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<p class="MsoNormal">If this proposal was simply to forge discussion around this
topic, then the authors won and I salute that result! I would love it to stay
that way and not to be adopted by this community for the number of reasons so
eloquently mentioned here. If I haven’t said it clearly, I oppose this policy.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Just read the article on <a href="http://theregistry.co.uk">theregistry.co.uk</a>, a UK mainstream
media, while no African newspaper thought of publishing it (or are they even
aware of the ongoing discussion?) I simply love it and the way they put it. Anyone
who is not familiar with this process will think it is something the AFRINIC Board
is working on, rather than a simple proposal put forward by three community
members (even if authors were mentioned as well).</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In my opinion, authors of this article made it sound like a
warning to African governments, that Afrinic is working on a policy that will
punish them if they dare shutting down the Internet; which is beautiful! I am
sure if some governments read it, their impression (or trust) on afrinic will
start to be altered (as many people have pointed out on this list). <br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">On the other
hand, if none reaches to AFRINIC to ask for explanation (such as through the afrinic
forum with Governments), that would mean they might also be worried of the
registry daring to play such a role, of punishing them for their “sovereign”
actions.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Despite some errors in the article (wondering whether the
author is on this list), I would encourage more press to feature this
discussion and then at the end, because the policy will be withdrawn (I really
hope), AFRINIC can make it clear that the community didn’t find it suitable and
that as a registry, it is not part of their mandate.</p>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>------------------------<br>*<b>Arsène Tungali</b>*<br></div>Co-Founder & Executive Director, <span><i><a href="http://www.rudiinternational.org" target="_blank">Rudi international</a></i>,</span><br>CEO,<i> <a href="http://www.smart-serv.info" target="_blank">Smart Services Sarl</a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.mabingwa-forum.com" target="_blank">Mabingwa Forum</a></i> <br>Tel: +243 993810967<i><br></i></div><div>GPG: 523644A0<i><br></i></div><div><u>Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo</u><i><br><br></i></div><div><a href="http://tungali.blogspot.com/2015/06/selected-for-2015-mandela-washington.html" target="_blank">2015 Mandela Washington Felllow</a> (YALI) - ISOC Ambassador (IGF <a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/education-and-leadership-programmes/next-generation-leaders/igf-ambassadors-programme/Past-Ambassadors" target="_blank">Brazil</a> & <a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/what-we-do/education-and-leadership-programmes/next-generation-leaders/Current-Ambassadors" target="_blank">Mexico</a>) <font face="monospace,monospace">- <a href="http://afrisig.org/afrisig-2016/class-of-2016/" target="_blank">AFRISIG 2016</a> - </font><a href="http://tungali.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Blogger</a> - ICANN Fellow (<a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-07-18-en" target="_blank">Los Angeles</a> & <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/marrakech55-attendees-2016-03-14-en" target="_blank">Marrakech</a>).<i> </i>AFRINIC Fellow<i> </i>(<a href="http://www.afrinic.net/en/library/news/1907-afrinic-25-fellowship-winners" target="_blank">Mauritius</a>)<i> - </i><a href="http://www.igfsa.org/" target="_blank">IGFSA Member</a> - Internet Governance - Internet Freedom.<i> </i><br><br>Check the <a href="http://cipesa.org/?wpfb_dl=234" target="_blank">2016 State of Internet Freedom in DRC report</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-04-13 14:31 GMT+02:00 Bope Domilongo Christian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christianbope@gmail.com" target="_blank">christianbope@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">Dear all,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">I have been following this policy discussion passionately.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">I do understand the need of keeping Internet up all the time knowing it's importance for economies, educations, developpement and other. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">We should engage countries using different channels such AFGWG, AU and other multistakeholder in our community.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">What this policy is trying to solve is not in AfriNIC mandate or might potentially serve personal interest and other interest groups not even the people's or Community at large.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">I recall during AfriNIC meeting in Mauritius last December 2016, the same group of people claim that the Audit Policy put the organizational at Risk because it will revoke ressouces if Members dit not complied. Today theu want AfriNIC to revoke ressouces. What will the anti - shutdown do to the organization? </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif">To be honest this policy is not solving anything instead is putting AfriNIC at high risk and need to be withdrawn.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 13 Apr 2017 6:48 a.m., "Tutu Ngcaba" <<a href="mailto:pan.afrikhan@gmail.com" target="_blank">pan.afrikhan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="m_-7385937423851452362quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="auto"><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="m_-7385937423851452362quoted-text">On 13 Apr 2017 12:32 p.m., "Andrew Alston" <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com" target="_blank">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.c<wbr>om</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div><div class="m_-7385937423851452362quoted-text"><blockquote class="m_-7385937423851452362m_-6493983414693045774m_2896101602082097042m_-8538900027416485240m_-7829161169169808918m_808397558217099807quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Interestingly enough – this policy has already served as a catalyst for global discussion – and continues to do so.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">It has appeared all over twitter, it appeared on <a href="http://theregister.co.uk" target="_blank">theregister.co.uk</a>, it has appeared in discussion</span></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto"><p style="font-family:arimo,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I read and this is sad. </p><p style="font-family:arimo,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">In that fake article like Donald Trump would say, it states that:<br></p><p style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arimo, arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/12/no_ip_addresses_for_countries/" target="_blank">https://www.theregister.co.uk/<wbr>2017/04/12/no_ip_addresses_for<wbr>_countries/</a></span></font><br></p><p style="font-family:arimo,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">"Governments that cut off internet access to their citizens could find themselves refused new IP addresses under a proposal put forward by one of the five global IP allocation organizations."</p><p style="font-family:arimo,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The fake article continues with another lie about the Afrinic meeting in Botwana in June as below.</p><p style="font-family:arimo,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">"The <a href="https://www.afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development/policy-proposals/2061-anti-shutdown-01" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">suggested clampdown</a> will be considered at the next meeting of internet registry Afrinic in Botswana in June: "</p><p style="font-family:arimo,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">This Writter Mccarthy must have been paid to promote this nonsense about the Afrinic and our region and to make it worse its on foreign media.</p><p style="font-family:arimo,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">What kind of image such article will have on the Afrinic. </p><p style="font-family:arimo,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Did the Arthors have anything to do with this.?</p><p style="font-family:arimo,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Can the Afrinic condemn this kind of article written to disgress it even if the Afrinic condemns internet shuts.<br></p><div class="m_-7385937423851452362quoted-text"><p style="font-family:arimo,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:large">Best Regards,</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:large"><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:large">Tutu Ngcaba</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:large">Kwazulu Techno Hubs</span><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:large">South Africa</span><br></p></div></div></div>
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