> 165.231.0.0/16 block is yet another block that was purloined from the
>>> AFRINIC free pool (and thus from the AFRINIC membership) by Ernest.
>>> After that, the 165.231.0.0/16 block somehow made its way into the
>>> hands of Mr. Mehta.
>>>
>>> Note also however that that one /16 block, valuable and large though
>>> it may be, is quite certainly not the only valuable AFRINIC IPv4
>>> address block currently assigned to Mr. Mehta's apparently Estonia-based
>>> "Fiber Grid" company.  Far from it!  Despite neither he nor his company
>>> being the least bit African, or even within a thousand miles of Africa,
>>> as far as I can tell, Mr. Mehta, via some process that remains totally
>>> cloaked in secrecy, has somehow managed to amass a grand total of nearly
>>> a million (983,040) AFRINIC IPv4 addresses, worth well over $20 milliion
>>> USD.
>>>
>>> The full list of Mr. Mehta's assigned AFRINIC blocks is as follows:
>>>
>>> 165.231.0.0/16
>>> 196.48.0.0/16
>>> 196.56.0.0/16
>>> 196.57.0.0/16
>>> 196.58.0.0/16
>>> 196.59.0.0/16
>>> 196.196.0.0/16
>>> 196.197.0.0/16
>>> 196.198.0.0/16
>>> 196.199.0.0/16
>>> 196.240.0.0/15
>>> 196.242.0.0/15
>>> 196.244.0.0/16
>>> 196.245.0.0/16
>>> 196.247.0.0/16
>>>
>>> How a non-African, such as Mr. Mehta, who, like Mr. Abizeid, appears to
>>> provide exactly -zero- services to the AFRINIC region, somehow managed to
>>> be awarded almost a million AFRINIC IPv4 addresses is, quite frankly,
>>> more
>>> than a little puzzling.  It is altogether apparent however that it is in
>>> the interests of AFRINIC staff and board members to keep the entire
>>> process
>>> by which such awards were made, and by which such awards are still being
>>> made,
>>> entirely hidden from public view.  Certainly, Ernest Byaruhanga would not
>>> now be enjoying a comfortable retirement in his hilltop estate in Uganda
>>> if
>>> the process by which AFRINIC IP addresses had been awarded within the
>>> AFRINIC
>>> region had been transparent from the beginning.
>>>
>>> Nor would Mr. Abzeid and Mr. Mehta still be enjoying -their- apparently
>>> Ernest-provided AFRINIC blocks if AFRINIC management and the board
>>> decided,
>>> even at this late date, to come clean about what they are or, more
>>> properly,
>>> are not doing to really clean up the whole mess.
>>>
>>> Of course transparency, even at this late date would likely not help the
>>> interests of Mr. Lu Heng either.  Mr. Heng, as at least some of you may
>>> know, as a 24 year old mainland Chinese kid with no apparent history of
>>> networking experience whatsoever, somehow managed to be awarded two
>>> giagantic /12 AFRINIC IPv4 blocks as well as two even more gigantic
>>> AFRINIC /11 blocks (total current market value, over $150 million USD),
>>> some of which he has since doled out to the very same people who are
>>> currently aiding and abetting Mr. Cohen's ongoing misuse of the AFRINIC
>>> legacy blocks... the very ones which AFRINIC has so far been dragging its
>>> feet on and refusing to reassigned back to their rightful owners:
>>>
>>> https://bgp.he.net/AS18013#_prefixes
>>> https://bgp.he.net/AS137951#_prefixes
>>>
>>> Note that AS18013 - Asline (Hong Kong) and AS137951 - Clayer (Hong Kong)
>>> are, as we would say here inthe States, effectively "joined at the hip",
>>> that the latter is routing much stolen AFRINIC legacy space, and that
>>> the former has leased or purchased quite a lot of IPv4 space from Mr.
>>> Heng's Cloud Innovation Ltd.
>>>
>>> I tried asking Mr. Heng via private email why he would be supporting
>>> criminals in Hong Kong who are adiding and abetting Mr. Cohen and his
>>> ongoing thefts from the AFRINIC region, but I guess either my email fell
>>> into Mr. Heng's spam folder or else he just didn't much feel like
>>> discussing the matter.  In any case, I received no reply from him to my
>>> recent polite inquiry.
>>>
>>> To summarize, there has been one hell of a lot of crooked crap that has
>>> gone on in AFRINIC, over time, and it isn't even nearly all cleaned up
>>> yet.  Worse, management and the board do not seem to have the will to
>>> actually and fully clean up the mess, once and for all.  This tends to
>>> cast a certain degree of suspicion on them and their motivations also.
>>>
>>> The fundamental problem is and has been the utter and total lack of
>>> transparency, and neither the current board nor current management has
>>> lifted a single finger to address that.  One might get the impression
>>> that they really don't want to.
>>>
>>> If this is the way you folks who are the dues paying members of AFRINC
>>> want to run your region, then you can have all of the corruption and
>>> lethargic and cowardly inaction you want.  That's your choice.  I just
>>> wish that you all would stop selling, stealing, or giving away IP
>>> addresses to Internet criminals who are going to use those addresses
>>> to spam and DDoS us innocent and law abiding folks in other regions.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> rfg
>>>
>>>
>>> P.S.  After more than a year of trying, I am -still- being stonewalled
>>> with respect to my request to have access to full historical AFRINIC
>>> WHOIS
>>> data.  I can only surmise that the board and/or management really don't
>>> want me finding any MORE evidence of historical insider corruption, above
>>> and beyond the gigantic piles of such I have already found and
>>> documented.
>>>
>>> As I say, it is for you, the dues paying members of AFRINIC, to decide if
>>> you think this is reasonable or not, and to pro-actively ask that I be
>>> given
>>> full access if you think that would be productive.  All I can do, as an
>>> outsider, is to hope that someday either the AFRINIC board or AFRINC
>>> management
>>> will stop trying to play "hide the ball" and will allow the full facts to
>>> come out regarding everything that has gone on.
>>>
>>> But that's up to you folks.. the dues paying members... not me.
>>>
>>>
>>> P.P.S.  Mr. Abzeid may be perfectly happy to obtain his IPv4 address
>>> space
>>> from the AFRINIC region, but I rather doubt that he would be at all
>>> amenable
>>> to having any of the Black residents of the AFRINIC region date his
>>> daughter.
>>> You see, Mr. Abzeid has had a longstanding membership on a certain US
>>> web site
>>> called Gab.Com, described by Wikipedia as (among other things) a white
>>> supremacist social networking web site:
>>>
>>> https://gab.com/chad_abizeid
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)
>>>
>>>
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>>> https://www.afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog
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From: noah at neo.co.tz (Noah)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:05:27 +0300
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
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On Fri, 18 Dec 2020, 14:51 Philip Paeps, <philip at trouble.is> wrote:

> On 2020-12-18 17:23:55 (+0800), Bill Woodcock wrote:
> > I can just imagine the founders, sitting around a table: ?What name
> > shall we choose, to instill confidence in our customers?  A name
> > anyone will trust?  One that embodies sober responsibility?  I?ve
> > got it?!?
> >
> > "Midnight Proxies LLC!?
>

Or better yet "Cloud" ....something something.

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From comms at afrinic.net  Fri Dec 18 12:51:57 2020
From: comms at afrinic.net (AFRINIC Communication)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 16:51:57 +0400
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Extension of the deadline for the Call for
 Volunteers on the NomCom 2021 |28 December 2020
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Dear colleagues,

Please note that the deadline for the call for volunteers on the Nomination Committee (NomCom) 2021 has been extended to 28 December 2020.

If  you are interested in serving on the 2021 NomCom, then please send your expression of interest, including a short biography, by email to legal at afrinic dot net by 28 December 2020 (23:59 UTC). 

AFRINIC Communication
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[French, Arabic and Portuguese versions below]

Dear AFRINIC members and community,

The AFRINIC Board is required to appoint a Nomination Committee (NomCom) every year, in terms of article 9 of the Bylaws <https://afrinic.net/bylaws#nomcom <https://afrinic.net/bylaws#nomcom>>>.

On behalf of the Board, I hereby call for volunteers from the community to fill three open positions on the 2021 NomCom. If you are interested in serving on the 2021 NomCom, then please send your expression of interest, including a short biography, by email to legal at afrinic dot net by 18 December 2020 (23:59 UTC).

However, as per Article 9.1 of the Bylaws, no person domiciled in a region whose Board seat is open for renewal may be a member of the Nomcom.

The duties of the NomCom, and the elections to be held are described below.

Election process and guidelines

The current version of the Board election process and guidelines are published at  <https://afrinic.net/election-process/board/2020 <https://afrinic.net/election-process/board/2020>>>. It provides additional information about NomCom responsibilities, the election process, and timelines.

Nomcom Composition and Responsibilities:

According to Section 9 of the AFRINIC by-laws, a Nominations Committee (NomCom) appointed by the Board must work to ensure that appropriate candidates are nominated to contest for open seats and that all elections are successfully conducted according to current procedures.

The AFRINIC Bylaws state that NomCom must have four members, appointed by the Board. The Board?s practice is to appoint the four members as follows;

- One member selected from within the AFRINIC Board;
- Three members selected by the AFRINIC Board from the community.

In terms of section 9.1 of the Bylaws:
- No candidate for election to the Board may be a member of the NomCom;
- No person domiciled in a region whose Board seat is open for renewal may be a member of the NomCom; this means that the 2021 NomCom may not include people who reside in the Southern Africa region.

Responsibilities of the NomCom are defined in section 9 of the AFRINIC Bylaws and include the following:

- Report to the Board and follow guidelines set by the Board;
- Call for candidates for all open positions;
- Prescribe criteria and qualifications for eligibility to stand for election;
- Interview candidates, if appropriate, prior to finalising the slate of candidates;
- Finalise the list of candidates for every election;
- Supervise the conduct of the polls by the Election Committee on election day.

The Board further expects NomCom members to:

- be neutral; to have no interest in the results of the elections;
- be trusted members of the AFRINIC community;
- have good knowledge of the AFRINIC business environment;
- preferably possess prior NomCom experience in the I* ecosystem;
- do their best to fulfil their responsibilities.

NomCom members do not receive any remuneration.

AFRINIC staff will provide logistical support to the NomCom throughout their mandate. Such support includes publication of the list of nominees, a compilation of comments, mailing list moderation, website update, communication with nominees and other duties pertaining to the roles and responsibilities of the NomCom. Travel support will be provided for the NomCom Chair to attend the AGMM at which the elections are held.

Election to be held at the AGMM 2021:

AFRINIC Board of Directors elections:

The following Board seat is up for election by the AFRINIC Membership in 2021:

? Seat 5 (Southern Africa), to serve a three-year term from mid-2021 to mid-2024. This seat is currently held by Mr Vika William Mpisane

Policy Development Working Group (PDWG):
One PDWG co-chair position is up for election by the Policy Development Working Group.The seat is currently filled by Mr 
Moses Serugo. Terms begin and end during the public policy meeting where the election is held.

Governance Committee:
One Governance Committee position is up for election by the AFRINIC Membership, to serve a three-year term from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2024. The seat is currently held by Dr Alioune Badara Traore.


How to Volunteer:

If  you are interested in serving on the 2021 NomCom, then please send your expression of interest, including a short biography, by email to legal at afrinic dot net by 18 December 2020 (23:59 UTC). 


Subramanian Moonesamy

AFRINIC Board Chairman

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Chers membres et communaut? AFRINIC,

Le conseil d'administration de l'AFRINIC est tenu de nommer chaque ann?e un comit? de nomination (NomCom), conform?ment ? l'article 9 des statuts <https://afrinic.net/bylaws#nomcom <https://afrinic.net/bylaws#nomcom>>>.

Au nom du conseil d'administration, je lance un appel ? des volontaires de la communaut? pour remplir trois postes vacants au sein du NomCom 2021. Si vous ?tes int?ress? ? servir au NomCom 2021, veuillez envoyer votre manifestation d'int?r?t, y compris une courte biographie, par courriel ? legal at afrinic dot net au plus tard le 18 d?cembre 2020 (23:59 UTC).

Toutefois, conform?ment ? l'article 9.1 des statuts, aucune personne domicili?e dans une r?gion dont le si?ge au conseil d'administration est ouvert au renouvellement ne peut ?tre membre du Nomcom.

Les fonctions de la NomCom et les ?lections ? tenir sont d?crites ci-dessous.

Processus d'?lection et directives

La version actuelle du processus d'?lection du conseil d'administration et les lignes directrices sont publi?es sur <https://afrinic.net/election-process/board/2020 <https://afrinic.net/election-process/board/2020>>>. Elle fournit des informations suppl?mentaires sur les responsabilit?s du NomCom, le processus d'?lection et les d?lais.

Composition et responsabilit?s du NomCom :

Conform?ment ? la section 9 des statuts d'AFRINIC, un comit? de nomination (NomCom) nomm? par le conseil d'administration doit veiller ? ce que des candidats appropri?s soient propos?s pour les si?ges vacants et que toutes les ?lections soient men?es ? bien conform?ment aux proc?dures en vigueur.

Les statuts de l'AFRINIC stipulent que le NomCom doit ?tre compos? de quatre membres, nomm?s par le Conseil d'administration. La pratique du Conseil d'administration est de nommer les quatre membres comme suit ;

- Un membre choisi au sein du conseil d'administration d'AFRINIC ;
- Trois membres choisis par le conseil d'administration de l'AFRINIC parmi la communaut?.

En vertu de la section 9.1 des statuts :
- Aucun candidat ? l'?lection au conseil d'administration ne peut ?tre membre du NomCom ;
- Aucune personne domicili?e dans une r?gion dont le si?ge au Conseil d'administration est ouvert au renouvellement ne peut ?tre membre de la NomCom ; cela signifie que la NomCom 2021 ne peut pas inclure des personnes r?sidant dans la r?gion de l'Afrique australe.

Les responsabilit?s du NomCom sont d?finies dans la section 9 des statuts de l'AFRINIC et comprennent ce qui suit :

- Rendre compte au conseil d'administration et suivre les directives fix?es par ce dernier ;
- Lancer un appel ? candidatures pour tous les postes ouverts ;
- Prescrire les crit?res et les qualifications pour l'?ligibilit? aux ?lections ;
- Interviewer les candidats, le cas ?ch?ant, avant de finaliser la liste des candidats ;
- Finaliser la liste des candidats pour chaque ?lection ;
- Superviser le d?roulement du scrutin par la commission ?lectorale le jour de l'?lection.

Le conseil d'administration attend en outre des membres de la NomCom qu'ils

- soient neutres ; n'aient aucun int?r?t dans les r?sultats des ?lections ;
- soient des membres de confiance de la communaut? AFRINIC ;
- aient une bonne connaissance de l'environnement commercial de l'AFRINIC ;
- poss?der de pr?f?rence une exp?rience pr?alable du NomCom dans l'?cosyst?me I* ;
- faire de leur mieux pour assumer leurs responsabilit?s.

Les membres de la NomCom ne re?oivent aucune r?mun?ration.

Le personnel d'AFRINIC fournira un soutien logistique au NomCom tout au long de son mandat. Ce soutien comprend la publication de la liste des candidats, une compilation des commentaires, la mod?ration de la liste de diffusion, la mise ? jour du site web, la communication avec les candidats et d'autres t?ches relatives aux r?les et responsabilit?s du NomCom. Une aide au d?placement sera fournie au pr?sident du NomCom pour lui permettre d'assister ? l'assembl?e g?n?rale annuelle au cours de laquelle les ?lections auront lieu.

L'?lection aura lieu lors de l'AGA 2021 :

?lections du conseil d'administration de l'AFRINIC :

Les si?ge suivant du Conseil d'administration est ? ?lire par les membres de l'AFRINIC en 2021 :

- Si?ge 5 (Afrique australe), pour un mandat de trois ans, de la mi-2021 ? la mi-2024. Ce si?ge est actuellement occup? par M. Vika William Mpisane

Groupe de travail sur l'?laboration des politiques (PDWG) :
Un poste de copr?sident du PDWG est ? pourvoir par le groupe de travail sur l'?laboration des politiques. 
Le si?ge est actuellement occup? par M. Moses Serugo.. Les mandats commencent et se terminent pendant la r?union de politique publique o? se tient l'?lection.

Comit? de gouvernance :
Un poste du Comit? de gouvernance est soumis ? l'?lection des membres de l'AFRINIC, pour un mandat de trois ans, du 1er janvier 2022 au 31 d?cembre 2024. Le si?ge est actuellement occup? par le Dr Alioune Badara Traor?.

Comment devenir volontaire :

Si vous ?tes int?ress? ? si?ger au NomCom 2021, veuillez envoyer votre manifestation d'int?r?t, accompagn?e d'une courte biographie, par courriel ? legal at afrinic dot net au plus tard le 18 d?cembre 2020 (23:59 UTC).


Subramanian Moonesamy

AFRINIC Board Chairman
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From noah at neo.co.tz  Sat Dec 19 17:04:22 2020
From: noah at neo.co.tz (Noah)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:04:22 +0300
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <66e56954-106b-96a2-1699-90dc3ce9ac4e@brenac.eu>
References: <14722.1608250247@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
 <66e56954-106b-96a2-1699-90dc3ce9ac4e@brenac.eu>
Message-ID: <CAEqgTWbeKYuBoS-hKD19PiM13mZNP-YnyShAPH=eF9q9Ns06PA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 18 Dec 2020, 14:06 thomas brenac, <thomas at brenac.eu> wrote:

> ..and the worse is that with the ongoing Inter-RiR transfer policy plan in
> discussion these stolen subnets will be one day transferred / sold at
> higher value to another RIR and no one will then be able to do anything.
>
Thomas,

Ooh Yes and that is the strategy with an Inter-RIR transfer policy proposal
which intends to ease some businesses around IPv4 addresses with zero role
for AFRINIC with:

 ? Source resource holders subject to receiving RIR policies
 ? No need based justification
 ? No checking of valid  ? right to use? and no dispute.
 ? The list is endless

The community caught them and is discovering more and more about the actors
and their intentions and motivation which are 100% not for the best
interests of the AFRICAN region.

> my 2 cents
>
You are spot on.

Cheers,
Noah
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From dc at darwincosta.com  Sat Dec 19 19:38:06 2020
From: dc at darwincosta.com (dc at darwincosta.com)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:38:06 +0100
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
	IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <CAEqgTWbeKYuBoS-hKD19PiM13mZNP-YnyShAPH=eF9q9Ns06PA@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAEqgTWbeKYuBoS-hKD19PiM13mZNP-YnyShAPH=eF9q9Ns06PA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <F65A7394-F13B-40AF-A706-AF6BCF7B1873@darwincosta.com>


> On 19 Dec 2020, at 18:09, Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:
> 
> ?
>> On Fri, 18 Dec 2020, 14:06 thomas brenac, <thomas at brenac.eu> wrote:
>> ..and the worse is that with the ongoing Inter-RiR transfer policy plan in discussion these stolen subnets will be one day transferred / sold at higher value to another RIR and no one will then be able to do anything.
>> 
No wonder the urgency in getting the policy ratified ......! 

> Thomas,
> 
> Ooh Yes and that is the strategy with an Inter-RIR transfer policy proposal which intends to ease some businesses around IPv4 addresses with zero role for AFRINIC with:
> 
>  ? Source resource holders subject to receiving RIR policies
>  ? No need based justification 
>  ? No checking of valid  ? right to use? and no dispute.
>  ? The list is endless 
> 
> The community caught them and is discovering more and more about the actors and their intentions and motivation which are 100% not for the best interests of the AFRICAN region.
>> my 2 cents
>> 
> 
> You are spot on.
> 
> Cheers,
> Noah
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From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Sun Dec 20 00:20:59 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 16:20:59 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
	IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <9A35CE76-E056-4547-B7FD-52696C5C7604@darwincosta.com>
Message-ID: <25280.1608423659@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <9A35CE76-E056-4547-B7FD-52696C5C7604 at darwincosta.com>, 
"dc at darwincosta.com" <dc at darwincosta.com> wrote:

>@Mr. Ronald I was reading your email and findings over and over again yesterday
>night and this morning... Thank you very much for bringing all of this into
>our attention and YES - we "will" or "have"
>to do whatever it's necessary to revert this situation and to ensure
>that AFRINIC returns to AFRINIC as it should be.

Thank you for yor support.

I suppose that it should be apparent to all that I am upset and angry
about many of the things that have gone on within the AFRINIC region.
But the various IP block thefts themselves are, to my way of thinking,
the least of it all.

Quite some time ago now, Eddy announced to everyone that AFRINIC was
going to be performing an exhaustive audit of all AFRINIC WHOIS changes,
back to the beginning of time, with the intent obviously being to ferret
out any -more- instances of questionable IPv4 allocations, above and
beyond those that I and journalist Jan Vermeulen already brought to
light last year (2019).  Eddy even said that technical personnel and
representatives of one of the more senior RIRs (APNIC) were being
brought in to help with this effort.

That was many MANY months ago now.  (Also, as I'm sure many of you know,
Ernest's malfeasance has been known about by the AFRINIC Board and
management for over an entire calendar year now.)

So this raises the obvious question:  Why didn't Eddy and the Board
already know about the apparent connections bewteen the AFRINIC IPv4
allocations held by Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta long long before my
posting the other day about those?  And if they did know, then why did
they elect to give both Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta a pass, allowing
them both to *keep* the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations that appear
to have been provided to them... presumably in fundamentally crooked
transactions... by the now disgraced and long ago terminated ex-employee
Ernest Byaruhanga?

It has to be one or the other.  There is no third possibility.

Either Eddy & the Board knew, and elected to do nothing and keep silent,
or else their much heralded "exhaustive audit" of the history of all
AFRINIC allocations was so fundementally flawed and incomplete that
it failed to catch obviously questionable allocations of great swaths
of AFRINIC non-legacy IPv4 address space, totaling well over a million
IPv4 addresses.

I'm not sure which of these two possibilities is worse.  Either the
so-called "audit" was done in a glaringly incompetent manner, or else
Eddy and the Board have been complicit in trying to sweep under the
carpet the questionable nature of the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations
held by -both- Mr. Abizeid -and- Mr. Mehta... neither of whom is either
located in the AFRINIC region, and neither of whom, it appears, is
providing -any- services whatsoever within the AFRINIC region.

I look forward to Eddy and the Board clarifying when they learned about
the apparent connections between the IPv4 holdings of Mr. Abizeid and
Mr. Mehta and the fradulent "ITC" fake corporation that for years served
to hide so many of the thefts of Ernest Byaruhanga.

If Eddy and the Board only learned about those connections from my public
posting of a couple of days ago, then maybe it is time, at long last, for
them to grant me access to the historical AFRINIC WHOIS information that
I have been repeatedly requesting for more than a year now, so that I can
perform a proper sort of audit and analysis of those records.

On the other hand, if they are none too pleased with me having been able
to find and expose the many AFRINIC WHOIS anomalies that I have already
managed to find and expose... even with very limited WHOIS access... then
I guess they will continue to want to keep me as far away as possible
from any historical WHOIS information, above and beyond what all ordinary
man-on-the-street netizens are privy to.


Regards,
rfg


P.S.  I am more than a little inclined to believe that Eddy and the
AFRINIC Board do want to, and have wanted to just sweep these matters
under the carpet, as much as possible.  My belief is based on the
fact that Eddy & The Board have quite clearly made a decision...
privately and without even having the courtesy of informing the
AFRINIC membership... to allow the crooks, Mr. Uerlings & Mr. Cohen,
to keep any and all of the legacy IPv4 address blocks that they had
successfully stolen, and for which no rightful owner has showed up to
protest.

The result has been an inconsistant hodge-podge with things only
partially set right.  The City of Cape Town, the commercial South
African firm Columbus Stainless, the South African state-owned oil
company, Sasol, and others have all managed to get their legacy
IPv4 blocks back from the clutches of the fraudsters, Mr. Cohen and
Mr. Uerlings, simply by showing up to assert their rightful claims.

Other legitimate legacy block holders have, unfortunately, been either
too lazy, too confused, or too timid to even assert their rights,
and this has allowed Eddy and the Board to simply ignore those rights
as a matter of expediency.  This is not a shining example of either
honor or courage on their part.  It is rather a capitulation to criminals,
and an abdication of their responsibilities to act in the best interests
of the AFRINIC members and community.

Giving in to corruption only leads to even more corruption.  And frankly,
I remain surprised that this simple fact is not by now better understood
and appreciated through the African continent.

Eddy and the Board can and should stop their silent charade, tell the
members what they have decided to do, or not do, about the various stolen
AFRINIC legacy blocks that to this day remain stolen and in the hands of
messers Uerlings & Cohen, and they should be prepared to defend their
decisions in an open forum.

The global reputation of AFRINIC has already been buffeted by repeated
public scandals in recent years.  Repairing that global reputation cannot
even begin as long as the AFRINIC Board and management are still hiding
their decision making process behind the same closed doors that protected
Ernest Byaruhanga and his criminal machinations from public view for so
many years.



From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Sun Dec 20 03:20:49 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 19:20:49 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Current routing summaries for LiquidWeb,
	Inc. and Fiber Grid, Inc.
In-Reply-To: <25280.1608423659@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
Message-ID: <25847.1608434449@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

Included below are summraies of the current routing of the various
AFRINIC-assigned blocks belonging to ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC (LiquidWeb, Inc.)
and also ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC (Fiber Grid, Inc.)  I am providing these to
the AFRINIC community in support of my prior assertion that no part
or portion of the AFRINIC-assigned blocks of these two companies are,
at present, being routed to any country within the AFRINIC region, nor
to any country or countries that are even adjacent to the AFRINIC region.

The routing summaries below were computed based upon raw data specifying
the specific ASNs that are routing each of the constituent /24 "C" blocks
that make up the totality of the registered AFRINIC blocks currently
assigned to ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC and ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC respectively.  That
raw data was obtained by me, programatically, via the "RESTful" web
interface of the RIPEStat data base.  The raw data from which the
summaries below were computed may obtained via the following two links,
or alternatively, directly fronm RIEPStat, for the benefit of anyone
wishing to independently confirm my analysis.

ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC:
https://pastebin.com/raw/rzWSckCs

ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC:
https://pastebin.com/raw/sgFGNjwH

Additionally, the Perl scripts that I have used to fetch the above raw
data from RIPEStat, as well as the scripts I have used to compute from
that raw data the routing summary tables shown below are all availiable
from me upon request.  I would be more than happy to have others
independently perform the same routing analysis as I have done with
respect to the IPv4 space currently assigned to ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC and
ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC.

The routing summary tables below each contain four fields as follows:

    1)  Number of constituent /24 "C" blocks routed by the given ASN.
    2)  The AS number.
    3)  The applicable two-letter ISO 3166 country code.
    4)  The full name of the ORGanization to which the ASN is registered.

Note that a good deal of the IPv4 space registered to ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC
is currently being routed by RIPE-issued ASNs registered to "Inter
Connects Inc".

Upon information and belief, "Inter Connects Inc" is a Delaware (US)
corporate entity for which Mr. Deepak Mehta is either a beneficial
owner or else possibly THE beneficial owner.  Mr. Mehta is of course
free to dispute this contention, as and when he sees fit.  Please note
however that an entity calling itself "Inter Connects Inc" is also
currently represented within the RIPE WHOIS data base where it is
designated via the handle ORG-DMF2-RIPE and that the RIPE WHOIS
history of that organization handle indicates that it was previously
associated with "Deepak Mehta FIE":

https://pastebin.com/raw/wnF8g2gh

Please note that AS393489, which appears in the second table below, is
officially a bogon (unassigned) AS number at present.  Prior to the
reclamation of this ASN by ARIN, this specific ASN was assigned to a
U.S. company named "ADT Systems, Inc." and that company appears to
still be using AS393489, even though AS393489 is now officially a
bogon ASN.

Please take note also that the organization to which the RIPE-issued
AS58110 is registered (IP Volume LTD - UK) may or may not have any
connection whatsoever to the registrant organization for AS202425
(IP Volume, Inc. - Seychelles) which has for some time announced a
route to the stolen AFRINIC legacy block 196.16.0.0/14, said block
being the rightful property of the South African national government's
IT arm, "SITA", accoring to all reliable historical evidence.

The country codes listed in the following two summary tables, if accurate,
support my view that the AFRINIC-assigned IPv4 address blocks of both
ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC and ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC are likely not, at present, being
routed to any geographical points within the AFRINIC region, thus placing
both of these AFRINIC member organizations in clear violation of the
legally binding AFRINIC Bylaws.

This, of course, is in addition to and on top of the fact that both
organizations appear to have obtained some or all of their AFRINIC-
assigned IPv4 address space illicitly, most probaby by way of the
dismissed and disgraced Ernest Byaruhanga.


Current routing summary for ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC:
---------------------------------------------
  3795  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
   233  58065   UK  Packet Exchange Limited
   164  41564   UK  Packet Exchange Limited
    79  57858   US  Inter Connects Inc
    30  204353  UK  Global Offshore Limited
    13  63119   US  Inter Connects Inc
    10  60485   US  Inter Connects Inc
     8  46805   US  Inter Connects Inc
     7  48950   UK  Global Colocation Limited
     6  57972   US  Inter Connects Inc
     4  37518   SC  Fiber Grid INC
     2  40676   US  Psychz Networks
     1  50304   NO  Blix Solutions AS

Current routing summary for ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC:
---------------------------------------------
   280  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
   111  12025   US  Iron Mountain Data Center
    68  3356    US  Level 3 Parent, LLC
    64  1273    GB  Vodafone Group PLC
    58  43233   IR  Fara Negar Pardaz Noor Khuzestan Co.JSP
    49  35554   GB  8K Cloud Ltd
    48  53271   US  Phenix Cable
    36  133847  MY  Anpple Tech Enterprise
    34  7029    US  Windstream Communications LLC
    26  36290   KN  The Cable of St. Kitts
    20  32181   US  GigeNET
    12  13768   CA  Aptum Technologies
    12  265515  MX  Televera Red S. A. P. I. De C.V.
    12  14123   US  Midnight Proxies LLC
    12  397373  US  H4Y Technologies LLC
    10  36445   CA  Coextro
     8  62217   GB  VooServers Ltd
     8  39535   GB  VooServers Ltd
     8  14935   US  Monticello Networks, Inc.
     8  18710   US  Gkg.Net, Inc
     8  40676   US  Psychz Networks
     7  209181  GB  Zenex 5ive Limited
     6  49367   IT  Seflow S.N.C. Di Marco Brame' & C.
     6  17511   JP  OPTAGE Inc.
     5  56309   TH  Siamdata Communication Co.,ltd.
     5  6327    CA  Shaw Communications Inc.
     5  17676   JP  Softbank BB Corp.
     5  28458   MX  Ientc S De Rl De Cv
     4  17941   JP  Equinix Jpapan Enterprise K.K.
     4  13213   GB  UK-2 Limited
     4  396356  US  Maxihost LLC
     4  36217   US  NetActuate, Inc
     4  137199  AU  Emerge Internet Pty Ltd
     4  397026  US  Wi-Fiber, Inc.
     4  54133   CA  UnmeteredInternet.com
     4  395046  US  Sexing Technologies
     4  202211  ES  Manuel Mariposa Consulting SL
     3  174     US  Cogent Communications
     3  7018    US  AT&T Services, Inc.
     3  32780   US  Hosting Services, Inc.
     2  262239  BZ  Speednet Communications Limited
     2  398252  US  Big Red Communications LLC
     2  393670  US  Southern Fibernet Corporation
     2  63073   US  The University of Tampa
     2  36351   US  SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
     2  393489  ??  {{unknown organization}}
     2  397582  US  WOW-World of Wireless
     2  62904   US  Eonix Corporation
     2  26341   US  Open Solutions LLC
     2  25645   US  Momentum Telecom, Inc.
     2  63018   US  Dedicated.com
     2  46562   US  Performive LLC
     2  397336  US  Virtual Sprout
     2  23005   US  Switch, Ltd
     2  54900   US  Alianza Inc.
     1  28317   CR  Boomerang Wireless S.A.
     1  133120  AU  Hosted Network Pty. Ltd.
     1  60781   NL  LeaseWeb Netherlands B.V.
     1  52356   CR  R&H International Telecom Services SA.
     1  396459  US  County of Venango
     1  27362   US  Archon Development Corp.
     1  26375   US  Airespring, Inc.
     1  54578   US  FiberComm LC
     1  131455  AU  Onsite Computers
     1  59955   LB  Advanced Broadband Services S.A.L
     1  60257   GB  Origin Broadband Limited
     1  141158  MY  Hiero7 (M) Sdn. Bhd.
     1  397256  US  Epyon Technologies
     1  58110   UK  IP Volume LTD
     1  20473   US  Choopa, LLC
     1  14333   US  On-Ramp Indiana, Inc.
     1  30277   US  DFW Datacenter
     1  64286   US  LogicWeb Inc.



From comms at afrinic.net  Sun Dec 20 08:05:27 2020
From: comms at afrinic.net (AFRINIC Communication)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 12:05:27 +0400
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <25280.1608423659@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
References: <25280.1608423659@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
Message-ID: <FAD18D83-6990-40D4-8599-86BB19A8964F@afrinic.net>

[Version en fran?ais au bas]

Dear AFRINIC Community,

AFRINIC is governed by certain processes, PDP policies and legal frameworks that we need to comply with as an organisation. We can only act within the established framework or the ramifications could be extremely damaging. 

Access to the bulk whois data is granted once anyone who requires the data fully completes the process published at:

https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data 

We welcome any information provided on the misappropriation of Internet number resources. However, as mentioned above, at this stage, we are unable to comment on what we know or do not know regarding the information shared. 

We trust that once we are able to publish the audit report, it will bring clarifications to the community's concerns on the misappropriation of Internet number resources.

Regards

Ashil Oogarah
on behalf of AFRINIC Communications and PR Team

??????????????????????..

Ch?re Communaut? d'AFRINIC,

AFRINIC est r?gie par certains processus, politiques et cadres juridiques que nous devons respecter en tant qu'organisation. Nous ne pouvons agir dans ce cadre ?tabli, sinon les cons?quences pourraient ?tre extr?mement dommageables. 

L'acc?s aux donn?es whois est accord? une fois que toute personne ayant besoin de ces donn?es compl?te le processus publi? ?

https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data 

Toute information sur la manipulation non autoris?e des ressources num?riques Internet est la bienvenue. Toutefois, comme mentionn? ci-dessus, nous ne sommes pas en mesure, ? ce stade, de faire des commentaires sur ce que nous savons ou ne savons pas concernant les informations partag?es. 

Nous esp?rons qu'une fois que nous serons en mesure de publier le rapport d'audit, il apportera des ?claircissements sur les pr?occupations de la communaut? concernant la manipulation non autoris?e des ressources num?riques internet.

