<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 1:40 AM Ronald F. Guilmette <<a href="mailto:rfg@tristatelogic.com">rfg@tristatelogic.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">In message <<a href="mailto:EB7A56BA-198E-480A-9F82-74561EAA7369@me.com" target="_blank">EB7A56BA-198E-480A-9F82-74561EAA7369@me.com</a>>, <br>
Barry Macharia <<a href="mailto:barry.macharia@me.com" target="_blank">barry.macharia@me.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>This is loud and clear<br>
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>Afrinic resource are meant for African region, is that also loud and clear too.<br>
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No, actually, it isn't. And that's the problem.<br>
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I am not here to defend Lu Heng or Cloud Innovantion, but as I understand<br>
it, Lu Heng's claim is a simple one: He successfully met all of the<br>
requirements, as necessary, in order to request and to receive, from<br>
AFRINIC, all of the 6,291,456 IPv4 addresses that AFRINIC did in fact<br>
assign to him, as of the dates when he received these allocations, which<br>
were four different dates in 2013 and 2014. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>And here is what Lu Heng stated in 2014 about the said allocations.</div><div><br></div><div>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:rgb(32,90,115)"><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2014/004161.html">https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2014/004161.html</a></p></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> He further contends that<br>
there is no legal basis, either within the RSA that he signed, or<br>
within the AFRINIC Bylaws, or within any community-apporved policies<br>
which would allow AFRINIC to now withdraw those allocations in 2021.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The objectives of AFRINIC below <a href="https://www.afrinic.net/bylaws#b20-3">https://www.afrinic.net/bylaws#b20-3</a> and the reason AFRINIC become the RIR for AFRICA.</div><div><br></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 5px;color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:14px">3.4) The Company shall have, both within and outside the Republic of Mauritius, full capacity to carry and/or undertake any business or activity, including but not limited to the following objects:</p><ol style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:14px;list-style-type:lower-roman"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><b>to provide the service of allocating and registering Internet resources for the purposes of enabling communications via open system network protocols and to assist in the development and growth of the Internet in the African region;</b></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><b>to promote the representation of AFRINIC membership and the Internet community of the African region by ensuring open and transparent communication and consensus-driven decision-making processes;</b></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><b>to promote responsible management of Internet resources throughout the African region, as well as the responsible development and operation of Internet infrastructures; </b> </li></ol><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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As part of these over-arching contentions, Lu Heng has also actually or<br>
effectively asserted that there are little or no binding requirements upon<br>
AFRINIC resource members that they must operate or deploy their assigned<br>
number resources in a manner which preferences any particular geographical<br>
region.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>AFRINIC below <a href="https://www.afrinic.net/bylaws#b20-3">https://www.afrinic.net/bylaws#b20-3</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 5px;color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:14px">3.4) The Company shall have, both within and outside the Republic of Mauritius, full capacity to carry and/or undertake any business or activity, including but not limited to the following objects:</p><ol style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:14px;list-style-type:lower-roman"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><b>to provide the service of allocating and registering Internet resources for the purposes of enabling communications via open system network protocols and to assist in the development and growth of the Internet in the African region;</b></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><b>to promote the representation of AFRINIC membership and the Internet community of the African region by ensuring open and transparent communication and consensus-driven decision-making processes;</b></li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><b>to promote responsible management of Internet resources throughout the African region, as well as the responsible development and operation of Internet infrastructures; </b> </li></ol><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I personally do not have sufficent information to judge whether he is<br>
right or wrong about any of these contentions and so I reserve judgement.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The courts shall decide.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
He may perhaps be right, in which case it is NOT true to say that<br>
"Afrinic resource are meant for {the} African region". And if that is<br>
true, it may defy and fly in the face of many people's beliefs and<br>
expectations, including mine, but beliefs and expectations are not<br>
the law. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>The expectations <a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/new-rirs-criteria-2012-02-25-en">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/new-rirs-criteria-2012-02-25-en</a></div><div><br></div><div>IANA did not allocate to AFRINIC so that AFRINIC allocates to Heng Lu who would then go about leasing the resources in other regions. </div><div><br></div><div>Why didn't Lu Heng go to APNIC, RIPE or ARIN. ? If his intention was to sell IPv4 addresses in those regions for profit.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The law is the law, contracts are in writing, and the courts<br>
are now tasked with figuring out who is in the right and who is in the<br>
wrong. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>The RSA <a href="https://afrinic.net/ast/pdf/services/afrinic-rsa-en-201801.pdf">https://afrinic.net/ast/pdf/services/afrinic-rsa-en-201801.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>4. Conditions of service<br>(a) Where a member, receiving service under an existing agreement applies for a change or a variation of the<br>type of such service which AFRINIC has been supplying to it, evaluation of such a “change request” will be effected in<br>terms of the provisions of clause (2) of the present agreement.<br>(b) Cooperation:<br><b>(i) An applicant receiving service under an agreement is at all times bound to provide to AFRINIC such<br>information, assistance and cooperation as may be reasonably required by the latter in the provision<br>of the service.</b><br><b>(ii) Such request for information may also be made where AFRINIC is investigating (reviewing) the<br>applicant’s utilisation of the number resources already assigned to it.</b><br><b>(iii) Failure by the applicant, to comply with a request made at above may:<br>(1) entail revocation or withholding of the service supplied by AFRINIC;<br>(2) be taken into account by AFRINIC in its evaluation for further and future assignment or<br>allocation of number resources;<br>(3) lead to the closure of an LIR and termination of the agreement by AFRINIC.<br></b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div> Noah</div></div></div>