[Community-Discuss] FUNDRAISING & DONATIONS - TO KEEP AFRINIC RUNNING

[Sylvain Baya]

Dear AfriNIC's Community,

...i would like to thank John, for his useful
clarifications.

John, thanks for playing your role, as a firm
defender of RFC7020 (INRS).

Now! just to recall that, anyone should consider
starting a different thread when its email is fully
off-topic like those treating the Future of AfriNIC [1].
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[1]: <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/
2021-August/004772.html>

...again, this thread is only about:

"FUNDRAISING & DONATIONS - TO KEEP AFRINIC RUNNING"

Many thanks to those who are behind the initiative.

...i see this very thread as a great opportunity for
anyone to support: (i) a running Internet, (ii) the
INR System & (iii) AfriNIC (one of the five regional
RIRs)...to: #KeepItOn! no Internet Shutdown :'-(

Please, let's call our friends for more concrete actions!

You are free to donate. Please do your part, if you
want to *Defend the Internet* like Internet Society.

~°~

*DONATE TO KEEP AFRINIC UP BY CLICKING THIS LINK;*
*https://www.tespok.co.ke/?page_id=14001
<https://www.tespok.co.ke/?page_id=14001>*
~°~

Shalom,
--sb.


Le mercredi 18 août 2021, John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> a écrit :


> On 18 Aug 2021, at 8:05 AM, Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com>

> wrote:

>

>

> John,

>

> I query where queries may actually get answered – and since previous

> emails to the members list have gone unanswered – here is as good a place

> as any. ...

>

> We are a community – this is a bottom up organization – and the community

> has the right to ask questions – however hard those questions may be to

> answer and however much answering those questions may be distasteful to the

> people who have to answer.

>

>

> As a concerned community member, you could have simply asked – “Do we have

> to recognize a contingent liability given the litigation, and are there any

> Section 162 implications to be considered?”   You chose a rather different

> approach of posting legal speculation in the name of "seeking a legal

> position” and hence I replied.  If you want something more definitive, then

> seeking actual legal counsel would likely help clarify far more than

> speculation here.

>

> The community has every right to know that the organization is being

> properly operated, but it also true that the community vests the routine

> oversight in the elected governance body – as they are both accountable for

> such oversight and have access to legal counsel to inform their course of

> action.  This becomes even more important when in litigation, as

> organizations need to take great care with their communication – even to

> their members –  to balance the need for openness with the obligation to

> sustain a prudent legal defense.   You may not get answers to all your

> questions in the midst of litigation, but that’s an indication of a

> governing body being true to its job rather than any indication to the

> contrary.

>

> As someone who has had to manage such a difficult balance when defending

> ARIN in litigation, I know firsthand it can be quite challenging to

> maintain open communication with community at the same time. I’d encourage

> you to continue to raise questions that you might have as concerned

> community member (if indeed out of bona fide concern for AFRINIC), but you

> also should recognize that circumspect communications is quite normal when

> it comes to litigation matters, so you might not get the answers you seek –

> particularly to legal speculation.

>

> Best wishes,

> /John

>

> John Curran

> President and CEO

> American Registry for Internet Numbers

>

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