<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hello,<br><br></div>These are government entities(their addresses and contacts will give you a hint) and my point is that banning/restricting government entities because the presidency gave an order to shutdown the internet isn't appropriate. The government itself that gave the order isn't the member, it is her entities that are members and those entities did not need to get approval of the presidency to acquire their space. Going the proposed route:<br><br>- Does not promote the open internet me and you are clamouring for. <br>- Will not make AFRINIC sustainable in the long run <br>- May serve as a distraction to AFRINIC in performing her core function of keeping record and administration of IP resource for our region. <br>- Takes AFRINIC from being a neutral entity to being more politically inclined<br></div>- In the long run, It further breaks the internet than fix it because I will then have to resolve to NATing if I can't get access to my space anymore<br></div>- It exposes AFRINIC to unnecessary legal suits from those entities which AFRINIC has an agreement with, also consider the legal cost that will be involved<br></div>- It affects the economy negatively and reduces competition among providers.<br></div>- At first it sounds like it will help service providers which are privately owned but in the long run it wouldn't because some of the providers income can still be traced to those govt entities.<br><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>Again while the intent is great, a policy at RIR level cannot be the solution. So this is not a matter of rewording the policy in a way that is acceptable its more that this isn't practical (especially if we want to re-word to apply to govt alone because they are not the members) and it is unreasonable/unfair if we want to apply it to govt entities.<br><br></div><div>Regards<br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:05 PM, Keshwarsingh Nadan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kn@millenium.net.mu" target="_blank">kn@millenium.net.mu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">>Overall, the fact that there is NO member within AFRINIC database called "government" makes this proposal impractical.</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-size:12pt">whois -h <a href="http://whois.afrinic.net" target="_blank">whois.afrinic.net</a> " -B -T organisation government"</span></p>
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