<div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#0b5394"><br></font></div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#0b5394">These arguments make sense.</font><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#0b5394"><br></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#0b5394"><i>Cheers</i></font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#0b5394"><i>Jacob</i></font></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Jackson Muthili <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jacksonmuthi@gmail.com" target="_blank">jacksonmuthi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:55 AM, Andrew Alston<br>
<<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.<wbr>com</a>> wrote:<br>
> While I am sorely tempted to respond point to point in your email and give<br>
> you a lesson in facts - I will not dignify this nonesense with such.<br>
<br>
You are the convener of opposers. I am open to read those facts.<br>
<br>
> I will however say this - this is the second time you have introduced a<br>
> racially biased context into the PDP - and discounted the will of a<br>
> significant portion of the member base - based of blatant unsubstantiated<br>
> and inaccurate prejudice<br>
<br>
Thank you for the comment.<br>
<br>
The operative words in your comments are :- THE WILL OF A SIGNIFICANT<br>
PORTION OF THE MEMBER BASE<br>
<br>
You see this is where the crux of your argument lies and where the problem is.<br>
<br>
In your other email you state this same notion that those opposing<br>
contribute 30% of AfriNIC revenue.<br>
<br>
- AfriNIC is a non profit company managing a critical resource (IPs)<br>
that is the engine of the internet which the UN already declared a<br>
basic human right.<br>
- Because of this very nature AfriNIC cant sell IPs to highest<br>
bidders in an open market when those highest bidders pay the most<br>
revenue. Otherwise yes I will state again that if this was the case<br>
South Africa as the strongest economy (or one of the strongest) would<br>
just buy off AfriNIC and its miniature IPs and game closed.<br>
- You ostentatiously state that every country should be heard equally.<br>
Thank you for ignoring the fact that the internet penetration rates<br>
and state of the economy in South Africa (where you have convened the<br>
largest opposition) - although it can be better - is light years ahead<br>
of the other 53 African economies whose interests this policy proposal<br>
is trying to protect. To burry your head in the sand and ignore these<br>
realities does not take them away.<br>
<br>
J<br>
<br>
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