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

[Owen DeLong]

I have answered all questions that have been asked. Your failure to read the answers is not my
responsibility.

Owen



> On Aug 22, 2021, at 10:19 , Marcus K. G. Adomey <madomey at hotmail.com> wrote:

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> Owen,

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> Stop your diversionary tactics and provide answers to questions asked you.

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> Marcus

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> From: Owen DeLong via Community-Discuss <community-discuss at afrinic.net>

> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2021 5:06:20 PM

> To: Sylvain Baya <abscoco at gmail.com>

> Cc: General Discussions of AFRINIC <community-discuss at afrinic.net>; Brian Sowers <b.sowers154 at gmail.com>

> Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] FUNDRAISING & DONATIONS - TO KEEP AFRINIC RUNNING

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>> On Aug 22, 2021, at 01:07 , Sylvain Baya <abscoco at gmail.com <mailto:abscoco at gmail.com>> wrote:

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>> Dear AfriNIC's Community,

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>> Please find my comments below, inline...

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>> Le ven. 20 août 2021 à 17:36, Owen DeLong via Community-Discuss <community-discuss at afrinic.net <mailto:community-discuss at afrinic.net>> a écrit :

>> I am confused… How is a question about consent an attempt to kill AFRINIC?

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>> Hi Owen,

>> ...brother, thanks for you email.

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>> Please add the context; then you'll become less confused :'-(

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> No, with the context, I still do not understand how a simple question constitutes an attempt

> to kill an RIR. Indeed, I find that it is people who are resistant to the idea of questioning an

> organization that are most likely to lead to said organizations demise or worse, its

> descent into corruption and malfeasance.

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>> Is AFRINIC so fragile that it cannot withstand a simple question of its consent

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>> AfriNIC needs to be defended these hard times and it appears that some of us 

>> are doing very well *our* common duty (protecting our RIR against 'predators') 

>> as a *community*. (You should have been proud of them :'-()

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>> ...i found it admirable! and i wouldn't like to cross their way; while they are 

>> defending AfriNIC...not you? Feel free to continue to defend your champion, 

>> though...

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> >From my perspective I am attempting to defend AFRINIC and it’s member base

> and community from a staff and board which are determined to violate the

> rules as written.

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>> and cooperation in a process initiated by third parties allegedly on its behalf?

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>> Question already answered here [1]! please let's know if it isn't enough for you.

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> I didn’t say that the question wasn’t adequately answered. I questioned the person

> who characterized the asking of the question as an attempt to kill the RIR for that

> act.

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>> I would think not. If it is so fragile, then there are much bigger problems than its financial state.

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>> Owen, could you, please, elaborate a bit more on the above?

>> ...i can not wait to hear what you are predicting for the Future of AfriNIC [6] 

>> and of the RFC7020. Please, be examplarily transparent :'-(

>> Don't run away!

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> Because of my current role, I cannot further comment on the ongoing legal battle at this time.

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> I predict errata will be filed against RFC-7020 because it claims to document the current state

> of the RIR system at the time of writing and the statement that global providers universally deal

> with multiple RIRs has incorrect implications and is not entirely accurate. There are plenty of

> global networks that deal with a single RIR and even those that deal with multiple RIRs do

> not necessarily deal with the RIR for each and every region where they operate.

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> There is widespread use of addresses from every RIR in other regions, including a lot of address

> space in use within Africa that is issued by ARIN, RIPE, and APNIC.

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> Owen

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