"I have other things to attend to." - like cleaning pores? ________________________________ From: Ronald F. Guilmette <r...@tristatelogic.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 3:03 PM To: community-discuss@afrinic.net <community-discuss@afrinic.net> Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] Notice to all the legacy netblocks holders in AfriNIC
In message <995eca50-e1da-49ea-acc0-54eda4091...@afrinic.net>, AFRINIC Communication <co...@afrinic.net> wrote: >The Regional Internet Registry (RIR) system is a successful model of >industry self-regulation... I would be happy to debate the truth or falsehood of that proposition with you at some appropriate moment. (Not just now. I have other things to attend to.) It is likely true that the RIR system has served, like the Pax Americana of the late 20th century and the Pax Romana before it, to prevent all-out violent confrontations between otherwise opposing factions. But this is not the only possible definition of the word "successful", and there have been glaring and evident problems... in the AFRINIC region, in the ARIN region, in the RIPE region, and elsewhere. To simply and unilaterally declare that "This model of governance is good. End of discusssion." is not entirely persuasive in the present context. And although the industry may view this model as having been fantastically successful at keeping various governments largely or entirely at bay and largely or entirely out of the Internet regulation business (which even I would agree is a profoundly Good Thing) the industry, such as it is, is going to have to come to terms someday with that fact that secrecy and the shrouding of every detail underneath a gigantic blanket of NDAs neither promotes good governance nor is compatible with the ever increasing dependency of society as a whole on this utility we call the Internet, a utility whose underlying business arrangement have, by design, been keep almost entirely opaque to the outside world. The present pandemic has only increased the dependency of society on the Internet, and thus it has also increased the need for more transparency into these private business arragements, in the public interest. Regards, rfg _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list Community-Discuss@afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
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