<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="">LoL… I do not know why you are surprised. This board that you favor so much has<div class="">put the organization in a terrible position. They have repeatedly violated their own</div><div class="">governing documents and the trust of both the community and their membership.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They have knowingly and deliberately violated a court order, including sending</div><div class="">a message to the Petitioner that stated their full and blatant intent to do so.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In light of all this, you remain surprised that a significant fraction of the membership</div><div class="">has lost faith and does not trust this board? I must ask you, how can you preserve</div><div class="">faith in such individuals? This is like a religious belief that is completely unwilling</div><div class="">to look at the plain facts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Why are you so opposed to requests that the board explain themselves?</div><div class="">Why must you persistently attempt to silence any opposition?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A good functioning transparent organization doing the right thing welcomes such</div><div class="">scrutiny and has good answers for such questions without any difficulty and no</div><div class="">need for delay.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Indeed, even when we disagree, I get (mostly) straight answers from John Curran</div><div class="">about any such topic and while I don’t always agree with the decisions of the ARIN</div><div class="">board, I am at least able to understand how they regarded such decisions as being</div><div class="">in the best interests of the membership and/or the community as well as the</div><div class="">organization.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In the case of this boards actions, they refuse to explain themselves and they offer</div><div class="">no basis for such a belief. Such silence will only breed more suspicion and more</div><div class="">mistrust as time goes by.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Good luck preserving your faith. I personally can’t figure out how you do such a thing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 25, 2021, at 01:53 , Arnaud AMELINA <<a href="mailto:amelnaud@gmail.com" class="">amelnaud@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Hummmm! Je suis vraiment surpris par la réaction de certains membres on diraient qu'ils font tout pour voir Afrinic échouer dans sa gestion, mais ce sont eux qui échoueront. Au lieu de féliciter le Board d'avoir trouver le moyen quelqu'il soit d'assurer la continuité des services, vous vous plaignez de la transparence sans même attendre que le rapport de leur réunion ne soit disponible. On vous demande un peu d'indulgence vis à vis du Board qui fait de son mieux.<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">N'en déplaise à ce qui cherche à se réjouir de leur hypothétique échec.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">FELLICITATION ET BON COURAGE AU BOARD. ON VOUS SOUTIENT.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">--</div><div dir="auto" class="">Arnaud </div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le dim. 25 juil. 2021 à 05:36, Paul Wollner <<a href="mailto:paul.wollner@africaoncloud.net" class="">paul.wollner@africaoncloud.net</a>> a écrit :<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u class=""></u><div class=""><div style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt" class=""><div class="">Dear Chair,<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Would you care to share with the community where this alternative source of funding is coming from? Are these funds coming from other AFRINIC reserves?<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">How will this impact the day to day operations in AFRINIC?<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards<br class=""></div><div class="">Paul Wollner</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div id="m_-2628540524522756365Zm-_Id_-Sgn" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="border-top:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);height:0px;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;line-height:0px" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div id="m_-2628540524522756365Zm-_Id_-Sgn1" class="">---- On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 18:25:40 +0200 <b class=""> <<a href="mailto:chair@afrinic.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">chair@afrinic.net</a>></b> wrote ----<br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote style="margin:0px" class=""><div class="">Dear AFRINIC Members, <br class=""> <br class="">AFRINIC has been notified by one of its bank that its accounts have <br class="">been temporary frozen due to legal action by Cloud Innovation <br class="">Ltd. AFRINIC has not yet received the relevant information on this <br class="">matter showing the basis of Cloud Innovation Ltd's claims, and <br class="">AFRINIC has not yet been given the opportunity to respond to this <br class="">action. It will, at the first opportunity, exercise all legal rights <br class="">available to it before the Court. <br class=""> <br class="">The Board of Directors held an urgent meeting last night. It <br class="">identified alternate means of funding so that the company can cover <br class="">the financial expenses incurred to run its services. <br class=""> <br class="">Regards, <br class=""> <br class="">Subramanian Moonesamy <br class="">Chairman, <br class="">AFRINIC Board of Directors <br class=""> <br class=""> <br class="">_______________________________________________ <br class="">Members-Discuss mailing list <br class=""><a href="mailto:Members-Discuss@afrinic.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">Members-Discuss@afrinic.net</a> <br class=""><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/members-discuss" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/members-discuss</a> <br class=""></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">
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