[Community-Discuss] [rpd] Unaddressed queries by AFRINIC during AGMM
Lamiaa Chnayti
lamiaachnayti at gmail.com
Tue Aug 3 10:03:46 UTC 2021
+1 Paul. I hope the above gets addressed as soon as possible.
Best regards,
Lamiaa
Le mar. 3 août 2021 à 10:34, Paul Wollner <paul.wollner at africaoncloud.net>
a écrit :
> Dear AFRINIC,
>
> It has been just over a month now since the mail below was sent and I feel
> that we still do not have any direct answer on the 4 questions that were
> raised.
>
> Can we please get a clearcut answer from AFRINIC on these questions?
>
> Regards
> Paul Wollner
>
>
>
>
> ---- On Fri, 02 Jul 2021 14:24:05 +0200 *Paul Wollner
> <paul.wollner at africaoncloud.net <paul.wollner at africaoncloud.net>>* wrote
> ----
>
> Mr. Kayihura,
>
> I refer to your email dated 30 June 2021.
>
> In it, you claim that Questions 1 to 3 were addressed during the open mic
> session held on 4 June 2021.
>
> The reality is that none of those questions were satisfactorily answered.
> They were addressed to the extent that the questions were acknowledged,
> then an attempt was made to obfuscate them and answer different questions
> while pretending to answer the questions asked, then a claim was made that
> the questions would be answered at a later date.
>
> In reality, no such answer has been forthcoming from AFRINIC. We recognize
> that these questions are likely inconvenient and come at what is almost
> certainly an inopportune time to be asking. Nonetheless, these are valid
> questions and as a resource member, we feel that we are being held at
> unfair disadvantage if AFRINIC will not provide a clear and direct answer
> to each of the questions about how it interprets policies in these areas.
>
> There’s too much at stake to allow AFRINIC staff to simply make it up as
> they go a long. We need a public commitment to the official interpretation
> of these areas of potential ambiguity in the current policy regime.
>
> As to the fourth item, while it is not our intent to micro-manage AFRINIC
> staff decisions, it is our conclusion that even if Madhvi did not actively
> participate in the fraudulent resource registrations and embezzlement, she
> surely must have either turned a blind eye (aiding and abetting) or she
> failed to notice it which at best displays a level of incompetence and
> failure to meet her duty of care in such a position.
>
> In summary, we renew our request for factual, reliable, direct answers to
> each of the queries and request that AFRINIC eschew further obfuscation and
> sophistry in the process.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Paul Wollner
>
>
>
>
>
> ---- On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 13:04:19 +0200 *Eddy Kayihura <eddy at afrinic.net
> <eddy at afrinic.net>>* wrote ----
>
> Mr Wollner,
>
> I refer to your email dated 24 June 2021.
>
> Questions 1 to 3 were addressed during the open mic session held on 4 June
> 2021 and we undertook an action to organise a webinar within 2 months to
> discuss with the community the definition of “need-based” in the AFRINIC
> policies and bylaws.
>
> We are delighted to see that the discussion amongst the community has
> already started.
>
> Regarding question 4, we cannot penalise a staff member unless we find
> concrete proof of their involvement in the misappropriation of the IP
> resources. As of now, we do not have such evidence on any of AFRINIC’s
> current staff members.
>
> The appropriate channel for such inquiry or complaint is to submit it via
> our *Whistleblowing* <https://afrinic.net/whistleblowing> platform.
>
> Regards,
>
> Eddy Kayihura
> Chief Executive Officer,
> African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC)
>
> …………………………………………………….
>
> M. Wollner,
>
> Je me réfère à votre courriel du 24 juin 2021.
>
> Les questions 1 à 3 ont été abordées lors de la session 'open mic' qui
> s'est tenue le 4 juin 2021 et nous avons entrepris une action visant à
> organiser un webinaire dans un délai de 2 mois afin de discuter avec la
> communauté de la définition de "need-based" dans les politiques et les
> statuts d'AFRINIC.
>
> Nous sommes ravis de voir que la discussion au sein de la communauté a
> déjà commencé.
>
> En ce qui concerne la question 4, nous ne pouvons pas pénaliser un membre
> du personnel à moins de trouver des preuves concrètes de son implication
> dans la manipulation non autorisée des ressources IP. A ce jour, nous
> n'avons pas de telles preuves sur aucun des membres actuels du personnel
> d'AFRINIC.
>
> Le canal approprié pour une telle requête ou plainte est de la soumettre
> via notre plateforme de *whistleblowing*
> <https://afrinic.net/whistleblowing>.
>
> Cordialement,
> Eddy Kayihura
> Directeur général,
> African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC)
>
> _______________________________________________
> RPD mailing list
> RPD at afrinic.net
> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> RPD mailing list
> RPD at afrinic.net
> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Community-Discuss mailing list
> Community-Discuss at afrinic.net
> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
>
--
Lamiaa CHNAYTI
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/attachments/20210803/73db32c7/attachment.html>
More information about the Community-Discuss
mailing list