<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="">My interpretation (as a non-Mauritian lawyer) that the court was simply upholding AfriNIC’s conferral of membership on resource members in the bylaws.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It was not inferring or conferring anything as I read it.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 30 May 2019, at 13:09, 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 lang="EN-US" class="">Mike,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" 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 lang="EN-US" class="">As a matter of interest – when the court ruled in the last case – saying that quorum was made up of members of X number, irrespective of them being registered, resource or otherwise. Do you from a legal perspective believe that ruling could be used to claim that the court has inferred status on other members, or is that not the case? I’m curious to know the answer from a legal perspective.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" 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 lang="EN-US" class="">Andrew<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" 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 lang="en-KE" 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>Mike Silber <<a href="mailto:silber.mike@gmail.com" class="">silber.mike@gmail.com</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, 30 May 2019 13:16<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>S. Moonesamy <<a href="mailto:sm+af@afrinic.net" class="">sm+af@afrinic.net</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:community-discuss@afrinic.net" class="">community-discuss@afrinic.net</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Community-Discuss] Gratitude (off-topic)<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="">Hi SM<br class=""><br class="">> On 30 May 2019, at 11:39, S. Moonesamy <<a href="mailto:sm+af@afrinic.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">sm+af@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> I was reminded [1] of AFPUB-2018-GEN-001-DRAFT02 when I read the above.<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">> I spent some time in December 2018 discussing about the legal aspects as it was difficult to understand the difference(s) mentioned above. In my opinion, there would be a compliance issue as Article 11.1 of the Constitution is applicable for an AGMM.<br class="">><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">As you well know, the Members include Registered Members, Resource Members and Associate Members, however only the Registered Members (i.e. the Directors) have any authority under the Mauritian Companies Act and the Resource Members and Associate Members have no legal standing under that Act.<br class=""><br class="">Regards<br class=""><br class="">Mike<br class=""><br class=""><br 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></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>