<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Not all feel the way you do. Also I do not agree that we should be attacking people.<br><br></div><div>In terms of Owen, he is part of the "community" just by the fact that he is participating. As are the rest of you. :-) From:<br><br><a href="https://www.afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development">https://www.afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development</a><br></div><div><br>"Number Resource management policies are developed through an open <a href="http://www.afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development/251-policy-development-process-in-the-afrinic-service-region-afpub-2010-gen-005">Policy Development Process</a> (PDP).
There is no specific requirement to participate in the PDP. Anyone can
propose and discuss policy proposals irrespective
of geographicallocation,gender and race."<br><br><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development/251-policy-development-process-in-the-afrinic-service-region-afpub-2010-gen-005">http://www.afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development/251-policy-development-process-in-the-afrinic-service-region-afpub-2010-gen-005</a><br><br>"3.2.1 Openness
<p>All policies are developed in an open forum in which anyone may participate. There are no qualifications for participation."</p><p>If you are really interested in who Owen is working for, he did say a few emails back. :-)</p><p>Regards<br></p></div>John<br>--<br></div>John Hay<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 August 2017 at 23:48, Boubakar Barry <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:boubakarbarry@gmail.com" target="_blank">boubakarbarry@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 9:02 PM, Owen DeLong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" target="_blank">owen@delong.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Deleted previous posts of this thread, but my post applies to other threads you (Owen) has "contributed" to recently.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Do you think you are the messiah Africa was waiting for to save us? You are too intrusive! If you want to support this community, you should be humble and send _constructive_ posts. <br><br>There are hundreds if not thousands of the global Internet community members out there who are following these discussions but are wise enough to not interfere like you do. It's called sense of responsibility, if this word has a meaning to you.<br><br>Again, I urge you to be humble and listen to the people who are most concerned/affected by AfriNIC policies.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Learn from friends of AfriNIC who contribute to the discussions but refrain themselves to be involved in sensitive "internal" issues.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">BTW: sorry to ask about it (feel free to ignore), but I would like to know if you are self-employed or on the payroll of a company. If it's the latter, I would as that company be very worried about your actions in this space. Unless that company shares your views; could be.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">You can of course respond that it's your personal opinion. But everyone knows that these opinions have impact one's company's reputation. If I have a staff who does publicly and consistently share views that are not inline with the company's values, I would just fire him/her if no ability to comply with the company/organisation's values.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div>Boubakar<br> <br><span class="m_-4282901875197773564gmail-HOEnZb"></span></div></font></span><span class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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