<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Hello, <br>I do not see how GDPR should have any effect on Afrinic or in how it stores its data. <br>Thanks </div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:community-discuss-request@afrinic.net">community-discuss-request@afrinic.net</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">4/11/2018 1:01 PM</span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:community-discuss@afrinic.net">community-discuss@afrinic.net</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Community-Discuss Digest, Vol 296, Issue 1</span><br><br></div>Send Community-Discuss mailing list submissions to<br> community-discuss@afrinic.net<br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> community-discuss-request@afrinic.net<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br> community-discuss-owner@afrinic.net<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of Community-Discuss digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Fwd: [AFRINIC-Announce] Announcement for Final Candidate<br> Slate for Open Seats AFRINIC Elections (Wale Adedokun)<br> 2. AFRINIC and the GDPR (Andrew Alston)<br> 3. Re: AFRINIC and the GDPR (Kris Seeburn)<br> 4. Re: AFRINIC and the GDPR (Owen DeLong)<br> 5. Re: AFRINIC and the GDPR (Kris Seeburn)<br> 6. processing personal data for Candidate Slate<br> (Jean-Robert Hountomey)<br> 7. Re: AFRINIC and the GDPR (Andrew Alston)<br> 8. Re: AFRINIC and the GDPR (JORDI PALET MARTINEZ)<br> 9. Re: AFRINIC and the GDPR (Andrew Alston)<br> 10. Re: AFRINIC and the GDPR (Abibu R. Ntahigiye)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 21:56:41 +0000 (GMT)<br>From: Wale Adedokun <wale@forum.org.ng><br>To: rpd <rpd@afrinic.net>, community-discuss<br> <community-discuss@afrinic.net>, members <members@afrinic.net>, afnog<br> <afnog@afnog.org><br>Subject: [Community-Discuss] Fwd: [AFRINIC-Announce] Announcement for<br> Final Candidate Slate for Open Seats AFRINIC Elections<br>Message-ID:<br> <1573234344.17166.1523397401120.JavaMail.zimbra@forum.org.ng><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8<br><br><br><br>----- AFRINIC Communication <comm-announce@afrinic.net> wrote:<br>> [Version fran?aise ci-dessous]<br>> <br>> <br>> Dear Colleagues,<br>> <br>> NomCom2018 is pleased to announce the following final candidate slate for the open seats on the AFRINIC:<br>> <br>> 1.Board of Directors<br>> <br>> Eastern Africa<br>> <br>> i. Abibu Rashid Ntahigiye<br>> <br>> Southern Africa<br>> <br>> i. Lucky Masilela<br>> <br>> <br>> 2. Policy Development Working Group<br>> <br>> i. Mark Elkins<br>> <br>> <br>> 3. Governance Committee<br>> <br>> i. Daniel Inusa Yakmut<br>> <br>> ii. Dr. Alioune Badara Traore<br>> <br>> <br>> 4. Policy Development Appeal Committee<br>> <br>> i. Kodzo (Marcus) Gadzekpo Adomey<br>> <br>> ii. Luc Missidimbazi <br>> <br>> iii. Jean-Robert Hountomey<br>> <br>> iv. Wafa Dahmani<br>> <br>> <br>> Full candidate information has been published.<br>> <br>> Governance Committee<br>> <br>> https://afrinic.net/en/community/elections/2349-2018-governance-committee-candidate-slate<br>> <br>> BoD<br>> <br>> https://afrinic.net/en/community/elections/2345-2018-board-of-directors-candidate-slate<br>> <br>> <br>> PDWG<br>> <br>> https://afrinic.net/en/community/elections/2351-2018-pdwg-candidate-slate<br>> <br>> <br>> Appeal Committee<br>> <br>> https://afrinic.net/en/community/elections/2347-2018-policy-development-appeal-committee-candidate-slate<br>> <br>> <br>> The community (and members) are hereby invited to view candidate details and express any comments about the suitability of the candidates for the board position using the comment section at the URLs above.<br>> <br>> <br>> Election will be held during the Annual General Members' Meeting (AGMM) to be held in Dakar on 10 May 2018.<br>> <br>> Members that will not be able to attend and/or vote physically at the AGMM are informed that there is an option for electronic voting, which will start on 27th April 2018 until 10th May 2018 and will be conducted through the MyAFRINIC portal - https://my.afrinic.net.<br>> <br>> Members can also opt to appoint a proxy to attend the AGMM and participate on the member?s behalf, including voting in the board election and all other matters at the AGMM.