<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div>Hi Ronald, </div><div><br></div><div>Allow me to respond to your email which I found very touching and extremely useful. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 3 Aug 2021, 17:44 Ronald F. Guilmette, <<a href="mailto:rfg@tristatelogic.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">rfg@tristatelogic.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In message <PA4PR09MB47516ED2882A0ADF63101E2896F09@PA4PR09MB4751.eurprd09.prod.<br>
<a href="http://outlook.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">outlook.com</a>>, AMADU YUSIF <<a href="mailto:yamadu@ug.edu.gh" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">yamadu@ug.edu.gh</a>> wrote:<br>
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>Well, done REN. This is what we expect from likeminded community in support<br>
>of AFRINIC no matter what the situation is. We are Africans and must protect<br>
>what is ours not transferring your resources to different region/Network.<br>
>We must fight together and together we shall win.<br>
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I'm sorry to say it, but I don't believe that Africans know how to fight<br>
or win this battle.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>To win a battle you must be informed. Ignorance is at play to a greater extent.</div><div><br></div><div dir="auto">FWIW, there are those who have made the effort to shade light to the current predicament which is fundamentally undermining the collaborative Internet registry system.</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">
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You are not really looking at what the other side is doing or how it is<br>
doing it, so you are not learning from their example.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What I found interesting with Lu Heng is the fact that he effectively went on the record on mybroadband in South Africa to make some cheap claims like helping schools in Africa.... #DeadAid (Read the book by Zambian Author Dr.Dambisa Moyo) and you will understand Lu Heng.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div>Lu Heng on <a href="http://mybroadband.co.za" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">mybroadband.co.za</a> “<i><b>Moreover, we do realize the African Internet is underdeveloped, and we are doing everything we can to help Africa</b>. </i></div><div dir="auto"><i><br></i></div><div dir="auto">Ofcourse the statement above from Lu Heng is bullshit. HELP AFRICA. Can you imagine this guy?</div><div dir="auto"><i><br></i></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Lu Heng on </span><a href="http://mybroadband.co.za/" style="font-family:sans-serif" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">mybroadband.co.za</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif"> </span><i><b>Through our [Larus] foundation and other efforts, we have been working for years to widen participation in the policy process, especially by students and those just beginning their careers, </b></i></div><div dir="auto"><i><b><br></b></i></div><div dir="auto">The above statement from Lu is misleading. The fact of the matter is that the Larus echo-chamber who are mostly stooges conscripted to advance Lu Hengs agenda, have done nothing more than disrupt the AFRINIC PDP. For over 3 years, the Larus echo-chamber participating in the AFRINIC PDWG has made a series of wild claims and invalid objections on a wide range of draft policy proposals.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If a proposal is not beneficial, they appeal it, if it is beneficial like the <b>self-serving resource transfer proposal</b>, they demand the AFRINIC board to ratify it even when the said draft proposal is under dispute by participants of the policy development working group.</div><div dir="auto"><i><b><br></b></i></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Lu Heng on </span><a href="http://mybroadband.co.za/" style="font-family:sans-serif" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">mybroadband.co.za</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif"> </span><i><b> to donate to African schools that need computers, and through other educational outreach</b></i><b>.</b>”</div><div><br></div><div>The above fake news is what I would refer to as the <b>#Lu Heng Africa Savior Industrial Complex. </b><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>We have seen this tactic used in AFRICA by players like Lu Heng in other aspects that are not Internet Related.</div><div><br></div></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"><br></blockquote></div></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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On the other side, they are doing a professional job of public relations<br>
where in counts... in the press in Mauritius, where the judges are sitting.<br>
Have any of those judges or anyone in the entire government of Mauitius<br>
read a single word about these matters, other than Owen DeLong's point<br>
of view? No, apparently not.<br></blockquote></div></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><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"></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You are on point Ronald. ....Attention S.O, I hope umesikia. <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">If you would concentrate your efforts where it matters, in the<br>
Mauritian press </blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes and to do so by AFRINIC telling the truth. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.lexpress.mu/article/397372/litige-entre-afrinic-et-cloud-iinnovation-reseau-internet-risque-detre-compromis" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.lexpress.mu/</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><i><b>Lu Heng on the </b></i><a href="https://www.lexpress.mu/article/397372/litige-entre-afrinic-et-cloud-iinnovation-reseau-internet-risque-detre-compromis" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.lexpress.mu/</a><i><b> “We realize that the African internet is still underdeveloped. We are doing our utmost to help the continent.</b></i> ”</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>So Lu is claiming that the African Internet is underdeveloped? He then claims he is helping the continent. I find this dude's choice of words in the press wanting.