<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 31 Oct 2020, 03:49 Ronald F. Guilmette, <<a href="mailto:rfg@tristatelogic.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">rfg@tristatelogic.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In message <<a href="mailto:05751329-1002-4A8C-9CB0-318882CB984E@me.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">05751329-1002-4A8C-9CB0-318882CB984E@me.com</a>>, <br>
Noah, <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:<br>
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>Let us have a civilized discourse for we are a polite community. <br>
>That is all am saying.<br>
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Where were you during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You cant surely ask posterity about the 19th century bro.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But history tells that my forefathers did well to defend themselves from being dominated by some of those very folk. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Mr. Cohen has declared war on AFRINIC. He is currently pursuing that war,<br>
with no signs of retreating or giving up.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">AFRINIC is an institution and not someone's property even though some of these folks think AFRINIC should just be a bookkeeper hence their arrogance.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The RIR system is self organized and will stand tall.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
The institution that is AFRINIC is being besieged, via lawsuit, by<br>
Mr. Cohen. And on what basis? For what crime? We still have no<br>
idea what this is even all about, or what Mr. Cohen's actual claims are.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Didn't he claim that he bought some IPs from some members in our region. I assume those must be some of the IP's that have since been recovered by AFRINIC based on your dossier. Perhaps the recovery is his motivation for the pupported lawsuit. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">AFRINIC doesn't have a policy for buying and selling IPs as Cohen claims but until recently the community enacted an Intra-RIR policy to allow IPv4 transfers within the region with AFRINIC continuing to handle the management of these resource transfers based in need-basis.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br>I could and should perhaps also<br>
have mentioned the case of the City of Cape Town's /16 block, and/or<br>
the fact that Mr. Cohen, in -another- show of force and stupidity...</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
equally as brazen and ill-considered as his present vicious and baseless<br>
legal attack on AFRINIC... also hired legal council in South Africa in a<br>
vain and short-lived attempt to browbeat, harass, and extort the City<br>
of Cape Town into giving him -their- rightful property (<a href="http://165.25.0.0/16" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">165.25.0.0/16</a>).<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Since we dont have purview if these litigations, we can only imagine the amount of fraud that has been going on under the carpet.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">By the way, Cohen was wonderibg why you dont also talk about some other AFRINIC net blocks that my good friend Owen once claimed that there is nothing to see there even though most of them are being originated in the USA.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What is more baffling is that its a lot of space and guess what, the members doesn't seem to have a known ASN.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">To paraphrase Cohen; What is that all about?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Frankly, the fact that Mr. Cohen has not already been shown the door<br>
entirely, with respect to the mailing lists *and* with respect to the<br>
WHOIS data base is beyond my poor ability to fathom.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">AFRINIC has its own internal processes, and its a matter of time. Eddy has periodically updated the community to your dissatisfaction.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">More than you, the community anxiously awaits the end of this which must also ensure that folks are held accountable because only a fool would think all this just happened by itself.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Noah</div></div>