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

[John Curran]

On 22 Aug 2021, at 1:06 PM, General Discussions of AFRINIC <community-discuss at afrinic.net<mailto:community-discuss at afrinic.net>> wrote:

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

Mr DeLong -

This is good to know - thank you for the explanation.   Could you note whether this sudden new-found inability to comment on the Cloud Innovations number resource usage is a recent change?

I ask because back when I posed the question on 5 August (and for many weeks prior),  you seemed have no difficulty whatsoever commenting extensively about the dispute and Cloud Innovation’s virtuousness –

On 5 Aug 2021, at 6:04 PM, Owen DeLong via Community-Discuss <community-discuss at afrinic.net<mailto:community-discuss at afrinic.net>> wrote:
...
ALL LIRs lease INRs. Many do it in relation to also providing
connectivity services. Cloud Innovation also does it in relation
to providing connectivity services in some (but not all) cases.

... We (Cloud Innovation) have customers just like any other LIR.
We (Cloud Innovation) assign addresses to them for use on internet
connected hosts, just like any other LIR. The only distinction between
us (Cloud Innovation) and most other LIRs is that we will do so regardless
of whether we are the provider of that connectivity or not.

Obviously a simple yes/no answer to my question at the time (i.e. “Is Cloud Innovation’s usage today of the number resources for the same purpose for which they were originally requested and issued?”) would have been optimal, but c'est la vie…

I do have a point of confusion on your new-found inability to comment – is it perhaps one-sided, i.e. only with regard to addressing factual matters regarding “We (Cloud Innovation)” and your number resources usage?   I ask, of course, because you still seem to have freedom to comment on matters related to the dispute when it does suit you: e.g. purporting process issues at AFRINC on this list on 12 August, etc.

After weeks of justifying of the righteousness of CI and its actions, the sudden silence after a single question is somewhat inexplicable – do you know if perhaps someone else from CI might be available to address it – I understand they may not have your depth of knowledge, but surely that’s not needed for a single yes/no question?

Thanks!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers

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