<br>> <br>> <br>> More information is available at: https://afrinic.net/en/community/elections/bod-election/process<br>> <br>> For any queries or clarification, please contact the nominations committee by email to nomcom2018@ afrinic. net<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> (2018 Nominations Committee) <br>> <br>> <br>> ???????????????????????????????????????????????????<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Chers coll?gues,<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> NomCom2018 a le plaisir d'annoncer la liste finale des candidats aux ?lections du :<br>> <br>> <br>> 1. Conseil d'administration<br>> <br>> <br>> Afrique de l'Est<br>> <br>> i. Abibu Rashid Ntahigiye<br>> <br>> <br>> Afrique du sud <br>> <br>> i. Lucky Masilela<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> 2. Groupe de travail sur l'?laboration des politiques<br>> <br>> <br>> i. Mark Elkins<br>> <br>> <br>> 3. Comit? de gouvernance<br>> <br>> <br>> i. Daniel Inusa Yakmut<br>> <br>> ii. Dr. Alioune Badara Traor?<br>> <br>> <br>> 4. Comit? d'appel de l'?laboration des politiques<br>> <br>> <br>> i. Kodzo (Marcus) Gadzekpo Adomey<br>> <br>> ii. Luc Missidimbazi<br>> <br>> iii. Jean-Robert Hountomey<br>> <br>> iv. Wafa Dahmani<br>> <br>> <br>> Plus d?informations sur les candidats sont publi?es.<br>> <br>> <br>> Comit? de gouvernance<br>> <br>> https://afrinic.net/fr/community/elections/2349-2018-governance-committee-candidate-slate<br>> <br>> <br>> BoD<br>> <br>> https://afrinic.net/fr/community/elections/2345-2018-board-of-directors-candidate-slate<br>> <br>> <br>> PDWG <br>> <br>> https://afrinic.net/fr/communautaire/elections/2351-2018-pdwg-candidate-slate<br>> <br>> Comit? d'Appel<br>> <br>> https://afrinic.net/fr/community/elections/2347-2018-policy-development-appeal-committee-candidate-slate<br>> <br>> <br>> La communaut? (et les membres) sont invit?s ? voir les d?tails des candidats et ? formuler des commentaires sur les qualit?s personnelles des candidats pour le poste au conseil d'administration en utilisant la section des commentaires sur les URL ci-dessus.<br>> <br>> L'?lection aura lieu lors de l'Assembl?e g?n?rale annuelle des membres (AGMM) qui se tiendra ? Dakar le 10 mai 2018.<br>> <br>> Les membres qui ne pourront pas assister et / ou voter physiquement ? l'AGMM sont inform?s qu'il y a une option pour le vote ?lectronique, qui commencera le 27 avril 2018 jusqu'au 10 mai 2018 et sera effectu?e via le portail MyAFRINIC - https: / /my.afrinic.net.<br>> <br>> Les membres peuvent ?galement choisir de nommer un mandataire pour assister ? l'AGMM et participer au nom du membre, y compris le vote ? l'?lection du conseil d?administration et toutes les autres questions ? l'AGMM.<br>> <br>> Plus d'informations sont disponibles sur: https://afrinic.net/en/community/elections/bod-election/process<br>> <br>> Pour toute question ou clarification, veuillez contacter le comit? de nomination par courriel ? nomcom2018 @ afrinic. net<br>> <br>> <br>> (Comit? des nominations 2018)<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Announce mailing list<br>> Announce@afrinic.net<br>> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/announce<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 05:42:07 +0000<br>From: Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com><br>To: General <community-discuss@afrinic.net><br>Cc: AFRINIC Board of Directors' List <Board@afrinic.net><br>Subject: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC and the GDPR<br>Message-ID:<br> <HE1PR0301MB25702F4FA853E3D55F592BABEEBD0@HE1PR0301MB2570.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com><br> <br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"<br><br>Hi AfriNIC Board,<br><br>Can this board please *urgently* 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 25th of May to ensure that when the GDPR comes into force AfriNIC is compliant.<br><br>Considering that the regulation comes into force on the 25th 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.<br><br>Andrew<br><br><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/attachments/20180411/bf9431ca/attachment-0001.html><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:03:12 +0400<br>From: Kris Seeburn <seeburn.k@gmail.com><br>To: Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com><br>Cc: General <community-discuss@afrinic.net>, AFRINIC Board of<br> Directors' List <Board@afrinic.net><br>Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC and the GDPR<br>Message-ID: <A8F008B4-3262-4940-92A2-B1A2BAFD5FD7@gmail.