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<div style="direction: ltr;">I would be very curious to hear from a legal perspective what - if any - legal liability AfriNIC has in a situation like this.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">The fact is - space has value - and if space is stolen - used for spam or whatever else - and the reputation of said space is damaged - it’s value decreases. Now I fully realize that space can be hijacked - and at that point potentially
the hijackers may hold the liability. However - when the space seems to have been stolen and sold off by a staff member of the organization that is meant in effect to the curator of the space - I question if there is not a liability issue at play if it can
be proven that due care was not taken to safe guard against the actions taken.</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">I’m no lawyer though so I would really be interested to know the legal perspective - can an rir be held liable to the actions of its staff if it did not adequately protect against the actions taken.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 5, 2019 3:59:57 PM<br>
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<p>Totally agree with you Mike. It should have been almost impossible to manipulate the non-legacy space - yet it happened. In this case (looting of non-legacy space), the RSA has meant nothing.<br>
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">On 2019/12/05 14:46, Mike Silber wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Be that as it may - that seems to ignore the fact that there appears to have been significant malfeasance regarding non-legacy space.
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<div class="">I just want to ensure that we maintain a balanced view of the problem and not deflect it to focus only on the legacy space issue.<br class="">
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<div class="">It terms of priorities - it would make sense to me to focus on how space that should have been subject to the RSA has been mis-appropriated and then turn to the more difficult question of legacy space. If the current processes are open to abuse,
then moving legacy space under those processes may not have the desired outcome. </div>
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<div class="">On 5 Dec 2019, at 14:27, Mark Tinka <<a href="mailto:mark.tinka@seacom.mu" class="">mark.tinka@seacom.mu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="x_moz-cite-prefix">On 5/Dec/19 13:02, Sunday Folayan wrote:<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">Isn't it time to address Legacy space issues, specifically ancient squatters on spaces meant to develop the Internet in Africa, AfriNIC Services and bringing legacy spaces under some form of RSA?
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I urge the community to think beyond the sensation and let us see how to help and empower the people doing useful work for Africa.
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On 04/12/2019 6:23 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: <br class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class="">I hope you all will take the time to read and think about the following
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<a class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/330379-how-internet-resources-worth-r800-million-were-stolen-and-sold-on-the-black-market.html">https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/330379-how-internet-resources-worth-r800-million-were-stolen-and-sold-on-the-black-market.html</a>
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I will have more to say about this in due course. For the moment, I only <br class="">
wish to say that the investigation undertaken by myself and Jan Vermeulen <br class="">
is ongoing, and that many others are provably involved. <br class="">
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