<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">In acknowledgement of your efforts please see inline response.</div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 20 Aug 2020, 19:50 Anthony Ubah, <<a href="mailto:ubah.tonyiyke@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">ubah.tonyiyke@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The reason being that since
Internet Resources is a public resource in the first place, membership should
not be based on geographical boundaries.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You are basically saying there is no need for Afrinic which is mandated to service the African and Indian Ocean region as an RIR.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Geography matters please..</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">AFRINIC is a registry and it should not
necessarily be their business to scrutinize why an entity is applying to use
the Internet Number Resources and how they are going to use it.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This would be irresponsible and again I disagree with your rationale.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> I think AFRINIC
staff should not be the one to wield the power/control as to how resources are
to be distributed. So I’m merely proposing to delete the requirement of
“justified its need for the right to use Internet Number Resources to AFRINIC”.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I disagree with your mere proposal. Its Afrinics role to ensure compliance to INR as they were allocated/assigned hence the policies and the RSA.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div>Noah<br></div></div>
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