<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le ven. 30 juil. 2021 à 00:43, Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a>> a écrit :<br></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;line-break:after-white-space"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Anisi au 6 Acknowledge alinéa (b) on a:</div><div dir="auto"><b>Having taken cognizance of the preamble of the present agreement</b>, fully and unreservedly subscribe thereto with the clear understanding and acceptance of AFRINIC’s critical role in the stability and the continued evolution of the Internet as agreed by its members and the community in terms of adopted policies.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><b>Préambule</b></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><b>a (vi)</b> empowered to fulfill a stewardship role <b>for those number resources allocated to it</b>, <b>for the use of the African Internet community</b> as constituted by its members collectively;</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">African internet community, not global internet community, not for use everywhere they want. Please any interpretation of this is out of scope. </div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">An other tendancious interpretation to fit your Boss needs, your hope and your desiderata. It will not pass. </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><div><br></div>Use by a service provider in the African Region to number their customer hosts qualifies here, <b>regardless of where those customer hosts are located.</b></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The location is clear in the texte, African Internet Community. There is one type of community in Africa and Asian, American....are not part of. Your customers have to be members of African internet community. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><br></div><div>The service provider is a member of the African Internet community who is the resource member and the one with the contractual obligation here.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yes, via his bureau at Seychelles he his member of African community, so resources should be use there or in other part of Africa, but never Outside. Larus is not part of African community. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><br></div><div>They are using the resources to number their customers’ hosts. Thus this test is met.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">False, no there is breach of the RSA, Bylaws... here. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><br></div><div>You might not like that fact, but it does fit within the text as written.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It is not fitting the way you think it is. Just keep it as it write, no biased interpretation. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Providing services outside Africa is in breach of this Agreement which is for to provide services in Africa. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>No, To breach the agreement, you have to fail to provide services within Africa (specifically, anywhere within the AFRINIC service region).</div><div>So long as you provide any services within the region, providing additional services outside of the region is not precluded by the terms</div><div>below or the terms above.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>
6) MEMBERSHIP<br>
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6.1) Subject to the other provisions of this Article, membership
shall be open to:<br>
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<li>any Person who is geographically based within, and providing
services in the African region, and who is engaged in the use
of, or business of providing, open system protocol network
services; or</li>
</ol><p>Nothing in the RSA that's relevant that I can find. If I'm just
missing it, please do point me at it.<br>
</p><p>Kind Regards,<br>
Jaco</p>
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</div></blockquote></div>Owen<div><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>