Regards

Ashil Oogarah
au nom de l'?quipe Communications et RP d?AFRINIC


> On 20 Dec 2020, at 04:20, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
> 
> In message <9A35CE76-E056-4547-B7FD-52696C5C7604 at darwincosta.com>, 
> "dc at darwincosta.com" <dc at darwincosta.com> wrote:
> 
>> @Mr. Ronald I was reading your email and findings over and over again yesterday
>> night and this morning... Thank you very much for bringing all of this into
>> our attention and YES - we "will" or "have"
>> to do whatever it's necessary to revert this situation and to ensure
>> that AFRINIC returns to AFRINIC as it should be.
> 
> Thank you for yor support.
> 
> I suppose that it should be apparent to all that I am upset and angry
> about many of the things that have gone on within the AFRINIC region.
> But the various IP block thefts themselves are, to my way of thinking,
> the least of it all.
> 
> Quite some time ago now, Eddy announced to everyone that AFRINIC was
> going to be performing an exhaustive audit of all AFRINIC WHOIS changes,
> back to the beginning of time, with the intent obviously being to ferret
> out any -more- instances of questionable IPv4 allocations, above and
> beyond those that I and journalist Jan Vermeulen already brought to
> light last year (2019).  Eddy even said that technical personnel and
> representatives of one of the more senior RIRs (APNIC) were being
> brought in to help with this effort.
> 
> That was many MANY months ago now.  (Also, as I'm sure many of you know,
> Ernest's malfeasance has been known about by the AFRINIC Board and
> management for over an entire calendar year now.)
> 
> So this raises the obvious question:  Why didn't Eddy and the Board
> already know about the apparent connections bewteen the AFRINIC IPv4
> allocations held by Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta long long before my
> posting the other day about those?  And if they did know, then why did
> they elect to give both Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta a pass, allowing
> them both to *keep* the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations that appear
> to have been provided to them... presumably in fundamentally crooked
> transactions... by the now disgraced and long ago terminated ex-employee
> Ernest Byaruhanga?
> 
> It has to be one or the other.  There is no third possibility.
> 
> Either Eddy & the Board knew, and elected to do nothing and keep silent,
> or else their much heralded "exhaustive audit" of the history of all
> AFRINIC allocations was so fundementally flawed and incomplete that
> it failed to catch obviously questionable allocations of great swaths
> of AFRINIC non-legacy IPv4 address space, totaling well over a million
> IPv4 addresses.
> 
> I'm not sure which of these two possibilities is worse.  Either the
> so-called "audit" was done in a glaringly incompetent manner, or else
> Eddy and the Board have been complicit in trying to sweep under the
> carpet the questionable nature of the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations
> held by -both- Mr. Abizeid -and- Mr. Mehta... neither of whom is either
> located in the AFRINIC region, and neither of whom, it appears, is
> providing -any- services whatsoever within the AFRINIC region.
> 
> I look forward to Eddy and the Board clarifying when they learned about
> the apparent connections between the IPv4 holdings of Mr. Abizeid and
> Mr. Mehta and the fradulent "ITC" fake corporation that for years served
> to hide so many of the thefts of Ernest Byaruhanga.
> 
> If Eddy and the Board only learned about those connections from my public
> posting of a couple of days ago, then maybe it is time, at long last, for
> them to grant me access to the historical AFRINIC WHOIS information that
> I have been repeatedly requesting for more than a year now, so that I can
> perform a proper sort of audit and analysis of those records.
> 
> On the other hand, if they are none too pleased with me having been able
> to find and expose the many AFRINIC WHOIS anomalies that I have already
> managed to find and expose... even with very limited WHOIS access... then
> I guess they will continue to want to keep me as far away as possible
> from any historical WHOIS information, above and beyond what all ordinary
> man-on-the-street netizens are privy to.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> rfg
> 
> 
> P.S.  I am more than a little inclined to believe that Eddy and the
> AFRINIC Board do want to, and have wanted to just sweep these matters
> under the carpet, as much as possible.  My belief is based on the
> fact that Eddy & The Board have quite clearly made a decision...
> privately and without even having the courtesy of informing the
> AFRINIC membership... to allow the crooks, Mr. Uerlings & Mr. Cohen,
> to keep any and all of the legacy IPv4 address blocks that they had
> successfully stolen, and for which no rightful owner has showed up to
> protest.
> 
> The result has been an inconsistant hodge-podge with things only
> partially set right.  The City of Cape Town, the commercial South
> African firm Columbus Stainless, the South African state-owned oil
> company, Sasol, and others have all managed to get their legacy
> IPv4 blocks back from the clutches of the fraudsters, Mr. Cohen and
> Mr. Uerlings, simply by showing up to assert their rightful claims.
> 
> Other legitimate legacy block holders have, unfortunately, been either
> too lazy, too confused, or too timid to even assert their rights,
> and this has allowed Eddy and the Board to simply ignore those rights
> as a matter of expediency.  This is not a shining example of either
> honor or courage on their part.  It is rather a capitulation to criminals,
> and an abdication of their responsibilities to act in the best interests
> of the AFRINIC members and community.
> 
> Giving in to corruption only leads to even more corruption.  And frankly,
> I remain surprised that this simple fact is not by now better understood
> and appreciated through the African continent.
> 
> Eddy and the Board can and should stop their silent charade, tell the
> members what they have decided to do, or not do, about the various stolen
> AFRINIC legacy blocks that to this day remain stolen and in the hands of
> messers Uerlings & Cohen, and they should be prepared to defend their
> decisions in an open forum.
> 
> The global reputation of AFRINIC has already been buffeted by repeated
> public scandals in recent years.  Repairing that global reputation cannot
> even begin as long as the AFRINIC Board and management are still hiding
> their decision making process behind the same closed doors that protected
> Ernest Byaruhanga and his criminal machinations from public view for so
> many years.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> afnog mailing list
> https://www.afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog




From yamadu at ug.edu.gh  Sun Dec 20 09:23:22 2020
From: yamadu at ug.edu.gh (yamadu)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 09:23:22 +0000
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
Message-ID: <PA4PR09MB47513E9FAFCD3FA0FCBD890E96C10@PA4PR09MB4751.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com>

i think we should fellow due processes to address issues as a? community. AFRINIC has policies and legal framework that we are aware, so we should comply with when we want to address any concern. My take.Yusif?Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
-------- Original message --------From: AFRINIC Communication <comms at afrinic.net> Date: 20/12/2020  8:05 a.m.  (GMT+00:00) To: community-discuss at afrinic.net Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
? IPv4 resources [Version en fran?ais au bas]Dear AFRINIC Community,AFRINIC is governed by certain processes, PDP policies and legal frameworks that we need to comply with as an organisation. We can only act within the established framework or the ramifications could be extremely damaging. Access to the bulk whois data is granted once anyone who requires the data fully completes the process published at:https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data We welcome any information provided on the misappropriation of Internet number resources. However, as mentioned above, at this stage, we are unable to comment on what we know or do not know regarding the information shared. We trust that once we are able to publish the audit report, it will bring clarifications to the community's concerns on the misappropriation of Internet number resources.RegardsAshil Oogarahon behalf of AFRINIC Communications and PR Team??????????????????????..Ch?re Communaut? d'AFRINIC,AFRINIC est r?gie par certains processus, politiques et cadres juridiques que nous devons respecter en tant qu'organisation. Nous ne pouvons agir dans ce cadre ?tabli, sinon les cons?quences pourraient ?tre extr?mement dommageables. L'acc?s aux donn?es whois est accord? une fois que toute personne ayant besoin de ces donn?es compl?te le processus publi? ?https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data Toute information sur la manipulation non autoris?e des ressources num?riques Internet est la bienvenue. Toutefois, comme mentionn? ci-dessus, nous ne sommes pas en mesure, ? ce stade, de faire des commentaires sur ce que nous savons ou ne savons pas concernant les informations partag?es. Nous esp?rons qu'une fois que nous serons en mesure de publier le rapport d'audit, il apportera des ?claircissements sur les pr?occupations de la communaut? concernant la manipulation non autoris?e des ressources num?riques internet.RegardsAshil Oogarahau nom de l'?quipe Communications et RP d?AFRINIC> On 20 Dec 2020, at 04:20, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:> > In message <9A35CE76-E056-4547-B7FD-52696C5C7604 at darwincosta.com>, > "dc at darwincosta.com" <dc at darwincosta.com> wrote:> >> @Mr. Ronald I was reading your email and findings over and over again yesterday>> night and this morning... Thank you very much for bringing all of this into>> our attention and YES - we "will" or "have">> to do whatever it's necessary to revert this situation and to ensure>> that AFRINIC returns to AFRINIC as it should be.> > Thank you for yor support.> > I suppose that it should be apparent to all that I am upset and angry> about many of the things that have gone on within the AFRINIC region.> But the various IP block thefts themselves are, to my way of thinking,> the least of it all.> > Quite some time ago now, Eddy announced to everyone that AFRINIC was> going to be performing an exhaustive audit of all AFRINIC WHOIS changes,> back to the beginning of time, with the intent obviously being to ferret> out any -more- instances of questionable IPv4 allocations, above and> beyond those that I and journalist Jan Vermeulen already brought to> light last year (2019).? Eddy even said that technical personnel and> representatives of one of the more senior RIRs (APNIC) were being> brought in to help with this effort.> > That was many MANY months ago now.? (Also, as I'm sure many of you know,> Ernest's malfeasance has been known about by the AFRINIC Board and> management for over an entire calendar year now.)> > So this raises the obvious question:? Why didn't Eddy and the Board> already know about the apparent connections bewteen the AFRINIC IPv4> allocations held by Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta long long before my> posting the other day about those?? And if they did know, then why did> they elect to give both Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta a pass, allowing> them both to *keep* the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations that appear> to have been provided to them... presumably in fundamentally crooked> transactions... by the now disgraced and long ago terminated ex-employee> Ernest Byaruhanga?> > It has to be one or the other.? There is no third possibility.> > Either Eddy & the Board knew, and elected to do nothing and keep silent,> or else their much heralded "exhaustive audit" of the history of all> AFRINIC allocations was so fundementally flawed and incomplete that> it failed to catch obviously questionable allocations of great swaths> of AFRINIC non-legacy IPv4 address space, totaling well over a million> IPv4 addresses.> > I'm not sure which of these two possibilities is worse.? Either the> so-called "audit" was done in a glaringly incompetent manner, or else> Eddy and the Board have been complicit in trying to sweep under the> carpet the questionable nature of the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations> held by -both- Mr. Abizeid -and- Mr. Mehta... neither of whom is either> located in the AFRINIC region, and neither of whom, it appears, is> providing -any- services whatsoever within the AFRINIC region.> > I look forward to Eddy and the Board clarifying when they learned about> the apparent connections between the IPv4 holdings of Mr. Abizeid and> Mr. Mehta and the fradulent "ITC" fake corporation that for years served> to hide so many of the thefts of Ernest Byaruhanga.> > If Eddy and the Board only learned about those connections from my public> posting of a couple of days ago, then maybe it is time, at long last, for> them to grant me access to the historical AFRINIC WHOIS information that> I have been repeatedly requesting for more than a year now, so that I can> perform a proper sort of audit and analysis of those records.> > On the other hand, if they are none too pleased with me having been able> to find and expose the many AFRINIC WHOIS anomalies that I have already> managed to find and expose... even with very limited WHOIS access... then> I guess they will continue to want to keep me as far away as possible> from any historical WHOIS information, above and beyond what all ordinary> man-on-the-street netizens are privy to.> > > Regards,> rfg> > > P.S.? I am more than a little inclined to believe that Eddy and the> AFRINIC Board do want to, and have wanted to just sweep these matters> under the carpet, as much as possible.? My belief is based on the> fact that Eddy & The Board have quite clearly made a decision...> privately and without even having the courtesy of informing the> AFRINIC membership... to allow the crooks, Mr. Uerlings & Mr. Cohen,> to keep any and all of the legacy IPv4 address blocks that they had> successfully stolen, and for which no rightful owner has showed up to> protest.> > The result has been an inconsistant hodge-podge with things only> partially set right.? The City of Cape Town, the commercial South> African firm Columbus Stainless, the South African state-owned oil> company, Sasol, and others have all managed to get their legacy> IPv4 blocks back from the clutches of the fraudsters, Mr. Cohen and> Mr. Uerlings, simply by showing up to assert their rightful claims.> > Other legitimate legacy block holders have, unfortunately, been either> too lazy, too confused, or too timid to even assert their rights,> and this has allowed Eddy and the Board to simply ignore those rights> as a matter of expediency.? This is not a shining example of either> honor or courage on their part.? It is rather a capitulation to criminals,> and an abdication of their responsibilities to act in the best interests> of the AFRINIC members and community.> > Giving in to corruption only leads to even more corruption.? And frankly,> I remain surprised that this simple fact is not by now better understood> and appreciated through the African continent.> > Eddy and the Board can and should stop their silent charade, tell the> members what they have decided to do, or not do, about the various stolen> AFRINIC legacy blocks that to this day remain stolen and in the hands of> messers Uerlings & Cohen, and they should be prepared to defend their> decisions in an open forum.> > The global reputation of AFRINIC has already been buffeted by repeated> public scandals in recent years.? Repairing that global reputation cannot> even begin as long as the AFRINIC Board and management are still hiding> their decision making process behind the same closed doors that protected> Ernest Byaruhanga and his criminal machinations from public view for so> many years.> > _______________________________________________> afnog mailing list> https://www.afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog_______________________________________________Community-Discuss mailing listCommunity-Discuss at afrinic.nethttps://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
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From libren at tuta.io  Mon Dec 21 12:23:15 2020
From: libren at tuta.io (libren at tuta.io)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:23:15 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
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@Ronald F. Guilmette are you LIR or member of Afrinic?
Any comment on
https://bgp.he.net/AS35916#_prefixes
They are announced in USA via Multacom

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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:04:22 +0300
> From: Noah <noah at neo.co.tz>
> To: thomas at brenac.eu
> Cc: General Discussions of AFRINIC <community-discuss at afrinic.net>,
>  Afnog <afnog at afnog.org>
> Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the
>  misappropriation of IPv4 resources
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> On Fri, 18 Dec 2020, 14:06 thomas brenac, <thomas at brenac.eu> wrote:
>
>> ..and the worse is that with the ongoing Inter-RiR transfer policy plan in
>> discussion these stolen subnets will be one day transferred / sold at
>> higher value to another RIR and no one will then be able to do anything.
>>
> Thomas,
>
> Ooh Yes and that is the strategy with an Inter-RIR transfer policy proposal
> which intends to ease some businesses around IPv4 addresses with zero role
> for AFRINIC with:
>
>  ? Source resource holders subject to receiving RIR policies
>  ? No need based justification
>  ? No checking of valid  ? right to use? and no dispute.
>  ? The list is endless
>
> The community caught them and is discovering more and more about the actors
> and their intentions and motivation which are 100% not for the best
> interests of the AFRICAN region.
>
>> my 2 cents
>>
> You are spot on.
>
> Cheers,
> Noah
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> From: "dc at darwincosta.com" <dc at darwincosta.com>
> To: Noah <noah at neo.co.tz>, thomas at brenac.eu
> Cc: General Discussions of AFRINIC <community-discuss at afrinic.net>,
>  Afnog <afnog at afnog.org>
> Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the
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>> On 19 Dec 2020, at 18:09, Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:
>>
>> ?
>>
>>> On Fri, 18 Dec 2020, 14:06 thomas brenac, <thomas at brenac.eu> wrote:
>>> ..and the worse is that with the ongoing Inter-RiR transfer policy plan in discussion these stolen subnets will be one day transferred / sold at higher value to another RIR and no one will then be able to do anything.
>>>
> No wonder the urgency in getting the policy ratified ......! 
>
>> Thomas,
>>
>> Ooh Yes and that is the strategy with an Inter-RIR transfer policy proposal which intends to ease some businesses around IPv4 addresses with zero role for AFRINIC with:
>>
>>  ? Source resource holders subject to receiving RIR policies
>>  ? No need based justification 
>>  ? No checking of valid  ? right to use? and no dispute.
>>  ? The list is endless 
>>
>> The community caught them and is discovering more and more about the actors and their intentions and motivation which are 100% not for the best interests of the AFRICAN region.
>>
>>> my 2 cents
>>>
>>
>> You are spot on.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Noah
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> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
> To: General Discussions of AFRINIC <community-discuss at afrinic.net>,
>  dbwg at afrinic.net, Afnog <afnog at afnog.org>
> Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the
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> In message <9A35CE76-E056-4547-B7FD-52696C5C7604 at darwincosta.com>, 
> "dc at darwincosta.com" <dc at darwincosta.com> wrote:
>
> >@Mr. Ronald I was reading your email and findings over and over again yesterday
> >night and this morning... Thank you very much for bringing all of this into
> >our attention and YES - we "will" or "have"
> >to do whatever it's necessary to revert this situation and to ensure
> >that AFRINIC returns to AFRINIC as it should be.
>
> Thank you for yor support.
>
> I suppose that it should be apparent to all that I am upset and angry
> about many of the things that have gone on within the AFRINIC region.
> But the various IP block thefts themselves are, to my way of thinking,
> the least of it all.
>
> Quite some time ago now, Eddy announced to everyone that AFRINIC was
> going to be performing an exhaustive audit of all AFRINIC WHOIS changes,
> back to the beginning of time, with the intent obviously being to ferret
> out any -more- instances of questionable IPv4 allocations, above and
> beyond those that I and journalist Jan Vermeulen already brought to
> light last year (2019).  Eddy even said that technical personnel and
> representatives of one of the more senior RIRs (APNIC) were being
> brought in to help with this effort.
>
> That was many MANY months ago now.  (Also, as I'm sure many of you know,
> Ernest's malfeasance has been known about by the AFRINIC Board and
> management for over an entire calendar year now.)
>
> So this raises the obvious question:  Why didn't Eddy and the Board
> already know about the apparent connections bewteen the AFRINIC IPv4
> allocations held by Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta long long before my
> posting the other day about those?  And if they did know, then why did
> they elect to give both Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta a pass, allowing
> them both to *keep* the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations that appear
> to have been provided to them... presumably in fundamentally crooked
> transactions... by the now disgraced and long ago terminated ex-employee
> Ernest Byaruhanga?
>
> It has to be one or the other.  There is no third possibility.
>
> Either Eddy & the Board knew, and elected to do nothing and keep silent,
> or else their much heralded "exhaustive audit" of the history of all
> AFRINIC allocations was so fundementally flawed and incomplete that
> it failed to catch obviously questionable allocations of great swaths
> of AFRINIC non-legacy IPv4 address space, totaling well over a million
> IPv4 addresses.
>
> I'm not sure which of these two possibilities is worse.  Either the
> so-called "audit" was done in a glaringly incompetent manner, or else
> Eddy and the Board have been complicit in trying to sweep under the
> carpet the questionable nature of the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations
> held by -both- Mr. Abizeid -and- Mr. Mehta... neither of whom is either
> located in the AFRINIC region, and neither of whom, it appears, is
> providing -any- services whatsoever within the AFRINIC region.
>
> I look forward to Eddy and the Board clarifying when they learned about
> the apparent connections between the IPv4 holdings of Mr. Abizeid and
> Mr. Mehta and the fradulent "ITC" fake corporation that for years served
> to hide so many of the thefts of Ernest Byaruhanga.
>
> If Eddy and the Board only learned about those connections from my public
> posting of a couple of days ago, then maybe it is time, at long last, for
> them to grant me access to the historical AFRINIC WHOIS information that
> I have been repeatedly requesting for more than a year now, so that I can
> perform a proper sort of audit and analysis of those records.
>
> On the other hand, if they are none too pleased with me having been able
> to find and expose the many AFRINIC WHOIS anomalies that I have already
> managed to find and expose... even with very limited WHOIS access... then
> I guess they will continue to want to keep me as far away as possible
> from any historical WHOIS information, above and beyond what all ordinary
> man-on-the-street netizens are privy to.
>
>
> Regards,
> rfg
>
>
> P.S.  I am more than a little inclined to believe that Eddy and the
> AFRINIC Board do want to, and have wanted to just sweep these matters
> under the carpet, as much as possible.  My belief is based on the
> fact that Eddy & The Board have quite clearly made a decision...
> privately and without even having the courtesy of informing the
> AFRINIC membership... to allow the crooks, Mr. Uerlings & Mr. Cohen,
> to keep any and all of the legacy IPv4 address blocks that they had
> successfully stolen, and for which no rightful owner has showed up to
> protest.
>
> The result has been an inconsistant hodge-podge with things only
> partially set right.  The City of Cape Town, the commercial South
> African firm Columbus Stainless, the South African state-owned oil
> company, Sasol, and others have all managed to get their legacy
> IPv4 blocks back from the clutches of the fraudsters, Mr. Cohen and
> Mr. Uerlings, simply by showing up to assert their rightful claims.
>
> Other legitimate legacy block holders have, unfortunately, been either
> too lazy, too confused, or too timid to even assert their rights,
> and this has allowed Eddy and the Board to simply ignore those rights
> as a matter of expediency.  This is not a shining example of either
> honor or courage on their part.  It is rather a capitulation to criminals,
> and an abdication of their responsibilities to act in the best interests
> of the AFRINIC members and community.
>
> Giving in to corruption only leads to even more corruption.  And frankly,
> I remain surprised that this simple fact is not by now better understood
> and appreciated through the African continent.
>
> Eddy and the Board can and should stop their silent charade, tell the
> members what they have decided to do, or not do, about the various stolen
> AFRINIC legacy blocks that to this day remain stolen and in the hands of
> messers Uerlings & Cohen, and they should be prepared to defend their
> decisions in an open forum.
>
> The global reputation of AFRINIC has already been buffeted by repeated
> public scandals in recent years.  Repairing that global reputation cannot
> even begin as long as the AFRINIC Board and management are still hiding
> their decision making process behind the same closed doors that protected
> Ernest Byaruhanga and his criminal machinations from public view for so
> many years.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 19:20:49 -0800
> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
> To: General Discussions of AFRINIC <community-discuss at afrinic.net>,
>  dbwg at afrinic.net, Afnog <afnog at afnog.org>
> Subject: [Community-Discuss] Current routing summaries for LiquidWeb,
>  Inc. and Fiber Grid, Inc.
> Message-ID: <25847.1608434449 at segfault.tristatelogic.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Included below are summraies of the current routing of the various
> AFRINIC-assigned blocks belonging to ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC (LiquidWeb, Inc.)
> and also ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC (Fiber Grid, Inc.)  I am providing these to
> the AFRINIC community in support of my prior assertion that no part
> or portion of the AFRINIC-assigned blocks of these two companies are,
> at present, being routed to any country within the AFRINIC region, nor
> to any country or countries that are even adjacent to the AFRINIC region.
>
> The routing summaries below were computed based upon raw data specifying
> the specific ASNs that are routing each of the constituent /24 "C" blocks
> that make up the totality of the registered AFRINIC blocks currently
> assigned to ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC and ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC respectively.  That
> raw data was obtained by me, programatically, via the "RESTful" web
> interface of the RIPEStat data base.  The raw data from which the
> summaries below were computed may obtained via the following two links,
> or alternatively, directly fronm RIEPStat, for the benefit of anyone
> wishing to independently confirm my analysis.
>
> ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC:
> https://pastebin.com/raw/rzWSckCs
>
> ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC:
> https://pastebin.com/raw/sgFGNjwH
>
> Additionally, the Perl scripts that I have used to fetch the above raw
> data from RIPEStat, as well as the scripts I have used to compute from
> that raw data the routing summary tables shown below are all availiable
> from me upon request.  I would be more than happy to have others
> independently perform the same routing analysis as I have done with
> respect to the IPv4 space currently assigned to ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC and
> ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC.
>
> The routing summary tables below each contain four fields as follows:
>
>  1)  Number of constituent /24 "C" blocks routed by the given ASN.
>  2)  The AS number.
>  3)  The applicable two-letter ISO 3166 country code.
>  4)  The full name of the ORGanization to which the ASN is registered.
>
> Note that a good deal of the IPv4 space registered to ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC
> is currently being routed by RIPE-issued ASNs registered to "Inter
> Connects Inc".
>
> Upon information and belief, "Inter Connects Inc" is a Delaware (US)
> corporate entity for which Mr. Deepak Mehta is either a beneficial
> owner or else possibly THE beneficial owner.  Mr. Mehta is of course
> free to dispute this contention, as and when he sees fit.  Please note
> however that an entity calling itself "Inter Connects Inc" is also
> currently represented within the RIPE WHOIS data base where it is
> designated via the handle ORG-DMF2-RIPE and that the RIPE WHOIS
> history of that organization handle indicates that it was previously
> associated with "Deepak Mehta FIE":
>
> https://pastebin.com/raw/wnF8g2gh
>
> Please note that AS393489, which appears in the second table below, is
> officially a bogon (unassigned) AS number at present.  Prior to the
> reclamation of this ASN by ARIN, this specific ASN was assigned to a
> U.S. company named "ADT Systems, Inc." and that company appears to
> still be using AS393489, even though AS393489 is now officially a
> bogon ASN.
>
> Please take note also that the organization to which the RIPE-issued
> AS58110 is registered (IP Volume LTD - UK) may or may not have any
> connection whatsoever to the registrant organization for AS202425
> (IP Volume, Inc. - Seychelles) which has for some time announced a
> route to the stolen AFRINIC legacy block 196.16.0.0/14, said block
> being the rightful property of the South African national government's
> IT arm, "SITA", accoring to all reliable historical evidence.
>
> The country codes listed in the following two summary tables, if accurate,
> support my view that the AFRINIC-assigned IPv4 address blocks of both
> ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC and ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC are likely not, at present, being
> routed to any geographical points within the AFRINIC region, thus placing
> both of these AFRINIC member organizations in clear violation of the
> legally binding AFRINIC Bylaws.
>
> This, of course, is in addition to and on top of the fact that both
> organizations appear to have obtained some or all of their AFRINIC-
> assigned IPv4 address space illicitly, most probaby by way of the
> dismissed and disgraced Ernest Byaruhanga.
>
>
> Current routing summary for ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC:
> ---------------------------------------------
>  3795  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>  233  58065   UK  Packet Exchange Limited
>  164  41564   UK  Packet Exchange Limited
>  79  57858   US  Inter Connects Inc
>  30  204353  UK  Global Offshore Limited
>  13  63119   US  Inter Connects Inc
>  10  60485   US  Inter Connects Inc
>  8  46805   US  Inter Connects Inc
>  7  48950   UK  Global Colocation Limited
>  6  57972   US  Inter Connects Inc
>  4  37518   SC  Fiber Grid INC
>  2  40676   US  Psychz Networks
>  1  50304   NO  Blix Solutions AS
>
> Current routing summary for ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC:
> ---------------------------------------------
>  280  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>  111  12025   US  Iron Mountain Data Center
>  68  3356    US  Level 3 Parent, LLC
>  64  1273    GB  Vodafone Group PLC
>  58  43233   IR  Fara Negar Pardaz Noor Khuzestan Co.JSP
>  49  35554   GB  8K Cloud Ltd
>  48  53271   US  Phenix Cable
>  36  133847  MY  Anpple Tech Enterprise
>  34  7029    US  Windstream Communications LLC
>  26  36290   KN  The Cable of St. Kitts
>  20  32181   US  GigeNET
>  12  13768   CA  Aptum Technologies
>  12  265515  MX  Televera Red S. A. P. I. De C.V.
>  12  14123   US  Midnight Proxies LLC
>  12  397373  US  H4Y Technologies LLC
>  10  36445   CA  Coextro
>  8  62217   GB  VooServers Ltd
>  8  39535   GB  VooServers Ltd
>  8  14935   US  Monticello Networks, Inc.
>  8  18710   US  Gkg.Net, Inc
>  8  40676   US  Psychz Networks
>  7  209181  GB  Zenex 5ive Limited
>  6  49367   IT  Seflow S.N.C. Di Marco Brame' & C.
>  6  17511   JP  OPTAGE Inc.
>  5  56309   TH  Siamdata Communication Co.,ltd.
>  5  6327    CA  Shaw Communications Inc.
>  5  17676   JP  Softbank BB Corp.
>  5  28458   MX  Ientc S De Rl De Cv
>  4  17941   JP  Equinix Jpapan Enterprise K.K.
>  4  13213   GB  UK-2 Limited
>  4  396356  US  Maxihost LLC
>  4  36217   US  NetActuate, Inc
>  4  137199  AU  Emerge Internet Pty Ltd
>  4  397026  US  Wi-Fiber, Inc.
>  4  54133   CA  UnmeteredInternet.com
>  4  395046  US  Sexing Technologies
>  4  202211  ES  Manuel Mariposa Consulting SL
>  3  174     US  Cogent Communications
>  3  7018    US  AT&T Services, Inc.
>  3  32780   US  Hosting Services, Inc.
>  2  262239  BZ  Speednet Communications Limited
>  2  398252  US  Big Red Communications LLC
>  2  393670  US  Southern Fibernet Corporation
>  2  63073   US  The University of Tampa
>  2  36351   US  SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
>  2  393489  ??  {{unknown organization}}
>  2  397582  US  WOW-World of Wireless
>  2  62904   US  Eonix Corporation
>  2  26341   US  Open Solutions LLC
>  2  25645   US  Momentum Telecom, Inc.
>  2  63018   US  Dedicated.com
>  2  46562   US  Performive LLC
>  2  397336  US  Virtual Sprout
>  2  23005   US  Switch, Ltd
>  2  54900   US  Alianza Inc.
>  1  28317   CR  Boomerang Wireless S.A.
>  1  133120  AU  Hosted Network Pty. Ltd.
>  1  60781   NL  LeaseWeb Netherlands B.V.
>  1  52356   CR  R&H International Telecom Services SA.
>  1  396459  US  County of Venango
>  1  27362   US  Archon Development Corp.
>  1  26375   US  Airespring, Inc.
>  1  54578   US  FiberComm LC
>  1  131455  AU  Onsite Computers
>  1  59955   LB  Advanced Broadband Services S.A.L
>  1  60257   GB  Origin Broadband Limited
>  1  141158  MY  Hiero7 (M) Sdn. Bhd.
>  1  397256  US  Epyon Technologies
>  1  58110   UK  IP Volume LTD
>  1  20473   US  Choopa, LLC
>  1  14333   US  On-Ramp Indiana, Inc.
>  1  30277   US  DFW Datacenter
>  1  64286   US  LogicWeb Inc.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 12:05:27 +0400
> From: AFRINIC Communication <comms at afrinic.net>
> To: community-discuss at afrinic.net
> Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the
>  misappropriation of IPv4 resources
> Message-ID: <FAD18D83-6990-40D4-8599-86BB19A8964F at afrinic.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain;	charset=utf-8
>
> [Version en fran?ais au bas]
>
> Dear AFRINIC Community,
>
> AFRINIC is governed by certain processes, PDP policies and legal frameworks that we need to comply with as an organisation. We can only act within the established framework or the ramifications could be extremely damaging. 
>
> Access to the bulk whois data is granted once anyone who requires the data fully completes the process published at:
>
> https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data 
>
> We welcome any information provided on the misappropriation of Internet number resources. However, as mentioned above, at this stage, we are unable to comment on what we know or do not know regarding the information shared. 
>
> We trust that once we are able to publish the audit report, it will bring clarifications to the community's concerns on the misappropriation of Internet number resources.
>
> Regards
>
> Ashil Oogarah
> on behalf of AFRINIC Communications and PR Team
>
> ??????????????????????..
>
> Ch?re Communaut? d'AFRINIC,
>
> AFRINIC est r?gie par certains processus, politiques et cadres juridiques que nous devons respecter en tant qu'organisation. Nous ne pouvons agir dans ce cadre ?tabli, sinon les cons?quences pourraient ?tre extr?mement dommageables. 
>
> L'acc?s aux donn?es whois est accord? une fois que toute personne ayant besoin de ces donn?es compl?te le processus publi? ?
>
> https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data 
>
> Toute information sur la manipulation non autoris?e des ressources num?riques Internet est la bienvenue. Toutefois, comme mentionn? ci-dessus, nous ne sommes pas en mesure, ? ce stade, de faire des commentaires sur ce que nous savons ou ne savons pas concernant les informations partag?es. 
>
> Nous esp?rons qu'une fois que nous serons en mesure de publier le rapport d'audit, il apportera des ?claircissements sur les pr?occupations de la communaut? concernant la manipulation non autoris?e des ressources num?riques internet.
>
> Regards
>
> Ashil Oogarah
> au nom de l'?quipe Communications et RP d?AFRINIC
>
>
>> On 20 Dec 2020, at 04:20, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
>>
>> In message <9A35CE76-E056-4547-B7FD-52696C5C7604 at darwincosta.com>, 
>> "dc at darwincosta.com" <dc at darwincosta.com> wrote:
>>
>>> @Mr. Ronald I was reading your email and findings over and over again yesterday
>>> night and this morning... Thank you very much for bringing all of this into
>>> our attention and YES - we "will" or "have"
>>> to do whatever it's necessary to revert this situation and to ensure
>>> that AFRINIC returns to AFRINIC as it should be.
>>>
>>
>> Thank you for yor support.
>>
>> I suppose that it should be apparent to all that I am upset and angry
>> about many of the things that have gone on within the AFRINIC region.
>> But the various IP block thefts themselves are, to my way of thinking,
>> the least of it all.
>>
>> Quite some time ago now, Eddy announced to everyone that AFRINIC was
>> going to be performing an exhaustive audit of all AFRINIC WHOIS changes,
>> back to the beginning of time, with the intent obviously being to ferret
>> out any -more- instances of questionable IPv4 allocations, above and
>> beyond those that I and journalist Jan Vermeulen already brought to
>> light last year (2019).  Eddy even said that technical personnel and
>> representatives of one of the more senior RIRs (APNIC) were being
>> brought in to help with this effort.
>>
>> That was many MANY months ago now.  (Also, as I'm sure many of you know,
>> Ernest's malfeasance has been known about by the AFRINIC Board and
>> management for over an entire calendar year now.)
>>
>> So this raises the obvious question:  Why didn't Eddy and the Board
>> already know about the apparent connections bewteen the AFRINIC IPv4
>> allocations held by Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta long long before my
>> posting the other day about those?  And if they did know, then why did
>> they elect to give both Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta a pass, allowing
>> them both to *keep* the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations that appear
>> to have been provided to them... presumably in fundamentally crooked
>> transactions... by the now disgraced and long ago terminated ex-employee
>> Ernest Byaruhanga?
>>
>> It has to be one or the other.  There is no third possibility.
>>
>> Either Eddy & the Board knew, and elected to do nothing and keep silent,
>> or else their much heralded "exhaustive audit" of the history of all
>> AFRINIC allocations was so fundementally flawed and incomplete that
>> it failed to catch obviously questionable allocations of great swaths
>> of AFRINIC non-legacy IPv4 address space, totaling well over a million
>> IPv4 addresses.
>>
>> I'm not sure which of these two possibilities is worse.  Either the
>> so-called "audit" was done in a glaringly incompetent manner, or else
>> Eddy and the Board have been complicit in trying to sweep under the
>> carpet the questionable nature of the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations
>> held by -both- Mr. Abizeid -and- Mr. Mehta... neither of whom is either
>> located in the AFRINIC region, and neither of whom, it appears, is
>> providing -any- services whatsoever within the AFRINIC region.
>>
>> I look forward to Eddy and the Board clarifying when they learned about
>> the apparent connections between the IPv4 holdings of Mr. Abizeid and
>> Mr. Mehta and the fradulent "ITC" fake corporation that for years served
>> to hide so many of the thefts of Ernest Byaruhanga.
>>
>> If Eddy and the Board only learned about those connections from my public
>> posting of a couple of days ago, then maybe it is time, at long last, for
>> them to grant me access to the historical AFRINIC WHOIS information that
>> I have been repeatedly requesting for more than a year now, so that I can
>> perform a proper sort of audit and analysis of those records.
>>
>> On the other hand, if they are none too pleased with me having been able
>> to find and expose the many AFRINIC WHOIS anomalies that I have already
>> managed to find and expose... even with very limited WHOIS access... then
>> I guess they will continue to want to keep me as far away as possible
>> from any historical WHOIS information, above and beyond what all ordinary
>> man-on-the-street netizens are privy to.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> rfg
>>
>>
>> P.S.  I am more than a little inclined to believe that Eddy and the
>> AFRINIC Board do want to, and have wanted to just sweep these matters
>> under the carpet, as much as possible.  My belief is based on the
>> fact that Eddy & The Board have quite clearly made a decision...
>> privately and without even having the courtesy of informing the
>> AFRINIC membership... to allow the crooks, Mr. Uerlings & Mr. Cohen,
>> to keep any and all of the legacy IPv4 address blocks that they had
>> successfully stolen, and for which no rightful owner has showed up to
>> protest.
>>
>> The result has been an inconsistant hodge-podge with things only
>> partially set right.  The City of Cape Town, the commercial South
>> African firm Columbus Stainless, the South African state-owned oil
>> company, Sasol, and others have all managed to get their legacy
>> IPv4 blocks back from the clutches of the fraudsters, Mr. Cohen and
>> Mr. Uerlings, simply by showing up to assert their rightful claims.
>>
>> Other legitimate legacy block holders have, unfortunately, been either
>> too lazy, too confused, or too timid to even assert their rights,
>> and this has allowed Eddy and the Board to simply ignore those rights
>> as a matter of expediency.  This is not a shining example of either
>> honor or courage on their part.  It is rather a capitulation to criminals,
>> and an abdication of their responsibilities to act in the best interests
>> of the AFRINIC members and community.
>>
>> Giving in to corruption only leads to even more corruption.  And frankly,
>> I remain surprised that this simple fact is not by now better understood
>> and appreciated through the African continent.
>>
>> Eddy and the Board can and should stop their silent charade, tell the
>> members what they have decided to do, or not do, about the various stolen
>> AFRINIC legacy blocks that to this day remain stolen and in the hands of
>> messers Uerlings & Cohen, and they should be prepared to defend their
>> decisions in an open forum.
>>
>> The global reputation of AFRINIC has already been buffeted by repeated
>> public scandals in recent years.  Repairing that global reputation cannot
>> even begin as long as the AFRINIC Board and management are still hiding
>> their decision making process behind the same closed doors that protected
>> Ernest Byaruhanga and his criminal machinations from public view for so
>> many years.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>> https://www.afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog
>>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2020 09:23:22 +0000
> From: yamadu <yamadu at ug.edu.gh>
> To: AFRINIC Communication <comms at afrinic.net>,
>  community-discuss at afrinic.net
> Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the
>  misappropriation of IPv4 resources
> Message-ID:
>  <PA4PR09MB47513E9FAFCD3FA0FCBD890E96C10 at PA4PR09MB4751.eurprd09.prod.outlook.com>
>  
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> i think we should fellow due processes to address issues as a? community. AFRINIC has policies and legal framework that we are aware, so we should comply with when we want to address any concern. My take.Yusif?Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
> -------- Original message --------From: AFRINIC Communication <comms at afrinic.net> Date: 20/12/2020  8:05 a.m.  (GMT+00:00) To: community-discuss at afrinic.net Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
> ? IPv4 resources [Version en fran?ais au bas]Dear AFRINIC Community,AFRINIC is governed by certain processes, PDP policies and legal frameworks that we need to comply with as an organisation. We can only act within the established framework or the ramifications could be extremely damaging. Access to the bulk whois data is granted once anyone who requires the data fully completes the process published at:https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data We welcome any information provided on the misappropriation of Internet number resources. However, as mentioned above, at this stage, we are unable to comment on what we know or do not know regarding the information shared. We trust that once we are able to publish the audit report, it will bring clarifications to the community's concerns on the misappropriation of Internet number resources.RegardsAshil Oogarahon behalf of AFRINIC Communications and PR Team??????????????????????..Ch?re Communaut? d'AFRINIC,AFRINIC est r?gie par certains processus, politiques et cadres juridiques que nous devons respecter en tant qu'organisation. Nous ne pouvons agir dans ce cadre ?tabli, sinon les cons?quences pourraient ?tre extr?mement dommageables. L'acc?s aux donn?es whois est accord? une fois que toute personne ayant besoin de ces donn?es compl?te le processus publi? ?https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data Toute information sur la manipulation non autoris?e des ressources num?riques Internet est la bienvenue. Toutefois, comme mentionn? ci-dessus, nous ne sommes pas en mesure, ? ce stade, de faire des commentaires sur ce que nous savons ou ne savons pas concernant les informations partag?es. Nous esp?rons qu'une fois que nous serons en mesure de publier le rapport d'audit, il apportera des ?claircissements sur les pr?occupations de la communaut? concernant la manipulation non autoris?e des ressources num?riques internet.RegardsAshil Oogarahau nom de l'?quipe Communications et RP d?AFRINIC> On 20 Dec 2020, at 04:20, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:> > In message <9A35CE76-E056-4547-B7FD-52696C5C7604 at darwincosta.com>, > "dc at darwincosta.com" <dc at darwincosta.com> wrote:> >> @Mr. Ronald I was reading your email and findings over and over again yesterday>> night and this morning... Thank you very much for bringing all of this into>> our attention and YES - we "will" or "have">> to do whatever it's necessary to revert this situation and to ensure>> that AFRINIC returns to AFRINIC as it should be.> > Thank you for yor support.> > I suppose that it should be apparent to all that I am upset and angry> about many of the things that have gone on within the AFRINIC region.> But the various IP block thefts themselves are, to my way of thinking,> the least of it all.> > Quite some time ago now, Eddy announced to everyone that AFRINIC was> going to be performing an exhaustive audit of all AFRINIC WHOIS changes,> back to the beginning of time, with the intent obviously being to ferret> out any -more- instances of questionable IPv4 allocations, above and> beyond those that I and journalist Jan Vermeulen already brought to> light last year (2019).? Eddy even said that technical personnel and> representatives of one of the more senior RIRs (APNIC) were being> brought in to help with this effort.> > That was many MANY months ago now.? (Also, as I'm sure many of you know,> Ernest's malfeasance has been known about by the AFRINIC Board and> management for over an entire calendar year now.)> > So this raises the obvious question:? Why didn't Eddy and the Board> already know about the apparent connections bewteen the AFRINIC IPv4> allocations held by Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta long long before my> posting the other day about those?? And if they did know, then why did> they elect to give both Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta a pass, allowing> them both to *keep* the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations that appear> to have been provided to them... presumably in fundamentally crooked> transactions... by the now disgraced and long ago terminated ex-employee> Ernest Byaruhanga?> > It has to be one or the other.? There is no third possibility.> > Either Eddy & the Board knew, and elected to do nothing and keep silent,> or else their much heralded "exhaustive audit" of the history of all> AFRINIC allocations was so fundementally flawed and incomplete that> it failed to catch obviously questionable allocations of great swaths> of AFRINIC non-legacy IPv4 address space, totaling well over a million> IPv4 addresses.> > I'm not sure which of these two possibilities is worse.? Either the> so-called "audit" was done in a glaringly incompetent manner, or else> Eddy and the Board have been complicit in trying to sweep under the> carpet the questionable nature of the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations> held by -both- Mr. Abizeid -and- Mr. Mehta... neither of whom is either> located in the AFRINIC region, and neither of whom, it appears, is> providing -any- services whatsoever within the AFRINIC region.> > I look forward to Eddy and the Board clarifying when they learned about> the apparent connections between the IPv4 holdings of Mr. Abizeid and> Mr. Mehta and the fradulent "ITC" fake corporation that for years served> to hide so many of the thefts of Ernest Byaruhanga.> > If Eddy and the Board only learned about those connections from my public> posting of a couple of days ago, then maybe it is time, at long last, for> them to grant me access to the historical AFRINIC WHOIS information that> I have been repeatedly requesting for more than a year now, so that I can> perform a proper sort of audit and analysis of those records.> > On the other hand, if they are none too pleased with me having been able> to find and expose the many AFRINIC WHOIS anomalies that I have already> managed to find and expose... even with very limited WHOIS access... then> I guess they will continue to want to keep me as far away as possible> from any historical WHOIS information, above and beyond what all ordinary> man-on-the-street netizens are privy to.> > > Regards,> rfg> > > P.S.? I am more than a little inclined to believe that Eddy and the> AFRINIC Board do want to, and have wanted to just sweep these matters> under the carpet, as much as possible.? My belief is based on the> fact that Eddy & The Board have quite clearly made a decision...> privately and without even having the courtesy of informing the> AFRINIC membership... to allow the crooks, Mr. Uerlings & Mr. Cohen,> to keep any and all of the legacy IPv4 address blocks that they had> successfully stolen, and for which no rightful owner has showed up to> protest.> > The result has been an inconsistant hodge-podge with things only> partially set right.? The City of Cape Town, the commercial South> African firm Columbus Stainless, the South African state-owned oil> company, Sasol, and others have all managed to get their legacy> IPv4 blocks back from the clutches of the fraudsters, Mr. Cohen and> Mr. Uerlings, simply by showing up to assert their rightful claims.> > Other legitimate legacy block holders have, unfortunately, been either> too lazy, too confused, or too timid to even assert their rights,> and this has allowed Eddy and the Board to simply ignore those rights> as a matter of expediency.? This is not a shining example of either> honor or courage on their part.? It is rather a capitulation to criminals,> and an abdication of their responsibilities to act in the best interests> of the AFRINIC members and community.> > Giving in to corruption only leads to even more corruption.? And frankly,> I remain surprised that this simple fact is not by now better understood> and appreciated through the African continent.> > Eddy and the Board can and should stop their silent charade, tell the> members what they have decided to do, or not do, about the various stolen> AFRINIC legacy blocks that to this day remain stolen and in the hands of> messers Uerlings & Cohen, and they should be prepared to defend their> decisions in an open forum.> > The global reputation of AFRINIC has already been buffeted by repeated> public scandals in recent years.? Repairing that global reputation cannot> even begin as long as the AFRINIC Board and management are still hiding> their decision making process behind the same closed doors that protected> Ernest Byaruhanga and his criminal machinations from public view for so> many years.> > _______________________________________________> afnog mailing list> https://www.afnog.org/mailman/listinfo/afnog_______________________________________________Community-Discuss mailing listCommunity-Discuss at afrinic.nethttps://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
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From libren at tuta.io  Mon Dec 21 12:58:41 2020
From: libren at tuta.io (libren at tuta.io)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:58:41 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Current routing summaries for LiquidWeb,
 Inc. and Fiber Grid, Inc.
Message-ID: <MP4NLEz--3-2@tuta.io>

