<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div>Arsene</div><div><br></div><div>The community should be wary not to be played.</div><div><div id=""><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div><div>On 4/13/17, 3:59 PM, "Arsène Tungali" <<a href="mailto:arsenebaguma@gmail.com">arsenebaguma@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div dir="ltr"><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></div></blockquote></span><div>Not wanting to point any connections is this not the same media house that published a private email to discredit a member of the community not long ago. ??</div><div><br></div><div>And again this is the same media house that has historically published information about AfriNIC where a certain member of the community is involved…..just saying</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div dir="ltr"><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). </p></div></blockquote></span><div>This surely is something for the governance committee to look into. </div><div> </div><div>A touch of “Tilapia” arround this whole policy proposal. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>