</div><div><br></div><div>This is the same chap whose company LARUS Ltd is leasing IPv4 addresses outside AFRICA. His new stooge Owen then goes around claiming that they are addressing hosts for millions of customers more than the population of East Africa, in China and elsewhere. </div><div><br></div><div>How much does Lu Hengs activities contribute in terms of Taxes across Africa? Who are his employees on this continent? Who are his customers in Africa? I mean if you are going to sit on 6 million IPv4 addresses which is more IPv4 space than majority of typical Telecom companies across Africa can hold, then sure we need to see this "<b>help the continent</b>" Bullshit from Lu and his fake philosophy of One World, One Internet, Embracing Digital Globalisation.</div><div><br></div><div dir="auto">One thing I know Lu Heng has done is to throw dinner parties during the African Internet Summit meeting. The other thing Lu Heng has done in the past is to hand out cheap refurb laptops during AFRINIC social events in the form of gifts. I can not reconcile the 6 million IPv4 address space with cheap laptops he claims to give schools. #scam. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Lu Heng for years played this community for jokes. I mean no AFRINIC Resource Member (with Real Network In Africa) has pulled stunts of giving out cheap gifts during AFRINIC meetings like Lu Heng and his Larus Foundation. Ofcourse in AFRICA like anywhere else, gift handouts can come in handy in light of the poverty mentality and it's a subtle way of buying people using tangible goods. But that practise also goes to show you what Lu thinks about this continent and the people. Some Impoverished region that needs Lu Heng #DeadAid. Nonsense of the highest order.</div><div><br></div><div>If you (Lu Heng) are going to interfere in the lives of others (AFRICA), a little due diligence is a minimum requirement. ....... To paraphrase Teju Cole</div><div><br></div><div>Those resource members who have built real networks and infrastructure in this continent, from Telecommunication Companies, ISP's, Hosting Providers, Universities, Schools, Banks, Government Institutions, IXP's are known. </div><div><br></div><div>Who knows Cloud Innovation Ltd, an LIR with over 6 million IPv4 addresses without an ASN and IPv6 allocation? </div><div><br></div><div><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">and with the Mauritian government, then you might have<br>
some hope of keeping your own Regional Internet Registry in African,<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The other option is to also have AFRINIC run from a different jurisdiction where dishonest folk who take advantage of Seychelles as jurisdiction for their offshore legal entities while headquartered in HongKong can not game the system.</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">
but since no one is doing that, there is no hope of AFRINIC surviving,<br>
and thus, this experiment is African Internet sovereignty will end, and<br>
once you lose it, you'll never get it back. Ever. Because no one will<br>
ever again trust the African Internet community to manage its own affairs<br>
without assistance from outside.</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I couldn't agree more with Ronald. He is right and has been right on a wide range of issues. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>I often like to tell the story of the BodaBoda/TukTuk industry. Today in Africa, a household is able to buy home utensils off a platform like Instagram through an ecommerce page or any ecommerce platform like Jumia . The purchase is then transacted between the merchant and the buyer through Mobile Money. The delivery of the purchased Items from the merchant to the buyer is done by the BodaBoda/TukTuk industry which employs today, Millions of African Youth today. Some of those riders are university graduates who have failed to get a whitecolar jobs. They use platforms like <a href="https://safeboda.com/ug/">https://safeboda.com/ug/</a> to lead a life.</div><div><br></div><div>We Network Engineers enable all this by making sure that we put to use the IPv4 addresses that AFRINIC is responsible for managing and has allocated to LIR based on need, to make sure that we enable the Internet in our region. We expand the Internet Infrastructure so that all those who it affects can improve their lives from the public end-users, to Governments, Education Institutions, NREN's, Healthy Institutions etc in Africa.</div><div><br></div><div>We have seen our Governments now go online with e-Government services. Those services depend on the IPv4 addresses managed by AFRINIC as a registry. Today our people are able to pay utility bills online directly to the governments and the Tax man is able to collect Tax online. Digital payments are enabling governments to fight corruption as public funds today are now easily tracked through each mobile transaction. The cashless digital economy is enabling transparency and accountability and it has reduced the chances of mismanagement of public funds. This would not have been possible without the Internet and the Internet is those IPv4 integers managed by AFRINIC.</div><div><br></div><div>A lot of our youth in Africa today are able to leverage on the age of information to access information that 50 years ago would not be possible and this is all thanks to the Internet. Subsistence farmers are able to stay in the rural villages across Africa and leverage FinTech and Mobile Money to sell their produce and earn an Income and lead a decent life. The farmers get paid for their labor through Mobile Money today and they are able to avoid the corrupt middle men who ripped them off their hard earned labor. We the Internet people are making this possible using the IPv4 address.</div><div><br></div><div>When you sleep at night, be proud of the work of your hand every time you configure a router or switch or online a server across this continent which you assign the Interfaces with an IPv4 address so that they can carry Internet traffic across Africa to enable communication.</div><div><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers,</div><div>Noah</div><div><br></div><div dir="auto">PS: <i>Everyone is your enemy, everyone is your friend</i> - <i>Little Finger #FictionCharacter GoT.... Remain Ignorant and get played.</i></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">#StandWithAFRINIC<i><br></i></div><div>#Accountability.</div></div>
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