@rfg? Routing summaries are of no use now days. Refer Google, Amazon, Microsoft or cloudflare organizations are based in US.? Technically should be allowed to use ARIN ip in its region but they are all over the map. Microsoft cloud in Africa using Arin ip or Google cloud in Middle East using Arin allocated networks. I raised this issue with RIRs and they are aware of this practice and their explanation was reasonable and it is allowed. Can Afrinic stop Microsoft using ARIN ip in its region?
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From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Mon Dec 21 23:44:27 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:44:27 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
	IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <MP4FEIb--F-2@tuta.io>
Message-ID: <41358.1608594267@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <MP4FEIb--F-2 at tuta.io>, 
libren at tuta.io wrote:

>@Ronald F. Guilmette are you LIR or member of Afrinic?

No sir, I am neither.

>Any comment on
>https://bgp.he.net/AS35916#_prefixes
>They are announced in USA via Multacom

The company Cloud Innovation Ltd has quite a bit of AFRINIC-administered IPv4
address space assigned, and parts of that space are being routed by numerous
different networks worldwide (but primarily by ones in Hong Kong).

Other than just mentioning the fact that Multacom is not my most favorite
company on the Internet, I have no other specific comment to offer regarding
Multacom or its routing of various Cloud Innovation Ltd blocks.

As I have expressed personally to Mr. Lu Heng, I am far more concered about
the apparent use, by some of few of his customers, of the services of two
specific networks that appear to be involved with routing blocks of apparently
stolen and/or squatted IPv4 address blocks belonging to either (a) AFRINIC
legacy holders and/or (b) Iranian holders of RIPE-assigned IPv4 address
blocks:

Asline/Clayer (Hong Hong / China)
https://bgp.he.net/AS18013#_prefixes
https://bgp.he.net/AS137951#_prefixes

(Note that the second network above, AS137951, is a "leaf" ASN which is connected
to the Internet only via the first ASN above, AS18013.  In effect, they may be
viewed as being just two parts of the same single thing.)

DDoSing Network, Inc. (colorado/USA)
https://bgp.he.net/AS22769#_prefixes

Please note the distinctly funny name of that last one, and also the fact
that in addition to announcing many questionable routes for many Iranian
blocks, it is currently also routing much of the AFRINIC space which still
remains assigned to Mr. Uerlings' "Inspiring Networks, Ltd." company, which
is incorporated in the Seychelles Islands.[1]


Regards,
rfg


[1]  Mr. Uerlings also maintains corporate entities named "Inspiring Networks
B.V." in the Netherlands and "Inspiring Networks, LLC" in Delaware, USA.



From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Tue Dec 22 00:18:15 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 16:18:15 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Current routing summaries for LiquidWeb,
	Inc. and Fiber Grid, Inc.
In-Reply-To: <MP4NLEz--3-2@tuta.io>
Message-ID: <41501.1608596295@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <MP4NLEz--3-2 at tuta.io>, 
libren at tuta.io wrote:

>@rfg Routing summaries are of no use now days. Refer Google, Amazon,
>Microsoft or cloudflare organizations are based in US.=C2=A0 Technically sh
>ould be allowed to use ARIN ip in its region but they are all over the map.
> Microsoft cloud in Africa using Arin ip or Google cloud in Middle East usi
>ng Arin allocated networks. I raised this issue with RIRs and they are awar
>e of this practice and their explanation was reasonable and it is allowed. 
>Can Afrinic stop Microsoft using ARIN ip in its region?

It is quite alright for a legal entity is region `A' to deploy some, and
prehaps even most of its number resources in region `B'. That is quite clear.

What you are failing to appreciate is that there exist a set of AFRINIC Bylaws
which make it abundantly clear that IN THE ABSENCE OF SPECIFIC AND EXPLICIT
APPROVAL BY THE BOARD, each member of AFRINIC is obliged to provide at least
-some- service within the AFRINIC geographical region.

Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta are NOT doing that, therefore unless there has been
an explicit decision by the Board, neither man's corporate entities qualify
to be AFRINIC members.  If they are not AFRINIC members, then their AFRINIC-
issued number resources must be immediately reclaimed intto the AFRINIC free
pool.

I call your attention specifically to Section 6.1 of the AFRINIC Bylaws:

    6.1 Membership shall be open to:

    (i) any Person who is geographically based within, and providing services
    in the African region, and who is engaged in the use of, or business of
    providing, open system protocol network services; or

    (ii) any other Person who is approved by the Board or the members.

Based upon the routing data that I posted here, and which I fully encourage
independent investigators to verify to their own satisfaction, the corporate
entities belonging to Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta are simply not qualified to
be AFRINIC members under the AFRINIC Bylaws as written.

More to the point, the historical WHOIS data which I have also posted links
to, and which I also encourage other interested parties to independently
verify to their own satisfaction, persusasively suggest that the corporate
entities belonging to both Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta have received some or
all of their AFRINIC-assigned non-legacy IPv4 address blocks via underhanded,
unscruplous, illicit, and quite possibly illegal transactions involving the
now disgraced AFRINIC ex-employee, Ernest Byaruhanga.

So this raises the question: Based upon the available evidence, are Mr.
Abizeid and Mr. Mehta simply foreign carpetbaggers... foreign 21st century
colonialists, engaging in corrupt transactions with compliant locals and
exploiting the natural resources of Africa from afar, while giving precious
little in return to the people of Africa?

You be the judge.


Regards,
rfg


P.S.  Is it possible that either Mr. Abizeid and/or Mr. Mehta received some
special dispensation from the AFRINIC Board which would allow them to skirt
the normal requireemnts of the AFRINIC Bwlaws, Section 6.1(i) as quoted
above?  I don't know and it is apparently impossible for any outsider to
say, one way or the other, since some of the AFRINIC Board Meeting minutes
have been mysteriously and quite deliberately ``disappeared'' from public
view.



From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Tue Dec 22 01:24:51 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 17:24:51 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
	IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <41358.1608594267@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
Message-ID: <41948.1608600291@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In a prior message, I quoted section 6.1 of the AFRINIC Bylaws, which I am
now obliged to quote yet again:

    6.1 Membership shall be open to:

    (i) any Person who is geographically based within, and providing services
    in the African region, and who is engaged in the use of, or business of
    providing, open system protocol network services; or

    (ii) any other Person who is approved by the Board or the members.

The handle ORG-INL3-AFRINIC represents an alleged Seychelles corporate
entity, "Inspiring Networks LTD", which appears to be owned and/or
controlled by Mr. Maikel Uerlings.

The set of AFRINIC-assigned IPv4 address blocks currently associated with
ORG-INL3-AFRINIC is as follows:

45.220.64.0/18
196.61.192.0/20
197.231.208.0/22

Analysis of the routes that are currently publicly announced to the global
Internet for each of the constituent /24 "C" blocks that compose the above
IPv4 blocks provides the following results:

Cblocks ASN     CC  Organization
-------------------------------------------
    64  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
    16  24567   AU  QT Inc.
     4  22769   US  Ddosing Network

Two things are apparent from these reults:

   1)  Just as in the case of Mr. Abizeid's and Mr. Mehta's corporate
       entities, it appears that Mr. Uerlings' Seychelles corporate
       entity, Inspiring Networks Ltd., also does not, at present,
       qualify, under the AFRINIC Bylaws to be a member of AFRINIC,
       as exactly -zero- of the company's AFRINIC-assigned IP address 
       space is providing any service whatsoever to any point within
       the AFRINIC service region.

   2)  Just as in the case of Mr. Mehta's "Fiber Grid, Inc. (Seychelles)
       it would appear that Mr. Uerlings' corporate entity is not even
       using the vast majority of its AFRINIC-assigned IP address space.
       Rather, it would appear that both  Mr. Mehta and Mr. Uerlings are
       using the great majority of their assigned IP address blocks only
       as passive investments at the present time.

       I guess they are both just sitting on these investments, waiting
       for the prices to go up.

In case I have failed to make myself abundantly clear, I am requesting
the Board to immediately invoke Sections 8.2(ii) and 8.2(v) of the
AFRINIC Bylaws with respect to the corporate entities of Mr. Abizdeid,
Mr. Mehta, and Mr. Uerlings.  The evidence shows that they all stand
in clear violation of Section 6.1(i) of the Bylaws, and have, I believe,
for quite some time now.  On that basis, their memberships MUST be
terminated according to the Bylaws.


Regards,
rfg

CC: board at afrinic.net



From libren at tuta.io  Tue Dec 22 13:30:15 2020
From: libren at tuta.io (libren at tuta.io)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:30:15 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Current routing summaries for LiquidWeb,
 Inc. and Fiber Grid, Inc.
Message-ID: <MP9d9L9--3-2@tuta.io>

BGP any cast is the main reason why ips are announced globally. Cloudflare announce network in all the region so it violates?
 Question of announcing ip from other region is null and void? and it cannot be challenged.
Afrinic bylaws have changed so many times and what matters is signed RSA ?https://www.afrinic.net/ast/pdf/services/afrinic-rsa-en-201801.pdf? ?
Only signed agreements are?admissible in court.As per?https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-address-space.xhtml?most of Afrinic ip are Legacy blocks. Afrinic is not the owner of Ip address but only administering. As we
 do not know history of legacy blocks and it will be better Afrinic deal with it.





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From libren at tuta.io  Tue Dec 22 13:52:37 2020
From: libren at tuta.io (libren at tuta.io)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:52:37 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
Message-ID: <MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io>


>@Ronald F. Guilmette are you LIR or member of Afrinic?
?>>>No sir, I am neither.
Ronald F Guilmette are you a real person or using some fake name?? You are like ghost on internet.Do you have any linkedin profile or company??
I am wondering if you are not LIR or member of Afrinic then why are you even part of this community mailing list or why you are taking so much interest in community mailing list?
There are thousands of members in this list you are just spamming everyone with your findings.
Who cares who is doing what? This is something between Afrinic and its members.If you want to play good cop then report to Afrinic because spamming community mailing will not do anything
You are working as?influence marketer to provoke community and Afrinic by playing divide and rule?
Afrinic need new ideas and solutions not problems and no one is interested in your nonsense.?




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From noah at neo.co.tz  Tue Dec 22 14:42:31 2020
From: noah at neo.co.tz (Noah)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:42:31 +0300
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io>
References: <MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io>
Message-ID: <CAEqgTWZNH=i30Bacm=aDH512sfMhuPQXj9gb6FUGGUUwd1P1vg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 22 Dec 2020, 16:56 Libra via Community-Discuss, <
community-discuss at afrinic.net> wrote:

>
> >*@Ronald F. Guilmette are you LIR or member of Afrinic?*
>  >>>No sir, I am neither.
> Ronald F Guilmette are you a real person or using some fake name?  You are
> like ghost on internet.
>

How about you Libra? Are you a real person or a sock puppet?

Noah
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From comms at afrinic.net  Tue Dec 22 15:02:47 2020
From: comms at afrinic.net (AFRINIC Communication)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:02:47 +0400
Subject: [Community-Discuss] 2020/21 ICANN Board Seat 9 Elections: Comment
	Phase Open
Message-ID: <08539F4D-AB15-4444-9964-7155702E17AC@afrinic.net>

[Sent on behalf of the ASO AC] 

21 DECEMBER 2020

Dear colleagues,

In line with the ICANN Address Supporting Organization (ASO) Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)[1] and the ICANN Bylaws[2], the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (ASO AC) has issued a call for nominations for Seat 9 of the ICANN Board of Directors.

The selected candidate will serve for a three-year term, which will begin at the conclusion of the ICANN Annual General Assembly during the ICANN 72 Meeting, scheduled from 23-28 October 2021 in Seattle, USA. 

Following a call for candidates, the ASO AC is pleased to announce that the following candidates have been nominated (sorted by their first name):

Alan Barrett - https://aso.icann.org/alan-barrett-2021-icann-board-seat-9/ <https://aso.icann.org/alan-barrett-2021-icann-board-seat-9/>
Johan Helsingius - https://aso.icann.org/johan-helsingius-2021-icann-board-seat-9/ <https://aso.icann.org/johan-helsingius-2021-icann-board-seat-9/>
Kemly Camacho J?menez - https://aso.icann.org/kemly-camacho-2021-icann-board-seat-9/ <https://aso.icann.org/kemly-camacho-2021-icann-board-seat-9/>
Margarita Valdes - https://aso.icann.org/margarita-valdes-2021-icann-board-seat-9/ <https://aso.icann.org/margarita-valdes-2021-icann-board-seat-9/>
Nigel Titley - https://aso.icann.org/nigel-titley-2021-icann-board-seat-9/ <https://aso.icann.org/nigel-titley-2021-icann-board-seat-9/>
Patrick W. Gilmore - https://aso.icann.org/patrick-w-gilmore-2021-icann-board-seat-9/ <https://aso.icann.org/patrick-w-gilmore-2021-icann-board-seat-9/>
Peter Thimmesch - https://aso.icann.org/peter-thimmesch-2021-icann-seat-9-nominee/ <https://aso.icann.org/peter-thimmesch-2021-icann-seat-9-nominee/>
Ron da Silva - https://aso.icann.org/ron-da-silva-2021-icann-board-seat-9/ <https://aso.icann.org/ron-da-silva-2021-icann-board-seat-9/>
Sean Kennedy - https://aso.icann.org/sean-kennedy-2021-icann-board-seat-9/ <https://aso.icann.org/sean-kennedy-2021-icann-board-seat-9/>
Wafa Zaafouri - https://aso.icann.org/wafa-zaafouri-2021-icann-board-seat-9/ <https://aso.icann.org/wafa-zaafouri-2021-icann-board-seat-9/>



Comment Phase
---------------------
The comment phase will begin on 21 December 2020 and will end at 23.59 UTC on 30 March 2021. Comments can be submitted for candidates by clicking on the link next to their name above and adding a comment to their biography.

Please note that, as per section 9.4.5 of the ASO AC Operating Procedures [3], all comments will be moderated by the ASO Secretariat prior to being published on the ASO website.

For more information on the ICANN Board of Directors Seat 9 election process, please go to https://aso.icann.org/icann-board/icann-board-elections/2021-icann-board-of-directors-seat-9-elections/ <https://aso.icann.org/icann-board/icann-board-elections/2021-icann-board-of-directors-seat-9-elections/>


[1] ICANN Address Supporting Organization (ASO) MoU
https://aso.icann.org/documents/memorandums-of-understanding/ <https://aso.icann.org/documents/memorandums-of-understanding/>

[2] ICANN Bylaws:
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en <https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/governance/bylaws-en>

[3] ASO AC Operating Procedures
https://aso.icann.org/documents/operational-documents/operating-procedures-of-the-address-council-of-the-address-supporting-organization/ <https://aso.icann.org/documents/operational-documents/operating-procedures-of-the-address-council-of-the-address-supporting-organization/>
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From noah at neo.co.tz  Tue Dec 22 16:37:42 2020
From: noah at neo.co.tz (Noah)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:37:42 +0300
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io>
References: <MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io>
Message-ID: <CAEqgTWYk1kfA_9-kEwi9V04O9Ei7p2qdtPD5njOvPwY5jE1BHw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 22 Dec 2020, 16:56 Libra via Community-Discuss, <
community-discuss at afrinic.net> wrote:

>
> >*@Ronald F. Guilmette are you LIR or member of Afrinic?*
>  >>>No sir, I am neither.
> Ronald F Guilmette are you a real person or using some fake name?  You are
> like ghost on internet.
>

How about you Libren? Are you a real person or a coward sock puppet?


Do you have any linkedin profile or company?
>

Do you have one we can look at?

I am wondering if you are not LIR or member of Afrinic then why are you
> even part of this community mailing list
>

Is this mailing list for only LIR or members only?

Who gives you Libren the right to discriminate against others?

The Code of Conduct for this very community list does not allow
discretionary remarks like the ones you are parading against Ronald.


or why you are taking so much interest in community mailing list?
>

Why should any sane and ethical member of the internet community not take
interest and participate in this forum.

Do you Libren have a problem with internet community members participating
openly in such a forum.

Are you perhaps one of the affected parties of Ronald revelations which are
extremely concerning and must be addressed.

There are thousands of members in this list you are just spamming everyone
> with your findings.
>

Spamming is that your excuse to divert attention.

If you have a problem with Ronald posts,  please do yourself a favor and
unsubscribe yourself from this list. No one forced you to stay on it.

Who cares who is doing what?
>

I do care and I am involved in running real African network infrastructure
that has real impact in AFRICA and I am a real warm blooded person with a
heart pumping breath gasping decaying body.

This is something between Afrinic and its members.
>


Well the networks I am invloved with are AFRINIC members and yes everything
Ronald has revealed is something that concerns us.


If you want to play good cop then report to Afrinic because spamming
> community mailing will not do anything
>

You clearly have a problem with those who attempt to ethically speak out
against potential fraud as it shall be revealed in the promised audit
report from AFRINIC.

Btw, where have you been. Dont you know that Ronalds past revelations on
this very mailing list led to the ongoing massive Audit by AFRINIC which as
partially reported has led to recovery of millions of misappropriated IPv4
addresses and an ongoing litigation at the Mauritius court.


You are working as influence marketer to provoke community and Afrinic by
> playing divide and rule?
>

How has Ronald divided this community. Please share your evidence of your
unfounded claims and innuendos others give us a break.


Afrinic need new ideas and solutions
>

Those ideas and solutions can wait.

not problems and no one is interested in your nonsense.
>

What nonsense.

AFRINIC needs to clean up the never ending crap. You are calling what seems
like fraud and corruption nonsense. You are clearly a very unethical
individual.

If people made mistakes then they should be held accountable and those
mistakes fixed. That is the only sensible achievement we seek.

This community is anxiously waiting for the audit report as recently
reported by the CEO and AFRINIC communications team.

Noah  *A real person*
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From sami.salih at outlook.com  Tue Dec 22 17:10:08 2020
From: sami.salih at outlook.com (Sami Salih)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:10:08 +0000
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <CAEqgTWYk1kfA_9-kEwi9V04O9Ei7p2qdtPD5njOvPwY5jE1BHw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io>,
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I don't have any comment about the content of libren at tuta.io messages, but I'm not comfortable with anonymous posting in our member-based list.
I hope we can resolve this issue so anyone is well known to each other's.


Sami Salih
________________________________
From: Noah <noah at neo.co.tz>
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 7:37 PM
To: libren at tuta.io <libren at tuta.io>
Cc: Community Discuss <community-discuss at afrinic.net>
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources



On Tue, 22 Dec 2020, 16:56 Libra via Community-Discuss, <community-discuss at afrinic.net<mailto:community-discuss at afrinic.net>> wrote:

>@Ronald F. Guilmette are you LIR or member of Afrinic?
 >>>No sir, I am neither.
Ronald F Guilmette are you a real person or using some fake name?  You are like ghost on internet.

How about you Libren? Are you a real person or a coward sock puppet?


Do you have any linkedin profile or company?

Do you have one we can look at?

I am wondering if you are not LIR or member of Afrinic then why are you even part of this community mailing list

Is this mailing list for only LIR or members only?

Who gives you Libren the right to discriminate against others?

The Code of Conduct for this very community list does not allow discretionary remarks like the ones you are parading against Ronald.


or why you are taking so much interest in community mailing list?

Why should any sane and ethical member of the internet community not take interest and participate in this forum.

Do you Libren have a problem with internet community members participating openly in such a forum.

Are you perhaps one of the affected parties of Ronald revelations which are extremely concerning and must be addressed.

There are thousands of members in this list you are just spamming everyone with your findings.

Spamming is that your excuse to divert attention.

If you have a problem with Ronald posts,  please do yourself a favor and unsubscribe yourself from this list. No one forced you to stay on it.

Who cares who is doing what?

I do care and I am involved in running real African network infrastructure  that has real impact in AFRICA and I am a real warm blooded person with a heart pumping breath gasping decaying body.

This is something between Afrinic and its members.


Well the networks I am invloved with are AFRINIC members and yes everything Ronald has revealed is something that concerns us.


If you want to play good cop then report to Afrinic because spamming community mailing will not do anything

You clearly have a problem with those who attempt to ethically speak out against potential fraud as it shall be revealed in the promised audit report from AFRINIC.

Btw, where have you been. Dont you know that Ronalds past revelations on this very mailing list led to the ongoing massive Audit by AFRINIC which as partially reported has led to recovery of millions of misappropriated IPv4 addresses and an ongoing litigation at the Mauritius court.


You are working as influence marketer to provoke community and Afrinic by playing divide and rule?

How has Ronald divided this community. Please share your evidence of your unfounded claims and innuendos others give us a break.


Afrinic need new ideas and solutions

Those ideas and solutions can wait.

not problems and no one is interested in your nonsense.

What nonsense.

AFRINIC needs to clean up the never ending crap. You are calling what seems like fraud and corruption nonsense. You are clearly a very unethical individual.

If people made mistakes then they should be held accountable and those mistakes fixed. That is the only sensible achievement we seek.

This community is anxiously waiting for the audit report as recently reported by the CEO and AFRINIC communications team.

Noah  *A real person*
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From: noah at neo.co.tz (Noah)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 20:48:15 +0300
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
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On Tue, 22 Dec 2020, 20:10 Sami Salih, <sami.salih at outlook.com> wrote:

> I'm not comfortable with anonymous posting in our member-based list.
>

Sami, not so many people can stand tall and speak out their minds here
within our region.

Majority prefer to whisper and/or speak from behind the curtains even when
what is happening affects them dearly.

I hope we can resolve this issue so anyone is well known to each other's.
>

Especially in our region. I know people from outside the region have no
problem speaking their minds or calling each others out.

Its only within the AFRINIC service region where sock puppets are running
rampant and some sock puppet seems like recruitment from outside AFRICAN
region.

Noah

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From noah at neo.co.tz  Tue Dec 22 18:01:15 2020
From: noah at neo.co.tz (Noah)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 21:01:15 +0300
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
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Hi Ronald

Thank you for your posts especially the relevant sections that shed light
to the misappropriation of AFRINIC number resources both legacy and
non-legacy IPv4 address space that belong to the AFRINIC inventory. No name
calling please, its been a frustrating 2020 already.

Please can you consolidate your very important and yet great research
around the individuals Cohen, Uerlings, Abizeid, Deepak Mehta and Lu Heng.

The reason I am requesting you to do this is so that we as a community can
have one comprehensive piece of information from all the various posts you
have made here in the past couple of months and make it easier for all of
us to follow through.

This will enable us contribute effectively and collaborate with AFRINIC to
get all this addressed as resources members whose fees goes into running
the Organization.

