[Community-Discuss] Questions

[S. Moonesamy]

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, Ebène
   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