Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In a prior message, I quoted section 6.1 of the AFRINIC Bylaws, which I am
now obliged to quote yet again:

6.1 Membership shall be open to:

(i) 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

(ii) any other Person who is approved by the Board or the members.

The handle ORG-INL3-AFRINIC represents an alleged Seychelles corporate
entity, "Inspiring Networks LTD", which appears to be owned and/or
controlled by Mr. Maikel Uerlings.

The set of AFRINIC-assigned IPv4 address blocks currently associated with
ORG-INL3-AFRINIC is as follows:

45.220.64.0/18
196.61.192.0/20
197.231.208.0/22

Analysis of the routes that are currently publicly announced to the global
Internet for each of the constituent /24 "C" blocks that compose the above
IPv4 blocks provides the following results:

Cblocks ASN CC  Organization
---
64  0   ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
16  24567   AU  QT Inc.
 4  22769   US  Ddosing Network

Two things are apparent from these reults:

   1)  Just as in the case of Mr. Abizeid's and Mr. Mehta's corporate
   entities, it appears that Mr. Uerlings' Seychelles corporate
   entity, Inspiring Networks Ltd., also does not, at present,
   qualify, under the AFRINIC Bylaws to be a member of AFRINIC,
   as exactly -zero- of the company's AFRINIC-assigned IP address 
   space is providing any service whatsoever to any point within
   the AFRINIC service region.

   2)  Just as in the case of Mr. Mehta's "Fiber Grid, Inc. (Seychelles)
   it would appear that Mr. Uerlings' corporate entity is not even
   using the vast majority of its AFRINIC-assigned IP address space.
   Rather, it would appear that both  Mr. Mehta and Mr. Uerlings are
   using the great majority of their assigned IP address blocks only
   as passive investments at the present time.

   I guess they are both just sitting on these investments, waiting
   for the prices to go up.

In case I have failed to make myself abundantly clear, I am requesting
the Board to immediately invoke Sections 8.2(ii) and 8.2(v) of the
AFRINIC Bylaws with respect to the corporate entities of Mr. Abizdeid,
Mr. Mehta, and Mr. Uerlings.  The evidence shows that they all stand
in clear violation of Section 6.1(i) of the Bylaws, and have, I believe,
for quite some time now.  On that basis, their memberships MUST be
terminated according to the Bylaws.


Regards,
rfg

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Re: [Community-Discuss] Current routing summaries for LiquidWeb, Inc. and Fiber Grid, Inc.

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message , 
lib...@tuta.io wrote:

>@rfg Routing summaries are of no use now days. Refer Google, Amazon,
>Microsoft or cloudflare organizations are based in US.=C2=A0 Technically sh
>ould be allowed to use ARIN ip in its region but they are all over the map.
> Microsoft cloud in Africa using Arin ip or Google cloud in Middle East usi
>ng Arin allocated networks. I raised this issue with RIRs and they are awar
>e of this practice and their explanation was reasonable and it is allowed. 
>Can Afrinic stop Microsoft using ARIN ip in its region?

It is quite alright for a legal entity is region `A' to deploy some, and
prehaps even most of its number resources in region `B'. That is quite clear.

What you are failing to appreciate is that there exist a set of AFRINIC Bylaws
which make it abundantly clear that IN THE ABSENCE OF SPECIFIC AND EXPLICIT
APPROVAL BY THE BOARD, each member of AFRINIC is obliged to provide at least
-some- service within the AFRINIC geographical region.

Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta are NOT doing that, therefore unless there has been
an explicit decision by the Board, neither man's corporate entities qualify
to be AFRINIC members.  If they are not AFRINIC members, then their AFRINIC-
issued number resources must be immediately reclaimed intto the AFRINIC free
pool.

I call your attention specifically to Section 6.1 of the AFRINIC Bylaws:

6.1 Membership shall be open to:

(i) 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

(ii) any other Person who is approved by the Board or the members.

Based upon the routing data that I posted here, and which I fully encourage
independent investigators to verify to their own satisfaction, the corporate
entities belonging to Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta are simply not qualified to
be AFRINIC members under the AFRINIC Bylaws as written.

More to the point, the historical WHOIS data which I have also posted links
to, and which I also encourage other interested parties to independently
verify to their own satisfaction, persusasively suggest that the corporate
entities belonging to both Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta have received some or
all of their AFRINIC-assigned non-legacy IPv4 address blocks via underhanded,
unscruplous, illicit, and quite possibly illegal transactions involving the
now disgraced AFRINIC ex-employee, Ernest Byaruhanga.

So this raises the question: Based upon the available evidence, are Mr.
Abizeid and Mr. Mehta simply foreign carpetbaggers... foreign 21st century
colonialists, engaging in corrupt transactions with compliant locals and
exploiting the natural resources of Africa from afar, while giving precious
little in return to the people of Africa?

You be the judge.


Regards,
rfg


P.S.  Is it possible that either Mr. Abizeid and/or Mr. Mehta received some
special dispensation from the AFRINIC Board which would allow them to skirt
the normal requireemnts of the AFRINIC Bwlaws, Section 6.1(i) as quoted
above?  I don't know and it is apparently impossible for any outsider to
say, one way or the other, since some of the AFRINIC Board Meeting minutes
have been mysteriously and quite deliberately ``disappeared'' from public
view.