My the gods be with you.
Noah

On Thu, 17 Dec 2020, 21:37 Ronald F. Guilmette, <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
wrote:

> I'm sorry friends, but I have to say that this really chaps my hide.
>
> Once again we get an "update" from Eddy in which he says... well...
> absolutely nothing.  He apparently writes just to tell the AFRINIC
> community that everything is still cloaked in secrecy, I guess because
> you are all children and can't handle and/or are not entitled to know
> what's really going on.
>
> Unlike Eddy, I certainly have a great many bits of hard-won facts and
> evidence to share with the community, and I would have done so long
> before now if I didn't have a life and other pressing matters to
> attend to, including other Internet-based criminal enterprises that
> I am actively investigating and working with journalists on, even as
> we speak.
>
> For today, I'll just drop a couple of things on you that you all may
> perhaps find new and interesting.
>
> My friend, juornalist Jan Vermeulen has informed me that according to
> his calculations (which were based on numbers given to him by Eddy)
> there are still around one million+ IPv4 addresses that AFRINIC already
> knows were stolen, and that were NOT included in any of the reports
> that Jan has published in mybroadband.co.za.  That's one hell of a
> lot of valuable IPv4 real estate!  So where is it all and why hasn't
> AFRINIC reclaimed it?  (Note:  I'm not even talking about the stolen
> legacy blocks, which Eddy and the board are still dragging their feet
> on, and refusing to do anything about, even after a full year of knowing
> about those, and even after seeing the compelling evidence that Cohen
> and Uerlings registered a lot of contact email domains with the clear
> and deliberate intent to cover up their gigantic theft scheme.)
>
> So anyway, I do know where at least some of those other stolen 1 million
> IP addreses have gone, and I'm frankly stunned that neither Eddy nor
> anybody else in the AFRINIC hierarchy have lifted a finger to reclaim
> any of this other IPv4 space that has been stolen.  What are they
> waiting for?  An engraved invitation?  Do they just need to have either
> Jan or myself expose thesse additional thefts first, so as to take any
> possible legal heat off them?
>
> I call your attention to the following listing of the historical
> WHOIS data for the 196.52.0.0/14 block.  Please note that the name "ITC",
> under which this block was originally registered is one that I and Jan
> long ago concluded was a totally made-up name for a fake corporate entity
> that never existed anywhere, and one that was invented out of whole cloth
> by Ernest Byaruhanga as a kind of WHOIS cover story for many of his
> thefts...
> thefts which have now been effectively confirmed by virtue of that fact
> that AFRINIC has already reclaimed all of the blocks that were still
> registered to "ITC" as of December of last year.
>
> https://pastebin.com/raw/DW4nGii3
>
> The bottom line here is clear.  The 196.52.0.0/14 block was another one
> of Ernest's thefts from the free pool, and one that was subsequently
> sold or gifted to the proprietor of LogicWeb, Inc. of New York, USA,
> i.e. a certain Mr. Chad Abizeid:
>
> https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ny/3034414
>
> It should be noted that some time after he received this large chunk of
> property that was stolen by Ernest from AFRINIC... a chunk of real estate
> worth well over $5 million dollars, USD, at current market prices... Mr.
> Abizeid tried to sell off the entire thing in one big chunk (for one big
> payday):
>
>
> https://www.facebook.com/mailchimp/posts/im-trying-to-get-in-touch-with-whomever-is-in-charge-of-your-ip-addresses-i-own-/10152414268080777/
>
> I want everyone to note also that, the last time I checked anyway, not
> a single IP address of this huge IPv4 block was being routed to or used
> anywhere even close to the AFRINIC region.
>
> So there are several problems here.
>
> First and foremost, the history indicates quite persuasively that this /14
> block was stolen by Ernest.
>
> Second, Eddy and the board appear to already have known this to be true
> for some time now, but just as in the case of the legacy blocks, they have
> been dragging their feet and steadfastly AVOIDING doing anything about it,
> simply because this is the path of least resistance for them.  It does not
> appear that they care at all about what is right, or about doing what is
> right,
> but they do quite obviously care about minimizing their own hassle factor,
> and they are apparently afraid that if they do the Right Thing and take
> back
> this blatantly stolen block... which was apparently sold by Ernest on the
> black market, that Mr. Abizeid will complain about that, and maybe even
> file suit, as Mr. Cohen has done.  So justice and fairness for the rest of
> the AFRINIC members goes out the window, sacrificed for the sake of
> expediency.
>
> Lastly, as I have said, the last time I checked, which was admittedly some
> months ago now, not a single scrap of this /14 IPv4 block was routed to
> anywhere
> within a thousand miles of the AFRINIC region, thus placing this "member"
> in
> clear violation of even the minamalist a and remarkably weak requirements
> of
> the AFRINIC Bylaws which state explicitly that AFRINIC is to serve members
> who provide AT LEAST *some* token level of service to the AFRINIC region.
>
> If Mr. Abizeid is indeed failing to do that, then his resources can and
> should
> be reclaimed just on that basis alone, even if AFRINIC elects to totally
> ignore the even more significant fact that this /14 was quite evidently
> stolen
> by Ernest.
>
> So why hasn't Eddy reclaimed the 196.52.0.0/14 block?  It's an utter
> mystery
> to me.  But like I said, maybe he has just been waiting for Jan or myself
> to
> break the ice about this, so that he wouldn't have to.  Now that this theft
> is also out in the open however, he's got no more excuses, and he should
> reclaim this stolen block for the benefit of AFRINIC's legitimate members
> just as he has already done with all of the other Ernest "ITC" stolen
> blocks.
>
> And speaking of which, I encourage you all to take a look also at the WHOIS
> history of the 165.231.0.0/16 block, which originally belonged to a
> legitimate Internet Service Provider in Guinea, but which, on 2010-10-08,
> somehow magically also ended up registered to Ernest's fake "ITC" company:
>
> https://pastebin.com/raw/dJjdGYLm
>
> After being registered to Ernest's fake "ITC" company for a couple of
> years,
> on 2012-11-06 this valuable /16 block, itself worth well over $1,3 million
> USD onthe open market, was once again magically reassigned, this time to
> something or someone whose name is allegedly "Fiber Grid Inc." and which
> is allegedly domiciled in the Seychelles Islands.
>
> In this case, the apparent beneficiary of Ernest's corrupt largess was a
> certain Mr. Deepak Mehta, a gentleman apparently of Indian ancestry whose
> current physical location is somewhat uncertain but who appears to have
> incorporated multiple businesses, including one named "Fiber Grid" (as well
> as an apparently failed catering business) in the Baltic nation of
> Estonia...
> rather far from the AFRINIC region, I would say.
>
> FIBER GRID O?
> https://www.teatmik.ee/en/personlegal/12183141-FIBER-GRID-O%C3%9C
>
> Sonjara O?
> https://www.teatmik.ee/en/personlegal/12626354-Sonjara-O%C3%9C
>
> https://www.teatmik.ee/en/personlegal/12183141-FIBER-GRID-O%C3%9C
> https://www.teatmik.ee/en/personlegal/14097138-O%C3%9C-Asian-Express
>
> I have no idea what other credits he may have to his name, but speaking
> just personally, my only knowledge of this Mr. Deepak Mehta and his
> character has been derived from a public blog post by network security
> journalist Brian Krebs, published back on August 26, 2016, and purporting
> to show Mr. Mehta participating in a multi-party chat session where the
> one and only topic of discussion was the planning for an upcoming
> criminal DDoS attack on the well-known anti-spam outfit Spamhaus:
>
>
> https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/08/inside-the-attack-that-almost-broke-the-internet/
>
> Note that whereas the evidence indicates, to me anyway, that the
> 165.231.0.0/16 block is yet another block that was purloined from the
> AFRINIC free pool (and thus from the AFRINIC membership) by Ernest.
> After that, the 165.231.0.0/16 block somehow made its way into the
> hands of Mr. Mehta.
>
> Note also however that that one /16 block, valuable and large though
> it may be, is quite certainly not the only valuable AFRINIC IPv4
> address block currently assigned to Mr. Mehta's apparently Estonia-based
> "Fiber Grid" company.  Far from it!  Despite neither he nor his company
> being the least bit African, or even within a thousand miles of Africa,
> as far as I can tell, Mr. Mehta, via some process that remains totally
> cloaked in secrecy, has somehow managed to amass a grand total of nearly
> a million (983,040) AFRINIC IPv4 addresses, worth well over $20 milliion
> USD.
>
> The full list of Mr. Mehta's assigned AFRINIC blocks is as follows:
>
> 165.231.0.0/16
> 196.48.0.0/16
> 196.56.0.0/16
> 196.57.0.0/16
> 196.58.0.0/16
> 196.59.0.0/16
> 196.196.0.0/16
> 196.197.0.0/16
> 196.198.0.0/16
> 196.199.0.0/16
> 196.240.0.0/15
> 196.242.0.0/15
> 196.244.0.0/16
> 196.245.0.0/16
> 196.247.0.0/16
>
> How a non-African, such as Mr. Mehta, who, like Mr. Abizeid, appears to
> provide exactly -zero- services to the AFRINIC region, somehow managed to
> be awarded almost a million AFRINIC IPv4 addresses is, quite frankly, more
> than a little puzzling.  It is altogether apparent however that it is in
> the interests of AFRINIC staff and board members to keep the entire process
> by which such awards were made, and by which such awards are still being
> made,
> entirely hidden from public view.  Certainly, Ernest Byaruhanga would not
> now be enjoying a comfortable retirement in his hilltop estate in Uganda if
> the process by which AFRINIC IP addresses had been awarded within the
> AFRINIC
> region had been transparent from the beginning.
>
> Nor would Mr. Abzeid and Mr. Mehta still be enjoying -their- apparently
> Ernest-provided AFRINIC blocks if AFRINIC management and the board decided,
> even at this late date, to come clean about what they are or, more
> properly,
> are not doing to really clean up the whole mess.
>
> Of course transparency, even at this late date would likely not help the
> interests of Mr. Lu Heng either.  Mr. Heng, as at least some of you may
> know, as a 24 year old mainland Chinese kid with no apparent history of
> networking experience whatsoever, somehow managed to be awarded two
> giagantic /12 AFRINIC IPv4 blocks as well as two even more gigantic
> AFRINIC /11 blocks (total current market value, over $150 million USD),
> some of which he has since doled out to the very same people who are
> currently aiding and abetting Mr. Cohen's ongoing misuse of the AFRINIC
> legacy blocks... the very ones which AFRINIC has so far been dragging its
> feet on and refusing to reassigned back to their rightful owners:
>
> https://bgp.he.net/AS18013#_prefixes
> https://bgp.he.net/AS137951#_prefixes
>
> Note that AS18013 - Asline (Hong Kong) and AS137951 - Clayer (Hong Kong)
> are, as we would say here inthe States, effectively "joined at the hip",
> that the latter is routing much stolen AFRINIC legacy space, and that
> the former has leased or purchased quite a lot of IPv4 space from Mr.
> Heng's Cloud Innovation Ltd.
>
> I tried asking Mr. Heng via private email why he would be supporting
> criminals in Hong Kong who are adiding and abetting Mr. Cohen and his
> ongoing thefts from the AFRINIC region, but I guess either my email fell
> into Mr. Heng's spam folder or else he just didn't much feel like
> discussing the matter.  In any case, I received no reply from him to my
> recent polite inquiry.
>
> To summarize, there has been one hell of a lot of crooked crap that has
> gone on in AFRINIC, over time, and it isn't even nearly all cleaned up
> yet.  Worse, management and the board do not seem to have the will to
> actually and fully clean up the mess, once and for all.  This tends to
> cast a certain degree of suspicion on them and their motivations also.
>
> The fundamental problem is and has been the utter and total lack of
> transparency, and neither the current board nor current management has
> lifted a single finger to address that.  One might get the impression
> that they really don't want to.
>
> If this is the way you folks who are the dues paying members of AFRINC
> want to run your region, then you can have all of the corruption and
> lethargic and cowardly inaction you want.  That's your choice.  I just
> wish that you all would stop selling, stealing, or giving away IP
> addresses to Internet criminals who are going to use those addresses
> to spam and DDoS us innocent and law abiding folks in other regions.
>
>
> Regards,
> rfg
>
>
> P.S.  After more than a year of trying, I am -still- being stonewalled
> with respect to my request to have access to full historical AFRINIC WHOIS
> data.  I can only surmise that the board and/or management really don't
> want me finding any MORE evidence of historical insider corruption, above
> and beyond the gigantic piles of such I have already found and documented.
>
> As I say, it is for you, the dues paying members of AFRINIC, to decide if
> you think this is reasonable or not, and to pro-actively ask that I be
> given
> full access if you think that would be productive.  All I can do, as an
> outsider, is to hope that someday either the AFRINIC board or AFRINC
> management
> will stop trying to play "hide the ball" and will allow the full facts to
> come out regarding everything that has gone on.
>
> But that's up to you folks.. the dues paying members... not me.
>
>
> P.P.S.  Mr. Abzeid may be perfectly happy to obtain his IPv4 address space
> from the AFRINIC region, but I rather doubt that he would be at all
> amenable
> to having any of the Black residents of the AFRINIC region date his
> daughter.
> You see, Mr. Abzeid has had a longstanding membership on a certain US web
> site
> called Gab.Com, described by Wikipedia as (among other things) a white
> supremacist social networking web site:
>
> https://gab.com/chad_abizeid
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)
>
>
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From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Wed Dec 23 00:48:32 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 16:48:32 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Current routing summaries for LiquidWeb,
	Inc. and Fiber Grid, Inc.
In-Reply-To: <MP9d9L9--3-2@tuta.io>
Message-ID: <47288.1608684512@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <MP9d9L9--3-2 at tuta.io>, libren at tuta.io wrote:

>Question of announcing ip from other region is null and void and it
>cannot be challenged.
>Afrinic bylaws have changed so many times and what matters is signed RSA
>https://www.afrinic.net/ast/pdf/services/afrinic-rsa-en-201801.pdf

I understand that some, and perhaps even many AFRINIC members, may
nowadays wish to profit from the non-legacy IP allocations that were
granted to them, by AFRINIC, by deploying these assets without any
regards for geography.  I understand also that there is thus a desire
to look -only- at the RSA as being legally controlling UPON MEMBERS
while conveniently ignoring the plain language of the AFRINIC Bylaws
and their binding legal effect upon the actions OF AFRINIC.

Unfortunately, this preference does not change the fact that if AFRINIC
fails to terminate the memberhips of any members that provide exactly
and only -zero- services within the AFRINIC region, then AFRINIC is
itself in violation of its own legally binding Bylaws.

Merely citing the RSA does not solve this legal conundrum.  This is
especially true, given that AFRINIC is free to modify RSA agreements,
at will, and at any time... an act which, it seems, its own Bylaws
now compel it to do.

I quote from Section 1b of the RSA refrenced above:

    AFRINIC, in the light of the foregoing, reserves itself the right to
    amend this agreement partially or otherwise where it is so mandated
    by its Board after giving notice to its members.

You cannot have it both ways.  You cannot on the one hand insist that
the letter of the RSA agreements, as currently written, must be
interpreted strictly, even as, on the other hand, you argue that the
AFRINIC Bylaws are legally inconsequential and that they may be, and
should be, as easily ignored as the advice given by some crazy uncle.

But all of this misses the point anyway.

As I understand it, there is now, and always has been some qualification
process which is undertaken, by AFRINIC, prior to any legal entity
being granted membership in AFRINIC.  Also, as I understand it, there
is now and always has been some qualification process which is undertaken,
by AFRINIC, before any member is granted some requested (non-legacy)
AFRINIC number resources.

This raises the obvious question:  How, when, and by whose authority,
exactly, did the companies of Mr. Abizeid, Mr. Mehta, and Mr, Uerlings
qualify for membership in AFRINIC?  How, when, and by whose authority,
exactly, did the companies of Mr. Abizeid, Mr. Mehta, and Mr, Uerlings
qualify for the large non-legacy IPv4 allocations that they each have
received from AFRINIC? 

Did each of these three companies qualify (a) for membership and also
(b) for large non-legacy IPv4 block assignment simply by bribing Ernest
or someone else in AFRINIC management?

If so then when will AFRINIC make criminal referrals to the Mauritius
police regarding these three companies, just as it has already done
for Ernest?

Conversely, if these three companies DID NOT obtain their memberships
and non-legacy allocations by bribing AFRINIC staff, or the Board, then
how exactly did each one qualify, for both memberships and also for
big IPv4 allocations, given that none of them seem to have, or to have
had, at any time, any real connection to the AFRINIC region whatsoever?

We can argue about which takes legal precedent, the RSA or the AFRINIC
Bylws, another time.  But before we even waste time on THAT, please
do explain how Mr. Abizeid, Mr. Mehta, and Mr, Uerlings ever managed to
qualify for *anything* in the AFRINIC region in the first place.

I'm all ears.  This ought to be most enlightening.


Regards,
rfg



From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Wed Dec 23 01:21:30 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 17:21:30 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
	IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io>
Message-ID: <47397.1608686490@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <MP9iGyd--3-2 at tuta.io>, libren at tuta.io wrote:

>Ronald F Guilmette are you a real person or using some fake name?

I am a real person and this is my real name.

Who are YOU?  An what is YOUR real name?

>You are like ghost on internet.Do you have any linkedin profile or company?

That is correct.  I am indeed a "ghost" as regards to social media.  And
that is certainly by intent.

Unlike most people these days, I have always been concerned with my
personal privacy, and thus, unlike most people these days, I have
elected NOT to splatter out my entire life story onto the Internet
for people I don't know to snoop on.

If anyone wants to know anything about me, they can ask me.

>I am wondering if you are not LIR or member of Afrinic then why are you even
>part of this community mailing list or why you are taking so much interest
>in community mailing list?

I am so glad you asked.

Here in the United States, there has been a long running TV ad campaign
that promotes tourism to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada.  The tag line
contained in each of these TV commericals is well known here... "What
happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."  (The idea being sold is that people
can go to Las Vegas, act crazy, and tnen go back to their hometowns
without anyone there knowing about their crazy behavior in "Vegas".)

Unfortunately, what happens in the African part of the Internet most
definitely DOES NOT stay just in the African part of the Internet.  It
spills out and affects me here, 10,000+ miles and entire oceans away.

Such is the nature of the Internet, in case you are not aware.

It has REPEATEDLY been the case that stolen or squatted AFRINIC administered
IPv4 address blocks have been used, both to spam me and to try to hack me,
and also and likewise, probably hundreds of millions more Internet users,
all around the world.

I am not amused.  And thus, whether I like it or not, I have been effectively
-foerced- to pay attention to the crap coming out of "African" IP address
space.

I sincerly wish it were otherwise.  And I wish that AFRINIC would clean
up all of this crap, once and for all, and stop allowing crooks from
Israel, the Netherlands, India, and the U.S. to make Africans all appear
to be either corrupt or incompetent or both.  (I know this is not the
case, but I am still looking for the Africans who will stand up for
principal and not allow non-African foreigners to effectively defecate
all over AFRINIC and its global reputation.)

I started publicly reporting on the skulduggery taking place within the
AFRINIC region in the summer of 2016.  I have now been waiting for nearly
four and half years for someone with guts to step forward,  do the Right
Thing, and clean up this colossal mess.  I am still waiting.

>There are thousands of members in this list you are just spamming everyone
>with your findings.

Others may disagree.

>Who cares who is doing what? This is something between Afrinic and its members.

See above.  It is *not* just between Afrinic and its members.  What happens
in Africa DOES NOT stay within Africa.

The incompetence and corruption within AFRINIC has allowed an entire planet's
worth of Internet users... several billion people... to get repeatedly
hacked and spammed.  And it is still doing so even as we speak.

Who exactly has an interest in preserving that unfortnate status quo?

You, apparently.

Which brings me back to the question I raised above... Who are you really?


Regards,
rfg



From eddy at afrinic.net  Wed Dec 23 06:30:35 2020
From: eddy at afrinic.net (Eddy Kayihura)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 10:30:35 +0400
Subject: [Community-Discuss] December Updates
Message-ID: <01c201d6d8f5$1fb6f740$5f24e5c0$@afrinic.net>

[French, Arabic, and Portuguese versions below]

Dear Colleagues, 

I hope that you are all keeping well. It is that time that I share with you the monthly updates-the last update of 2020. I wish to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for the continued constructive engagement, support, and contribution that you have made this year that has seen AFRINIC realize yet another year.

IP Misappropriation Case Updates

I have been keeping you updated on this throughout the year. We, therefore, agreed to publish a comprehensive report following the completion of our internal audit exercise. As notified last week, the report is now at the legal vetting stage. A copy thereof will be published early next year once the Board of Directors has taken cognizance of the same. I shall continue to keep you updated on this as we go along. 

Review of 2020

Despite the challenges we have faced this year, we have been able to execute our mandate and serve our community and members. 

As we embark on our new strategic plan 2021 ? 2023, we are determined to build on what we have achieved together and will continue to grow the organisation. We shall highlight more on our achievements in 2020 and 2021 activities plan in our upcoming blogs during the first quarter of 2021. 

End of year Office closure notice

As we move closer to the end of the year, I take this opportunity to inform you that AFRINIC offices will be closing for the Festive season Holidays on the following days:

*	Thursday 24 December 2020
*	Wednesday 30 and Thursday 31 December 2020
*	Monday 4 January 2021 

We shall resume on Tuesday, 5 January 2021. 

However, during this time, our teams have done everything possible to ensure all services are accessible and a team will be on standby should there be any emergencies.

I take this opportunity to wish you a happy holiday season. 2020 has been a difficult year but we wish you a very healthy and prosperous 2021. 

I once again thank you for your engagement throughout the year and look forward to your continued trust and support come 2021. 

Kind Regards,

Eddy Kayihura,

Chief Executive Officer,

African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC).

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Chers coll?gues, 

 

J'esp?re que vous allez tous bien. C'est ? cette p?riode que je partage avec vous les mises ? jour mensuelles -cette fois ci la derni?re mise ? jour de 2020. Je tiens ? saisir cette occasion pour vous exprimer ma gratitude pour l'engagement constructif, le soutien et la contribution que vous avez apport?s cette ann?e qui a vu l'AFRINIC r?aliser encore une autre ann?e.

 

 

Mises ? jour sur les cas de d?tournement de propri?t? intellectuelle

 

Je vous ai tenu au courant tout au long de l'ann?e. Nous avons donc convenu de publier un rapport complet ? l'issue de notre exercice d'audit interne. Comme nous l'avons notifi? la semaine derni?re, le rapport est maintenant au stade d'examen juridique. Une copie en sera publi?e au d?but de l'ann?e prochaine, d?s que le conseil d'administration en aura pris connaissance. Je continuerai ? vous tenir au courant de l'?volution de la situation.

 

 

Bilan de l'ann?e 2020

 

Malgr? les d?fis auxquels nous avons ?t? confront?s cette ann?e, nous avons ?t? en mesure d'ex?cuter notre mandat et de servir notre communaut? et nos membres.

 

Alors que nous nous lan?ons dans notre nouveau plan strat?gique 2021 - 2023, nous sommes d?termin?s ? consolider ce que nous avons r?alis? ensemble et nous continuerons ? b?tir l'organisation. Nous mettrons davantage l'accent sur nos r?alisations en 2020 et sur le plan d'activit?s 2021 dans nos prochains blogs au cours du premier trimestre 2021.

 

 

Avis de fermeture du bureau en fin d'ann?e

 

Alors que nous approchons de la fin de l'ann?e, je profite de l'occasion pour vous informer que les bureaux de l'AFRINIC fermeront pour les f?tes de fin d'ann?e les jours suivants :

 

Jeudi 24 d?cembre 2020

Mercredi 30 et jeudi 31 d?cembre 2020

Lundi 4 janvier 2021

 

 

Nous reprendrons le mardi 5 janvier 2021.

 

 

Toutefois, pendant cette p?riode, nos ?quipes ont fait tout leur possible pour que tous les services soient accessibles et une ?quipe sera en stand-by en cas d'urgence.

 

 

Je profite de cette occasion pour vous souhaiter de bonnes f?tes de fin d'ann?e. 2020 a ?t? une ann?e difficile, mais nous vous souhaitons une ann?e 2021 tr?s saine et prosp?re.

 

Je vous remercie encore une fois pour votre engagement tout au long de l'ann?e et je me r?jouis de la confiance et du soutien que vous nous accorderez encore en 2021.

 

Cordialement,

 

Eddy Kayihura,

 

Directeur g?n?ral,

 

AFRINIC

 

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????? ???? ????? ???????????? ??????? 2021 - 2023 ? ??? ?????? ??? ?????? ??? ?? ?????? ???? ??????? ????? ???????. ????? ????? ???? ??? ????????? ?? ??? ????? 2020 ? 2021 ?? ???????? ??????? ???? ????? ????? ?? ??? 2021.

 

 

 

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?? ???????? ?? ????? ????? ? ????? ??? ?????? ???????? ??? ????? AFRINIC ????? ??????? ?? ???? ??????? ?? ?????? ???????:

 

 ?????? 24 ?????? 2020

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??????? ??? ???????? 5 ????? 2021.

 

 

 

??? ??? ? ???? ??? ????? ? ???? ????? ?? ?? ?? ????? ????? ??????? ?????? ??? ???? ??????? ?????? ?????? ??? ???? ????????? ?? ???? ???? ?? ????? ?????.

 

 

 

????? ??? ?????? ?????? ??? ???? ????? ????. ??? ??? 2020 ????? ????? ? ????? ????? ?? 2021 ???? ??????? ??????.

 

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Caros Colegas, 

 

Espero que se mantenham todos bem. ? nessa altura que partilho convosco as actualiza??es mensais - a ?ltima actualiza??o de 2020. Gostaria de aproveitar esta oportunidade para expressar a minha gratid?o pelo cont?nuo compromisso construtivo, apoio e contribui??o que deram este ano que viu a AFRINIC realizar mais um ano.

 

 

 

Actualiza??es de casos de apropria??o indevida de PI

 

Tenho-vos mantido actualizados sobre isto ao longo do ano. Por conseguinte, concord?mos em publicar um relat?rio abrangente ap?s a conclus?o do nosso exerc?cio de auditoria interna. Tal como notificado na semana passada, o relat?rio encontra-se agora em fase de verifica??o jur?dica. Uma c?pia do mesmo ser? publicada no in?cio do pr?ximo ano, quando o Conselho de Administra??o tiver tomado conhecimento do mesmo. Continuarei a manter-vos actualizados sobre este assunto ? medida que formos avan?ando.

 

 

 

Revis?o de 2020

 

Apesar dos desafios que enfrent?mos este ano, fomos capazes de executar o nosso mandato e servir a nossa comunidade e os nossos membros.

 

 

 

Ao embarcarmos no nosso novo plano estrat?gico 2021 - 2023, estamos determinados a construir sobre o que alcan??mos em conjunto e continuaremos a fazer crescer a organiza??o. Destacaremos mais sobre as nossas realiza??es em 2020 e 2021 plano de actividades nos nossos pr?ximos blogs durante o primeiro trimestre de 2021.

 

 

 

Aviso de encerramento do escrit?rio no final do ano

 

? medida que nos aproximamos do final do ano, aproveito esta oportunidade para informar que os escrit?rios da AFRINIC ir?o fechar para as f?rias da ?poca festiva nos dias seguintes:

 

 Quinta-feira, 24 de Dezembro de 2020

Quarta-feira 30 e quinta-feira 31 de Dezembro de 2020

Segunda-feira, 4 de Janeiro de 2021

 

 

Retomaremos na ter?a-feira, 5 de Janeiro de 2021.

 

 

No entanto, durante este tempo, as nossas equipas fizeram todos os poss?veis para assegurar que todos os servi?os sejam acess?veis e uma equipa estar? de preven??o em caso de emerg?ncias.

 

 

Aproveito esta oportunidade para lhe desejar umas boas f?rias. 2020 tem sido um ano dif?cil mas desejamos-lhe um 2021 muito saud?vel e pr?spero.

 

Agrade?o-lhe mais uma vez o seu empenho ao longo do ano e aguardo com expectativa a sua confian?a e apoio cont?nuos para 2021.

 

Cordiais cumprimentos,

 

Eddy Kayihura,

 

Chefe do Executivo,

 

AFRINIC

 

 

 

 

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From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Wed Dec 23 07:11:56 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 23:11:56 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
	IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <CAEqgTWauoF=MRvqk-T2BaA7AsMQt=A-GomQ2aZiYtsMYey2FNg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <49385.1608707516@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <CAEqgTWauoF=MRvqk-T2BaA7AsMQt=A-GomQ2aZiYtsMYey2FNg at mail.gmail.com>
Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:

>Please can you consolidate your very important and yet great research
>around the individuals Cohen, Uerlings, Abizeid, Deepak Mehta and Lu Heng.

I can only summarize the specific still-outstanding problems & issues
that I am aware of.  There could very well be much more, under the surface,
that I am not aware of.

I have repeatedly requested bulk access to AFRINIC WHOIS data which is
both (a) unredacted and also (b) historical and also (c) unredacted AND
historical.  I have been denied this data at every turn.  To add further
insult to injury, Ashil Oogarah, posting here as "AFRINIC Communication",
recently attempted to pretend that my data requests could be easily
accomodated by simply filing out a form for "bulk access".  But the
reality is that even if I did that, I would still be given only redacted
and -current- AFRINIC WHOIS data, *not* the unredacted and historical
data that I would need to make further progress in unraveling all of the
sordid mischief that has taken place with repsect to the AFRINIC WHOIS
data base over the years.  (Indeed it is a minor miracle that I have
been able to puzzle out as much as I have done, given the extreme and
pointless limits on WHOIS access that AFRINIC Management has imposed.)

Given the limitations under which I still labor, here is what I can tell
you.

The following legacy blocks are still "stolen", according to my definition
of that word in this context, and are still reaping profits, even as we
speak, for Mr. Cohen, Mr. Uerlings, and possibly also Mr. Byaruhanga,
who is still free to enjoy the fruits of his thefts from his comfortable
upscale home in Uganda.


ORG-TL1-AFRINIC - Trentyre (Pty) Ltd
160.122.0.0/16
Current routing summary:
   256  137951  HK  Clayer Limited

ORG-AA79-AFRINIC - Agrihold
163.198.0.0/16
Current routing summary:
   248  202769  US  Cooperative Investments LLC
     4  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
     2  43092   JP  OSOA Corporation., LTD
     2  19969   US  Joe's Datacenter, LLC

(Note that the contact person for "Cooperative Investments LLC" these days 
is Elad Cohen.)

ORG-AHL1-AFRINIC - Argus Holdings (Pty) Ltd
	WHOIS contacts now set to legacy-dbm at afrinic.net
164.88.0.0/16
Current routing summary:
   252  137951  HK  Clayer Limited
     2  140733  HK  HostUS Solutions LLC
     1  138538  CN  Ningbo Nanbian Tuoluo Xinxi Jishu Co., Ltd
     1  18013   HK  Asline Limited

ORG-WA1-AFRINIC - Woolworths Holdings Limited
	WHOIS contacts now restored/remediated (?)
165.3.0.0/16
Current routing summary:
   128  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
   113  54600   US  Peg Tech Inc
    10  21859   US  Zenlayer Inc
     3  137951  HK  Clayer Limited
     1  38197   AU  Sun Network (Hong Kong) Limited ***
     1  133441  KR  Cloud Information Technology (Intl) Telecom Group LIMITED

ORG-AISL1-AFRINIC - AECI Information Services (Pty) Ltd
168.80.0.0/15
Current routing summary:
   265  202769  US  Cooperative Investments LLC
   135  19969   US  Joe's Datacenter, LLC
    26  132335  IN  LeapSwitch Networks Pvt Ltd
    16  23679   AU  Media Antar Nusa PT.
     9  43092   JP  OSOA Corporation., LTD
     8  36351   US  SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
     8  45671   AU  Servers Australia Pty. Ltd
     8  63018   US  Dedicated.com
     8  56611   NL  REBA Communications BV
     8  24567   AU  QT Inc.
     6  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
     4  57717   NL  FiberXpress BV
     4  262287  BR  Maxihost LTDA
     3  49335   RU  LLC "Server v arendy"
     2  11990   US  Unlimited Net, LLC
     2  13737   US  INCX Global, LLC

(See note above regarding "Cooperative Investments LLC".)

ORG-IA41-AFRINIC - Network and Information Technology Limited
196.16.0.0/14
Current routing summary:
   539  202425  SC  IP Volume inc
   360  19969   US  Joe's Datacenter, LLC
    47  63956   AU  Colocation Australia Pty Ltd
    12  56611   NL  REBA Communications BV
     6  43092   JP  OSOA Corporation., LTD
     6  134451  ID  NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
     5  38001   AU  NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
     5  57717   NL  FiberXpress BV
     4  263812  AR  TL Group SRL ( IPXON Networks )
     4  49367   IT  Seflow S.N.C. Di Marco Brame' & C.
     4  20860   GB  Iomart Cloud Services Limited
     4  204655  GB  Novogara LTD
     4  42831   GB  UK Dedicated Servers Limited
     4  49335   RU  LLC "Server v arendy"
     2  31122   IE  Digiweb ltd
     2  136782  JP  Pingtan Hotline Co., Limited
     2  44066   DE  First Colo GmbH
     2  17216   US  Dc74 Llc
     2  53999   CA  Priority Colo Inc
     2  45382   KR  Ehostict
     2  262287  BR  Maxihost LTDA
     2  63018   US  Dedicated.com
     1  23470   US  ReliableSite.Net LLC
     1  9009    GB  M247 Ltd
     1  202769  US  Cooperative Investments LLC
     1  203833  DE  First Colo GmbH

ORG-AFNC1-AFRINIC - "ITC" - All blocks reclaimed to free pool by AFRINIC
196.193.0.0/16 -- unrouted
196.63.0.0/16 
Current routing summary:
   255  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
     1  54600   US  Peg Tech Inc
196.246.0.0/16
Current routing summary:
   252  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
     4  133495  PK  Vision telecom Private limited
196.45.112.0/20
Current routing summary:
     5  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
     4  30827   GB  Extraordinary Managed Services Ltd
     2  198381  AE  Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
     2  26754   ??  {{unknown organization}} ====> AS26754->"ITC" (see below)
     2  198394  AE  Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
     1  36351   US  SoftLayer Technologies Inc.

ORG-SCS1-AFRINIC - Safren Computer Services
155.159.0.0/16
Current routing summary:
   256  137951  HK  Clayer Limited

ORG-AA78-AFRINIC - Anglo American
163.197.0.0/16
Current routing summary:
   128  140107  HK  xiamen zhongheng Technology Ltd ****
    64  54600   US  Peg Tech Inc *** ****
    48  139330  HK  Sanren Data Limited ****
    16  137443  HK  Anchnet Asia Limited *** ****

ORG-SL72-AFRINIC - Sentrachem Limited
164.155.0.0/16
Current routing summary:
    96  54600   US  Peg Tech Inc *** ****
    77  139330  HK  Sanren Data Limited ****
    32  137951  HK  Clayer Limited
    32  136800  HK  Xiaozhiyun L.L.C *** ****
    17  132422  HK  Hong Kong Business Telecom Limited ***
     2  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE

ORG-COCT1-AFRINIC - City of Cape Town
165.25.0.0/16 -- WHOIS reclaimed by rightful owner (currently unrouted)

ORG-ZZ21-AFRINIC - Trafex (Pty) Ltd
196.15.64.0/18
Current routing summary:
    40  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
    24  202769  US  Cooperative Investments LLC

(See note above regarding "Cooperative Investments LLC".)

ORG-MPL1-AFRINIC - Mega Plastics (Pty) Ltd
	contacts now set to: legacy-dbm at afrinic.net
160.121.0.0/16
Current routing summary:
   256  137951  HK  Clayer Limited

ORG-LTOL1-AFRINIC - Liquid Telecommunications Operations Limited
152.108.0.0/16 -- WHOIS & routing reclaimed by rightful owner

ORG-AM1-AFRINIC - African Oxygen Limited
155.235.0.0/16 - WHOIS reclaimed by rightful owner
Current routing summary:
    97  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
    64  140107  HK  xiamen zhongheng Technology Ltd  ****
    59  209484  HK  Asia Communications Co., Limited
    24  140224  HK  White-Sand Cloud Computing(HK) Co., LIMITED
    12  140227  HK  Hong Kong Communications International Co., Limited ***

ORG-ZZ154-AFRINIC - Nampak Management Services
	WHOIS now set to legacy-dbm at afrinic.net
196.10.61.0/24
196.10.62.0/23
196.10.64.0/19
Current routing summary:
    13  24567   AU  QT Inc.
     4  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
     4  138527  HK  Adc Group Co.,Limited
     4  43092   JP  OSOA Corporation., LTD
     4  58879   CN  Beijing CNISP Technology Co., Ltd. ***
     3  21859   US  Zenlayer Inc  ***
     2  34985   HK  Kirin Communication Limited
     1  24373   AU  Adc Group Co.,Limited *** ****

ORG-ACSL2-AFRINIC - Affiliated Computing Services (Pty) Ltd
160.116.0.0/16
Current routing summary:
   111  202769  US  Cooperative Investments LLC
   110  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
    16  199267  IL  Netstyle A. Ltd
     4  139640  HK  Hk New Cloud Technology Limited  ***
     4  24567   AU  QT Inc. **
     4  58879   CN  Beijing CNISP Technology Co., Ltd. ***
     3  19969   US  Joe's Datacenter, LLC
     2  262287  BR  Maxihost LTDA
     1  43945   IL  Netstyle A. Ltd
     1  43092   JP  OSOA Corporation., LTD

ORG-ZZ8-AFRINIC - Columbus Stainless (Proprietary) Limited
	WHOIS reclaimed by rightful owner
160.115.0.0/16  -- no current routing

ORG-TAEB1-AFRINIC - The Atomic Energy Board
168.206.0.0/16
Current routing summary:
   256  137951  HK  Clayer Limited

ORG-AI2-AFRINIC - "ITC" -- Reclaimed to free pool by AFRINIC
196.42.128.0/17 -- unrouted
196.194.0.0/15 
Current routing summary:
   403  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
    62  136384  PK  Optix Pakistan (Pvt.) Limited
    24  131284  AF  Etisalat Afghan
     6  132116  IN  Ani Network Pvt Ltd
     5  198504  AE  Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
     4  26754   ??  {{unknown organization}}  ====> AS26754 == "ITC"
     3  198381  AE  Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
     2  198247  AE  Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
     2  198394  AE  Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
     1  139043  PK  WellNetworks (Private) Limited

Please note that Ernest Byaruhanga is still enjoying some of his
stolen AFRINIC space, even as we speak, courtesy of SECOM and others,
who ought to be ashamed of themselves:

 https://bgp.he.net/AS26754#_prefixes

ORG-ZZ139-AFRINIC - "Link Data Group" 
198.54.232.0/24 -- WHOIS now set to legacy-dbm at afrinic.net - unrouted
196.62.0.0/16 - reclaimed to free pool by AFRINIC - unrouted
196.192.192.0/18 - reclaimed to free pool by AFRINIC - unrouted
213.247.0.0/19 - reclaimed to free pool by AFRINIC - unrouted
160.255.0.0/16 - reclaimed to free pool by AFRINIC - unrouted
196.207.64.0/18 - reclaimed to free pool by AFRINIC
Current routing summary:
    61  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
     2  132116  IN  Ani Network Pvt Ltd
     1  137085  IN  Nixi

Note that the following route object still exists in the RIPE WHOIS DB:

route:          213.247.0.0/21
origin:         AS327991
mnt-by:         MEGASURF-WIRELESS-MNT
created:        2016-09-02T11:58:16Z
last-modified:  2018-09-04T18:31:58Z
source:         RIPE-NONAUTH


ORG-ZZ23-AFRINIC - Nedbank / Cape of Good Hope Bank (CGHB)
	- fradulent allocations reclaimed to free pool
192.96.146.0/24 -- reclaimed by Nedbank/CGHB - unrouted
137.171.0.0/16 -- unrouted
165.52.0.0/14 -- unrouted
168.211.0.0/16 -- unrouted

+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_

In addition to all of the above AFRINIC issues, Elad Cohen, with the
help and connivance of his friends at FDCServers and Cogent Communications
was at one time also squatting on all of the following abandoned APNIC
IPv4 legacy blocks:

IRT-DOFD-AU - DOFD Department of Finance and Deregulation (AU)
168.198.0.0/16 -- currently unrouted

PMANET - Port of Melbourne Authority (AU)
139.44.0.0/16 -- currently unrouted

CROSFIELD (JP)
143.136.0.0/16 -- currently unrouted

ATDCL - Net One Systems Company, Limited (JP)
143.253.0.0/16 -- currently unrouted

CHIYODA-NET - Chiyoda Corporation (JP)
146.51.0.0/16 -- currently unrouted

Additionally, I have reason to believe that Elad Cohen was also responsible
for squatting on the following abandoned RIPE legacy IPv4 block, which he
appears to have done with the help and connivance of his friends at
Ecoband, Ltd. aka AS327814:

TELEFUNKEN SYSTEMTECHNIK ULM (DE)
149.207.0.0/16 - unrouted

+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_

In additional to all of the above, as I have recently pointed out, I have
questions about how any of the following three organzations were able to
qualify to become AFRINIC members and how each was able to further
qualify to receive the sizable non-legacy AFRINIC IPv4 block assignments
that they did receive and which they are -still- the listed registrants
of, even now:

ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC - LogicWeb Inc (US)
196.52.0.0/14  +++

ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC -- Fiber Grid, Inc. (Estonia/Seychelles)
165.231.0.0/16 +++
196.48.0.0/16
196.56.0.0/16
196.57.0.0/16
196.58.0.0/16
196.59.0.0/16
196.196.0.0/16
196.197.0.0/16
196.198.0.0/16
196.199.0.0/16
196.240.0.0/15
196.242.0.0/15
196.244.0.0/16
196.245.0.0/16
196.247.0.0/16

ORG-INL3-AFRINIC - Inspiring Networks {B.V.,Ltd.,LLC} - NL/Seychelles
45.220.64.0/18
196.61.192.0/20
197.231.208.0/22

Note of the above three entities appears to either now have, or to have
ever had any meaningful connection to the AFRINIC region, other than
plundering the resources thereof, thus raising the question of how and
why they were allowed to become AFRINIC members in the first place.

