[Community-Discuss] Update 04 Aug 2021

[Murungi Daniel]

One probable reason could be that CI were caught with their pants down and requested for time to cook up a new story :)



> On Aug 5, 2021, at 1:53 PM, Christian Orozco <chresgoro at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Legal proceedings are never rushed. 

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> Yes, correct. But what circumstance could have caused the need to set it next week? One probable reason could be AFRINIC's incapacity to provide necessary documents/ evidence. We do not actually know, yet Brian still has a reason to doubt. 

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> The Af* organisations that have collaborated with AFRINIC for over 20 years including African Governments

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>  Indeed, there were instances that this collaboration is truly admirable. However, there's a lot at stake in AFRINIC's current situation. How certain are you that mere financial donation can suffice the challenge AFRINIC is facing? We should now be more attentive in keeping the internet's stability. And by that, we cannot just presume that AFRINIC will be able to go back on its feet easily and partake in such stability.

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> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 3:03 PM Noah <noah at neo.co.tz <mailto:noah at neo.co.tz>> wrote:

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> On Thu, 5 Aug 2021, 07:05 Brian Sowers, <b.sowers154 at gmail.com <mailto:b.sowers154 at gmail.com>> wrote:

>  The court is simply adjourning a week and a half later to deliberate again.

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> Legal proceedings are never rushed. 

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> 

> I appreciate this update from Eddy, but it doesn’t offer any hope to pro-AFRINICs other than a false optimism that AFRINIC builds an argument in the meantime to be even able to access its own funds.

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> Perhaps you missed all the Pro-AFRINIC public statements that various African Internet bodies made in support of AFRINIC.

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> AFRINIC might not be able to access its own funds today but that does not mean that there are no other alternatives.

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> AFRINIC during her inception in the earlier days had no money. AFRINIC was supported financially by African Institutions  to operate and perhaps this is the part of Pro-AFRINIC history you do not know about.

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> what other alternatives there are to AFRINIC. Africa, 

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> The Af* organisations that have collaborated with AFRINIC for over 20 years including African Governments.

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> AFRINIC is not alone as it forms part of the Af* organisations that are willing to come together and support AFRINIC through financial donation so as to continue running its core functions and operations.

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> The ISP associations are the other alternative and ANGOLA ISPA, TISPA, multiple IXPs across Africa and all those Af* organisations and NRENs and other members of the wider Internet community in Africa.

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> The donations shall start with even myself as an individual. I just need to know which 3rd party supplier AFRINIC uses and I will make payments to them directly online via VISA or MASTERCARD.

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> That is "Ubuntu".

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> Cheers

> Noah

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