<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=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 1, 2021, at 06:06 , Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" class="">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 1 Aug 2021, 15:43 Andrew Alston via Community-Discuss, <<a href="mailto:community-discuss@afrinic.net" class="">community-discuss@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Let those who wish to run the risks of staying with AfriNIC through this situation do so</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> - let those who choose not to accept the risk profile transfer out - problem solved.</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><a href="https://afrinic.net/policy/archive/inbound-transfer-policy" class="">https://afrinic.net/policy/archive/inbound-transfer-policy</a> <br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Noah</div><div dir="auto" class="">PS: confusion of the highest order.</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Who is confused, Noah? You?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That proposal (from 5 years ago) was submitted to compare/contrast and provide the community with</div><div class="">alternatives along side a proposal that supported bidirectional transfers. Both policies failed back then</div><div class="">and it was interesting because both failed due to the continuing conflict between a faction that felt</div><div class="">that there was no validity to a unidirectional policy (many other RIRs would not engage in transfers</div><div class="">to a region with a unidirectional policy) and a faction that continues to argue for regional</div><div class="">protectionism in a global economy and a global internet.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The faction that insisted on protectionism was able to kill the bidirectional policy and the faction</div><div class="">that rejected protectionism in the interests of being able to trade globally and participate as equal</div><div class="">citizens in the world market was able to kill the unidirectional policy.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So now, 5 years later, here we are again and it seems we have consensus on a bidirectional</div><div class="">policy that the board has yet to ratify, and, we have Andrew calling for the board to pass an</div><div class="">emergency outbound policy to mitigate risks to members.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Personally, I think the simpler and more expedient thing would be for the board to merely ratify</div><div class="">the existing consensus RTP, but Andrew’s suggestion could also mitigate risks for members.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The question now is whether the board will live up to its duties or once again create a fact</div><div class="">pattern likely to be viewed unfavorably by the courts.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>