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<p dir="auto">Good Nonjabulo Sphilile,</p>
<p dir="auto">Hopefully I’m not responding to ChatGPT, but the real Nonjabulo Sphilile!</p>
<p dir="auto">The problem that the RDP are facing today, is the mass of objectors, that nobody knows, have not properly, honestly/truthfully answered the real questions posed to them, and then keeps spewing a regurgitated barrage of being victimized and they are the injured and they are… The word astroturfing by definition doesn’t have an exact forensically applicable definition to measure, but are evident on the probabilities. Ie. the same type of evidence and measures that a civil court of law would apply, not a criminal court as these aren’t criminal cases where innocence are assumed till proven beyond doubt. Thus, there exist prime facie evidences that the astroturfers had been succesfully named and proven.</p>
<p dir="auto">Now This being and open forum, there should be NO assumption of anonymity, and I’d state that given the astroturfers, that the assumption should be, given the nature of AfriNIC, that the request for KYC would not be a procedural problem for ANY REAL OPERATOR, but only an issue for the likes of astroturfers that needs to have the puppet-master hidden/anonymous so that nothing can be pointed back to the puppet-mster that wants to derail the procedures etc. as the outcomes would have a negative effect on their operations, I’ll even content that the reasons for the objections (given the weak arguments answered, and the evading of questions posed) might be more nefarious instead of actually objectively for the good of the continent a.k.a. AfriNIC’s communities.</p>
<p dir="auto">The idea that your participation to the is a RIGHT, I’ll only defend if and only if you can show you have a real valid concerns or “skin in the game” with regards to AfriNIC, and then your affiliations and representations are the reasons you might have a right to speak and object. AfriNIC membership etc (and by that extension I’d say the right to be heard in the RDP, else you should be acting as a guest, not a victim) are based on the RESOURCES (AS numbers and/or addresses) you have been allocated (while being a member in good standing) or need/want to be allocated to you. As such that is the reason we’d like to know how you, as a new comer have <em>real</em> interest in these matters, not just that you have a <em>claimed</em> objection .. and when questioned, you deflect ;(</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 22 Jul 2026, at 15:45, Nonjabulo Sphilile wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Hi Musa,</p>
<p dir="auto">The PDWG is open. Participation does not depend on being known to<br>
long-standing members, attending earlier meetings, or proving a<br>
professional stake after joining. New participation is still participation.</p>
<p dir="auto">KYC would be a serious procedural change, not an informal test for<br>
unfamiliar objectors. Any such requirement would need to be formally<br>
adopted, proportionate, privacy-preserving, and applied equally to<br>
established and new participants.</p>
<p dir="auto">Similar views are not proof of impersonation. If there is concrete evidence<br>
of misconduct, please submit it to the co-chairs. Otherwise, I will not<br>
continue discussing identities or drafting methods.</p>
<p dir="auto">Let us return to the policy.</p>
<p dir="auto">Regards,<br>
Nonjabulo</p>
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