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>That is a good question and hope EU and a repealed safe harbour to an ICO equivalent will be going thru parliament approval soonest. <br><br>Not only Whois but more is implied. Unless afrinic is waiting to see whether Eu and local govt will bite<br><br>Kris<br><br>> On 11 Apr 2018, at 09:42, Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> Hi AfriNIC Board,<br>> <br>> Can this board please *urgently* 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 25th of May to ensure that when the GDPR comes into force AfriNIC is compliant.<br>> <br>> Considering that the regulation comes into force on the 25th 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.<br>> <br>> Andrew<br>> <br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Community-Discuss mailing list<br>> Community-Discuss@afrinic.net<br>> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/attachments/20180411/210bdc92/attachment-0001.html><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 4<br>Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:08:11 -0700<br>From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com><br>To: Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com><br>Cc: General <community-discuss@afrinic.net>, AFRINIC Board of<br> Directors' List <Board@afrinic.net><br>Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC and the GDPR<br>Message-ID: <7FFD9908-635B-4758-9303-B654EDD7D9C5@delong.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br><br><br>> On Apr 10, 2018, at 22:42 , Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> Hi AfriNIC Board,<br>> <br>> Can this board please *urgently* 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 25th of May to ensure that when the GDPR comes into force AfriNIC is compliant.<br><br>Is Mauritius signatory to some treaty making them subject to GDPR?<br> <br>> Considering that the regulation comes into force on the 25th 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.<br><br>It?s not about EU Citizens. It?s about EU Residents. (Common misconception about GDPR).<br><br>Further, unless your in a silly country that was dumb enough to sign a treaty extending EU?s legal reach into your sovereignty, such as the stupid congress of the united States, then you can offer the EU a nice big Italian sign language gesture regarding their GDPR and continue on with business as usual.<br><br>Owen<br><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/attachments/20180410/52d2583e/attachment-0001.html><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 5<br>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:18:55 +0400<br>From: Kris Seeburn <seeburn.k@gmail.com><br>To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com><br>Cc: General <community-discuss@afrinic.net>, AFRINIC Board of<br> Directors' List <Board@afrinic.net><br>Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC and the GDPR<br>Message-ID: <34F7BBCE-7E6A-4E48-90F6-17AF2B12EEF7@gmail.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>Mauritius is signatory that?s where the safe harbour was put In place years back. All BPOs in mauritius are holding EU citizen / resident data. the Data Protection office will be fast tracking to look like ICO which is renamed GDPR anyways.<br><br>Kris<br><br>> On 11 Apr 2018, at 10:08, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>>> On Apr 10, 2018, at 22:42 , Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com> wrote:<br>>> <br>>> Hi AfriNIC Board,<br>>> <br>>> Can this board please *urgently* 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 25th of May to ensure that when the GDPR comes into force AfriNIC is compliant.<br>> <br>> Is Mauritius signatory to some treaty making them subject to GDPR?<br>> <br>>> Considering that the regulation comes into force on the 25th 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.<br>> <br>> It?s not about EU Citizens. It?s about EU Residents. (Common misconception about GDPR).