You are right. You are a professional, I think you will not ignore the
allocation date such as you listed

held by:

Non-LIRs (end users):
Hewlett Packard
Apple Computer

Unclear whether to classify as LIR or not:
Amateur Radio (AMPR)

LIRs:
XFINITY/Comcast
Verizon
Akamai
XO Communications
Amazon
Microsoft
Google
etc.

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 1:24 PM Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote:

> If you think this is a shocking amount of address space, please consider
> the amount of space
> held by:
>
> Non-LIRs (end users):
> Hewlett Packard
> Apple Computer
>
> Unclear whether to classify as LIR or not:
> Amateur Radio (AMPR)
>
> LIRs:
> XFINITY/Comcast
> Verizon
> Akamai
> XO Communications
> Amazon
> Microsoft
> Google
> etc.
>
> The equivalent of 1.5 /10s (75% of a /9) is far less than any of the above
> organizations.
>
> Owen
>
>
> On Jul 26, 2021, at 01:11 , Leo S <le...@afcast.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ronald
> Maybe your number is correct, whether it is 6.3M or 7M,This is a shocking
> number for everyone especially in 201x such a large block allocated. This
> is not in 199x year.
>
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 4:25 AM Ronald F. Guilmette <r...@tristatelogic.com>
> wrote:
>
>> In message <
>> calm9cbn+r9oen9+9ybjfbk5ggtcmemz1yhxgdfw04otc3mx...@mail.gmail.com>
>> Meriem Dayday <meriemday...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >This is a direct violation of the CoC.
>>
>> No, actually, it isn't.
>>
>> The information about how Cloud Innovation is presently making use of
>> it's assigned 6,291,456 AFRINIC-administered IPv4 addresses is effectively
>> public information, and it is not difficult to derive from any number of
>> public sources (e.g. RIPEStat, bgp.he.net, etc.)
>>
>> If you lived in the time of Galileo Galilei, would you consider it an
>> affront to public decency if some people elected to look through the
>> telescope and then just describe what they saw?  And if so, then what
>> is next?  Book burning?
>>
>> >Disclosing such information and data without the company's consent is a
>> >clear attempt of defamation and can have legal consequences on the
>> >concerned person.
>>
>> OK, let's parse that statement, because it conjoins two different obvious
>> logical problems.
>>
>> First, the Internet is *not* a private network.  Fact's about what various
>> companies are doing on the Internet are possible to see, and to learn,
>> without needing the consent of the companies inolved.  That is the nature
>> of the Internet.  If you want to run your own closed private intranet,
>> then go head.  Nobody will stop you and you can then keep every last
>> detail of your corporate operations utterly secret.  But the minute any
>> company obtains Internet number resources and starts using those, it
>> *voluntarily* gives up some of its corporate secrecy in exchange for being
>> a part of, and a participant on this great communications experiment we
>> call the Internet.
>>
>> I personally am not now, and never have been a customer of Cloud
>> Innovation.
>> And yet even well before today I already determined for myself that well
>> more that 90% of Cloud Innovation's assigned AFRINIC-administered IPv4
>> address space was being deployed to other continents.  This is not a state
>> secret by any means, and the information may be derived from 100% public
>> sources.  Anyone clever enough to seek it out will find the same
>> information.
>>
>> Whether the manner in which Cloud Innovation is using/deploying its
>> assigned number resources does or does not comport with its specific
>> RSA and/or with community approved regulations is a separate question,
>> and one which I myself do not have an answer to.  In any case, the
>> courts will sort out those questions in due course, I imagine.  But the
>> mere facts of how Cloud Innovation has deployed its AFRINIC-assigned
>> resources, or how it would appear to make money, based on the available
>> public evidence, are *not* corporate secrets.  Any attempt to portray
>> them as such is just an attempt at heavy-handed censorship.
>>
>> The second logical problem with the statement above is contained in the
>> part that says "... attempt of defamation and can have legal consequences
>> on the concerned person."
>>
>> Exactly so!  If the guy who posted the material you are reacting to was
>> willing to take the legal risk to post that material, IN SPITE OF the
>> possibility that he could, at least in theory, be sued for defamation,
>> then why are YOU worried about it?  Why should AFRINIC be worried about
>> it?  Obviously, this (theoretical) possibility of a defemation lawsuit
>> is only a problem for the guy who posted the (allegedly) defamatory
>> text, and he obviiously was willing to take the risk in order to express
>> his opinion, SO WHAT IS THAT TO YOU?
>>
>> Here again, shouting down in the original poster in this manner appears
>> to me to be just another a heavy-handed attempt at pointless censorship.
>>
>> I hope that we here can all have open and frank discusions of all of the
>> issues now of concern to AFRINIC without these kinds of attempts to
>> muzzle dissenting viewpoints based on perfectly silly arguments.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> rfg
>>
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