<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 15, 2017, at 16:13 , Boubakar Barry <<a href="mailto:boubakarbarry@gmail.com" class="">boubakarbarry@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 1:54 AM, Owen DeLong <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" target="_blank" class="">owen@delong.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></span>As neither I, nor my company have any direct AfriNIC resources, I have no selfish motive whatsoever in this policy.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As we seem to be in a bizarre confusion season, allow me to be a bit confused: haven't you not claimed the contrary a couple of months ago on this same list?<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Boubakar<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class="">Owen</div></font></span><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div>
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</div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Not at all.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I claimed that my company has operations on the African continent and that we are a community member.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That claim is true. Any AfriNIC resources we are using were issued to us by AfriNIC LIRs. Mostly we have deployed IP addresses from RIPE and/or APNIC for our operations in Africa.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I hope this clears up any confusion on the matter.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>