[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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> 1. Re: [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources
> (Noah)
> 2. Re: [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources
> (dc at darwincosta.com)
> 3. Re: [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources
> (Ronald F. Guilmette)
> 4. Current routing summaries for LiquidWeb, Inc. and Fiber Grid,
> Inc. (Ronald F. Guilmette)
> 5. Re: [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources
> (AFRINIC Communication)
> 6. Re: [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources
> (yamadu)
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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
> Message-ID:
> <CAEqgTWbeKYuBoS-hKD19PiM13mZNP-YnyShAPH=eF9q9Ns06PA at mail.gmail.com>
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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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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:38:06 +0100
> 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
> misappropriation of IPv4 resources
> Message-ID: <F65A7394-F13B-40AF-A706-AF6BCF7B1873 at darwincosta.com>
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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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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 16:20:59 -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: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the
> misappropriation of IPv4 resources
> Message-ID: <25280.1608423659 at segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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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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> 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
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> 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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