<br>> <br>> Further, unless your in a silly country that was dumb enough to sign a treaty extending EU?s legal reach into your sovereignty, such as the stupid congress of the united States, then you can offer the EU a nice big Italian sign language gesture regarding their GDPR and continue on with business as usual.<br>> <br>> Owen<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Community-Discuss mailing list<br>> Community-Discuss@afrinic.net<br>> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/attachments/20180411/6996fc31/attachment-0001.html><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 6<br>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 01:24:11 -0500<br>From: Jean-Robert Hountomey <jrhountomey@gmail.com><br>To: nomcom2018@afrinic.net, community-discuss@afrinic.net,<br> board@afrinic.net<br>Subject: [Community-Discuss] processing personal data for Candidate<br> Slate<br>Message-ID: <c8fb0020-c306-76ef-11b9-29be625cc95f@gmail.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8<br><br>Dear Noncom,<br><br>As we see personally identifiable information (PII) published with the candidate slate, please let us know:<br><br>1- If the data collected (including CV) at the time of application was meant to be made available publicly,<br>2- if you received consent from candidates before making these data publicly available<br><br>I suggest that you check Mauritius DATA PROTECTION BILL (No. XIX of 2017) (1)<br><br>Thank you.<br><br>Regards.<br><br>Jean-Robert Hountomey<br><br>(1). http://mauritiusassembly.govmu.org/English/bills/Documents/intro/2017/bill1917.pdf<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 7<br>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:05:40 +0000<br>From: Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com><br>To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com><br>Cc: General <community-discuss@afrinic.net>, AFRINIC Board of<br> Directors' List <Board@afrinic.net><br>Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC and the GDPR<br>Message-ID:<br> <HE1PR0301MB25708064F190A827DEF6734BEEBD0@HE1PR0301MB2570.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com><br> <br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>Owen,<br><br>Firstly ? AfriNIC does hold data on EU residents ? that is without question ? I know of a couple of cases of EU residents with their data held by AfriNIC without even thinking of it.<br>Secondly ? irrespective of if they are signatories or not ? if AfriNIC chooses to do any business with RIPE for example, they are doing business with an EU entity and can be prevented from doing so if they don?t comply is my understanding.<br><br>Irrespective of this ? the AfriNIC board if they believe they do not need to comply in any way shape or form ? needs to state that to this community and to its members and give reasons as to why not ? at that point ? the affected members can then make an informed decision as to their course of action should they choose one. But ? AfriNIC still has an obligation to inform its community as to its standing in this regard and do so before the legislation becomes reality.<br><br>Please note clause 3.4.vii of the bylaws:<br><br>(vii) to disseminate among its members information on all matters affecting the Company and its members and to provide for and be a central channel of communication for the members of the Company and generally for the furtherance and promotion of their interests;<br><br>Andrew<br><br>From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen@delong.com]<br>Sent: 11 April 2018 09:08<br>To: Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com><br>Cc: General <community-discuss@afrinic.net>; AFRINIC Board of Directors' List <Board@afrinic.net><br>Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC and the GDPR<br>Importance: High<br><br><br><br><br>On Apr 10, 2018, at 22:42 , Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com<mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com>> wrote:<br><br>Hi AfriNIC Board,<br><br>Can this board please *urgently* 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 25th of May to ensure that when the GDPR comes into force AfriNIC is compliant.<br><br>Is Mauritius signatory to some treaty making them subject to GDPR?<br><br><br>Considering that the regulation comes into force on the 25th 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. 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