[Community-Discuss] [members-discuss] Joint statement on the current AFRINIC situation from the African Regional RENs

[Paul Wollner]

I am curious as to why AFRINIC is silent when comes to enforcing CoC on its vice chairman of the board? Why has the board member not resigned after such an improper public comment?



Regards

Paul




---- On Tue, 03 Aug 2021 11:41:29 +0200 habib.youssef via Members-Discuss <members-discuss at afrinic.net> wrote ----


Thanks Boubakar, Yousef and Matthews for your support.

What Lu Heng and company have started to do since several years to go is criminal by all standards.

I hope Afrinic will get out stronger from crisis.

--Habib.







Sent from my Galaxy






-------- Original message --------

From: Boubakar Barry <mailto:Boubakar.Barry at wacren.net>

Date: 03/08/2021  08:49  (GMT+01:00)

To: Members Discuss <mailto:members-discuss at afrinic.net>

Subject: [members-discuss] Joint statement on the current AFRINIC situation from the African Regional RENs




Dear All,



On behalf of the three African regional RENs, please find attached our joint statement on the current situation at AFRINIC.



It says:

---

ASREN, UbuntuNet
Alliance and WACREN are the regional research and education networks
interconnecting national research and education networks (NRENs) across the
continent (Northern Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, West and Central
Africa).

African RENs provide connectivity and other services
to millions of end users in the education and research community (students,
faculty, researchers, administrators, etc.), and INRs are critical for the
delivery of these services. 

The REN community is following with interest but also
with concern the heated debate on the current lawsuit against AFRINIC that led
to the freezing of its bank accounts, thus jeopardizing its operations.

Many years ago, members of the REN community expressed
concerns about a risk for AFRINIC, when a resource member publicly said that AFRINIC
will face bankruptcy if it dares consider reclaiming resources that many
members thought were assigned wrongly, or at least were not used as
initially indicated. It was, at that time, recommended to address this issue
seriously.

And here we are.

Anyway:  the
current situation is very serious and our community and the friends of the
African Internet community should stand together and fight against those who
want to destroy and bury AFRINIC.

Yes, there are things to improve at AFRINIC. But in
this critical situation, we urge all to stand by and support the Board and Management
of our organization.

We say no to any attempt to move the management of Internet
number resources attributed to Africa to any other organization.

Therefore, we, as representatives of the African REN
community, express our full support to AFRINIC Board and Management and invite
all Africans and friends of Africa to do the same.

 

Signed:

For ASREN (http://www.asrenorg.net): Dr. Yousef Torman, Co-MD

For Ubuntunet Alliance (http://www.ubuntunet.net): Dr. Matthews Mtumbuka, CEO

For WACREN (http://www.wacren.net): Dr. Boubakar Barry, CEO

________________________________________________________________


Best wishes,



Boubakar Barry

-- 
CEO/Directeur Général, WACREN


Web: http://www.wacren.net

***Keep it simple, as simple as possible, but not simpler. (A. Einstein)***





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