Dear AfriNIC's Community,<div><br></div><div>...i would like to thank John, for his useful <br></div><div>clarifications.</div><div><br></div><div>John, thanks for playing your role, as a firm </div><div>defender of RFC7020 (INRS).</div><div><br></div><div>Now! just to recall that, anyone should consider </div><div>starting a different thread when its email is fully </div><div>off-topic like those treating the Future of AfriNIC [1].</div><div>__</div><div>[1]: <<a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2021-August/004772.html" target="_blank">https://lists.afrinic.net/<wbr>pipermail/community-discuss/<wbr>2021-August/004772.html</a>></div><div><br></div><div>...again, this thread is only about:</div><div><br></div><div>"<font face="sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px">FUNDRAISING & DONATIONS - TO KEEP AFRINIC RUNNING</span></font>"</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks to those who are behind the initiative.</div><div><br></div><div>...i see this very thread as a great opportunity for </div><div>anyone to support: (i) a running Internet, (ii) the </div><div>INR System & (iii) AfriNIC (one of the five regional </div><div>RIRs)...to: #KeepItOn! no Internet Shutdown :'-(</div><div><br></div><div>Please, let's call our friends for more concrete actions! </div><div><br></div><div>You are free to donate. Please do your part, if you </div><div>want to *Defend the Internet* like Internet Society.</div><div><br></div><div>~°~</div><div><div style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:large"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(204,0,0)">DONATE TO KEEP AFRINIC UP BY CLICKING THIS LINK;</span></b> <b><a href="https://www.tespok.co.ke/?page_id=14001" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tespok.co.ke/?pag<wbr>e_id=14001</a></b></p></div></div><div>~°~</div><div><br></div><div>Shalom, </div><div>--sb.</div><div><br></div><div><br>Le mercredi 18 août 2021, John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@arin.net" target="_blank">jcurran@arin.net</a>> a écrit :<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 18 Aug 2021, at 8:05 AM, Andrew Alston <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com" target="_blank">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.c<wbr>om</a>> wrote:<br>
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I query where queries may actually get answered – and since previous emails to the members list have gone unanswered – here is as good a place as any.<span style="font-size:11pt"> ...</span></div>
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We are a community – this is a bottom up organization – and the community has the right to ask questions – however hard those questions may be to answer and however much answering those questions may be distasteful to the people who have to answer.</div>
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<div>As a concerned community member, you could have simply asked – “Do we have to recognize a contingent liability given the litigation, and are there any Section 162 implications to be considered?” You chose a rather different approach of posting legal
speculation in the name of "seeking a legal position” and hence I replied. If you want something more definitive, then seeking actual legal counsel would likely help clarify far more than speculation here. </div>
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<div>The community has every right to know that the organization is being properly operated, but it also true that the community vests the routine oversight in the elected governance body – as they are both accountable for such oversight and have access to
legal counsel to inform their course of action. This becomes even more important when in litigation, as organizations need to take great care with their communication – even to their members – to balance the need for openness with the obligation to sustain
a prudent legal defense. You may not get answers to all your questions in the midst of litigation, but that’s an indication of a governing body being true to its job rather than any indication to the contrary. </div>
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<div>As someone who has had to manage such a difficult balance when defending ARIN in litigation, I know firsthand it can be quite challenging to maintain open communication with community at the same time. I’d encourage you to continue to raise questions that
you might have as concerned community member (if indeed out of bona fide concern for AFRINIC), but you also should recognize that circumspect communications is quite normal when it comes to litigation matters, so you might not get the answers you seek – particularly
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