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Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message , 
lib...@tuta.io wrote:

>@Ronald F. Guilmette are you LIR or member of Afrinic?

No sir, I am neither.

>Any comment on
>https://bgp.he.net/AS35916#_prefixes
>They are announced in USA via Multacom

The company Cloud Innovation Ltd has quite a bit of AFRINIC-administered IPv4
address space assigned, and parts of that space are being routed by numerous
different networks worldwide (but primarily by ones in Hong Kong).

Other than just mentioning the fact that Multacom is not my most favorite
company on the Internet, I have no other specific comment to offer regarding
Multacom or its routing of various Cloud Innovation Ltd blocks.

As I have expressed personally to Mr. Lu Heng, I am far more concered about
the apparent use, by some of few of his customers, of the services of two
specific networks that appear to be involved with routing blocks of apparently
stolen and/or squatted IPv4 address blocks belonging to either (a) AFRINIC
legacy holders and/or (b) Iranian holders of RIPE-assigned IPv4 address
blocks:

Asline/Clayer (Hong Hong / China)
https://bgp.he.net/AS18013#_prefixes
https://bgp.he.net/AS137951#_prefixes

(Note that the second network above, AS137951, is a "leaf" ASN which is 
connected
to the Internet only via the first ASN above, AS18013.  In effect, they may be
viewed as being just two parts of the same single thing.)

DDoSing Network, Inc. (colorado/USA)
https://bgp.he.net/AS22769#_prefixes

Please note the distinctly funny name of that last one, and also the fact
that in addition to announcing many questionable routes for many Iranian
blocks, it is currently also routing much of the AFRINIC space which still
remains assigned to Mr. Uerlings' "Inspiring Networks, Ltd." company, which
is incorporated in the Seychelles Islands.[1]


Regards,
rfg


[1]  Mr. Uerlings also maintains corporate entities named "Inspiring Networks
B.V." in the Netherlands and "Inspiring Networks, LLC" in Delaware, USA.

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Re: [Community-Discuss] Current routing summaries for LiquidWeb, Inc. and Fiber Grid, Inc.

[Libra via Community-Discuss]

@rfg  Routing summaries are of no use now days. Refer Google, Amazon, Microsoft 
or cloudflare organizations are based in US.  Technically should be allowed to 
use ARIN ip in its region but they are all over the map. Microsoft cloud in 
Africa using Arin ip or Google cloud in Middle East using Arin allocated 
networks. I raised this issue with RIRs and they are aware of this practice and 
their explanation was reasonable and it is allowed. Can Afrinic stop Microsoft 
using ARIN ip in its region?
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Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources

[Libra via Community-Discuss]

@Ronald F. Guilmette are you LIR or member of Afrinic?
Any comment on
https://bgp.he.net/AS35916#_prefixes
They are announced in USA via Multacom

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> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 20:04:22 +0300
> From: Noah 
> To: tho...@brenac.eu
> Cc: General Discussions of AFRINIC ,
>  Afnog 
> Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the
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> On Fri, 18 Dec 2020, 14:06 thomas brenac,  wrote:
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>> ..and the worse is that with the ongoing Inter-RiR transfer policy plan in
>> discussion these stolen subnets will be one day transferred / sold at
>> higher value to another RIR and no one will then be able to do anything.
>>
> Thomas,
>
> Ooh Yes and that is the strategy with an Inter-RIR transfer policy proposal
> which intends to ease some businesses around IPv4 addresses with zero role
> for AFRINIC with:
>
>  ? Source resource holders subject to receiving RIR policies
>  ? No need based justification
>  ? No checking of valid  ? right to use? and no dispute.
>  ? The list is endless
>
> The community caught them and is discovering more and more about the actors
> and their intentions and motivation which are 100% not for the best
> interests of the AFRICAN region.
>
>> my 2 cents
>>
> You are spot on.
>
> Cheers,
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> Cc: General Discussions of AFRINIC ,
>  Afnog 
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>> On 19 Dec 2020, at 18:09, Noah  wrote:
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>> ?
>>
>>> On Fri, 18 Dec 2020, 14:06 thomas brenac,  wrote:
>>> ..and the worse is that with the ongoing Inter-RiR transfer policy plan in 
>>> discussion these stolen subnets will be one day transferred / sold at 
>>> higher value to another RIR and no one will then be able to do anything.
>>>
> No wonder the urgency in getting the policy ratified ..! 
>
>> Thomas,
>>
>> Ooh Yes and that is the strategy with an Inter-RIR transfer policy proposal 
>> which intends to ease some businesses around IPv4 addresses with zero role 
>> for AFRINIC with:
>>
>>  ? Source resource holders subject to receiving RIR policies
>>  ? No need based justification 
>>  ? No checking of valid  ? right to use? and no dispute.
>>  ? The list is endless 
>>
>> The community caught them and is discovering more and more about the actors 
>> and their intentions and motivation which are 100% not for the best 
>> interests of the AFRICAN region.
>>
>>> my 2 cents
>>>
>>
>> You are spot on.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Noah
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