<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 5 Aug 2021, 07:05 Brian Sowers, <<a href="mailto:b.sowers154@gmail.com">b.sowers154@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> The court is simply adjourning a week and a half later to deliberate again. </blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Legal proceedings are never rushed. </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">I appreciate this update from Eddy, but it doesn’t offer any hope to pro-AFRINICs other than a false optimism that AFRINIC builds an argument in the meantime to be even able to access its own funds.</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Perhaps you missed all the Pro-AFRINIC public statements that various African Internet bodies made in support of AFRINIC.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">AFRINIC might not be able to access its own funds today but that does not mean that there are no other alternatives.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">AFRINIC during her inception in the earlier days had no money. AFRINIC was supported <span style="font-family:sans-serif">financially</span> by African Institutions to operate and perhaps this is the part of Pro-AFRINIC history you do not know about.</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">what other alternatives there are to AFRINIC. Africa, <br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The Af* organisations that have collaborated with AFRINIC for over 20 years including African Governments.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">AFRINIC is not alone as it forms part of the Af* organisations that are willing to come together and support AFRINIC through financial donation so as to continue running its core functions and operations.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The ISP associations are the other alternative and ANGOLA ISPA, TISPA, multiple IXPs across Africa and all those Af* organisations and NRENs and other members of the wider Internet community in Africa.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The donations shall start with even myself as an individual. I just need to know which 3rd party supplier AFRINIC uses and I will make payments to them directly online via VISA or MASTERCARD.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That is "Ubuntu".</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers</div><div dir="auto">Noah</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">
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