<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'><div>Hi Owen,<br></div><div><br></div><div>Simply, no. His motivation doesn't change the credibility of his arguments. They stand on their own.<br></div><div>There is no place and no need for this, especially with the subject line, how could it not be ad hominem?<br></div><div>Attacking the motivation of a person is almost the definition of argumentum ad hominem.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div>Mike<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="zmail_extra"><div id="Zm-_Id_-Sgn1"><div><br></div><div>---- On Tue, 05 Jun 2018 19:40:12 -0400 <b>Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com></b> wrote ----<br></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 6px; margin:0 0 0 5px"><div style=""><div>While I agree ad hominem has no place in policy debates, I think there is validity in this case to attacking the credibility of his arguments based on what is now a visible previously undisclosed conflict of interest. If he had merely proposed or advocated for the policy, it would be one thing, but his intransigent refusal to withdraw the policy despite repeated rejection by the community establishes a pattern of facts which invites scrutiny of his motivations and the credibility of his arguments in light of recent disclosures.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Owen<br></div><div><div><br></div><div><div><div><br></div><blockquote><div>On Jun 5, 2018, at 08:03 , Mike Burns <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:mike@iptrading.com">mike@iptrading.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Monaco; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none"><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Hi Andrew,<br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">While I sympathize with your position on the soft landing proposals, and even accepting all the facts below are true, the fact remains that you were attacking the man (ad hominem) by impugning his motivations, not his arguments.<br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Regards,<br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Mike<br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in"><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><div><b>From:</b><span> </span>Andrew Alston [<a target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline" href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com">mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>]<span> </span><br></div><div><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Tuesday, June 05, 2018 10:37 AM<br></div><div><b>To:</b><span> </span>Mike Burns <<a target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline" href="mailto:mike@iptrading.com">mike@iptrading.com</a>>; 'Owen DeLong' <<a target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline" href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a>>; 'Chevalier du Borg' <<a target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline" href="mailto:virtual.borg@gmail.com">virtual.borg@gmail.com</a>><br></div><div><b>Cc:</b><span> </span>'AfriNIC RPD MList.' <<a target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline" href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a>><br></div><div><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>RE: [rpd] Questions for Alain...<br></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Mike,</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span> </span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Nothing ad-hominem about this –<span> </span></span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span> </span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Fact – a policy was proposed that the community rejected<span> </span></span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Fact – the community asked for the policy to be withdrawn – multiple times<span> </span></span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Fact – Alain refused to withdraw and then denied that the community had demanded such – despite it being on video</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Fact – The policy was some how shoved through – and appealed<span> </span></span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Fact – the appeal was granted</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Fact – Alain then slammed the integrity of the appeal committee and accused them of malfeasance – again – that’s on video<span> </span></span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span> </span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span>All of this – over a 3 period while railing against people who wanted IP space and doing everything in his power to ensure that people could not GET the space they needed by policy – while also holding a block of space for his employer that remains unannounced other than 25% of it announced by a commercial ASN – while pushing for an audit policy that anyone can clearly see was designed to target specific individuals – and I can name them.</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span> </span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span>To then turn around and open a broker – while attempting to use policy to swing things like this with no declaration of interest – might be within the rules – but it is in my opinion – shockingly bad ethics and at the very least – shows a total lack of judgement</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span> </span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Andrew</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span> </span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span> </span><br></div><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in"><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><div><b>From:</b><span> </span>Mike Burns [<a target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline" href="mailto:mike@iptrading.com">mailto:mike@iptrading.com</a>]<span> </span><br></div><div><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>05 June 2018 17:11<br></div><div><b>To:</b><span> </span>'Owen DeLong' <<a target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline" href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a>>; 'Chevalier du Borg' <<a target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline" href="mailto:virtual.borg@gmail.com">virtual.borg@gmail.com</a>><br></div><div><b>Cc:</b><span> </span>'AfriNIC RPD MList.' <<a target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline" href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a>><br></div><div><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>Re: [rpd] Questions for Alain...<br></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span> </span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">“There’s nothing wrong with being a broker” – Owen<br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Thanks for that, Owen.<span> </span><span class="font" style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif">😉</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">More to the point, there is nothing wrong with a broker authoring policy.<br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">I agree that it’s better to be open about being a broker when authoring policy.<br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">However this thread began entirely as an ad hominem.<br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">+1 to the previous poster who said it’s past time for Africa to get in sync with the rest of the world regarding the IPv4 market.<br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in"><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><div><b>From:</b><span> </span>Owen DeLong [<a target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline" href="mailto:owen@delong.com">mailto:owen@delong.com</a>]<span> </span><br></div><div><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Tuesday, June 05, 2018 9:14 AM<br></div><div><b>To:</b><span> </span>Chevalier du Borg <<a target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline" href="mailto:virtual.borg@gmail.com">virtual.borg@gmail.com</a>><br></div><div><b>Cc:</b><span> </span>AfriNIC RPD MList. <<a target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline" href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a>><br></div><div><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>Re: [rpd] Questions for Alain...<br></div></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">There’s nothing wrong with being a broker. However, the SL-BIS proposal is one which brokers stand to profit from. <br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Your analogy of the doctor doesn’t apply because the doctor isn’t profiting from it when you stop smoking. Indeed, you’re improved health might actually cost him money. <br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">This would be more like having the doctor encourage your smoking and then discovering that he also owned a tobacco company. <br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Not only is it bad medical advice, but turns out the doctor stands to profit from it if the community takes his bad advice. <br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Owen<br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"><br>On Jun 5, 2018, at 04:19, Chevalier du Borg <<a target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline" href="mailto:virtual.borg@gmail.com">virtual.borg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></span></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt"><div><div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Dear M. Alson<br></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Is there a logic arguement in here somewhere? <br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Ad-hominem is not logic<br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">After all, yourself have defended broker on this list saying there nothing wrong with it. <br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"> <br></div></div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">The doctor advise to STOP smoking is still good advice for you, even if doctor hisself is a big smoker.<br></div></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"> </span></span><br></p><div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif">Le mar. 5 juin 2018 à 14:31, Andrew Alston <<a target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline" href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div></div><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin: 5pt 0in 5pt 4.8pt"><div><div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span> </span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span>You have actively supported and fought for the new soft landing policy – to artificially restrict space to entities that need it. <span> </span></span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span> </span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Now, I’d like to ask – as an author of the soft-landing-bis policy which you have STILL not withdrawn… aren’t you just a LITTLE bit conflicted in trying to create an artificial shortage and make it hard for people to get space – while starting and founding an IP broker in Africa?</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span> </span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Maybe now we understand the *<b>true</b>* motivations behind the soft landing bis policy….</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span> </span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span><a style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline" target="_blank" href="http://ext-host.trstech.net/ipregistrar/trust_us.html">http://ext-host.trstech.net/ipregistrar/trust_us.html</a></span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span> </span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Andrew</span><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><span> </span><br></div></div></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif"><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>RPD mailing list<br></div><div><a style="color: purple; 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