<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yiv1136439988"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7296"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7295"><div><span></span></div> <div class="yiv1136439988qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7294"><br clear="none" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7725"></div><div class="yiv1136439988yqt6431247130" id="yiv1136439988yqt90611"></div></div></div></div><div class=".yiv1136439988yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7785"> <div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7784"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7783"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7803"><font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7802"> On Sunday, July 17, 2016 8:44 AM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:<br clear="none"></font></div> <div class="yiv1136439988y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7782"><div id="yiv1136439988"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7781"><div class="yiv1136439988yqt3279939267" id="yiv1136439988yqt82965"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7780"><br><br clear="none" class="yiv1136439988"></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7984">>I didn’t claim it didn’t exist, I referred to it as “vaporware” which is a term often applied to a product or service >which may exist in a laboratory, but isn’t available for purchase at the time, which was exactly where AfriNIC >services were at the time I wrote those posts.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_8171"><br clear="none" class="yiv1136439988"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7805">>I will admit that the word may have been inflammatory and possibly poorly chosen. I have learned in the last 13 </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7805">>years. Who among us has not?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7805"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7805">Owen,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7805"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_8029"><div tabindex="0" style="font-size: 13px; outline: none 0px; display: table; width: 823px; box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 12px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_8068"><div style="display: table-cell; width: auto; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_8069"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_8070"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_8071">Well, “In the computer industry, vaporware (also spelled vapourware) is a product, typically computer hardware or software, that is announced to the general public but is never actually manufactured nor officially cancelled.” - Wikipedia</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_8071"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_8071"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_8072">AFRINIC had staff, staff, a board and meetings so was real and not just an announcement. And it is still here today. Your reference to AfriNIC as vapourware was not only inflammatory, it was misleading in support of your argument at the time but we shall continue to move on as we did then.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_8073"><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_8074"></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_8075">Mirriam</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_8076">Chix in Tech</div></div></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7807"><br clear="none" class="yiv1136439988"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7978"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1468833547825_7806"><br clear="none" class="yiv1136439988"></div><br clear="none" class="yiv1136439988"></div></div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>