<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Respectfully Kris - they are a French overseas territory and this subject to French law.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They are not members of the EU in their own right.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As such - we need to hear from the French DPA on their interpretation and not chasing a chimera.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would not worry unless and until the French DPA proclaims that it has jurisdiction over AfriNIC. Even then, I think that is challengeable.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Apr 2018, at 16:28, Kris Seeburn <<a href="mailto:seeburn.k@gmail.com" class="">seeburn.k@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Mike<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Réunion and Mayotte are the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_member_state_territories_and_the_European_Union" title="Special member state territories and the European Union" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">outermost region</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">European Union</a><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> and, as an overseas department of France, part of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone" title="Eurozone" style="color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">Eurozone</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 11, 2018, at 18:23, Mike Silber <<a href="mailto:silber.mike@gmail.com" class="">silber.mike@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">They are not Member States.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And Owen is not really that accurate in his interpretation. He mixes up enforcement (real nexus through operations) with some theoretical applicability which is poorly defined and has no practical expression in the GDPR and will need national DPAs to provide teeth.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Apr 2018, at 16:19, Andrew Alston <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com" class="">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="">Owen,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="">Would the fact that AfriNIC<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="">serves<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""> </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">La Réunion</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and Mayotte not create such a nexus since both are formally part of the EU?<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">In the same way – there are various EU members served by ARIN?<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Andrew<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Owen DeLong [<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" class="">mailto:owen@delong.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>11 April 2018 17:12<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Andrew Alston <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com" class="">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mike Silber <<a href="mailto:silber.mike@gmail.com" class="">silber.mike@gmail.com</a>>; Abibu R. Ntahigiye <<a href="mailto:abibu@tznic.or.tz" class="">abibu@tznic.or.tz</a>>; General Discussions of AFRINIC <<a href="mailto:community-discuss@afrinic.net" class="">community-discuss@afrinic.net</a>>; AfriNIC Discuss <<a href="mailto:members-discuss@afrinic.net" class="">members-discuss@afrinic.net</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC and the GDPR<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Roughly translated:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="apple-tab-span"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>The ability of EU to inflict GDPR on those operators outside of EU is predicated on that operator<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="apple-tab-span"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>having some business operation or presence within the EU which allows them to subject you to their<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="apple-tab-span"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>jurisdiction. Determining that you have said presence requires a specific determination by the<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="apple-tab-span"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>EU member state where said presence exists.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I’m pretty sure AfriNIC has no such nexus.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">However, what is left out of Mike’s statement is the potential that any other country may have signed some<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">sort of treaty with the EU (or a member state) which subjects them to GDPR and/or grants additional<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">extraterritorial rights to the EU. Such is (unfortunately) the case with the US, for example.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Another key point is that EU citizens not living in Europe are not covered by GDPR. Non-EU citizens living<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">within the EU are covered by GDPR. (At least that is my understanding… AIUI, GDPR applies to EU residents,<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">not EU citizens.)<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Owen<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On Apr 11, 2018, at 06:44 , Andrew Alston <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="">Thanks Mike,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="">That’s actually pretty useful in some sense – but can I ask for an English interpretation of the last sentence for those of us that sadly don’t speak Lawyer<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif;" class="">☺</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="">Thanks</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="">Andrew</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Mike Silber <<a href="mailto:silber.mike@gmail.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">silber.mike@gmail.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Wednesday, 11 April 2018 at 16:34<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"Abibu R. Ntahigiye" <<a href="mailto:abibu@tznic.or.tz" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">abibu@tznic.or.tz</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Andrew Alston <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>>, General Discussions of AFRINIC <<a href="mailto:community-discuss@afrinic.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">community-discuss@afrinic.net</a>>, AfriNIC Discuss <<a href="mailto:members-discuss@afrinic.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">members-discuss@afrinic.net</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC and the GDPR</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">If I can add to this, there is as yet no clear direction from the European DPAs as a collective on how GDPR affects whois access in general.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The RIPE NCC approach is premised on their interactions with the Dutch DPA, rather than a Europe wide approach.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">In addition, I am not sure I concur with Mr Alston’s insistence that “holding data of EU citizens” automatically places AfriNIC into the category of data controller in terms of GDPR or imposes any requirements on AfriNIC, particularly as the GDPR applies to processing of personal data in the context of the activities of an establishment of a controller or a processor in the Union.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">The extraterritorial application is premised on a nexus requirement set out in general terms in Recital 23, but requiring specific determination in terms of national law by Member States.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Mike<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On 11 Apr 2018, at 13:36, Abibu R. Ntahigiye <<a href="mailto:abibu@tznic.or.tz" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">abibu@tznic.or.tz</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Dear Andrew, Members and the whole Afrinic community,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Andrew has raised a very important issue for Afrinic operations - Thanks so much Andrew.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">The Board would like to inform you that the issue was discussed within the Board at the Afrinic 27 meeting in Lagos and the Management was tasked to work on the issue.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">The Board has also been made aware that the Mauritius Data Protection Act 2017 is already in effect and is aligned with the EU GDPR regulations. The Board believes that these regulations are not a barrier to publication of the WHOIS data, and it has noted the RIPE NCC study that made such a finding. The Board further believes that the biggest changes required by AFRINIC are in documenting how personal data is used, and in informing people at the time data is collected.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">The AFRINIC management will provide further updates on the issues at AIS 2018 in Senegal.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">Further to the above, the Board expects to receive more insights on GDPR related issues at the joint Boards (AfriNIC and RIPE NCC) meeting planned in Senegal.</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">Kind regards</span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">On 11/04/2018 08:42, Andrew Alston wrote:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; font-variant-caps: normal; text-align: start; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class="">Hi AfriNIC Board,<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class="">Can this board please *<b class="">urgently</b>* inform this community as to what preparations they have made as regards to compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations passed by the European Commision and the board will be in a position to give this community a full and complete report as to their GDPR compliance status and what will be changing before the 25<sup class="">th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of May to ensure that when the GDPR comes into force AfriNIC is compliant.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class="">Considering that the regulation comes into force on the 25<sup class="">th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>of May 2018 – and AfriNIC is 100% holding data of EU Citizens, which makes them subject to the regulations irrespective of the fact that they are domiciled in Mauritius – this is an urgent and critical issue. It has direct impact on the whois database, abuse contact information, handling of data submitted during application process and potentially even the proposed review policy, just to name a few things that I can think of off the top of my head – and cannot be ignored. I would in fact have liked to have seen discussions by the board in the minutes that have been published about the GDPR long before now – considering the impact – but failing that – the question is now being asked.<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class="">Andrew<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">_______________________________________________<o:p class=""></o:p></pre><pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">Community-Discuss mailing list<o:p class=""></o:p></pre><pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><a href="mailto:Community-Discuss@afrinic.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">Community-Discuss@afrinic.net</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></pre><pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></pre></blockquote><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">-- </span><o:p class=""></o:p></pre><pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">Abibu R. Ntahigiye</span><o:p class=""></o:p></pre><pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></pre><pre style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Courier New"; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;" class="">CEO, tzNIC / Interim Chairman, Afrinic.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></pre><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">Community-Discuss mailing list</span><br class=""></span><a href="mailto:Community-Discuss@afrinic.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">Community-Discuss@afrinic.net</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Community-Discuss mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Community-Discuss@afrinic.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">Community-Discuss@afrinic.net</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss</a></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Community-Discuss mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Community-Discuss@afrinic.net" class="">Community-Discuss@afrinic.net</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss" class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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