I look forward to receiving an answer to that question for each of these
three organizations.

Furthermore and separately, the specific IPv4 blocks liste above with
"+++" following their CIDRs are ones for which the historical WHOIS
data clearly implicates "ITC" which was a fradulent fake company name
used by Ernest Byaruhanga for many of his insider IP block thefts,
thus also rasing the question of how these blocks were obtained and
assigned, to LogicWeb, and also to Fiber Grid.


Regards,
rfg



From sm+af at afrinic.net  Wed Dec 23 10:07:55 2020
From: sm+af at afrinic.net (S. Moonesamy)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 02:07:55 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Questions
In-Reply-To: <36559.1598255350@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
References: <36559.1598255350@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20201222223854.12349470@elandnews.com>

Dear Stakeholders,

Organizations generally put in place appropriate policies for the 
detection and prevention of frauds, corruptions, misappropriations, 
and other inappropriate conduct. You can find more information about 
an AFRINIC policy and its implementation at 
<https://www.afrinic.net/ast/pdf/20201222-afrinic-fraud-corruption-policy.pdf>.

The AFRINIC Members mailing list 
<https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/members-discuss> is 
open to all AFRINIC Resource Members.  I suggest that Resource 
Members use it if they are interested in discussing AFRINIC business 
matters with other Resource Members.

There was a complaint related to a request for access to "Whois 
data".  It is more difficult to reach agreement when there isn't a 
common understanding of the regulatory constraints.  Some of the 
data, which is categorized as "personal data" [1], is regulated 
through data protection laws.  There is, for example, the Data 
Protection Act 2017 for Mauritius, which is applicable.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

1. The term used in another jurisdiction is "PII".

Board Chair, AFRINIC  




From libren at tuta.io  Wed Dec 23 12:55:07 2020
From: libren at tuta.io (libren at tuta.io)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 13:55:07 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <CAEqgTWZNH=i30Bacm=aDH512sfMhuPQXj9gb6FUGGUUwd1P1vg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io>
 <CAEqgTWZNH=i30Bacm=aDH512sfMhuPQXj9gb6FUGGUUwd1P1vg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <MPEehDz--3-2@tuta.io>

Too much spam is generated by couple of morons in this community list. 
How about only verified members allowed to use this mailing list?
Those who are Afrinic member or Lir can link their main account and those who are not members or LIR can submit their id proof for verification. 
This is the only way to keep community clean. 



Dec 22, 2020, 14:42 by noah at neo.co.tz:

>
>
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2020, 16:56 Libra via Community-Discuss, <> community-discuss at afrinic.net> > wrote:
>
>>
>> >>> @Ronald F. Guilmette are you LIR or member of Afrinic?
>> ?>>>No sir, I am neither.
>> Ronald F Guilmette are you a real person or using some fake name?? You are like ghost on internet.
>
> How about you Libra? Are you a real person or a sock puppet?
>
> Noah
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From dwizard65 at gmail.com  Wed Dec 23 13:07:03 2020
From: dwizard65 at gmail.com (Emem William)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 14:07:03 +0100
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <47397.1608686490@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
References: <MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io>
 <47397.1608686490@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
Message-ID: <CABPhykP9CpAn9H7Ssh4b_M9Ex80Q1JdUUOuK8x5LGJMM07sNAg@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Ronald,

Thanks for the information.

In your comprehensive routing data, I noticed that the following name
stands out quite often, PEG Tech Inc. It seems like they are providing a
lot of route to those ranges. I am wondering if you have done any research
about them?

Also why is Seacom still routing stolen AFRINIC IP? As you have rightfully
pointed out https://bgp.he.net/AS26754#_graph4 , they seem to be the only
upstream provider that still routes Afrinic?s stolen IP.

Cheers,
Emem William

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 02:23 Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
wrote:

> In message <MP9iGyd--3-2 at tuta.io>, libren at tuta.io wrote:
>
> >Ronald F Guilmette are you a real person or using some fake name?
>
> I am a real person and this is my real name.
>
> Who are YOU?  An what is YOUR real name?
>
> >You are like ghost on internet.Do you have any linkedin profile or
> company?
>
> That is correct.  I am indeed a "ghost" as regards to social media.  And
> that is certainly by intent.
>
> Unlike most people these days, I have always been concerned with my
> personal privacy, and thus, unlike most people these days, I have
> elected NOT to splatter out my entire life story onto the Internet
> for people I don't know to snoop on.
>
> If anyone wants to know anything about me, they can ask me.
>
> >I am wondering if you are not LIR or member of Afrinic then why are you
> even
> >part of this community mailing list or why you are taking so much interest
> >in community mailing list?
>
> I am so glad you asked.
>
> Here in the United States, there has been a long running TV ad campaign
> that promotes tourism to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada.  The tag line
> contained in each of these TV commericals is well known here... "What
> happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."  (The idea being sold is that people
> can go to Las Vegas, act crazy, and tnen go back to their hometowns
> without anyone there knowing about their crazy behavior in "Vegas".)
>
> Unfortunately, what happens in the African part of the Internet most
> definitely DOES NOT stay just in the African part of the Internet.  It
> spills out and affects me here, 10,000+ miles and entire oceans away.
>
> Such is the nature of the Internet, in case you are not aware.
>
> It has REPEATEDLY been the case that stolen or squatted AFRINIC
> administered
> IPv4 address blocks have been used, both to spam me and to try to hack me,
> and also and likewise, probably hundreds of millions more Internet users,
> all around the world.
>
> I am not amused.  And thus, whether I like it or not, I have been
> effectively
> -foerced- to pay attention to the crap coming out of "African" IP address
> space.
>
> I sincerly wish it were otherwise.  And I wish that AFRINIC would clean
> up all of this crap, once and for all, and stop allowing crooks from
> Israel, the Netherlands, India, and the U.S. to make Africans all appear
> to be either corrupt or incompetent or both.  (I know this is not the
> case, but I am still looking for the Africans who will stand up for
> principal and not allow non-African foreigners to effectively defecate
> all over AFRINIC and its global reputation.)
>
> I started publicly reporting on the skulduggery taking place within the
> AFRINIC region in the summer of 2016.  I have now been waiting for nearly
> four and half years for someone with guts to step forward,  do the Right
> Thing, and clean up this colossal mess.  I am still waiting.
>
> >There are thousands of members in this list you are just spamming everyone
> >with your findings.
>
> Others may disagree.
>
> >Who cares who is doing what? This is something between Afrinic and its
> members.
>
> See above.  It is *not* just between Afrinic and its members.  What happens
> in Africa DOES NOT stay within Africa.
>
> The incompetence and corruption within AFRINIC has allowed an entire
> planet's
> worth of Internet users... several billion people... to get repeatedly
> hacked and spammed.  And it is still doing so even as we speak.
>
> Who exactly has an interest in preserving that unfortnate status quo?
>
> You, apparently.
>
> Which brings me back to the question I raised above... Who are you really?
>
>
> Regards,
> rfg
>
> _______________________________________________
> Community-Discuss mailing list
> Community-Discuss at afrinic.net
> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
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From mika.levari at mailfence.com  Wed Dec 23 14:12:50 2020
From: mika.levari at mailfence.com (Mika Levari)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 15:12:50 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Current routing summaries for LiquidWeb,
 Inc. and Fiber Grid, Inc.
Message-ID: <1841775408.1944.1608732770454@ichabod.co-bxl>

Shalom,
I am enjoying this for sometime now. Looks like Afrinic community is infiltrated by Spamhaus goons like Ronald F. Guilmette 
Those who do not know what is spamhaus then read this https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/29055/spamhaus-tax-evasion-shell-companies-extortion-strategies-blackmail-and-much-much-more 
Spamhaus is a highly sophisticated money laundering, hacking and cyber extortion network. 
Spamhaus gang mebers like Ronald F. Guilmette are using social engineering and same old tactics. 
This time they are using Afrinic platform.
One example is https://seclists.org/nanog/2019/Sep/255 
Spamhaus goons started at Nanog and managed to get legal war started between Elad cohen and Afrinic. 
Case has reached Supreme court of Mauritius. All the legal fees are paid from Afrinic members fee. 
Afrinic management will be answerable for all the legal expenses.
Afrinic should ban these goons or they will manage to destroy Afrinic by triggering series of legal events between Afrinic and its members to achieve their purpose.
Read all replies from Ronald F. Guilmette and his associates and then evaluate purpose of their posts. 
Everything will be clear.
Bye bye 



From comms at afrinic.net  Wed Dec 23 14:19:13 2020
From: comms at afrinic.net (AFRINIC Communication)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 18:19:13 +0400
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <CABPhykP9CpAn9H7Ssh4b_M9Ex80Q1JdUUOuK8x5LGJMM07sNAg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io>
 <47397.1608686490@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
 <CABPhykP9CpAn9H7Ssh4b_M9Ex80Q1JdUUOuK8x5LGJMM07sNAg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <0B954223-586F-4E3D-81F9-8457A8388717@afrinic.net>

[Version en fran?ais au bas]

Dear Colleagues,

This community mailing list was designed with the purpose of conducting healthy discussions between AFRINIC members and non-members alike around AFRINIC and its related activities.

The list is not subject to any moderation or censorship as we trust that the community at all times acts according to the guidelines agreed upon in the code of conduct. 

However any behavior deemed as offensive, discriminatory, intimidating or that includes personal attacks will not be tolerated and will be dealt with according to the process laid out in the code of conduct.

You are all hereby reminded to abide by the AFRINIC Code of Conduct when interacting with the AFRINIC community at all times.

I urge you all to read this to make sure you are up to date on our code of conduct and the processes that safeguard the discussion and community-driven policies at the heart of AFRINIC.  https://www.afrinic.net/code <https://www.afrinic.net/code>

Ashil Oogarah

On behalf of the AFRINIC Communications and PR Team

?????????????????.

Chers coll?gues,

Cette liste de diffusion communautaire a ?t? con?ue dans le but de mener des discussions saines entre les membres et les non-membres de l'AFRINIC autour de l'AFRINIC et de ses activit?s connexes.

La liste n'est soumise ? aucune mod?ration ou censure car nous sommes convaincus que la communaut? agit ? tout moment selon les directives convenues dans le code de conduite. 

Cependant, tout comportement jug? offensant, discriminatoire, intimidant ou qui inclut des attaques personnelles ne sera pas tol?r? et sera trait? selon le processus ?tabli dans le code de conduite.

Il vous est rappel? ? tous de respecter le code de conduite AFRINIC dans vos interactions avec la communaut? AFRINIC ? tout moment.

Je vous invite tous ? lire ceci pour vous assurer que vous ?tes ? jour sur notre code de conduite et les processus qui sauvegardent la discussion et les politiques communautaires au c?ur de l'AFRINIC. https://www.afrinic.net/code <https://www.afrinic.net/code>

Ashil Oogarah

Au nom de l'?quipe Communications et RP d'AFRINIC



> On 23 Dec 2020, at 17:07, Emem William <dwizard65 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Ronald,
> 
> Thanks for the information.
> 
> In your comprehensive routing data, I noticed that the following name stands out quite often, PEG Tech Inc. It seems like they are providing a lot of route to those ranges. I am wondering if you have done any research about them?
> 
> Also why is Seacom still routing stolen AFRINIC IP? As you have rightfully pointed out https://bgp.he.net/AS26754#_graph4 <https://bgp.he.net/AS26754#_graph4> , they seem to be the only upstream provider that still routes Afrinic?s stolen IP.
> 
> Cheers,
> Emem William
> 
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 02:23 Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com <mailto:rfg at tristatelogic.com>> wrote:
> In message <MP9iGyd--3-2 at tuta.io <mailto:MP9iGyd--3-2 at tuta.io>>, libren at tuta.io <mailto:libren at tuta.io> wrote:
> 
> >Ronald F Guilmette are you a real person or using some fake name?
> 
> I am a real person and this is my real name.
> 
> Who are YOU?  An what is YOUR real name?
> 
> >You are like ghost on internet.Do you have any linkedin profile or company?
> 
> That is correct.  I am indeed a "ghost" as regards to social media.  And
> that is certainly by intent.
> 
> Unlike most people these days, I have always been concerned with my
> personal privacy, and thus, unlike most people these days, I have
> elected NOT to splatter out my entire life story onto the Internet
> for people I don't know to snoop on.
> 
> If anyone wants to know anything about me, they can ask me.
> 
> >I am wondering if you are not LIR or member of Afrinic then why are you even
> >part of this community mailing list or why you are taking so much interest
> >in community mailing list?
> 
> I am so glad you asked.
> 
> Here in the United States, there has been a long running TV ad campaign
> that promotes tourism to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada.  The tag line
> contained in each of these TV commericals is well known here... "What
> happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."  (The idea being sold is that people
> can go to Las Vegas, act crazy, and tnen go back to their hometowns
> without anyone there knowing about their crazy behavior in "Vegas".)
> 
> Unfortunately, what happens in the African part of the Internet most
> definitely DOES NOT stay just in the African part of the Internet.  It
> spills out and affects me here, 10,000+ miles and entire oceans away.
> 
> Such is the nature of the Internet, in case you are not aware.
> 
> It has REPEATEDLY been the case that stolen or squatted AFRINIC administered
> IPv4 address blocks have been used, both to spam me and to try to hack me,
> and also and likewise, probably hundreds of millions more Internet users,
> all around the world.
> 
> I am not amused.  And thus, whether I like it or not, I have been effectively
> -foerced- to pay attention to the crap coming out of "African" IP address
> space.
> 
> I sincerly wish it were otherwise.  And I wish that AFRINIC would clean
> up all of this crap, once and for all, and stop allowing crooks from
> Israel, the Netherlands, India, and the U.S. to make Africans all appear
> to be either corrupt or incompetent or both.  (I know this is not the
> case, but I am still looking for the Africans who will stand up for
> principal and not allow non-African foreigners to effectively defecate
> all over AFRINIC and its global reputation.)
> 
> I started publicly reporting on the skulduggery taking place within the
> AFRINIC region in the summer of 2016.  I have now been waiting for nearly
> four and half years for someone with guts to step forward,  do the Right
> Thing, and clean up this colossal mess.  I am still waiting.
> 
> >There are thousands of members in this list you are just spamming everyone
> >with your findings.
> 
> Others may disagree.
> 
> >Who cares who is doing what? This is something between Afrinic and its members.
> 
> See above.  It is *not* just between Afrinic and its members.  What happens
> in Africa DOES NOT stay within Africa.
> 
> The incompetence and corruption within AFRINIC has allowed an entire planet's
> worth of Internet users... several billion people... to get repeatedly
> hacked and spammed.  And it is still doing so even as we speak.
> 
> Who exactly has an interest in preserving that unfortnate status quo?
> 
> You, apparently.
> 
> Which brings me back to the question I raised above... Who are you really?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> rfg
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Community-Discuss mailing list
> Community-Discuss at afrinic.net <mailto:Community-Discuss at afrinic.net>
> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss <https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss>
> _______________________________________________
> Community-Discuss mailing list
> Community-Discuss at afrinic.net
> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss

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From mika.levari at mailfence.com  Wed Dec 23 14:18:55 2020
From: mika.levari at mailfence.com (Mika Levari)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 15:18:55 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Current routing summaries for LiquidWeb,
 Inc. and Fiber Grid, Inc.
Message-ID: <2034448016.2327.1608733135463@ichabod.co-bxl>

 Shalom,
 I am enjoying this for sometime now. Looks like Afrinic community is infiltrated by Spamhaus goons like Ronald F. Guilmette 
 Those who do not know what is spamhaus then read this https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/29055/spamhaus-tax-evasion-shell-companies-extortion-strategies-blackmail-and-much-much-more 
 Spamhaus is a highly sophisticated money laundering, hacking and cyber extortion network. 
 Spamhaus gang mebers like Ronald F. Guilmette are using social engineering and same old tactics. 
 This time they are using Afrinic platform.
 One example is https://seclists.org/nanog/2019/Sep/255 
 Spamhaus goons started at Nanog and managed to get legal war started between Elad cohen and Afrinic. 
 Case has reached Supreme court of Mauritius. All the legal fees are paid from Afrinic members fee. 
 Afrinic management will be answerable for all the legal expenses.
 Afrinic should ban these goons or they will manage to destroy Afrinic by triggering series of legal events between Afrinic and its members to achieve their purpose.
 Read all replies from Ronald F. Guilmette and his associates and then evaluate purpose of their posts. 
 Everything will be clear.
 Bye bye 



From ish at lsl.digital  Wed Dec 23 17:57:33 2020
From: ish at lsl.digital (Ish Sookun)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 21:57:33 +0400
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Questions
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20201222223854.12349470@elandnews.com>
References: <36559.1598255350@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
 <6.2.5.6.2.20201222223854.12349470@elandnews.com>
Message-ID: <5da05122-56e2-fd78-89cd-5616e49f7b82@lsl.digital>

Hi SM,

On 23/12/2020 14:07, S. Moonesamy wrote:
> There was a complaint related to a request for access to "Whois
> data". [...]

Are you referring to a complaint made on the members mailing list?

Regards,

Ish Sookun




From noah at neo.co.tz  Wed Dec 23 18:02:37 2020
From: noah at neo.co.tz (Noah)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 21:02:37 +0300
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <49385.1608707516@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
References: <CAEqgTWauoF=MRvqk-T2BaA7AsMQt=A-GomQ2aZiYtsMYey2FNg@mail.gmail.com>
 <49385.1608707516@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
Message-ID: <CAEqgTWaqvu9RLpxrTi4q=WdDRAbazo4RX9qof1mcbKUG4m++8Q@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Ronald,

I have taken note and please see my response inline below.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 10:16 AM Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
wrote:

>
> ORG-TL1-AFRINIC - Trentyre (Pty) Ltd
> 160.122.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>    256  137951  HK  Clayer Limited
>
> ORG-AA79-AFRINIC - Agrihold
> 163.198.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>    248  202769  US  Cooperative Investments LLC
>      4  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>      2  43092   JP  OSOA Corporation., LTD
>      2  19969   US  Joe's Datacenter, LLC
>
> (Note that the contact person for "Cooperative Investments LLC" these days
> is Elad Cohen.)
>
> ORG-AHL1-AFRINIC - Argus Holdings (Pty) Ltd
>         WHOIS contacts now set to legacy-dbm at afrinic.net
> 164.88.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>    252  137951  HK  Clayer Limited
>      2  140733  HK  HostUS Solutions LLC
>      1  138538  CN  Ningbo Nanbian Tuoluo Xinxi Jishu Co., Ltd
>      1  18013   HK  Asline Limited
>
> ORG-WA1-AFRINIC - Woolworths Holdings Limited
>         WHOIS contacts now restored/remediated (?)
> 165.3.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>    128  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>    113  54600   US  Peg Tech Inc
>     10  21859   US  Zenlayer Inc
>      3  137951  HK  Clayer Limited
>      1  38197   AU  Sun Network (Hong Kong) Limited ***
>      1  133441  KR  Cloud Information Technology (Intl) Telecom Group
> LIMITED
>
> ORG-AISL1-AFRINIC - AECI Information Services (Pty) Ltd
> 168.80.0.0/15
> Current routing summary:
>    265  202769  US  Cooperative Investments LLC
>    135  19969   US  Joe's Datacenter, LLC
>     26  132335  IN  LeapSwitch Networks Pvt Ltd
>     16  23679   AU  Media Antar Nusa PT.
>      9  43092   JP  OSOA Corporation., LTD
>      8  36351   US  SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
>      8  45671   AU  Servers Australia Pty. Ltd
>      8  63018   US  Dedicated.com
>      8  56611   NL  REBA Communications BV
>      8  24567   AU  QT Inc.
>      6  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>      4  57717   NL  FiberXpress BV
>      4  262287  BR  Maxihost LTDA
>      3  49335   RU  LLC "Server v arendy"
>      2  11990   US  Unlimited Net, LLC
>      2  13737   US  INCX Global, LLC
>
> (See note above regarding "Cooperative Investments LLC".)
>
> ORG-IA41-AFRINIC - Network and Information Technology Limited
> 196.16.0.0/14
> Current routing summary:
>    539  202425  SC  IP Volume inc
>    360  19969   US  Joe's Datacenter, LLC
>     47  63956   AU  Colocation Australia Pty Ltd
>     12  56611   NL  REBA Communications BV
>      6  43092   JP  OSOA Corporation., LTD
>      6  134451  ID  NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
>      5  38001   AU  NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
>      5  57717   NL  FiberXpress BV
>      4  263812  AR  TL Group SRL ( IPXON Networks )
>      4  49367   IT  Seflow S.N.C. Di Marco Brame' & C.
>      4  20860   GB  Iomart Cloud Services Limited
>      4  204655  GB  Novogara LTD
>      4  42831   GB  UK Dedicated Servers Limited
>      4  49335   RU  LLC "Server v arendy"
>      2  31122   IE  Digiweb ltd
>      2  136782  JP  Pingtan Hotline Co., Limited
>      2  44066   DE  First Colo GmbH
>      2  17216   US  Dc74 Llc
>      2  53999   CA  Priority Colo Inc
>      2  45382   KR  Ehostict
>      2  262287  BR  Maxihost LTDA
>      2  63018   US  Dedicated.com
>      1  23470   US  ReliableSite.Net LLC
>      1  9009    GB  M247 Ltd
>      1  202769  US  Cooperative Investments LLC
>      1  203833  DE  First Colo GmbH
>
> ORG-AFNC1-AFRINIC - "ITC" - All blocks reclaimed to free pool by AFRINIC
> 196.193.0.0/16 -- unrouted
> 196.63.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>    255  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>      1  54600   US  Peg Tech Inc
> 196.246.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>    252  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>      4  133495  PK  Vision telecom Private limited
> 196.45.112.0/20
> Current routing summary:
>      5  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>      4  30827   GB  Extraordinary Managed Services Ltd
>      2  198381  AE  Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
>      2  26754   ??  {{unknown organization}} ====> AS26754->"ITC" (see
> below)
>      2  198394  AE  Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
>      1  36351   US  SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
>
> ORG-SCS1-AFRINIC - Safren Computer Services
> 155.159.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>    256  137951  HK  Clayer Limited
>
> ORG-AA78-AFRINIC - Anglo American
> 163.197.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>    128  140107  HK  xiamen zhongheng Technology Ltd ****
>     64  54600   US  Peg Tech Inc *** ****
>     48  139330  HK  Sanren Data Limited ****
>     16  137443  HK  Anchnet Asia Limited *** ****
>
> ORG-SL72-AFRINIC - Sentrachem Limited
> 164.155.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>     96  54600   US  Peg Tech Inc *** ****
>     77  139330  HK  Sanren Data Limited ****
>     32  137951  HK  Clayer Limited
>     32  136800  HK  Xiaozhiyun L.L.C *** ****
>     17  132422  HK  Hong Kong Business Telecom Limited ***
>      2  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>
> ORG-COCT1-AFRINIC - City of Cape Town
> 165.25.0.0/16 -- WHOIS reclaimed by rightful owner (currently unrouted)
>
> ORG-ZZ21-AFRINIC - Trafex (Pty) Ltd
> 196.15.64.0/18
> Current routing summary:
>     40  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>     24  202769  US  Cooperative Investments LLC
>
> (See note above regarding "Cooperative Investments LLC".)
>
> ORG-MPL1-AFRINIC - Mega Plastics (Pty) Ltd
>         contacts now set to: legacy-dbm at afrinic.net
> 160.121.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>    256  137951  HK  Clayer Limited
>
> ORG-LTOL1-AFRINIC - Liquid Telecommunications Operations Limited
> 152.108.0.0/16 -- WHOIS & routing reclaimed by rightful owner
>
> ORG-AM1-AFRINIC - African Oxygen Limited
> 155.235.0.0/16 - WHOIS reclaimed by rightful owner
> Current routing summary:
>     97  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>     64  140107  HK  xiamen zhongheng Technology Ltd  ****
>     59  209484  HK  Asia Communications Co., Limited
>     24  140224  HK  White-Sand Cloud Computing(HK) Co., LIMITED
>     12  140227  HK  Hong Kong Communications International Co., Limited ***
>
> ORG-ZZ154-AFRINIC - Nampak Management Services
>         WHOIS now set to legacy-dbm at afrinic.net
> 196.10.61.0/24
> 196.10.62.0/23
> 196.10.64.0/19
> Current routing summary:
>     13  24567   AU  QT Inc.
>      4  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>      4  138527  HK  Adc Group Co.,Limited
>      4  43092   JP  OSOA Corporation., LTD
>      4  58879   CN  Beijing CNISP Technology Co., Ltd. ***
>      3  21859   US  Zenlayer Inc  ***
>      2  34985   HK  Kirin Communication Limited
>      1  24373   AU  Adc Group Co.,Limited *** ****
>
> ORG-ACSL2-AFRINIC - Affiliated Computing Services (Pty) Ltd
> 160.116.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>    111  202769  US  Cooperative Investments LLC
>    110  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>     16  199267  IL  Netstyle A. Ltd
>      4  139640  HK  Hk New Cloud Technology Limited  ***
>      4  24567   AU  QT Inc. **
>      4  58879   CN  Beijing CNISP Technology Co., Ltd. ***
>      3  19969   US  Joe's Datacenter, LLC
>      2  262287  BR  Maxihost LTDA
>      1  43945   IL  Netstyle A. Ltd
>      1  43092   JP  OSOA Corporation., LTD
>
> ORG-ZZ8-AFRINIC - Columbus Stainless (Proprietary) Limited
>         WHOIS reclaimed by rightful owner
> 160.115.0.0/16  -- no current routing
>
> ORG-TAEB1-AFRINIC - The Atomic Energy Board
> 168.206.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>    256  137951  HK  Clayer Limited
>
> ORG-AI2-AFRINIC - "ITC" -- Reclaimed to free pool by AFRINIC
> 196.42.128.0/17 -- unrouted
> 196.194.0.0/15
> Current routing summary:
>    403  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>     62  136384  PK  Optix Pakistan (Pvt.) Limited
>     24  131284  AF  Etisalat Afghan
>      6  132116  IN  Ani Network Pvt Ltd
>      5  198504  AE  Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
>      4  26754   ??  {{unknown organization}}  ====> AS26754 == "ITC"
>      3  198381  AE  Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
>      2  198247  AE  Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
>      2  198394  AE  Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
>      1  139043  PK  WellNetworks (Private) Limited
>

*Attention AFRINIC/Ashil,*

*Please take note of all the above additional information as pertains to
the potential number resources misappropriation and fraud and kindly pass
this to the AFRINIC Board audit committee. *



>
> Please note that Ernest Byaruhanga is still enjoying some of his
> stolen AFRINIC space,


You have repeated the above quite a lot in all your emails and while I cant
speak for my friend Ernest, I get your point. The investigation is ongoing
as reported by AFRINIC from the work they embarked and we shall wait for
the outcome because there will be an outcome at the end of the day and if
mistakes were made, folks will be held responsible.


> even as we speak, courtesy of SECOM and others,
> who ought to be ashamed of themselves:
>
>  https://bgp.he.net/AS26754#_prefixes


I read SECOM which I assume you meant SEACOM and what I see is below IPv4
address space being originated by ITC AS26754 via two different transit
providers including Spidd Africa Ltd an ISP.

196.45.120.0/23 AfriNIC - www.afrinic.net
196.45.120.0/24 AfriNIC - www.afrinic.net
196.45.121.0/24 AfriNIC - www.afrinic.net
196.195.228.0/22 AfriNIC - www.afrinic.net

As a network engineer, this is a normal practise by ISP's who always run
checks before any IPv4 + ASN announcements are made. The simplest check is
always to look at the whois database in this case AFRINIC for the route
objects records and also ask for an LoA before prefix announcements are
made and if the above prefixes are being announced then rest assured there
were compliance checks done.

In anycase, AFRINIC should also take this up and check if the above
prefixes were rightfully allocated/assigned or they were stolen and that is
the goal IMHO.



>
>
> ORG-ZZ139-AFRINIC - "Link Data Group"
> 198.54.232.0/24 -- WHOIS now set to legacy-dbm at afrinic.net - unrouted
> 196.62.0.0/16 - reclaimed to free pool by AFRINIC - unrouted
> 196.192.192.0/18 - reclaimed to free pool by AFRINIC - unrouted
> 213.247.0.0/19 - reclaimed to free pool by AFRINIC - unrouted
> 160.255.0.0/16 - reclaimed to free pool by AFRINIC - unrouted
> 196.207.64.0/18 - reclaimed to free pool by AFRINIC
> Current routing summary:
>     61  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>      2  132116  IN  Ani Network Pvt Ltd
>      1  137085  IN  Nixi
>
> Note that the following route object still exists in the RIPE WHOIS DB:
>
> route:          213.247.0.0/21
> origin:         AS327991
> mnt-by:         MEGASURF-WIRELESS-MNT
> created:        2016-09-02T11:58:16Z
> last-modified:  2018-09-04T18:31:58Z
> source:         RIPE-NONAUTH
>
>
> ORG-ZZ23-AFRINIC - Nedbank / Cape of Good Hope Bank (CGHB)
>         - fradulent allocations reclaimed to free pool
> 192.96.146.0/24 -- reclaimed by Nedbank/CGHB - unrouted
> 137.171.0.0/16 -- unrouted
> 165.52.0.0/14 -- unrouted
> 168.211.0.0/16 -- unrouted
>
> +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_
>
> In addition to all of the above AFRINIC issues, Elad Cohen, with the
> help and connivance of his friends at FDCServers and Cogent Communications
> was at one time also squatting on all of the following abandoned APNIC
> IPv4 legacy blocks:
>
> IRT-DOFD-AU - DOFD Department of Finance and Deregulation (AU)
> 168.198.0.0/16 -- currently unrouted
>
> PMANET - Port of Melbourne Authority (AU)
> 139.44.0.0/16 -- currently unrouted
>
> CROSFIELD (JP)
> 143.136.0.0/16 -- currently unrouted
>
> ATDCL - Net One Systems Company, Limited (JP)
> 143.253.0.0/16 -- currently unrouted
>
> CHIYODA-NET - Chiyoda Corporation (JP)
> 146.51.0.0/16 -- currently unrouted
>
> Additionally, I have reason to believe that Elad Cohen was also responsible
> for squatting on the following abandoned RIPE legacy IPv4 block, which he
> appears to have done with the help and connivance of his friends at
> Ecoband, Ltd. aka AS327814:
>
> TELEFUNKEN SYSTEMTECHNIK ULM (DE)
> 149.207.0.0/16 - unrouted
>
> +_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_
>
> In additional to all of the above, as I have recently pointed out, I have
> questions about how any of the following three organzations were able to
> qualify to become AFRINIC members and how each was able to further
> qualify to receive the sizable non-legacy AFRINIC IPv4 block assignments
> that they did receive and which they are -still- the listed registrants
> of, even now:
>
> ORG-LWI1-AFRINIC - LogicWeb Inc (US)
> 196.52.0.0/14  +++
>
> ORG-FGI1-AFRINIC -- Fiber Grid, Inc. (Estonia/Seychelles)
> 165.231.0.0/16 +++
> 196.48.0.0/16
> 196.56.0.0/16
> 196.57.0.0/16
> 196.58.0.0/16
> 196.59.0.0/16
> 196.196.0.0/16
> 196.197.0.0/16
> 196.198.0.0/16
> 196.199.0.0/16
> 196.240.0.0/15
> 196.242.0.0/15
> 196.244.0.0/16
> 196.245.0.0/16
> 196.247.0.0/16
>
> ORG-INL3-AFRINIC - Inspiring Networks {B.V.,Ltd.,LLC} - NL/Seychelles
> 45.220.64.0/18
> 196.61.192.0/20
> 197.231.208.0/22
>
> Note of the above three entities appears to either now have, or to have
> ever had any meaningful connection to the AFRINIC region, other than
> plundering the resources thereof, thus raising the question of how and
> why they were allowed to become AFRINIC members in the first place.
>
> I look forward to receiving an answer to that question for each of these
> three organizations.


