<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="">Hi Sylvain<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I respectfully disagree.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ICANN is a convenience through which the RIR’s operate.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The rest of the NRO recognised AfriNIC and could have done so without ICANN involvement - had they so chosen. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As it is - the NRO fulfils the role of ASO within ICANN and it could terminate the ASO / NRO nexus at any time with little to no impact. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Did you miss this in RFC 7020:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><pre class="newpage" style="font-size: 13.333333015441895px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; break-before: page;">The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) *is a role, not an
organization*. For the Internet Numbers Registry System, the IANA
role manages the top of the IP address and AS number allocation
hierarchies. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) *currently fulfills the IANA role" in accordance
with the IETF-ICANN "Memorandum of Understanding Concerning
Technical Work of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority", which
was signed and ratified in March 2000</pre><div class=""><br class=""></div><div>It is the RIRs who chose ICANN and not the other way around.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Mike</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2 Aug 2021, at 14:49, Sylvain Baya <<a href="mailto:abscoco@gmail.com" class="">abscoco@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Dear AfriNIC's Community, <br class=""><br class="">Le lundi 2 août 2021, Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" class="">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> a écrit :<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="">Hi Mike<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hi Noah, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for your email, brother!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">...it's time to learn about the RIR system's history.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Thank you for your reply and opinion on the matter.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">I am personally offended by Owens choice of words against ICANN.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">The existence of an RIR is only possible through ICANN ICP-2 and for him to refer to ICANN as a puppet is offending.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">AFRINIC would not have existed without the ICANN structures.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Exact!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For those who need an anchor to start with, </div><div class="">please look at RFC7020:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><pre style="font-size:10.6667px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" class=""><span class="h1" style="display:inline;white-space:pre;font-size:1em;font-weight:bold">The Internet Numbers Registry System</span></pre></div><div class=""><<a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7020" class="">https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7020</a>></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Shalom,</div><div class="">--sb.</div><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>