Thank you for your kind words of encouragement Arnaud. Unfortunately, it seems that AFRINIC is still operating in the mode of attempting to suppress evidence, information, and any comments which might be in the least bit ctitical of the current leadership of the organization.
Thus, it is a good thing that I elected to cross post my comments also here on the AFNOG mailing list, which is not something that current AFRINIC management can directly and unilaterally censor, I guess. If however one takes a look at the December archives for the AFRINIC community-discuss mailing list, then you will notice that my last message posted here, which was also cross-posted to that very relevant mailing list, has been suppressed and censored by AFRINIC. That is certainly one way to try to prevent the truth and the real bad news from getting out to the AFRINIC membership, but it is ineffective, and only makes the current AFRINIC leadership look that much more inept and/or complicit. And please note that according to what I have read online about AFRINIC history, this is not the first time the management and/or the board have tried to sweep matters under the carpet, and suppress the evidence of their own ineptitude or malfeasance by just unilaterally censoring the AFRINIC mailing lists in whatever way suits them, and their agenda, at the moment. You here have all now read what I wrote, I hope. My message was pointed, direct, and blunt about remaining open issues and remaining apparently stolen AFRINIC blocks, as well as the various specific involved parties. This information and the associated hard evidence on which it is based has not been previously made public and I made it public only as a service to the AFRINIC community. I did not do this because I have any axe to grind. I have -zero- financial involvement with AFRINIC or with AFRINIC number resource assets. My goal from the very beginning of my 18 month AFRINIC investigation was only to try to see to it that AFRINIC number resources do in fact get distributed, as they should be, openly and honestly, to *Africans*, and *not* to modern-day "robber baron" colonialists who only seek to mine valuable assets from the African continent, and leave gaping holes in the ground and impoverished people in their wake. And I have quite certainly been even-handed about this. I don't care if the theives are from India, from China, or from my own country, the United States. I would like to see them all stop victimizing the African people, and I would also like to see the African people stop allowing themselves to be victimized and exploited by these modern 21st century colonialists. So anyway, yes, I often speak frankly and bluntly, and some people may on occasion take offense at that. But other than some over-sensitive hurt feelings, why should the new and never before publicized evidence that I have today presented, about *additional* and never-before-revealed cases of apparently stolen AFRINIC resources be suppressed and censored by AFRINIC? What is AFRINIC's motivation for doing so, and who specifically in the organization decided that my posts should be censored? I leave it to you good people to seek an answer to that question, if any of you have a mind to do so. Regards, rfg _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list Community-Discuss@afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss