<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Noah<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 4 Jul 2019, at 12:29, Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" class="">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_2064795570359828951gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">You are still confused because I know the history AS37100 the pan-Africa Internet network enabler very very well :-) and such find response inline.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote>Noted and thank you for the clarification</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Aaaah an ISP is involved in providing some form of communication by means of their own infrastructure or another infrastructure provider. I don't think most countries with regulatory authorities would allow an ISP to operate in the country without being regulated,</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>So this is were you are sadly mistaken.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Many countries allow ISPs to provider services without a licence.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Hence the suggestion (by myself and others) that one size does not fit all and that AfriNIC is not a regulatory enforcement agency, nor a repository of regulatory expertise relating to every country in the service region.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Accordingly, the member services team should carry on performing the checks that they currently perform - because they seem more capable of nuanced thinking.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Mike</div></body></html>