* We all look forward to receiving answers. *

*Attention AFRINIC/Ashil,*

*Please take note of all the above additional information as pertains to
the potential number resources misappropriation and fraud and kindly pass
this to the AFRINIC Board audit committee. *

*Also confirm if all the above needs to be published by a member on the
members list or you will take this up and act according to the benefit of
the community and all AFRINIC members.*

Noah.
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From noah at neo.co.tz  Wed Dec 23 18:27:49 2020
From: noah at neo.co.tz (Noah)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 21:27:49 +0300
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <CABPhykP9CpAn9H7Ssh4b_M9Ex80Q1JdUUOuK8x5LGJMM07sNAg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io>
 <47397.1608686490@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
 <CABPhykP9CpAn9H7Ssh4b_M9Ex80Q1JdUUOuK8x5LGJMM07sNAg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAEqgTWYkmfxtk--OcCxaX32gRcp_DeOQzB8SDAM5jtdDHEsbXA@mail.gmail.com>

Emem,

Since I wear many hats, allow me to respond to you inline.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 4:10 PM Emem William <dwizard65 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Also why is Seacom still routing stolen AFRINIC IP?
>

A lot of stolen or misappropriated IPv4 number resources are being routed
everyday by ISP and transit providers globally. The reasons vary from,
misinformation, hijacks, misappropriated IPv4 addresses. All this is
perfectly recorded on the RIR database. Until recently, Ronald started
shading light to the fact that a huge number of AFRINIC IPv4 space, both
legacy and non-legacy has been fraudulently obtained while others
misappropriated and perfectly recorded in the whois database.

I am assuming that you are not a network engineer and as such, you are
ignorant of how the internet works and to enlighten you, SEACOM is largest
transit provider in AFRICA and does run prefix/asn checks before prefixes
from downstream customers are announced. This checks involves AFRINIC whois
database checks and even LoA letter requests.

So to answer your question, this is a ticket worthy logging and
chasing......but meanwhile...........to continue enlightening you.....


> As you have rightfully pointed out https://bgp.he.net/AS26754#_graph4 ,
> they seem to be the only upstream provider that still routes Afrinic?s
> stolen IP.
>

Actually those prefixes on the link above are being originated by
ITC AS26754 and announced by two different upstream providers. The question
then is, is AS26754 authorised to announce those prefixes and if so, are
the records on the AFRINIC whois database. If the answer is yes, then the
ISP is correct to route them after checking all those route objects to
confirm compliance etc.

Remember there was a case months ago where one AFRINIC member Cloud
Innovation Ltd, sub-allocated AFRINIC based IPv4 addresses to a customer in
HongKong who then sub-allocated to another customer in Manila Philippines
who then hijacked SEACOM ASN in order to announced the Cloud Innovation Ltd
prefix from Philippines in Manila. Crazy right, well the issue was
immediately fixed and the outcome is in the archives of this mailing list.

*Rest assured, if those prefixes are stolen and are being originated by
ITC, then the AFRINIC team should take this up and I have copied Ashil from
the communications team herein to pass this case to the Audit Committee as
well.*

Cheers,
Noah
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From noah at neo.co.tz  Wed Dec 23 18:54:00 2020
From: noah at neo.co.tz (Noah)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 21:54:00 +0300
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <MPEehDz--3-2@tuta.io>
References: <MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io>
 <CAEqgTWZNH=i30Bacm=aDH512sfMhuPQXj9gb6FUGGUUwd1P1vg@mail.gmail.com>
 <MPEehDz--3-2@tuta.io>
Message-ID: <CAEqgTWbAL_=j8KbJ4gC_1PdT3S3rCEHo-EKupyDJw5kaBRMD7A@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 3:59 PM Libra via Community-Discuss <
community-discuss at afrinic.net> wrote:

> Too much spam is generated by couple of morons in this community list.
>

Take a chill pill and stop spamming the community list since they want to
hear how well AFRINIC?S IPv4 resources are being used in serving Africa?s
internet and advancing its network infrastructure.


> How about only verified members allowed to use this mailing list?
>
Those who are Afrinic member or Lir can link their main account and those
> who are not members or LIR can submit their id proof for verification.
>

While I am not a big fan of sock puppets, I don't believe in censorship the
likes of which you are advocating on a public forum which welcomes everyone
with interest.

Noah
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From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Wed Dec 23 21:09:29 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 13:09:29 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Questions
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20201222223854.12349470@elandnews.com>
Message-ID: <52433.1608757769@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <6.2.5.6.2.20201222223854.12349470 at elandnews.com>, 
"S. Moonesamy" <sm+af at afrinic.net> wrote:

>There was a complaint related to a request for access to "Whois 
>data".  It is more difficult to reach agreement when there isn't a 
>common understanding of the regulatory constraints.  Some of the 
>data, which is categorized as "personal data" [1], is regulated 
>through data protection laws.  There is, for example, the Data 
>Protection Act 2017 for Mauritius, which is applicable.

I thank "S. Moonesamy" <sm+af at afrinic.net> for at least attempting
to make some pretense of addressing this issue, which I have raised,
however it is easy to demonstrate that this response is silly in the
extreme.

Apparently the "applicable" Mauritian law DOES NOT prevent AFRINIC
from publishing, via its traditional port 43 WHOIS service, the names,
addresses, and phone numbers (PII) associated with person: records
that are currently present in the data base... a fact that anyone
can easily verify just by querying the WHOIS for the handle associated
with any person: record.

Despite this obvious fact, the community is asked to believe that somehow,
magically, Mauritian law DOES prevent AFRINIC from providing this same
data to qualified and well-vetted researchers if the data from two or
more person: records is provided at the same time (bulk) or if the
data associated with a person: record that was removed fom the data base
last week (historical) is provided.

These alleged constraints, which allegedly spring from Mauritian law,
are in fact just ridiculous double-talk, made up within the minds of
S. Moonesamy and others within the current AFRINIC hierarchy, who are
just simply searching for some vaguely plausible excuse to prevent
any independent investigators, such as myself, from finding the whole
truth of what has happened in the data base, over time.

There is no basis in law for this.  AFRINIC and S. Moonesamy are simply
stonewalling.

It is left as an exercise for the reader as to why they would wish to do
that.


Regards,
rfg



From sm+af at afrinic.net  Wed Dec 23 20:57:46 2020
From: sm+af at afrinic.net (S. Moonesamy)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:57:46 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Questions
In-Reply-To: <5da05122-56e2-fd78-89cd-5616e49f7b82@lsl.digital>
References: <36559.1598255350@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
 <6.2.5.6.2.20201222223854.12349470@elandnews.com>
 <5da05122-56e2-fd78-89cd-5616e49f7b82@lsl.digital>
Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20201223122115.0b81ccb8@elandnews.com>

Dear Ish,
At 09:57 AM 23-12-2020, Ish Sookun wrote:
>Are you referring to a complaint made on the members mailing list?

No. It was in an email which I received.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

Board Chair, AFRINIC 




From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Wed Dec 23 21:41:57 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 13:41:57 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
	IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <CABPhykP9CpAn9H7Ssh4b_M9Ex80Q1JdUUOuK8x5LGJMM07sNAg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <52562.1608759717@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <CABPhykP9CpAn9H7Ssh4b_M9Ex80Q1JdUUOuK8x5LGJMM07sNAg at mail.gmail.com>
Emem William <dwizard65 at gmail.com> wrote:

>In your comprehensive routing data, I noticed that the following name
>stands out quite often, PEG Tech Inc. It seems like they are providing a
>lot of route to those ranges. I am wondering if you have done any research
>about them?

I have, but only a limited amount.  I believe that is a California (US)
based company, and that its Chief Executive Officer, as per California
state corporation records, is a person named Wei Zhang.

>Also why is Seacom still routing stolen AFRINIC IP?

I cannot provide any answer.  This question is best directed to SEACOM.

>As you have rightfully
>pointed out https://bgp.he.net/AS26754#_graph4 , they seem to be the only
>upstream provider that still routes Afrinic=E2=80=99s stolen IP.

NOT SO!  You seem to have grossely misinterpreted what I posted.

There are *numerous* different ASN that are routing various parts of
what I consider to be either (a) provably stolen AFRINIC legacy IPv4
space that AFRINIC has not yet acted to return to its rightful owners
or else (b) IPv4 space that *was* stolen, but which AFRINIC *has*
returned to its rightful owners (but which some unrelated network owners
are still illicitly squatting on anyway) or (c) IPv4 address space that
has been reclaimed into the free pool by AFRINIC, and which are thus
now "bogons", but which some network operators are still routing anyway.

In the specific case illustrated by the link I posted:

   https://bgp.he.net/AS2675

the IPv4 address blocks in question were parts of various IPv4 blocks
that have already been reclaimed into the free pool by AFRINIC.  And in
this case, even the AS number, AS2675, has also been reclaimed into the
ASN free pool by AFRINIC.  (So *nobody* should even be using that ASN
-at all- on the public internet.)

The problem here is that AS2675, which is now a "bogon" ASN, *is* still
being used to announce routes to multiple IPv4 address blocks which are
themselves now "bogons".  This is apparently only possible because *two*
other ASNs are providing correctivity to the bogon ASN, AS2675, as shown
on the page linked to above.  These two other ASNs are:

    AS328616 Spidd Africa Ltd
    AS37100  SEACOM Limited

Neither of these two should be peering with the bogon AS2675 -at all-.

SEACOM, you already know about.  That is a big provider in Africa that
ought to know better.  The other one, AS328616 Spidd Africa Ltd is a
bit mysterious, but is apparently headquartered in Uganda, and it also
is receiving connectivity from two other ASNs as shown here:

    https://bgp.he.net/AS328616

The two ASNs that are providing connectivity to Spidd Africa... which I
believe is strongly linked to Ernest... are as follows:

    AS328015  Sombha Solutions Store Limited
    AS37100  SEACOM Limited

Both of these appear to be essentially legitimate companies... and SEACOM
surely is... but I do have to question why either of them should be
providing connectivity to AS328616 Spidd Africa Ltd., which I believe
to be a small-time operation which is most probably the property of good
friends of Ernest in Uganda.

I could provide even some more interesting information here about these
various networking connections in Uganda, but I'll leave that for another
time.


Regards,
rfg



From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Wed Dec 23 21:58:41 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 13:58:41 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
	IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <CAEqgTWaqvu9RLpxrTi4q=WdDRAbazo4RX9qof1mcbKUG4m++8Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <52687.1608760721@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <CAEqgTWaqvu9RLpxrTi4q=WdDRAbazo4RX9qof1mcbKUG4m++8Q at mail.gmail.com>
Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:

rfg> Please note that Ernest Byaruhanga is still enjoying some of his
rfg> stolen AFRINIC space,
>
>
>You have repeated the above quite a lot in all your emails...

I might be mistaken, but I don't believe so.  In fact, I don't believe
that I have previously mentioned these blocks... which appear to me to
be in use by a party or parties who may or may not be Ernest Byaruhanga...
to anyone at all, except for maybe Jan Vermeulen.

You'll have to forgive me.  There's quite a lot of sordid details that
I know about, and I've only publicly disclosed a subset of those.  And
there are so many details that it's hard to remember which ones I have,
and which ones I haven't already mentioned publicly.


Regards,
rfg



From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Wed Dec 23 22:10:59 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 14:10:59 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
	IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <CAEqgTWYkmfxtk--OcCxaX32gRcp_DeOQzB8SDAM5jtdDHEsbXA@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <52793.1608761459@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

Let me begin by saying that I have only just been informed that there is
some connection between Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> and SEACOM.  My apologies
to him.  If I had known of that connection, I might have raised the
issus of the Ugandan bogons with him privately.  But since this is
now a matter of public discussion, I will respond publicly.

In message <CAEqgTWYkmfxtk--OcCxaX32gRcp_DeOQzB8SDAM5jtdDHEsbXA at mail.gmail.com>
Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:

>Actually those prefixes on the link above are being originated by
>ITC AS26754 and announced by two different upstream providers.

That is 100% correct.  So SEACOM is certainly -not- the only network
that is doing something wrong here.

The real problem is that *nobody* should be peering with AS26754 which
is a bogon ASN that was previously registered (or stolen) by Ernest
Byaruhanga.  Quite obviously, AFRINIC staff already realized that some
time ago and they then appropriately de-registered AS26754 and returned
that AS number to the free pool.  Thus, AS26754 has been a "bogon" ASN
for some time now.

So the question must be asked:  Why is AS37100 (or anybody else) still
peering with the bogon AS26754?

That should not be happening.


Regards,
rfg


P.S.  I am greatly looking forward to more widespread adoption of RPKI
which may reduce some of these kinds of problems.



From sm+af at afrinic.net  Thu Dec 24 03:21:41 2020
From: sm+af at afrinic.net (S. Moonesamy)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 19:21:41 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Questions
In-Reply-To: <52433.1608757769@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
References: <6.2.5.6.2.20201222223854.12349470@elandnews.com>
 <52433.1608757769@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20201223180936.13959fb0@elandnews.com>

Dear Mr Guilmette,
At 01:09 PM 23-12-2020, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>I thank "S. Moonesamy" <sm+af at afrinic.net> for at least attempting
>to make some pretense of addressing this issue, which I have raised,
>however it is easy to demonstrate that this response is silly in the
>extreme.

It is hasty to conclude that I consider the issue as addressed.

>Apparently the "applicable" Mauritian law DOES NOT prevent AFRINIC
>from publishing, via its traditional port 43 WHOIS service, the names,
>addresses, and phone numbers (PII) associated with person: records
>that are currently present in the data base... a fact that anyone
>can easily verify just by querying the WHOIS for the handle associated
>with any person: record.

The above description is simplistic.  One of the 
purposes of Whois is to facilitate network 
operations.  The "person" record for AS33764 is:

   person:         CTO AFRINIC
   address:        11th Floor, Standard Chartered Tower
   address:        Cybercity, Eb?ne
   address:        Mauritius
   phone:          tel:+230-403-5100
   nic-hdl:        CA15-AFRINIC
   mnt-by:         CTO-MNT
   source:         AFRINIC # Filtered

I doubt that there is a person with that 
name.  The "address" is a business address.  The 
"phone" is not a personal phone number.

>Despite this obvious fact, the community is asked to believe that somehow,
>magically, Mauritian law DOES prevent AFRINIC from providing this same
>data to qualified and well-vetted researchers if the data from two or
>more person: records is provided at the same time (bulk) or if the
>data associated with a person: record that was removed fom the data base
>last week (historical) is provided.
>
>These alleged constraints, which allegedly spring from Mauritian law,
>are in fact just ridiculous double-talk, made up within the minds of
>S. Moonesamy and others within the current AFRINIC hierarchy, who are
>just simply searching for some vaguely plausible excuse to prevent
>any independent investigators, such as myself, from finding the whole
>truth of what has happened in the data base, over time.
>
>There is no basis in law for this.  AFRINIC and S. Moonesamy are simply
>stonewalling.

What is the basis in law which permits a researcher to access the date in bulk?

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

Board Chair, AFRINIC 




From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Thu Dec 24 08:12:27 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:12:27 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Questions
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20201223180936.13959fb0@elandnews.com>
Message-ID: <54632.1608797547@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <6.2.5.6.2.20201223180936.13959fb0 at elandnews.com>, 
"S. Moonesamy" <sm+af at afrinic.net> wrote:

>>There is no basis in law for this.  AFRINIC and S. Moonesamy are simply
>>stonewalling.
>
>What is the basis in law which permits a researcher to access the {data} in
> bulk?

This is the single most bizzare question I have been asked this entire
year.  And it has already been quite a strange year!

Where are you located Mr. Moonesamy?  Are you in a place where only things
that are expressely allowed by law are permitted??

Where I am, in also in about 99.99% of all countries on earth, that isn't
the way the law works.  Rather, in every single place on earth that I am
aware of, the law tells you what is NOT permitted... not what *IS* permitted.

I might as well ask you where in law it is permitted for you to draw a
breath.  Can you show me the particular Mauritian law that permits you
to do that?  If not, then you should most certainly stop doing that
immediately before someone calls the Mauritian police to report you for
breathing.


Regards,
rfg



From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Thu Dec 24 09:35:32 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 01:35:32 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] More stolen AFRINIC legacy blocks
Message-ID: <54941.1608802532@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

My apologies to all.  In my haste to respond to Noah last night, I neglected
to include in my listing of known stolen AFRINIC-administered legacy IPv4
address blocks one particular /16 block.   And in many ways, this is
the single most egregious theft that has been perpetrated by some
combination of Mr. Cohen, Mr. Uerlings, and Mr. Byaruhanga, because in
this case they have stolen property from underprivledged school children
in South Africa... a despicable deed if ever there was one!

The block in question is as follows, and this should be appended to the
extensive list of still-stolen AFRINIC-administered IPv4 blocks that
I provided yesterday:

ORG-FSED1-AFRINIC - Free State Education Department (ZA)
168.76.0.0/16
Current routing status:
   252  0       ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
     4  137951  HK  Clayer Limited

Note that Clayer Limited (Hong Kong) appears to be a willing accomplice
in many of these ongoing AFRINIC IP blocks thefts.

Just as in all of the other cases where legacy IPv4 address blocks have
been stolen by some combination of Mr. Cohen, Mr. Uerlings, and Mr.
Byaruhanga, in this case also the contact person's email address was
fiddled... somehow... so as to route any questions directly to an email
address which is under the control of either Mr. Cohen or Mr. Uerlings,
and *not* an email address that is under the control of the rightful
owner of this block:

person:         Hannes Du Plooy
address:        Orange Free State Dept of Education
address:        PO Box 521
address:        Bloemfontein 9300
address:        ZA
phone:          tel:+27-51-407-4054
e-mail:         hannesduplooy77 at gmail.com    <===== FRADULENT!
nic-hdl:        PHD-AFRINIC
mnt-by:         GENERATED-JLUEGZNF4DVRRWEI0IAWQV2ZWKMFMGXH-MNT
changed:        hannesduplooy77 at gmail.com 20131123   <===== FRADULENT
source:         AFRINIC

To make matters even more egregious, this particular stolen block also has
an associated route: object in the AFRINIC WHOIS data base which was
evidently installed there by either Mr. Cohen or Mr. Uerlings:

route:          168.76.0.0/16
descr:          Freenet
origin:         AS18013
mnt-by:         TF-168-76-MNT
changed:        route at education.fs.gov.za 20200405
source:         AFRINIC

If one were to take the above at face value, then one would have to accept
the premise that the legitimate owner of this block, i.e. the South African
Free State Education Department, elected to have some obscure network
located in Hong Kong (AS18013) route their entire /16 block for them.

That is laughable on the face of it.

Worse still, the above route object demonstrates that even though AFRINIC
management and the board were fully aware of the criminal thefts of valuable
IPv4 address space, both legacy and non-legacy, as early as September of
2019, neither management nor the board took -any- steps to constrain the
free access of the fraudsters, Uerlings & Cohen, from making changes to
the AFRINIC data base until at least April 5th, 2020 (20200405).  And
indeed, we have -no- official assurances, and thus no reason to believe
that messers Cohen & Uerlings are not *still* being allowed to create
whatever changes they want in the AFRINIC WHOIS data base, even as we
speak.

This would be funny if it were not so sad.

Even five months after Jan Vermeulen's damning published report of December
1st, 2019, even months after AFRINIC had fired Ernest and had filed a formal
police report about his criminal activities, AFRINIC was *still* allowing
the fraudsters, Cohen & Uerlings, to fiddle things in the AFRINIC data base.

This is not merely my opinion. The above route object and its date stamp
are clear, and they are accessible to anyone who knows how to run a whois
command.

Based on the available evidence, as cited above, and also the CEO's ongoing
inability and/or unwillingness to say anything at all about AFRINIC's
supposed "investigation" of all these matters, it seems that AFRINIC is
incapable of tying its own shoelaces unless given at least 13 months to
do so.

I grieve for the plight of Africa and Africans.  I think you all deserve
better leadership than this.  But you certainly won't get it unless and
until you demand it.

This entire colossal mess could have been, and should have been cleaned
up entirely twelve months ago.  And I guess it would have been, if people
in Mauritius were in the habit of working more than two days a week.

I found all of this stuff, analyzed it, investigated it all, and documented
all of it, all by myself, in less than four months in 2019.  That was just
me, working only part time on this little project.  Eddy has a HUGE budget
and about 25+ staff people to do his bidding, all day every day.  And he
even had *additional* help sent to him from APNIC!  So what is the hold up?
Why is this taking so long?  He won't say.  Nobody will say.  TIA.

Part of the problem is exactly what I already said it was... Secretly and
behind the scenes, either the board or Eddy or both have made the decision
that the legacy blocks are "not our problem man!"  So they've decided to
just let the theives keep what they stole in these cases, unless the real
and legitimate blocks owners show up to complain.

This is, quite simply both cowardly and crazy.  It is the same as attaching
a giant "Kick me!" sign on the back of AFRINIC.  It only serves to encourage
yet more fraudsters and scam artists to descend on AFRINIC, and maybe even
to try to get jobs there.

After all, that worked out rather well for Ernest, apparently.  He got
away scot free, and was able to keep 100% of the money he made from his
thefts.  The Board and/or Eddy could have had him arrested at the
meeting in Luanda, Angola, but they just let him walk out, get on a
plane, and fly back to Uganda.  And now, because Uganda is so corrupt,
Ernest effectively has full immunity from prosecution.  (Everybody knows
this, but apparently I am the only one with sufficiently poor taste to
say it out loud.)


Regards,
rfg



From sm+af at afrinic.net  Thu Dec 24 10:21:18 2020
From: sm+af at afrinic.net (S. Moonesamy)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 02:21:18 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Questions
In-Reply-To: <54632.1608797547@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
References: <6.2.5.6.2.20201223180936.13959fb0@elandnews.com>
 <54632.1608797547@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20201224011757.0ca37d80@elandnews.com>

Dear Mr Guilmette,
At 12:12 AM 24-12-2020, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>This is the single most bizzare question I have been asked this entire
>year.  And it has already been quite a strange year!

Personalizing a discussion is a distraction from the gist of the matter.

If I understood correctly, you would like to granted access to all 
the objects, including deleted objects [1].  You asserted that there 
isn't any basis in law which prevents such access from being 
granted.  I suggest providing a rationale which is related to a data 
protection law.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

1. There is a message at 
<https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/dbwg/2020-December/000284.html> 
about querying previous versions of "objects" in Whois.  Deleted 
objects are not queryable.

Board Chair, AFRINIC 




From noah at neo.co.tz  Thu Dec 24 11:28:10 2020
From: noah at neo.co.tz (Noah)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 14:28:10 +0300
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <52793.1608761459@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
References: <CAEqgTWYkmfxtk--OcCxaX32gRcp_DeOQzB8SDAM5jtdDHEsbXA@mail.gmail.com>
 <52793.1608761459@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
Message-ID: <CAEqgTWaVafMrA4K1wK9gDOt_ycHY+6b2qNw7gobxtVpv7hZfgQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, 01:14 Ronald F. Guilmette, <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
wrote:

> Let me begin by saying that I have only just been informed that there is
> some connection between Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> and SEACOM.  My apologies
> to him.


No need to apologize.... Some members of the AFRICAN Internet community
besides myself tend to wear multiple hats :-).

If I had known of that connection, I might have raised the
> issus of the Ugandan bogons with him privately.


It's best to address issues publicly because chances are that I personally
will not respond privately as I find private convos dodgy.

We run real networks and with that comes all sort of issues and this is one
of those that will be fixed.


> So the question must be asked:  Why is AS37100 (or anybody else) still
> peering with the bogon AS26754?
>

Ans dude since this was just brought into the Internet community attention
yesterday and like I indicated this will be followed up even though we are
now in a network freeze period but rest assured it's an issue being
followed up.

To this end, I see that AFRINIC has sort of reclaimed that ASN as you
rightfully indicated in your post so something is in th works.


> That should not be happening.


100% and FWIW while most might be aware, we rolled out RPKI [1] so that we
can be able to deal with such incidents but similarly its good for us as
the Internet community to keep each other informed as well.

Cheers,
Noah

[1]
https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2019-April/002821.html
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From noah at neo.co.tz  Thu Dec 24 11:30:49 2020
From: noah at neo.co.tz (Noah)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 14:30:49 +0300
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <52687.1608760721@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
References: <CAEqgTWaqvu9RLpxrTi4q=WdDRAbazo4RX9qof1mcbKUG4m++8Q@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <CAEqgTWbNYQnNWneaGx8wcS2tA4E7sG-fPAqVCKFxCSabt7X0Ew@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, 01:02 Ronald F. Guilmette, <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
wrote:

> In message <CAEqgTWaqvu9RLpxrTi4q=
> WdDRAbazo4RX9qof1mcbKUG4m++8Q at mail.gmail.com>
> Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:
>
> rfg> Please note that Ernest Byaruhanga is still enjoying some of his
> rfg> stolen AFRINIC space,
> >
> >
> >You have repeated the above quite a lot in all your emails...
>
> I might be mistaken, but I don't believe so.  In fact, I don't believe
> that I have previously mentioned these blocks... which appear to me to
> be in use by a party or parties who may or may not be Ernest Byaruhanga...
>

Ok Ronald noted.....

to anyone at all, except for maybe Jan Vermeulen.
>

And who the heck is Jan Vermeulen now?

>

There's quite a lot of sordid details that
> I know about, and I've only publicly disclosed a subset of those.


Please do this community a final favor and publish all details rather than
just subsets of your research.

This would help AFRINIC add to the pile of already misappropriated IPv4
space they are currently looking at.
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From noah at neo.co.tz  Thu Dec 24 11:39:00 2020
From: noah at neo.co.tz (Noah)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 14:39:00 +0300
Subject: [Community-Discuss] More stolen AFRINIC legacy blocks
In-Reply-To: <54941.1608802532@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
References: <54941.1608802532@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
Message-ID: <CAEqgTWYtY7SyXgvG4DQ398qHgbhito8YMMB-3ZVFh0sf6Mf2=A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, 12:41 Ronald F. Guilmette, <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
wrote:

> And now, because Uganda is so corrupt,
>

The one would also claim that the USA is equally corrupt but I will not go
around claiming such even though I suspect that some American nationals are
also involved in some of the corruption around IPv4 numbers.

As such, I think let us keep countries out of this mess and generalizing
mistakes made my individuals doesn't warranty bad mouthing an entire nation.

I request that we keep the discourse civil dude.

Noah

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From ish at lsl.digital  Thu Dec 24 12:25:22 2020
From: ish at lsl.digital (Ish Sookun)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 16:25:22 +0400
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Questions
In-Reply-To: <54632.1608797547@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
References: <54632.1608797547@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
Message-ID: <f4ad8ccc-7f1a-7400-aead-ff8a2a6719e7@lsl.digital>

Hi Ronald,

On 24/12/2020 12:12, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> 
> Where are you located Mr. Moonesamy? Are you in a place where only things
> that are expressely allowed by law are permitted??

In Mauritius, the Data Protection Regulation is taken seriously.

If you have a concern with the way your request if being entertained,
where you believe you should be able to have access to personal data of
individuals in possession of AFRINIC but the latter is refusing; then
you may address your concern to the Data Protection Commissioner.

Instead, I see you are arguing with a Board Director who is only telling
you that AFRINIC has a regulatory constraint in giving you access to
data it possesses.

Regards,

Ish Sookun




From libren at tuta.io  Thu Dec 24 12:29:40 2020
From: libren at tuta.io (libren at tuta.io)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 13:29:40 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <CAEqgTWbAL_=j8KbJ4gC_1PdT3S3rCEHo-EKupyDJw5kaBRMD7A@mail.gmail.com>
References: <MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io>
 <CAEqgTWZNH=i30Bacm=aDH512sfMhuPQXj9gb6FUGGUUwd1P1vg@mail.gmail.com>
 <MPEehDz--3-2@tuta.io>
 <CAEqgTWbAL_=j8KbJ4gC_1PdT3S3rCEHo-EKupyDJw5kaBRMD7A@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <MPJiTI1--3-2@tuta.io>

Noah are you member or LIR? If you are real person then what is the problem in submitting our id proofs to Moderator ? Verification and censorship are two different things. 
Who knows maybe you and Ronald are are same person or maybe I am sock puppet :)?
 Your psychological warfare tactics are not working so try hard.
We are the members of Afrinic and we have full faith in Afrinic management.
Afrinic management is working as gatekeepers. Gatekeepers are protecting the resources and interest of its members. Resources are not allocated without justification and consent of the management so accusing misappropriate use of resources is direct attack on Afrinic management and accusing its management of crime. 
We do not know history  and issue is between Afrinic and its members. Those who are not members please excuse us and leave Afrinic and its members alone.
Moderator please verify and I can bet Ronald and Noah will disappear.


[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of	IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003792.html>? Ronald F. Guilmette
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of	IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003794.html>? Ronald F. Guilmette
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003796.html>? libren at tuta.io
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003797.html>? Noah
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003799.html>? Noah
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003800.html>? Sami Salih
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003801.html>? Noah
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003802.html>? Noah
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of	IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003804.html>? Ronald F. Guilmette
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of	IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003806.html>? Ronald F. Guilmette
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003808.html>? libren at tuta.io
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003809.html>? Emem William
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003811.html>? AFRINIC Communication
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003814.html>? Noah
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003815.html>? Noah
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003816.html>? Noah
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of	IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003819.html>? Ronald F. Guilmette
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of	IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003820.html>? Ronald F. Guilmette
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of	IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003821.html>? Ronald F. Guilmette
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003826.html>? Noah
[Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources  <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-December/003827.html>? Noah

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Dec 23, 2020, 18:54 by noah at neo.co.tz:

>
>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 3:59 PM Libra via Community-Discuss <> community-discuss at afrinic.net> > wrote:
>
>> Too much spam is generated by couple of morons in this community list.
>>
>
> Take a chill pill and stop?> spamming the community list since they want?to hear how well AFRINIC?S IPv4 resources are being used in serving Africa?s internet and advancing its network infrastructure.
>
>
>>
>> How about only verified members allowed to use this mailing list??
>>
>> Those who are Afrinic member or Lir can link their main account and those who are not members or LIR can submit their id proof for verification.
>>
>
> While I am not a big fan of sock puppets, I don't believe in censorship?the likes of which you are advocating on a public forum which welcomes everyone with interest.
>
> Noah
> ?
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From noah at neo.co.tz  Thu Dec 24 13:06:41 2020
From: noah at neo.co.tz (Noah)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 16:06:41 +0300
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <MPJiTI1--3-2@tuta.io>
References: <MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io>
 <CAEqgTWZNH=i30Bacm=aDH512sfMhuPQXj9gb6FUGGUUwd1P1vg@mail.gmail.com>
 <MPEehDz--3-2@tuta.io>
 <CAEqgTWbAL_=j8KbJ4gC_1PdT3S3rCEHo-EKupyDJw5kaBRMD7A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, 15:33 Libra via Community-Discuss, <
community-discuss at afrinic.net> wrote:

> - Noah are you member or LIR?
>

Who is asking?

- If you are real person then what is the problem in submitting our id
> proofs to Moderator ?
>

Mr.Moderator I am at your disposal.

- Verification and censorship are two different things.
> - Who knows maybe you and Ronald are are same person or maybe I am sock
> puppet :)
>

Ronald claims to be an American, never met him and not interested either in
knowing him beyond the revelations he makes on this forum as relates to
IPv4 number resources misappropriation.

As for me, I am a breath gasping, heart pumping decaying body.... so go
figure.


- We are the members of Afrinic and we have full faith in Afrinic
> management.
>


Then you have nothing to worry about. But the AFRINIC management has the
obligation to do what is right and they are doing exactly that todate.

- Afrinic management is working as gatekeepers. Gatekeepers are protecting
> the resources and interest of its members.
>

You reminded me of Lu and his claim that AFRINIC is a book keeper. Actually
AFRINIC does more than just registry services. Please do your homework.

Resources are not allocated without justification and consent of the
> management so accusing misappropriate use of resources is direct attack on
> Afrinic management and accusing its management of crime.
>

You are correct but then what happens after resources have been allocated
but instead a members decides to misappropriate them by leasing them
outside the AFRINIC service region to entities in North America and Europe
to use to advance the Internet Infrastructure there to the disadvantage of
AFRICA.

Do you think the AFRINIC management would be doing it's members and the
community a service if they looked into such violations.

There are some provisions in the AFRINIC, RSA that allows the management to
investigate any violations of terms of RSA in order to enforce compliance
by its resources members.

Moderator please verify and I can bet Ronald and Noah will disappear.
>

Very funny dude.

Noah
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From nishal at controlfreak.co.za  Thu Dec 24 13:10:10 2020
From: nishal at controlfreak.co.za (Nishal Goburdhan)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 15:10:10 +0200
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Questions
In-Reply-To: <f4ad8ccc-7f1a-7400-aead-ff8a2a6719e7@lsl.digital>
References: <54632.1608797547@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
 <f4ad8ccc-7f1a-7400-aead-ff8a2a6719e7@lsl.digital>
Message-ID: <53DCCFF8-FBD4-4684-A380-64A625EC0265@controlfreak.co.za>

On 24 Dec 2020, at 14:25, Ish Sookun wrote:

> Instead, I see you are arguing with a Board Director who is only 
> telling
> you that AFRINIC has a regulatory constraint in giving you access to
> data it possesses.

this is not quite a regulatory constraint.  this information is, or was, 
already in the public domain.  and so this is not *private* per se.  
however, as SM pointed out, the current afrinic *whois-db policy* 
constraint, is not to make the history of deleted objects available.  
that?s an entirely different problem.

the OP wanted historic information that _would not be available via any 
other means_, to [every|any]one else.  supplying this to one party 
without a legal writ, would put afrinic in an indefensible position.  
however, making that historic information available, via something like 
a WHOWAS service [1], is not illegal.  and if the historic data is made 
available, then a historic-bulk-whois-request-form can be created, 
satisfying the original request.  or, y?know, script queries :-)

making this historic data available, is not difficult [2].  it is just 
that the *current* db policy does not permit it.

-n.

[1]  https://www.apnic.net/static/whowas-ui/
[2]  https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/dbwg/2020-December/000286.html



From nishal at controlfreak.co.za  Thu Dec 24 13:12:31 2020
From: nishal at controlfreak.co.za (Nishal Goburdhan)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 15:12:31 +0200
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <MPJiTI1--3-2@tuta.io>
References: <MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io>
 <CAEqgTWZNH=i30Bacm=aDH512sfMhuPQXj9gb6FUGGUUwd1P1vg@mail.gmail.com>
 <MPEehDz--3-2@tuta.io>
 <CAEqgTWbAL_=j8KbJ4gC_1PdT3S3rCEHo-EKupyDJw5kaBRMD7A@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <9967601E-6BED-4221-853A-EBAAAE5DD867@controlfreak.co.za>

On 24 Dec 2020, at 14:29, Libra via Community-Discuss wrote:

> Noah are you member or LIR?

[snip nonsense]

hey noah,  (and other bona fide people)

please don?t feed the trolls.
it only makes them hungrier, and appear more often.

?n.



From noah at neo.co.tz  Thu Dec 24 13:25:27 2020
From: noah at neo.co.tz (Noah)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 16:25:27 +0300
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <9967601E-6BED-4221-853A-EBAAAE5DD867@controlfreak.co.za>
References: <MP9iGyd--3-2@tuta.io>
 <CAEqgTWZNH=i30Bacm=aDH512sfMhuPQXj9gb6FUGGUUwd1P1vg@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <CAEqgTWYu7w1i3QSEOyHcS1AqxxAfnEYRnKSr+neaB5-x==O2KQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, 16:15 Nishal Goburdhan, <nishal at controlfreak.co.za>
wrote:

> On 24 Dec 2020, at 14:29, Libra via Community-Discuss wrote:
>
> > Noah are you member or LIR?
>
> [snip nonsense]
>
> hey noah,  (and other bona fide people)
>
> please don?t feed the trolls.
> it only makes them hungrier, and appear more often.
>

Noted Nishal.

