<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 5 Aug 2021, 12:11 Noah, <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Hi Len<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The community acknowledges TENET position and endorsement on the matter under the South Africa ISPA-ZA umbrella. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What is equally more important to the wider NREN is that regional research and education networks interconnecting national research and education networks (NRENs) across the continent spoke in support of AFRINIC.</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For information, there are currently 38 of such NRENs and counting, with 22 of them currently interconnected by these regional research networks. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">These RRENs are working with partners across Africa and elsewhere in their AfricaConnect3[1] to establish these national infrastructures which are key for development where they don't yet exist and interconnect them all. We certainly are not going to stand by and see the scant resources that are available ripped off.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Omo</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">1: <a href="https://africaconnect3.net/">https://africaconnect3.net/</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><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"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers</div><div dir="auto">Noah</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 5 Aug 2021, 10:35 Paul Wollner, <<a href="mailto:paul.wollner@africaoncloud.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">paul.wollner@africaoncloud.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000000"><div><div>Hello Len,</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for the clarification on the statement. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br><br></div><div>---- On Wed, 04 Aug 2021 15:03:35 +0200 Len Lotz<<a href="mailto:len@tenet.ac.za" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">len@tenet.ac.za</a>> wrote ----</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:6px;margin-left:5px">
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<pre><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">A recent statement on the AfriNIC members-discuss mailing list, in which the UbuntuNet Alliance and the other two African regional research and education networks purport to act "as representatives of the African REN community", was issued without consultation by UbuntuNet with TENET, and does not reflect TENET's position on the issue. TENET endorses without reservation the statement on this matter by the South African Internet Service Providers Association (<a href="https://ispa.org.za/press_releases/ispa-statement-on-recent-afrinic-developments/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ispa.org.za/press_releases/ispa-statement-on-recent-afrinic-developments/</a>) which was issued by ISPA after consultation with its members, of which TENET is one.</span></pre>
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