<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">**wearing no hats**</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 April 2017 at 01:54, Honest Ornella GANKPA <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:honest1989@gmail.com" target="_blank">honest1989@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I believe it would not</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>a) 90% or more of AFRINIC staff is based in Mauritius<br>b) 80% or more of the tools these staff use every day to work for members are based in Mauritius</div><div class="gmail_extra">c) A shutdown in Mauritius will mean </div><div class="gmail_extra">       - none of the tools are available<br>       - no communication can be had with members</div><div class="gmail_extra">       - you won't be able to raise a resource request, fix a problem with your resources<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">that's just Mauritius. </div><div class="gmail_extra">Consider an Internet Shutdown in South Africa where AFRINIC Datacenter is .... i'll let you work out the impact of that. <br><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br>Mukom Akong T.<br><br><span style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mukom" target="_blank">LinkedIn:Mukom</a> </span> |  twitter: @perfexcellent  <div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><form action="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/vanity-name-submit" name="UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter_vanityUrlForm" method="POST" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit"><ul style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:none;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit"></ul></form></div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>“When you work, you are the FLUTE through whose lungs the whispering of the hours turns to MUSIC" - Kahlil Gibran<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div></div></div>
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