Noah


> ?n.
>
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From dc at darwincosta.com  Thu Dec 24 13:34:19 2020
From: dc at darwincosta.com (dc at darwincosta.com)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 14:34:19 +0100
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
	IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <MPJiTI1--3-2@tuta.io>
References: <MPJiTI1--3-2@tuta.io>
Message-ID: <17D5BD18-8B6B-4821-BEE9-33C5632CE3D5@darwincosta.com>



> On 24 Dec 2020, at 13:32, Libra via Community-Discuss <community-discuss at afrinic.net> wrote:
> 
> ?
> Noah are you member or LIR? If you are real person then what is the problem in submitting our id proofs to Moderator ? Verification and censorship are two different things. 
What are you talking about? 

> Who knows maybe you and Ronald are are same person or maybe I am sock puppet :) 
> Your psychological warfare tactics are not working so try hard.
> We are the members of Afrinic and we have full faith in Afrinic management.
If you really care about AFRINIC then you should care how things are being conducted to. 
> Afrinic management is working as gatekeepers. Gatekeepers are protecting the resources and interest of its members. Resources are not allocated without justification and consent of the management so accusing misappropriate use of resources is direct attack on Afrinic management and accusing its management of crime. 
> We do not know history and issue is between Afrinic and its members. Those who are not members please excuse us and leave Afrinic and its members alone.
> Moderator please verify and I can bet Ronald and Noah will disappear.
Oh oh oh, please enjoy your Xmas and don?t bother the ?moderator? with non sense. 
> 
> 
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Ronald F. Guilmette
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Ronald F. Guilmette
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   libren at tuta.io
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Noah
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Noah
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Sami Salih
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Noah
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Noah
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Ronald F. Guilmette
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Ronald F. Guilmette
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   libren at tuta.io
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Emem William
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   AFRINIC Communication
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Noah
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Noah
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Noah
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Ronald F. Guilmette
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Ronald F. Guilmette
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Ronald F. Guilmette
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Noah
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources   Noah
> 
> -- 
Darwin-.
> 
> 
> Dec 23, 2020, 18:54 by noah at neo.co.tz:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 3:59 PM Libra via Community-Discuss <community-discuss at afrinic.net> wrote:
> Too much spam is generated by couple of morons in this community list.
> 
> Take a chill pill and stop spamming the community list since they want to hear how well AFRINIC?S IPv4 resources are being used in serving Africa?s internet and advancing its network infrastructure.
> 
> 
> How about only verified members allowed to use this mailing list? 
> Those who are Afrinic member or Lir can link their main account and those who are not members or LIR can submit their id proof for verification.
> 
> While I am not a big fan of sock puppets, I don't believe in censorship the likes of which you are advocating on a public forum which welcomes everyone with interest.
> 
> Noah
>  
> 
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From dc at darwincosta.com  Thu Dec 24 13:34:56 2020
From: dc at darwincosta.com (dc at darwincosta.com)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 14:34:56 +0100
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
	IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <9967601E-6BED-4221-853A-EBAAAE5DD867@controlfreak.co.za>
References: <9967601E-6BED-4221-853A-EBAAAE5DD867@controlfreak.co.za>
Message-ID: <F90D234D-4F46-4436-A5BE-1E1F59EC0100@darwincosta.com>



> On 24 Dec 2020, at 14:14, Nishal Goburdhan <nishal at controlfreak.co.za> wrote:
> 
> ?On 24 Dec 2020, at 14:29, Libra via Community-Discuss wrote:
> 
>> Noah are you member or LIR?
> 
> [snip nonsense]
> 
> hey noah,  (and other bona fide people)
> 
> please don?t feed the trolls.
> it only makes them hungrier, and appear more often.
Indeed.
> 
> ?n.

Darwin-.
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Community-Discuss mailing list
> Community-Discuss at afrinic.net
> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss




From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Fri Dec 25 03:41:17 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:41:17 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] WHOIS data base access
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20201223180936.13959fb0@elandnews.com>
Message-ID: <58589.1608867677@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

Merry Christmas to all!


In message <6.2.5.6.2.20201223180936.13959fb0 at elandnews.com>, 
"S. Moonesamy" <sm+af at afrinic.net> wrote:

>{... response snipped...}

I am not sure that it would be productive for me to try, yet again,
to make the points that I have tried to make on the topic of WHOIS
data base access, both historical and, in bulk.  For whatever reasons,
I have not been entirely successful at getting across my fundamental
points.

Nishal Goburdhan has posted to support my view that these records
*are* in fact already public... at least the present day versions
thereof... and that it is thus self-evident that AFRINIC's publication
of these records is *not* any kind of violation of Mauritian law.
(If it were, then Mr. Moonesamy and he fellow board members would
likely have been in jail long before now, because AFRINIC has been
publishing these same records that I am requesting, not just for
years, but indeed, ever since the beginning of AFRINIC, way back
in 2004.)

I have not asked for any information that was not, at some point in
time, being published, by AFRINIC, and via its publicly-accessible
port 43 WHOIS service.  Neither have I asked for any information
that AFRINIC legal counsel has not already agreed may be made public,
under Mauritian law.

My requests have been far more modest.  I have only requested that the
exact same unredacted records that are today accessible, albeit only
bit-by-bit, from the AFRINIC WHOIS server, be provided to me in a
more convenient and easy-to-process single large clump.

My other request, which is exactly as Nishal Goburdhan has accurately
described it, is just to have access also to those exact same public
records, but including even the prior versions of those records, and
including also even deleted records that *AFRINIC policy* and *only*
AFRINIC policy has decided should not be made available.

Nishal Goburdhan has quite rationally stated that the one and only
impediment to the fulfillment of these modest requests is *not*
Mauritian law, but only current AFRINIC policy... with emphasis on
the "current" part.

It is my hope that this current stumbling block, AFRINIC policy, will
be removed, so that I may make further progress in researching issues
relating to the misappropriation of valuable IP address space which is
under the administration of AFRINIC.  Given that my investigations have
already resulted in the return, to the community, of millions upon
millions of dollars worth of valuable property, I believe that it is,
or at any rate should be, self-evident that it would be in the best
interests of the AFRINIC community to allow me to inspect *all* current
and historical public WHOIS records, and that any current AFRINIC policy
or policies that prevent this should be revised, via a consensus of the
membership, to instead permit it.


Regards,
rfg


P.S.  I cannot help but note also that Charman Moonesamy's opinions
regarding the legality of allowing parties outside of AFRINIC staff to
access both current and historical WHOIS records appear to depend on
who, exactly, is either asking for or receiving that access.

I, apparently, am unworthy of this information.  By contrast the technical
representatives of APNIC that have been assisting the CEO to perform
the allegedly ongoing "audit" of these same records have been given full
carte blanche access to all of those same records.

If Charman Moonesamy is sincerly concerned about the possibility of violating
Mauritian law by allowing "outsiders" access to this same data, then I
suppose that he now has no choice but to file a police report and to
arrange to have Eddy Kayihura arrested for his wanton and abundant violations
of Mauritian privacy law, i.e. allowing the APNIC people to have a look see.

Of course, that would be a perfectly silly and absurd result of Charman
Moonesamy's interpretation of Mauritian law, and one that no one would
either expect or want.  But I feel compelled to throw this absurd
hypothetical out onto the table, first to demonstrate just how absurd the
results would be if in fact Charman Moonesamy's interpretation of Mauritian
law were even remotely correct, but second and also, to ask the next
obvious question:

If Mauritian privacy law prohibits all except AFRINIC staff from seeing
all of the WHOIS records, then how did it come to pass that technical
representatives from APNIC were shown *all* of these same records?
And where was Charman Moonesamy's highly restrictive interpretation of
Mauritian law when THAT happened?

Charman Moonesamy cannot have it both ways.  He cannot on a Sunday condone
the act of providing all of the WHOIS records, both past and present, to
his helpful friends from APNIC, and then on the following Monday declare
that it has somehow magically become illegal to give me the exact same
WHOIS records.

If the glaring inconsistancy here is not now obvious and apparent to all,
then the English language has lost all of its meaning.



From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Fri Dec 25 03:52:04 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 19:52:04 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Questions
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20201224011757.0ca37d80@elandnews.com>
Message-ID: <58633.1608868324@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <6.2.5.6.2.20201224011757.0ca37d80 at elandnews.com>, 
"S. Moonesamy" <sm+af at afrinic.net> wrote:

>1. There is a message at 
><https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/dbwg/2020-December/000284.html> 
>about querying previous versions of "objects" in Whois.  Deleted 
>objects are not queryable.

Yes, that is one of several problems relating to WHOIS access that need
to be addressed and fixed.

Another problem is that unlike other object types in the WHOIS data
base, the full history of person: objects is simply not available.

No rationale and no explanation for this has been provided, even though
I have asked about it several times now.  Neither has it ever been
clear on whose authority the decision was made to render the historical
versions of person: objects inaccessible.

Who decided that it should be so?  Was that decision based on a vote or
on community direction or community consensus?  Or did AFRINIC staff
make the decision, unilaterally and on their own, to effectively redact
the histories of person: objects, without any input from the community?


Regards,
rfg



From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Fri Dec 25 04:33:00 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:33:00 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
	IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <CAEqgTWaVafMrA4K1wK9gDOt_ycHY+6b2qNw7gobxtVpv7hZfgQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <58819.1608870780@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <CAEqgTWaVafMrA4K1wK9gDOt_ycHY+6b2qNw7gobxtVpv7hZfgQ at mail.gmail.com>
Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:

>> So the question must be asked:  Why is AS37100 (or anybody else) still
>> peering with the bogon AS26754?
>>
>
>Ans dude since this was just brought into the Internet community attention
>yesterday...

My records indicate that AS26754 was de-registered by AFRINIC and became
a "bogon" ASN  on some date between December 17, 2019 and February 3rd, 2020.
In short AS26754 has been a bogon for at least 10 months already.

In all that time SEACOM never noticed that it was providing routing to a
bogon??

>and like I indicated this will be followed up even though we are
>now in a network freeze period but rest assured it's an issue being
>followed up.

Good.  I look forward to that.  Although I'm frankly not sure why you
folks at SEACOM don't just simply pull the plug on this bogon.  This isn't
rocket science, after all.

As regards to your "network freeze" I have no idea what that means.  Here
where I am, we are in the depths of winter.  But I thought that it must be
summer in Africa.  No?

>To this end, I see that AFRINIC has sort of reclaimed that ASN

I don't believe that AFRINIC is capable of "sort of" reclaiming things.
Neither do I believe that a woman can be "somewhat" pregnant.

As noted above, AFRINIC *fully* reclaimed the AS number AS26754, thus
making it into a bogon ASN more than ten months ago already.

SEACOM, for its part, should immediately stop providing connectivity to
this bogon AS26754, which appears to have been a stolen property of
Ernest Byaruhanga, who, as I'm sure you know, is supposedly under criminal
investigation, by the Mauritius police for massively ripping off AFRINIC.

It is my sincere hope that SEACOM will stop providing aid and comfort to
the criminal Ernest Byaruhanga at the earliest possible moment.  The
notion of some administrative "network freeze" is NOT a reasonable or
even a believable excuse to avoid cutting off this criminal immediately.

>as you rightfully indicated in your post so something is in th works.

I'm sorry Noah, but you have misinterpreted.  Nothing is "in the works"
with respect to this bogon AS number AS26754.  AFRINIC staff already
figured out that this was yet one more thing that had been stolen by
Ernest, and thus, quite apprpriately, they took it back over 10 months
ago now.

(I only wish that SEACOM has been equally as observant in the early part
of this year, and that it had likewise taken appropriate action, in the
first months of 2020, to disconnect from Ernest and his stolen properties.)

So AFRINIC's work on this particular case is 100% done and completed, and
was so already, more than 10 months ago.  The only thing that now remains
to be done is for SEACOM... and others... to stop peering with this bogon
ASN, AS26754.

I see no reason why that  either cannot or should not happen immediately,
and with the flip of a switch.

Also, I would very much appreciate it if SEACOM could provide me, and 
AFRINIC, and the Mauritian police, with all relevant documentation showing
exactly how Ernest has been paying SEACOM for his connectivity for the
past 1+ year, including any information about the specific bank account
number or numbers he has used to make these payments.  I am quite sure
that this type of information would be most helpful, when and if AFRINIC
ever attempts to recoup even some of the cash that Ernest managed to milk
out of AFRINIC for so many years, via his huge embezzlement scheme.

Just out of curiosity, what was the most recent date on which SEACOM
received a payment from Ernest to continue to maintain connectivity to
AS26754?  Has Ernest been making these payments monthly?  If so, then
quite obviously his most recent payment information will be most helpful
in finding where he has stashed all of his ill-gotten embezzled cash.


Regards,
rfg




From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Fri Dec 25 04:39:42 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 20:39:42 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
	IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <CAEqgTWbNYQnNWneaGx8wcS2tA4E7sG-fPAqVCKFxCSabt7X0Ew@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <58863.1608871182@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <CAEqgTWbNYQnNWneaGx8wcS2tA4E7sG-fPAqVCKFxCSabt7X0Ew at mail.gmail.com>
Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:

>And who the heck is Jan Vermeulen now?

He is a South African journalist who has written extensively about the
thefts of AFRINIC-administered IPv4 address blocks.

Google is your friend.

>There's quite a lot of sordid details that
>> I know about, and I've only publicly disclosed a subset of those.
>
>Please do this community a final favor and publish all details rather than
>just subsets of your research.
>
>This would help AFRINIC add to the pile of already misappropriated IPv4
>space they are currently looking at.

I have already posted here -all- of the IPv4 CIDRs representing -all- of
the AFRINIC-administered IPv4 address blocks that I have reason to believe
have either been "stolen" or "squatted on", as I define those terms.

I am aware of some other interesting facts relating to the overall
context and history of these thefts, and I will make that additional
information public at a time of my choosing.


Regards,
rfg



From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Fri Dec 25 05:36:14 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 21:36:14 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] More stolen AFRINIC legacy blocks
In-Reply-To: <CAEqgTWYtY7SyXgvG4DQ398qHgbhito8YMMB-3ZVFh0sf6Mf2=A@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <59079.1608874574@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <CAEqgTWYtY7SyXgvG4DQ398qHgbhito8YMMB-3ZVFh0sf6Mf2=A at mail.gmail.com>
Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:

rfg> And now, because Uganda is so corrupt,
>>
>
>The one would also claim that the USA is equally corrupt but I will not go
>around claiming such even though I suspect that some American nationals are
>also involved in some of the corruption around IPv4 numbers.
>
>As such, I think let us keep countries out of this mess and generalizing
>mistakes made my individuals doesn't warranty bad mouthing an entire nation.
>
>I request that we keep the discourse civil dude.

My apologies.  I only know what I've read on the Internet...

https://www.ganintegrity.com/portal/country-profiles/uganda/

https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/uganda#

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Uganda

https://www.u4.no/publications/uganda-overview-of-corruption-and-anti-corruption-2018

https://www.hrw.org/report/2013/10/21/letting-big-fish-swim/failures-prosecute-high-level-corruption-uganda#

https://afrobarometer.org/publications/ad77-fighting-corruption-in-uganda-citizens-pessimistic




From ali at hussein.me.ke  Fri Dec 25 06:42:35 2020
From: ali at hussein.me.ke (Ali Hussein)
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 09:42:35 +0300
Subject: [Community-Discuss] More stolen AFRINIC legacy blocks
In-Reply-To: <59079.1608874574@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
References: <59079.1608874574@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
Message-ID: <54DDB5DD-CC06-4D2A-9C52-438DE1A0F049@hussein.me.ke>

Ronald

Noah has a point. Let?s stick to AfriNIC issues which you have articulated very well. I?m shocked by the things you?ve said and hope for more action from AfriNIC.

As to your internet links about how corrupt Uganda is let me just respond to you with the link below.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2020/09/11/trumps-businesses-raked-in-19-billion-of-revenue-during-his-first-three-years-in-office/

Ali Hussein
Digital Transformation 

+254 0713 601113 

Twitter: @AliHKassim
Skype: abu-jomo
LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."  ~ Aristotle


Sent from my iPad

> On 25 Dec 2020, at 8:38 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
> ?In message <CAEqgTWYtY7SyXgvG4DQ398qHgbhito8YMMB-3ZVFh0sf6Mf2=A at mail.gmail.com>
> Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:
> 
> rfg> And now, because Uganda is so corrupt,
>> 
>> The one would also claim that the USA is equally corrupt but I will not go
>> around claiming such even though I suspect that some American nationals are
>> also involved in some of the corruption around IPv4 numbers.
>> 
>> As such, I think let us keep countries out of this mess and generalizing
>> mistakes made my individuals doesn't warranty bad mouthing an entire nation.
>> 
>> I request that we keep the discourse civil dude.
> 
> My apologies.  I only know what I've read on the Internet...
> 
> https://www.ganintegrity.com/portal/country-profiles/uganda/
> 
> https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/uganda#
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Uganda
> 
> https://www.u4.no/publications/uganda-overview-of-corruption-and-anti-corruption-2018
> 
> https://www.hrw.org/report/2013/10/21/letting-big-fish-swim/failures-prosecute-high-level-corruption-uganda#
> 
> https://afrobarometer.org/publications/ad77-fighting-corruption-in-uganda-citizens-pessimistic
> 
> 
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From sm+af at afrinic.net  Fri Dec 25 08:19:51 2020
From: sm+af at afrinic.net (S. Moonesamy)
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 00:19:51 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] WHOIS data base access
In-Reply-To: <58589.1608867677@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
References: <6.2.5.6.2.20201223180936.13959fb0@elandnews.com>
 <58589.1608867677@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20201224231825.0cdc6438@elandnews.com>

Dear Mr Guilmette,
At 07:41 PM 24-12-2020, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>Merry Christmas to all!

Merry Christmas.

>I have not asked for any information that was not, at some point in
>time, being published, by AFRINIC, and via its publicly-accessible
>port 43 WHOIS service.  Neither have I asked for any information
>that AFRINIC legal counsel has not already agreed may be made public,
>under Mauritian law.
>
>My requests have been far more modest.  I have only requested that the
>exact same unredacted records that are today accessible, albeit only
>bit-by-bit, from the AFRINIC WHOIS server, be provided to me in a
>more convenient and easy-to-process single large clump.

There is a request form at 
<https://www.afrinic.net/ast/afrinic-bulk-whois-request-form-2020.pdf> 
for 2020.  I suggest filling in the new version of the request form 
and sending it to the hostmaster at afrinic.net email address.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

Board Chair, AFRINIC 




From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Sat Dec 26 00:02:08 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 16:02:08 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] More stolen AFRINIC legacy blocks
In-Reply-To: <54DDB5DD-CC06-4D2A-9C52-438DE1A0F049@hussein.me.ke>
Message-ID: <62928.1608940928@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <54DDB5DD-CC06-4D2A-9C52-438DE1A0F049 at hussein.me.ke>, 
Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:

>Noah has a point. Let's stick to AfriNIC issues which you have articulated
>very well. I'm shocked by the things you've said and
>hope for more action from AfriNIC.
>
>As to your internet links about how corrupt Uganda is let me just respond to
>you with the link below.

I do apologize that I have gotten seriously off-topic for this mailing list
by even mentioning conditions specific to Uganda.  However I feel that
the facts, as they now stand, do justify my digression somewhat.  It has
been a year since AFRINIC filed a report about Ernest with the Mauritian
police.  Has Ernest been apprehended by the Ugandan police yet?  Has he
even been detained or even interviewed by them?  I think we would have
all heard about it by now if any of those things had happened.

As regards to the corrupution in my own country, USA, let me just say yes,
we have an extremely grave and serious problem with that right now, but
only at the very top of the national government.  I assure you that here,
it is *not* at all common to pay off judges or police, and it is *not* at
all common to have to pay a bribe in order to get water service, or
electrical service, or sanitation service, or garbage pickup, or telephone
service, or any other common government-supplied services.

As regards to our highly corrupt and despicable President, he has done
many many things lately in his attempts to destroy our 244 year old
democratic system, and to try to install himself as our new Dictator 
for Life.  But he has utterly failed in all these attempts, and he lost
the Presidency in our recent elections.  Thus, in accordance with law,
he shall be out of office on January 20th, and well more than half of
us here in the U.S. will be very relieved and pleased when his era of
corruption ends, as will the people of most nations all around the world,
I think.


Regards,
rfg



From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Sat Dec 26 00:20:24 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 16:20:24 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] WHOIS data base access
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20201224231825.0cdc6438@elandnews.com>
Message-ID: <62980.1608942024@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <6.2.5.6.2.20201224231825.0cdc6438 at elandnews.com>, 
"S. Moonesamy" <sm+af at afrinic.net wrote:

>There is a request form at 
><https://www.afrinic.net/ast/afrinic-bulk-whois-request-form-2020.pdf> 
>for 2020.  I suggest filling in the new version of the request form 
>and sending it to the hostmaster at afrinic.net email address.

Was this intended as a bad joke?

I already did this!!  I already filed out the form and send it back in
to AFRINIC and received an acknowledgement that it was received, *and*
I was then given a special password to access what I had hoped would
be a full and *UNREDACTED* copy of the entire AFRINIC WHOIS data base.

I did all this even before the pandemic began!

After all of that fooling around, I was shocked, amazed, and angered
when, at the end of the whole process, the only thing that I could
actually get after all of this jumping through hoops was the exact
same *redacted* copy of the AFRINIC WHOIS data base that I could already
get even *before* I went through all of this bureaucratic nonsense,
which is the same *redacted* copy of the data base that any fool can
download, via FTP, from ftp.afrinic.net any day of the week.

When I complained that I was still not getting the promised *unredacted*
version of the WHOIS data base, both Madhvi and Eddy just told me that
what I was given was all that was avaialble, and then basically just
ignored me after that.

Why did I have to fill out a form, send it back, and go through all
of this silliness, only to end up with the exact same (redacted) data
that I and everyone else on planet earth could already get, even before
all of this BS??

I guess that the joke is on me for being stupid enough to believe that
AFRINIC would at least be suffuciently competent and functional to
*not* just create a whole convoluted bureaucratic mechanism just to
give people absolutely nothing above and beyond what they already
had or could already get.

I say again, I have been stonewalled and I am *still* being stonealled.

I can't get even *current* unredacted bulk WHOIS records, let alone any
of the vital *historical* records.

Why?  

I am asking you, Mr. Chairman, to PLEASE get this nonsense sorted out
ON YOUR END.


Regards,
rfg



From sm+af at afrinic.net  Sat Dec 26 02:18:48 2020
From: sm+af at afrinic.net (S. Moonesamy)
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 18:18:48 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] WHOIS data base access
In-Reply-To: <62980.1608942024@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
References: <6.2.5.6.2.20201224231825.0cdc6438@elandnews.com>
 <62980.1608942024@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20201225180838.0cd24340@elandnews.com>

At 04:20 PM 25-12-2020, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>Was this intended as a bad joke?

No.

>I already did this!!  I already filed out the form and send it back in

That form was published in March 2020.  Could you please fill in the 
2020 version of the form and email it to hostmaster at afrinic.net?

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

Board Chair, AFRINIC 




From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Sat Dec 26 02:54:02 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 18:54:02 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] WHOIS data base access
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20201225180838.0cd24340@elandnews.com>
Message-ID: <63404.1608951242@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <6.2.5.6.2.20201225180838.0cd24340 at elandnews.com>, 
"S. Moonesamy" <sm+af at afrinic.net> wrote:

>At 04:20 PM 25-12-2020, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>Was this intended as a bad joke?
>
>No.
>
>>I already did this!!  I already filed out the form and send it back in
>
>That form was published in March 2020.  Could you please fill in the 
>2020 version of the form and email it to hostmaster at afrinic.net?

Are you personally guaranteeing me that if I spend (waste?) my time
doing this all over again, that I will get something back in return
for my investment of time, more than the giant nothingburger that
I got the last time I jumped through all of these hoops?


Regards,
rfg



From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Sat Dec 26 03:42:56 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 19:42:56 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] SEACOM & Ernest
Message-ID: <63639.1608954176@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

I am pleased to report to you all that according to the data currently
being provided at the web site bgp.he.net, SEACOM is no longer providing
connectivity sevices to the bogon AS number, AS26754, which is most
probably being used by the thief, Ernest Byaruhanga.

https://bgp.he.net/AS26754#_asinfo

Unfortunately, as can be seen on the page above, that is not the end of
the story.  The bogon AS number, AS26754 is still being provided with
connectivity by AS328616, also known as "Spidd Africa Ltd", and that
ASN is itself still being provided transit services by SEACOM:

https://bgp.he.net/AS328616#_asinfo

I have looked at the web site of this somewhat mysterious Ugandan company:

https://spiddafrica.com/

The company appears to want to claim that it is good at "cybersecurity"
and yet it apparently doesn't even know enough to stop itself from
providing services to bogon ASNs.

More troubling, the entire company just seems to be some sort of a false
front.  Clicking on the "About Us" link on the company's home page
brings up this page, which is filled with only classic boilerplate
"Lorem ipsum" type text:

https://spiddafrica.com/about-spiddafrica

Apparently the company does not wish the world to know anything about
it, including who the officers and/or beneficial owners are.

(Many of the other clickable links at the bottom of the company's home
page are also dysfunctional.)

Remarkably, despite the company's inability or unwillingness to reveal
anything at all about itself to the outside world, via its web site,
the Dun & Bradstreet company in the U.S. estimates that the company is
earning around $2.41 million dollars (USD) per year:

https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.spidd_africa_limited.5ad26d64814c330260454b4821e4ac86.html

One wonders how much of those earnings are coming from providing ongoing
connectivity and transit services to Ernest.

Although it is not entirely clear who really owns Spidd Africa Ltd, the
following page suggests two names, i.e. "Gensi Michael John" and
"Augustus Muncha Katende".

https://www.ppdaproviders.ug/index.php?page=yprov&sl=4&tgt=5&aph=S&sn=all%20providers&sp=all%20sectors&st=&tp=v&id=3161

It is my hope that Noah, or at any rate, -someone- from SEACOM will reach
out to this company, and to those two gentlemen... all of which, together,
are evidently a SEACOM customer... and make appropriate inquiries so as
to determine why the company is still providing connectivity to Ernest's
(now bogon) ASN which is itself still announcing routes to Ernest's
(now bogon) stolen IPv4 address blocks.

https://bgp.he.net/AS26754#_prefixes

I would like to also once again express my hope that SEACOM will provide
any and all payment information relating to the services they have been
providing to Ernest's AS26754 to both the Mauritius police and to Eddy
and the Board so that they may attempt to recoup at least some of the
financial proceeds that were obtained, by Ernest, as a result of his
years-long embezzlement scheme.

Of course, I also hope that -someone- will persuade the owners of
AS328616, "Spidd Africa Ltd", to immediately cease provding connectivity
to Ernest and his bogons.  (Maybe some official of AFRINIC might also have
a polite word with them about that, in addition to SEACOM, of course.)


Regards,
rfg


P.S.  I don not have a Facebook account, so I personally cannot do this,
but any interested party who does have a Facebook account could probably
contact this company via Facebook to ask them why they are helping Ernest
to stay online.  The company does seem to have an active Facebook account,
which even now is showing a Christmas greeting:

https://www.facebook.com/SPIDDAFRICA/
https://www.facebook.com/pg/SPIDDAFRICA/about/



From sm+af at afrinic.net  Sat Dec 26 05:02:27 2020
From: sm+af at afrinic.net (S. Moonesamy)
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 21:02:27 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] WHOIS data base access
In-Reply-To: <63404.1608951242@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
References: <6.2.5.6.2.20201225180838.0cd24340@elandnews.com>
 <63404.1608951242@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20201225202548.0cf3bb08@elandnews.com>

Dear Mr Guilmette,
At 06:54 PM 25-12-2020, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>Are you personally guaranteeing me that if I spend (waste?) my time
>doing this all over again, that I will get something back in return
>for my investment of time, more than the giant nothingburger that
>I got the last time I jumped through all of these hoops?

I suggested a practical alternative.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

Board Chair, AFRINIC  




From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Sat Dec 26 05:57:29 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 21:57:29 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] WHOIS data base access
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20201225202548.0cf3bb08@elandnews.com>
Message-ID: <64394.1608962249@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

In message <6.2.5.6.2.20201225202548.0cf3bb08 at elandnews.com>, you wrote:

>Dear Mr Guilmette,
>At 06:54 PM 25-12-2020, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>Are you personally guaranteeing me that if I spend (waste?) my time
>>doing this all over again, that I will get something back in return
>>for my investment of time, more than the giant nothingburger that
>>I got the last time I jumped through all of these hoops?
>
>I suggested a practical alternative.

Would it be too much to hope or expect that you would simply ask the
AFRINIC staff whether filling out and returning that form is a total
waste of time or not, and if it is... as it was earlier this year...
what the bloody purpose is of even having this form on the web site?

I confess that that is a mystery that still puzzles me to this day.

It seems that the only purpose of the form is to mislead people into
thinking they will get -unredacted- records, when in fact all one gets,
even if one does fill out and return the bloody thing, is just the same
old redacted records that are already freely available via FTP.

You are the Chariman.  Can't you just simply ask about this?

I myself have already been around and around in circles with the staff
on this, and I cannot get a straight answer from anybody.

Do you not even care that the organization that you are the Chairman of
is playing games in order to stonewall legitimate researchers?


Regards,
rfg



From comms at afrinic.net  Mon Dec 28 11:54:43 2020
From: comms at afrinic.net (AFRINIC Communication)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 15:54:43 +0400
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Clarifications on the Terms of Use - AFRINIC
	WHOIS Database
Message-ID: <CC940179-DADC-493E-88D1-BB5C7AC113A1@afrinic.net>

[Version en fran?ais au bas]

Dear community,

There has been some discussion on the list related to the terms of use of the WHOIS Database. Allow me to try to clarify the terms that govern access to the database.

Accessing, querying and using the AFRINIC WHOIS Database is governed by the ?Terms of Use? document available on the following page: https://afrinic.net/whois/terms <https://afrinic.net/whois/terms>. 

The ?Terms of Use? document describes the process for demonstrating legitimate need for high-volume queries or bulk access to the AFRINIC WHOIS Database. However, the document clearly states that such access will be subject to the relevant laws of the Republic of Mauritius. One of the relevant laws, in this context, is the Data Protection Act 2017 (?the DPA?) of the Republic of Mauritius  which protects personal data of individuals. Hence, the need for a redacted AFRINIC WHOIS Database. 

We have taken note that the above clarification might need to be detailed more explicitly on the Bulk WHOIS request form page on the AFRINIC website ((https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data <https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data>)) to better manage expectations in the future. 

Regards

Ashil Oogarah
On behalf of the Communications and PR Team

????????????????

Ch?re communaut?,

Il y a eu des discussions sur la liste relative aux conditions d'utilisation de la base de donn?es WHOIS. Permettez-moi d'essayer de clarifier les conditions qui r?gissent l'acc?s ? la base de donn?es.

L'acc?s, l'interrogation et l'utilisation de la base de donn?es AFRINIC WHOIS sont r?gis par le document ?Terms of Use" disponible sur la page suivante : https://afrinic.net/whois/terms. 

Le document ?Terms of Use" d?crit le processus permettant de d?montrer le besoin l?gitime d'effectuer des requ?tes ? grand volume ou d'acc?der ? la base de donn?es AFRINIC WHOIS pour des donn?es en 'bulk'. Toutefois, le document indique clairement que cet acc?s sera soumis aux lois pertinentes de la R?publique de Maurice. L'une des lois pertinentes, dans ce contexte, est la loi sur la protection des donn?es 2017 ("DPA") de la R?publique de Maurice qui prot?ge les donn?es personnelles des individus. D'o? la n?cessit? d'une base de donn?es AFRINIC WHOIS r?dig?e. 

Nous avons pris note qu'une clarification  pourrait n?cessiter d'?tre d?taill?e plus explicitement sur la page du formulaire de demande 'bulk' WHOIS sur le site web AFRINIC ((https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data)) afin de mieux g?rer les attentes ? l'avenir. 

Cordialement,

Ashil Oogarah
Au nom de l'?quipe de communication et de relations publiques


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From amelnaud at gmail.com  Mon Dec 28 17:21:39 2020
From: amelnaud at gmail.com (Arnaud AMELINA)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:21:39 +0000
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Current routing summaries for LiquidWeb,
 Inc. and Fiber Grid, Inc.
In-Reply-To: <1841775408.1944.1608732770454@ichabod.co-bxl>
References: <1841775408.1944.1608732770454@ichabod.co-bxl>
Message-ID: <CAGDMR_coFhSaBpd=Pun3my6GYEv=VM=3zwNSh=0gWMzrcUQMaA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Mika Levari, you want scare Afrinic and its members that they are
loosing money in attempting to recall fraudulent acquired ressources.
You will be welcome if you could prove some of Ronald?s statements are
false.

Otherwise, the global community and Afrinic membership  are concerned that
AFRINIC not capable to stand in court to defend and recall ressources it is
responsible for.

--
Arnaud

Le mer. 23 d?c. 2020 ? 14:20, Mika Levari via Community-Discuss <
community-discuss at afrinic.net> a ?crit :

> Shalom,
> I am enjoying this for sometime now. Looks like Afrinic community is
> infiltrated by Spamhaus goons like Ronald F. Guilmette
> Those who do not know what is spamhaus then read this
> https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/29055/spamhaus-tax-evasion-shell-companies-extortion-strategies-blackmail-and-much-much-more
> Spamhaus is a highly sophisticated money laundering, hacking and cyber
> extortion network.
> Spamhaus gang mebers like Ronald F. Guilmette are using social engineering
> and same old tactics.
> This time they are using Afrinic platform.
> One example is https://seclists.org/nanog/2019/Sep/255
> Spamhaus goons started at Nanog and managed to get legal war started
> between Elad cohen and Afrinic.
> Case has reached Supreme court of Mauritius. All the legal fees are paid
> from Afrinic members fee.
> Afrinic management will be answerable for all the legal expenses.
> Afrinic should ban these goons or they will manage to destroy Afrinic by
> triggering series of legal events between Afrinic and its members to
> achieve their purpose.
> Read all replies from Ronald F. Guilmette and his associates and then
> evaluate purpose of their posts.
> Everything will be clear.
> Bye bye
>
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From aftok at protonmail.com  Tue Dec 29 17:33:39 2020
From: aftok at protonmail.com (Aftok)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:33:39 +0000
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4
	resources
Message-ID: <ljaBivo47LW21RwkvGavWfCisNJdc5NYCwKjKNUePcllJ1__DXQyKkwz9egURKYIu4fzh5aSAj-76MxsGxiWzOchZpMYp4VRwa5rcVoJnDs=@protonmail.com>

Eddy,
I was able to get some info about court case between Netstyle and Afrinic.
Afrinic has hired most expensive law firm in Mauritius charging around USD750 to USD1300 per hour and this is how members fee is used.
First Afrinic mismanaged resources and now mismanaging the funds.
Eddy you have lot to answer so lets wait for the final court orders then files are available on public domain.
Has Afrinic provided true info to court? No lies, No fabricated docs?
Claims, counter claims, damages not meant for organization like Afrinic.
Iana can be party in case because Afrinic is just administering it is not owner of IPv4 resources.
Police is investigating the case so imagine a situation Afrinic bank account is frozen by police for corruption or on court order? What will be the future of Afrinic?
Learn how litigation works and what are the consequences.
Do not play game if you do not know the rules.
Aftok
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From: aftok at protonmail.com (Aftok)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 17:45:36 +0000
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
	IPv4 resources
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Eddy,
I was able to get some info about court case between Netstyle and Afrinic.
Afrinic has hired most expensive law firm in Mauritius charging around USD750 to USD1300 per hour and this is how members fee is used.
First Afrinic mismanaged resources and now mismanaging the funds.
Eddy you have lot to answer so lets wait for the final court orders when files are available on public domain.
Has Afrinic provided true info to court? No lies, No fabricated docs?
Claims, counter claims, damages not meant for organization like Afrinic.
Iana can be party in case because Afrinic is just administering it is not owner of IPv4 resources.
Police is investigating the case so imagine a situation Afrinic bank account is frozen by police for corruption or on court order? What will be the future of Afrinic?
Learn how litigation works and what are the consequences.
Do not play game if you do not know the rules.
Aftok
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From rfg at tristatelogic.com  Wed Dec 30 02:17:41 2020
From: rfg at tristatelogic.com (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2020 18:17:41 -0800
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Two more stolen/squatted blocks
Message-ID: <84715.1609294661@segfault.tristatelogic.com>

My apologies to all.  I just noticed two more AFRINIC IPv4 address blocks
that were previously stolen from the AFRINIC free pool, and that have
already been reclaimed and returned to the AFRINIC free pool by AFRINIC
staff.

