[Community-Discuss] ICANN / fake news

[robert ford]

Well put well put Ronald. You spelt it out clearly. 

I hope they have listened well. 

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> On 2 Aug 2021, at 04:48, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:

> 

> In message <19166B87-4F3A-446C-8863-B2D39C28F1EE at delong.com>, 

> Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:

> 

>> While people often mistake ICANN for some form of authority, the reality is that for number

>> resources, ICANN is a puppet at the end of the strings pulled by the NRO

> 

> If thing go as you & Lu clearly hope it will, then we may perhaps be

> able to witness an actual test of that hypothesis, i.e. we may find out

> what the ICANN position is on all this, and what it may do or may be

> willing and able to do in the event of some ACTUAL crisis... a crisis

> which provably DOES NOT EXIST at the moment.

> 

>> I will also note, for the sake of completeness, that the NRO so far has not announced any

>> approval, disbursement, or activation of the NRO stability fund.

> 

> Why should they?  The lights are still on at AFRINIC, the servers are

> still running and performing their assigned duties... you just sent an

> email through one of them... and as far as I am aware, none of the

> actual AFRINIC employees who administer and operate any of AFRINIC's

> critical online systems have quit their jobs to look for gainful

> employment elsewhere.

> 

> This is all a phony crisis... a tempest in a teacup... which has only

> been given a thin veneer of reality by a small number of sock puppets

> who are all quite clearly pushing the Cloud Innovation party line.

> 

> If, as I expect, the financial freeze order is lifted this coming Wedneday...

> once BOTH PARTIES are at last before the judge and allowed to speak on

> this matter... then this completely fake "crisis" will disappear like

> a puff of smoke in the wind.

> 

> 

> Regards,

> rfg

> 

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