1)

41.77.240.0/21 -- formerly registered to "Tropicalweb" (Mozambique)

Historical records suggest that this block was first allocated/assigned
on or about 2009-08-26.  Thus, this block most certainly was *not* a
"legacy" block.

At the present time, this entire /21 block, which is now officially a
"bogon" block, is curently being routed by AS22769, aka "Ddosing Network,
Inc."  More information about this US-based company is provided below.

2)

41.93.128.0/17 - formerly registered to "Expresso Telecom Ltd" (Ghana)

Historical records suggest that this block was first allocated/assigned
on or about 2010-03-30.  Thus, this block most certainly was *not* a
"legacy" block.

In this case also, this entire /17 block, is now officially a "bogon"
block, Nontheless, this entire /17 block is currently being routed by
AS22769, aka "Ddosing Network, Inc.", which is apparently headquartered
in the US State of Colorado:

https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_co/20161112743

The Colorado-based company, Ddosing Network, Inc., is apparently doing
quite a lot of business with Mr. Maikel Uerlings.  I say that because
Mr. Uerlings has apparently sub-assigned to this Colorado company his
entire AFRINIC 197.231.208.0/22 address block as two /23 blocks.  See
current WHOIS records below.

Mr. Uerlings has also and likewise sub-assigned his entire 196.61.192.0/20
AFRINIC address block to this same Colorado company, Ddosing Network,
as a pair of consecutive /21 blocks.  See current WHOIS records below.

Lastly, Mr. Uerlings has sub-assigned the higher numbered half of his
assigned 45.220.64.0/18 AFRINIC block, i.e. the 45.220.96.0/19 sub-block,
also to Ddosing Network.  See current WHOIS records below.

(Note: Based on other route: objects in the AFRINIC data base, Mr. Uerling
has apparently assigned most or all of the remainder of his 45.220.64.0/18
AFRINIC block to a purported Japanese company named "QT Inc." aka
"qtcloud.co.jp", but that company's web site is hosted at 185.254.242.225,
which is on a Hong Kong network, and it is using mx.yandex.net, a Russian
company, as its inbound email MX server.  Interestingly, traceroutes to
these blocks appear to dead end in or around Los Angeles.)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
% Information related to '197.231.208.0 - 197.231.211.255'

% No abuse contact registered for 197.231.208.0 - 197.231.211.255

inetnum:        197.231.208.0 - 197.231.211.255
netname:        InspiringNetworksLtd
descr:          InspiringNetworksLtd
country:        SC
org:            ORG-INL3-AFRINIC
admin-c:        MU6-AFRINIC
tech-c:         MU6-AFRINIC
status:         ALLOCATED PA
notify:         info at inspiringnetworks.com
notify:         abuse at inspiringnetworks.com
mnt-by:         AFRINIC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower:      InspiringNetworks-mnt
mnt-domains:    InspiringNetworks-mnt
changed:        hostmaster at afrinic.net 20130205
source:         AFRINIC
parent:         197.0.0.0 - 197.255.255.255

organisation:   ORG-INL3-AFRINIC
org-name:       Inspiring Networks LTD
org-type:       LIR
country:        SC
address:        SUITE 9, ANSUYA ESTATE
address:        REVOLUTION AVENUE
address:        Victoria
e-mail:         info at inspiringnetworks.sc
phone:          tel:+27-87-550-1931
admin-c:        MU6-AFRINIC
tech-c:         MU6-AFRINIC
mnt-ref:        AFRINIC-HM-MNT
mnt-ref:        InspiringNetworks-mnt
mnt-by:         AFRINIC-HM-MNT
notify:         ipipv4 at gmail.com
changed:        hostmaster at afrinic.net 20130131
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20130201
changed:        hostmaster at afrinic.net 20130205
changed:        hostmaster at afrinic.net 20170629
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200302
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.sc 20200414
source:         AFRINIC

person:         Maikel Uerlings
nic-hdl:        MU6-AFRINIC
address:        Victoria
address:        SC
address:        Victoria
address:        Seychelles
e-mail:         info at inspiringnetworks.sc
phone:          tel:+27-87-550-1931
mnt-by:         GENERATED-M2L8RTJWZRCSSQFMGDCA6Y8GIHZJIFVD-MNT
changed:        info at orbitdiensten.com 20130110
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20200302
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200414
source:         AFRINIC

% Information related to '197.231.208.0 - 197.231.209.255'

% No abuse contact registered for 197.231.208.0 - 197.231.209.255

inetnum:        197.231.208.0 - 197.231.209.255
netname:        DDOSPROTECT
descr:          DDoSING Network Attack Protection
country:        SC
admin-c:        MU6-AFRINIC
tech-c:         MU6-AFRINIC
status:         ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by:         InspiringNetworks-mnt
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20140310
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200311
source:         AFRINIC
parent:         197.231.208.0 - 197.231.211.255

person:         Maikel Uerlings
nic-hdl:        MU6-AFRINIC
address:        Victoria
address:        SC
address:        Victoria
address:        Seychelles
e-mail:         info at inspiringnetworks.sc
phone:          tel:+27-87-550-1931
mnt-by:         GENERATED-M2L8RTJWZRCSSQFMGDCA6Y8GIHZJIFVD-MNT
changed:        info at orbitdiensten.com 20130110
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20200302
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200414
source:         AFRINIC

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% No abuse contact registered for 197.231.210.0 - 197.231.211.255

inetnum:        197.231.210.0 - 197.231.211.255
netname:        DDOSPROTECT
descr:          DDoSING Network Attack Protection
country:        SC
admin-c:        MU6-AFRINIC
tech-c:         MU6-AFRINIC
status:         ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by:         InspiringNetworks-mnt
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20140310
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200311
source:         AFRINIC
parent:         197.231.208.0 - 197.231.211.255

person:         Maikel Uerlings
nic-hdl:        MU6-AFRINIC
address:        Victoria
address:        SC
address:        Victoria
address:        Seychelles
e-mail:         info at inspiringnetworks.sc
phone:          tel:+27-87-550-1931
mnt-by:         GENERATED-M2L8RTJWZRCSSQFMGDCA6Y8GIHZJIFVD-MNT
changed:        info at orbitdiensten.com 20130110
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20200302
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200414
source:         AFRINIC
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% No abuse contact registered for 196.61.192.0 - 196.61.207.255

inetnum:        196.61.192.0 - 196.61.207.255
netname:        Inspiring-Networks-v4
descr:          Inspiring Networks LTD
country:        SC
org:            ORG-INL3-AFRINIC
admin-c:        MU6-AFRINIC
tech-c:         MU6-AFRINIC
status:         ALLOCATED PA
notify:         info at inspiringnetworks.com
notify:         abuse at inspiringnetworks.com
mnt-by:         AFRINIC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower:      InspiringNetworks-mnt
changed:        hostmaster at afrinic.net 20160927
source:         AFRINIC
parent:         196.0.0.0 - 196.255.255.255

organisation:   ORG-INL3-AFRINIC
org-name:       Inspiring Networks LTD
org-type:       LIR
country:        SC
address:        SUITE 9, ANSUYA ESTATE
address:        REVOLUTION AVENUE
address:        Victoria
e-mail:         info at inspiringnetworks.sc
phone:          tel:+27-87-550-1931
admin-c:        MU6-AFRINIC
tech-c:         MU6-AFRINIC
mnt-ref:        AFRINIC-HM-MNT
mnt-ref:        InspiringNetworks-mnt
mnt-by:         AFRINIC-HM-MNT
notify:         ipipv4 at gmail.com
changed:        hostmaster at afrinic.net 20130131
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20130201
changed:        hostmaster at afrinic.net 20130205
changed:        hostmaster at afrinic.net 20170629
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200302
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.sc 20200414
source:         AFRINIC

person:         Maikel Uerlings
nic-hdl:        MU6-AFRINIC
address:        Victoria
address:        SC
address:        Victoria
address:        Seychelles
e-mail:         info at inspiringnetworks.sc
phone:          tel:+27-87-550-1931
mnt-by:         GENERATED-M2L8RTJWZRCSSQFMGDCA6Y8GIHZJIFVD-MNT
changed:        info at orbitdiensten.com 20130110
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20200302
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200414
source:         AFRINIC

% Information related to '196.61.192.0 - 196.61.199.255'

% No abuse contact registered for 196.61.192.0 - 196.61.199.255

inetnum:        196.61.192.0 - 196.61.199.255
netname:        DDOSPROTECT
descr:          DDoSING Network Attack Protection
country:        US
admin-c:        MU6-AFRINIC
tech-c:         MU6-AFRINIC
status:         ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by:         InspiringNetworks-mnt
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20160927
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20190206
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200311
source:         AFRINIC
parent:         196.61.192.0 - 196.61.207.255

person:         Maikel Uerlings
nic-hdl:        MU6-AFRINIC
address:        Victoria
address:        SC
address:        Victoria
address:        Seychelles
e-mail:         info at inspiringnetworks.sc
phone:          tel:+27-87-550-1931
mnt-by:         GENERATED-M2L8RTJWZRCSSQFMGDCA6Y8GIHZJIFVD-MNT
changed:        info at orbitdiensten.com 20130110
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20200302
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200414
source:         AFRINIC

% Information related to '196.61.200.0 - 196.61.207.255'

% No abuse contact registered for 196.61.200.0 - 196.61.207.255

inetnum:        196.61.200.0 - 196.61.207.255
netname:        DDOSPROTECT
descr:          DDoSING Network Attack Protection
country:        SC
admin-c:        MU6-AFRINIC
tech-c:         MU6-AFRINIC
status:         ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by:         InspiringNetworks-mnt
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20160927
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200311
source:         AFRINIC
parent:         196.61.192.0 - 196.61.207.255

person:         Maikel Uerlings
nic-hdl:        MU6-AFRINIC
address:        Victoria
address:        SC
address:        Victoria
address:        Seychelles
e-mail:         info at inspiringnetworks.sc
phone:          tel:+27-87-550-1931
mnt-by:         GENERATED-M2L8RTJWZRCSSQFMGDCA6Y8GIHZJIFVD-MNT
changed:        info at orbitdiensten.com 20130110
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20200302
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200414
source:         AFRINIC
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% No abuse contact registered for 45.220.64.0 - 45.220.127.255

inetnum:        45.220.64.0 - 45.220.127.255
netname:        INSPIRINGNETWORKS-IPV4-3
descr:          Inspiring Networks LTD
country:        SC
org:            ORG-INL3-AFRINIC
admin-c:        MU6-AFRINIC
tech-c:         MU6-AFRINIC
status:         ALLOCATED PA
notify:         info at inspiringnetworks.com
notify:         abuse at inspiringnetworks.com
mnt-by:         AFRINIC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower:      InspiringNetworks-mnt
changed:        hostmaster at afrinic.net 20161213
source:         AFRINIC
parent:         45.192.0.0 - 45.222.255.255

organisation:   ORG-INL3-AFRINIC
org-name:       Inspiring Networks LTD
org-type:       LIR
country:        SC
address:        SUITE 9, ANSUYA ESTATE
address:        REVOLUTION AVENUE
address:        Victoria
e-mail:         info at inspiringnetworks.sc
phone:          tel:+27-87-550-1931
admin-c:        MU6-AFRINIC
tech-c:         MU6-AFRINIC
mnt-ref:        AFRINIC-HM-MNT
mnt-ref:        InspiringNetworks-mnt
mnt-by:         AFRINIC-HM-MNT
notify:         ipipv4 at gmail.com
changed:        hostmaster at afrinic.net 20130131
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20130201
changed:        hostmaster at afrinic.net 20130205
changed:        hostmaster at afrinic.net 20170629
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200302
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.sc 20200414
source:         AFRINIC

person:         Maikel Uerlings
nic-hdl:        MU6-AFRINIC
address:        Victoria
address:        SC
address:        Victoria
address:        Seychelles
e-mail:         info at inspiringnetworks.sc
phone:          tel:+27-87-550-1931
mnt-by:         GENERATED-M2L8RTJWZRCSSQFMGDCA6Y8GIHZJIFVD-MNT
changed:        info at orbitdiensten.com 20130110
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20200302
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200414
source:         AFRINIC

% Information related to '45.220.64.0 - 45.220.95.255'

% No abuse contact registered for 45.220.64.0 - 45.220.95.255

inetnum:        45.220.64.0 - 45.220.95.255
netname:        INSPIRINGNET
descr:          Inspiring Networks
country:        US
admin-c:        MU6-AFRINIC
tech-c:         MU6-AFRINIC
status:         ASSIGNED PA
remarks:        tommy at qtcloud.co.jp
mnt-by:         InspiringNetworks-mnt
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20161215
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20190312
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200311
source:         AFRINIC
parent:         45.220.64.0 - 45.220.127.255

person:         Maikel Uerlings
nic-hdl:        MU6-AFRINIC
address:        Victoria
address:        SC
address:        Victoria
address:        Seychelles
e-mail:         info at inspiringnetworks.sc
phone:          tel:+27-87-550-1931
mnt-by:         GENERATED-M2L8RTJWZRCSSQFMGDCA6Y8GIHZJIFVD-MNT
changed:        info at orbitdiensten.com 20130110
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20200302
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200414
source:         AFRINIC

% Information related to '45.220.96.0 - 45.220.127.255'

% No abuse contact registered for 45.220.96.0 - 45.220.127.255

inetnum:        45.220.96.0 - 45.220.127.255
netname:        DDOSPROTECT
descr:          DDoSING Network Attack Protection
country:        US
admin-c:        MU6-AFRINIC
tech-c:         MU6-AFRINIC
status:         ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by:         InspiringNetworks-mnt
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20161215
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20190312
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200311
source:         AFRINIC
parent:         45.220.64.0 - 45.220.127.255

person:         Maikel Uerlings
nic-hdl:        MU6-AFRINIC
address:        Victoria
address:        SC
address:        Victoria
address:        Seychelles
e-mail:         info at inspiringnetworks.sc
phone:          tel:+27-87-550-1931
mnt-by:         GENERATED-M2L8RTJWZRCSSQFMGDCA6Y8GIHZJIFVD-MNT
changed:        info at orbitdiensten.com 20130110
changed:        info at inspiringnetworks.com 20200302
changed:        ipipv4 at gmail.com 20200414
source:         AFRINIC




From amelnaud at gmail.com  Wed Dec 30 09:04:01 2020
From: amelnaud at gmail.com (Arnaud AMELINA)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 09:04:01 +0000
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Current routing summaries for LiquidWeb,
 Inc. and Fiber Grid, Inc.
In-Reply-To: <1841775408.1944.1608732770454@ichabod.co-bxl>
References: <1841775408.1944.1608732770454@ichabod.co-bxl>
Message-ID: <CAGDMR_e+GSt8H3ZvS0_hVDdFBZmX6_2ErVM3TTGsAQeE-EqBmg@mail.gmail.com>

Hello
My mail to you bounced with the following error

======
Address not found

 Your message did not reach mika.levari at mailfence.com because the address
could not be found or could not receive messages.

Response from the remote server:
550 Mailbox unavailable
======

I wish we continue this conversation as you could be useful to this
community .I did not  know that your ?bye bye?  means  I disappear after...

-- 
Arnaud

Le mer. 23 d?c. 2020 ? 14:20, Mika Levari via Community-Discuss <
community-discuss at afrinic.net> a ?crit :

> Shalom,
> I am enjoying this for sometime now. Looks like Afrinic community is
> infiltrated by Spamhaus goons like Ronald F. Guilmette
> Those who do not know what is spamhaus then read this
> https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/29055/spamhaus-tax-evasion-shell-companies-extortion-strategies-blackmail-and-much-much-more
> Spamhaus is a highly sophisticated money laundering, hacking and cyber
> extortion network.
> Spamhaus gang mebers like Ronald F. Guilmette are using social engineering
> and same old tactics.
> This time they are using Afrinic platform.
> One example is https://seclists.org/nanog/2019/Sep/255
> Spamhaus goons started at Nanog and managed to get legal war started
> between Elad cohen and Afrinic.
> Case has reached Supreme court of Mauritius. All the legal fees are paid
> from Afrinic members fee.
> Afrinic management will be answerable for all the legal expenses.
> Afrinic should ban these goons or they will manage to destroy Afrinic by
> triggering series of legal events between Afrinic and its members to
> achieve their purpose.
> Read all replies from Ronald F. Guilmette and his associates and then
> evaluate purpose of their posts.
> Everything will be clear.
> Bye bye
>
> _______________________________________________
> Community-Discuss mailing list
> Community-Discuss at afrinic.net
> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
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From nicknora at mailfence.com  Wed Dec 30 12:25:26 2020
From: nicknora at mailfence.com (Nick Nora)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 13:25:26 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Notice to all the legacy netblocks holders
 in AfriNIC
Message-ID: <1797752872.186255.1609331126377@ichabod.co-bxl>

Elad you are played by Ronald aka Steve Linford. Afrinic community is wisely social engineered and is under heavy influence of Spamhaus.org 
You need to keep your cool while dealing with Ronald aka Steve Linford.
Afrinic has no clue what is going on its mailing lists.
All the post of Ronald and his side kick Noah are to attack their enemies.
Ronald = Spamhaus = Steve Linford.
Steve Linford has picked this platform to attack and destroy his enemies because he has no other way to do it.
Those who do not know what is spamhaus.org or Steve linford or Ronald then read further.
Steve Linford and Elad Cohen have history and now their spat has reached Afrinic from Nanog.
Court case between Netstyle vs Afrinic is result of social engineering and tactics used by Steve linford aka Ronald.
Reason why Spamhaus.org or Stephen John Linford will not go to police against its enemies because police looking for him in few countries.
Has anyone ever seen Mafia boss going to police station to file complaint?
That is why Linford pick these platform to attack his enemies.
If anyone think Spamhaus.org is legit then they are naive. Try to reach them and you will not be able to reach. Spamhaus has formed complex structure to launder money via offshore entities to Europe. 
Request to everyone if Spamhaus.org is attacking your business then find him in France and Spain and use legal ways.
Do not do anything illegal or let them provoke you to do mistakes. 
Steve Linford has many properties in Europe all are bought by money laundering. Start with these two addresses and you will find more connections.

Linford Peters
Calle del Viol 31
07157 Andratx Illes Balears, 
Spain

85 Avenue du Rond Point
06480 La Colle-sur-Loup
France

File police complaint and report his crime to tax and revenue department in Spain and France. In complaint ask tax and revenue department to investigate the source of money Steve Linford used to buy these properties. 

Steve Linford and his long time partner Geraldine myra peters are compared to Bonnie and Clyde.
https://www.companydirectorcheck.com/geraldine-myra-peters
He has recently changed spamhaus.org address from Switzerland to Andorra for some reason.
Warning: Do not forget that you are dealing with white collar criminal Steve Linford and he is doing this blackmailing and extortion for years so please be careful.

Elad now let me address your concerns.
Afrinic is not mafia like Spamhaus. Afrinic is answerable to its members and for its action.

Question is how resources were given? 
If you have bought resources and you have proofs then you do not have to worry because without verification resources cannot be transferred.
Resource allocation and once resources are allocated then it is very complex to claim them by RIR. 
Read court cases in Europe and USA for IPv4 resources. 
Immediately file police complaint and let police investigate if you have done anything illegal.
Inform court that you have filed police complaint and let court  summon police to submit their investigation report.
Only valid agreement between you and Afrinic is signed RSA. Mailing list or spam generated by Steve Linford aka Ronald is of no use.
Ask Afrinic to prove your resources bought by you were illegally allocated and if they were illegally allocated then who was responsible.
In any case you own and should not be blamed for Afrinic internal issues. You can also demand court damages based on the future value of ipv4 say USD40 per ip in 4 years. Afrinic has around 6 million in their bank account and they have to declare bankrupt if you win case.
Ask Afrinic how many people are involved in making decision for any resources allocation bigger than /19.
Ipv4 resource allocation is not one person job in Afrinic.
You have not robbed Afrinic and not stolen the resources and if they were allocated to you then they are yours. 
Don't know how many ipv4 resource you have but ask court to check Cloud Innovations Ltd resources and ask Afrinic to explain.
I suspect after few years there will another court case between Afrinic and cloud innovations.
Without approval from hostmaster to CEO no network bigger than /19 can be allocated.
So prove the right thing and you are all set.
Everyone thank you for reading and stay safe.



From nicknora at mailfence.com  Wed Dec 30 12:28:53 2020
From: nicknora at mailfence.com (Nick Nora)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 13:28:53 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Two more stolen/squatted blocks
Message-ID: <2035602932.186418.1609331333299@ichabod.co-bxl>

Maikel Uerlings  your another enemy which you are attacking.
I just wrote about Elad have you read this?


Elad you are played by Ronald aka Steve Linford. Afrinic community is wisely social engineered and is under influence of Spamhaus.org 
You need to keep your cool while dealing with Ronald aka Steve Linford.
Afrinic has no clue what is going on its mailing lists.
All the post of Ronald and his side kick Noah are to attack their enemies.
Ronald = Spamhaus = Steve Linford.
Steve Linford has picked this platform to attack and destroy his enemies because he has no other way to do it.
Those who do not know what is spamhaus.org or steve linford or Ronald then read further.
Steve Linford and Elad Cohen have history and now their spat has reached Afrinic from Nanog.
Court case between Netstyle vs Afrinic is result of social engineering and tactics used by Steve linford aka Ronald.
Reason why Spamhaus.org or Stephen John Linford will not go to police against its enemies because police looking for him in few countries.
Has anyone ever seen Mafia boss going to police station to file complaint?
That is why Linford pick these platform to attack his enemies.
If anyone think Spamhaus.org is legit then they are naive. Try to reach them and you will not be able to reach. Spamhaus has formed complex structure to launder money via offshore entities to Europe. 
Request to everyone if Spamhaus.org is attacking your business then find him in France and Spain and use legal ways.
Do not do anything illegal or let them provoke you to do mistakes. 
Steve Linford has many properties in Europe all are bought by money laundering. Start with these two addresses and you will find more connections.

Linford Peters
Calle del Viol 31
07157 Andratx Illes Balears, 
Spain

85 Avenue du Rond Point
06480 La Colle-sur-Loup
France

File police complaint and report his crime to tax and revenue department in Spain and France. In complaint ask tax and revenue department to investigate the source of money Steve Linford used to buy these properties. 

Linford and his long time partner Geraldine myra peters are compared to Bonnie and Clyde.
https://www.companydirectorcheck.com/geraldine-myra-peters
He has recently changed spamhaus.org address from Switzerland to Andorra for some reason.
Warning: Do not forget that you are dealing with white collar criminal Steve Linford and he is doing this blackmailing and extortion for years so please be careful.

Elad now let me address your concerns.
Afrinic is not mafia like Spamhaus. Afrinic is answerable to its members and for its action.
Question is how resources were given? 
If you have bought resources and you have proofs then you do not have to worry because without verification resources cannot be transferred.
Resource allocation process is very complex and read court cases in Europe and USA for IPv4 resources. 
Immediately file police complaint and let police investigate if you have done anything illegal.
Inform court that you have filed police complaint and let court  summon police to submit their investigation report.
If Afrinic furnish fake documents and if that happen then we will come to know and will intervene.
Only valid agreement between you and Afrinic is signed RSA. Mailing list or spam generated by Steve Linford aka Ronald is of no use.
Ask Afrinic to prove your resources bought by you were illegally allocated and if they were illegally allocated then who was responsible.
In any case you own and should not be blamed for Afrinic internal issues. You can demand court damages based on the future value of ipv4 if you have say /16 you can ask USD40 per ip in 4 years. Afrinic has around 6 million in their bank account and they have to declare bankrupt if you win case.
Ask Afrinic how many people are involved in making decision for any resources allocation bigger than /19.
You have not robbed Afrinic and not stolen the resources and if they were allocated to you then they are yours. 
Don't know how many ipv4 resource you have but ask court to check Cloud Innovations Ltd resources and ask Afrinic to explain.
I suspect after few years there will another court case between Afrinic and cloud innovations.
Without approval from hostmaster to CEO no network bigger than /19 can be allocated.
So prove the right thing and you are all set.
Everyone thank you for reading and stay safe.



From nicknora at mailfence.com  Wed Dec 30 12:31:32 2020
From: nicknora at mailfence.com (Nick Nora)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 13:31:32 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4
 resources
Message-ID: <1687260760.186559.1609331492405@ichabod.co-bxl>

Afrinic community is used by Spamhaus.org aka Ronald to take down its enemies. Don't be fool by Ronald posts.
Anyone has problem please go to police and court.
In case if community has missed

Elad you are played by Ronald aka Steve Linford. Afrinic community is wisely social engineered and is under influence of Spamhaus.org 
You need to keep your cool while dealing with Ronald aka Steve Linford.
Afrinic has no clue what is going on its mailing lists.
All the post of Ronald and his side kick Noah are to attack their enemies.
Ronald = Spamhaus = Steve Linford.
Steve Linford has picked this platform to attack and destroy his enemies because he has no other way to do it.
Those who do not know what is spamhaus.org or steve linford or Ronald then read further.
Steve Linford and Elad Cohen have history and now their spat has reached Afrinic from Nanog.
Court case between Netstyle vs Afrinic is result of social engineering and tactics used by Steve linford aka Ronald.
Reason why Spamhaus.org or Stephen John Linford will not go to police against its enemies because police looking for him in few countries.
Has anyone ever seen Mafia boss going to police station to file complaint?
That is why Linford pick these platform to attack his enemies.
If anyone think Spamhaus.org is legit then they are naive. Try to reach them and you will not be able to reach. Spamhaus has formed complex structure to launder money via offshore entities to Europe. 
Request to everyone if Spamhaus.org is attacking your business then find him in France and Spain and use legal ways.
Do not do anything illegal or let them provoke you to do mistakes. 
Steve Linford has many properties in Europe all are bought by money laundering. Start with these two addresses and you will find more connections.

Linford Peters
Calle del Viol 31
07157 Andratx Illes Balears, 
Spain

85 Avenue du Rond Point
06480 La Colle-sur-Loup
France

File police complaint and report his crime to tax and revenue department in Spain and France. In complaint ask tax and revenue department to investigate the source of money Steve Linford used to buy these properties. 

Linford and his long time partner Geraldine myra peters are compared to Bonnie and Clyde.
https://www.companydirectorcheck.com/geraldine-myra-peters
He has recently changed spamhaus.org address from Switzerland to Andorra for some reason.
Warning: Do not forget that you are dealing with white collar criminal Steve Linford and he is doing this blackmailing and extortion for years so please be careful.

Elad now let me address your concerns.
Afrinic is not mafia like Spamhaus. Afrinic is answerable to its members and for its action.
Question is how resources were given? 
If you have bought resources and you have proofs then you do not have to worry because without verification resources cannot be transferred.
Resource allocation process is very complex and read court cases in Europe and USA for IPv4 resources. 
Immediately file police complaint and let police investigate if you have done anything illegal.
Inform court that you have filed police complaint and let court  summon police to submit their investigation report.
If Afrinic furnish fake documents and if that happen then we will come to know and will intervene.
Only valid agreement between you and Afrinic is signed RSA. Mailing list or spam generated by Steve Linford aka Ronald is of no use.
Ask Afrinic to prove your resources bought by you were illegally allocated and if they were illegally allocated then who was responsible.
In any case you own and should not be blamed for Afrinic internal issues. You can demand court damages based on the future value of ipv4 if you have say /16 you can ask USD40 per ip in 4 years. Afrinic has around 6 million in their bank account and they have to declare bankrupt if you win case.
Ask Afrinic how many people are involved in making decision for any resources allocation bigger than /19.
You have not robbed Afrinic and not stolen the resources and if they were allocated to you then they are yours. 
Don't know how many ipv4 resource you have but ask court to check Cloud Innovations Ltd resources and ask Afrinic to explain.
I suspect after few years there will another court case between Afrinic and cloud innovations.
Without approval from hostmaster to CEO no network bigger than /19 can be allocated.
So prove the right thing and you are all set.
Everyone thank you for reading and stay safe.



From nicknora at mailfence.com  Wed Dec 30 12:35:27 2020
From: nicknora at mailfence.com (Nick Nora)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 13:35:27 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Community-Discuss] More stolen AFRINIC legacy blocks
Message-ID: <2034641377.186727.1609331727412@ichabod.co-bxl>

Why don't you report this to police and hire lawyer to prove theft can be done in Afrinic?
Noah and you are social engineering and trying to kill your competitors.
But do not use public platform to attack your enemies and defame Afrinic.

Have you read this

Elad you are played by Ronald aka Steve Linford. Afrinic community is wisely social engineered and is under influence of Spamhaus.org 
You need to keep your cool while dealing with Ronald aka Steve Linford.
Afrinic has no clue what is going on its mailing lists.
All the post of Ronald and his side kick Noah are to attack their enemies.
Ronald = Spamhaus = Steve Linford.
Steve Linford has picked this platform to attack and destroy his enemies because he has no other way to do it.
Those who do not know what is spamhaus.org or steve linford or Ronald then read further.
Steve Linford and Elad Cohen have history and now their spat has reached Afrinic from Nanog.
Court case between Netstyle vs Afrinic is result of social engineering and tactics used by Steve linford aka Ronald.
Reason why Spamhaus.org or Stephen John Linford will not go to police against its enemies because police looking for him in few countries.
Has anyone ever seen Mafia boss going to police station to file complaint?
That is why Linford pick these platform to attack his enemies.
If anyone think Spamhaus.org is legit then they are naive. Try to reach them and you will not be able to reach. Spamhaus has formed complex structure to launder money via offshore entities to Europe. 
Request to everyone if Spamhaus.org is attacking your business then find him in France and Spain and use legal ways.
Do not do anything illegal or let them provoke you to do mistakes. 
Steve Linford has many properties in Europe all are bought by money laundering. Start with these two addresses and you will find more connections.

Linford Peters
Calle del Viol 31
07157 Andratx Illes Balears, 
Spain

85 Avenue du Rond Point
06480 La Colle-sur-Loup
France

File police complaint and report his crime to tax and revenue department in Spain and France. In complaint ask tax and revenue department to investigate the source of money Steve Linford used to buy these properties. 

Linford and his long time partner Geraldine myra peters are compared to Bonnie and Clyde.
https://www.companydirectorcheck.com/geraldine-myra-peters
He has recently changed spamhaus.org address from Switzerland to Andorra for some reason.
Warning: Do not forget that you are dealing with white collar criminal Steve Linford and he is doing this blackmailing and extortion for years so please be careful.

Elad now let me address your concerns.
Afrinic is not mafia like Spamhaus. Afrinic is answerable to its members and for its action.
Question is how resources were given? 
If you have bought resources and you have proofs then you do not have to worry because without verification resources cannot be transferred.
Resource allocation process is very complex and read court cases in Europe and USA for IPv4 resources. 
Immediately file police complaint and let police investigate if you have done anything illegal.
Inform court that you have filed police complaint and let court  summon police to submit their investigation report.
If Afrinic furnish fake documents and if that happen then we will come to know and will intervene.
Only valid agreement between you and Afrinic is signed RSA. Mailing list or spam generated by Steve Linford aka Ronald is of no use.
Ask Afrinic to prove your resources bought by you were illegally allocated and if they were illegally allocated then who was responsible.
In any case you own and should not be blamed for Afrinic internal issues. You can demand court damages based on the future value of ipv4 if you have say /16 you can ask USD40 per ip in 4 years. Afrinic has around 6 million in their bank account and they have to declare bankrupt if you win case.
Ask Afrinic how many people are involved in making decision for any resources allocation bigger than /19.
You have not robbed Afrinic and not stolen the resources and if they were allocated to you then they are yours. 
Don't know how many ipv4 resource you have but ask court to check Cloud Innovations Ltd resources and ask Afrinic to explain.
I suspect after few years there will another court case between Afrinic and cloud innovations.
Without approval from hostmaster to CEO no network bigger than /19 can be allocated.
So prove the right thing and you are all set.
Everyone thank you for reading and stay safe.



From noah at neo.co.tz  Thu Dec 31 15:56:02 2020
From: noah at neo.co.tz (Noah)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 18:56:02 +0300
Subject: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of
 IPv4 resources
In-Reply-To: <58819.1608870780@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
References: <CAEqgTWaVafMrA4K1wK9gDOt_ycHY+6b2qNw7gobxtVpv7hZfgQ@mail.gmail.com>
 <58819.1608870780@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
Message-ID: <CAEqgTWZ0hznAHhB7V_=mNH25CAJQP10n_CRZEo=6bbic8NEu9A@mail.gmail.com>

Hey Ronald,

On Fri, 25 Dec 2020, 07:38 Ronald F. Guilmette, <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
wrote:

>
> (I only wish that SEACOM has been equally as observant in the early part
> of this year, and that it had likewise taken appropriate action, in the
> first months of 2020, to disconnect


This has since been resolved from the AS37100 stand point dude. That bogon
was cleared off any AS path related to AS37100.

If that bogon ASN still continues to be routed by another AS then that is
beyond the scope of our domain.

The heck with 2020 already.
Noah
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From ronrobarionet at protonmail.com  Thu Dec 31 20:52:53 2020
From: ronrobarionet at protonmail.com (Ron)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2020 20:52:53 +0000
Subject: [Community-Discuss] How Afrinic,
	community and members can protect their business from Spamhaus.org ?
Message-ID: <vX26T5Z112k1tgpOVVynEu9b-wq3Vbj4n5NRTj-b2oqZwYDMervkbvfR4x77DKP4Op3XTOfLlYD-xRK3OwZmOLIeJjJfhNovFw57V3iY8NM=@protonmail.com>

Noticed Spamhaus is spreading like cancer in Afrinic. Spamhaus has done lot of damages to Afrinic members https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/listings/AFRINIC
Over 99.9% content of this page is fake like Spamhaus.org


All those who are suffering and have proofs of Spamhaus activities then you have these options available.

1. Register police complaint with your local police station with all the proofs. Ask police to forward this to France and Spain police department. Complaint will be sent via Interpol to French and Spanish police. You can learn process here
https://www.interpol.int/en/What-you-can-do/If-you-need-help let local police arrest owners of Spamhaus.
If there are multiple police complaints then owners will be on Interpol wanted list.

2. Spamhaus hosting its server in Amsterdam with Surfnet. As per EU directive (Article 14) Surfnet is responsible for all the content hosted by them. Under Dutch law Surfnet is obliged to shutdown the Spamhaus.org or they are violating the Dutch and EU directive. Surfnet can be sued for financial damages too.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32000L0031&rid=5

3. Start litigation against Spamhaus in USA. Demand financial damages from Spamhaus. You may demand financial damages in millions and request to confiscate the domain name spamhaus.org
Refer other lawsuits in USA against Spamhaus.org in USA to the Judge.
As owner of Spamhaus is under contempt of court so they will never visit USA and most likely case will not be contested by Spamhaus. If contested then Spamhaus owners are done for good.


Option 3 is the best and most effective.