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

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

FYI - Noah confessed to me privately that that message he just posted
was one he drafted some long time ago, but it sitting there, pending,
on a laptop that he had not turned on for some weeks.

In message <3c3dabea-b235-4233-acb1-b9fe9e60e...@delong.com>, 
Owen DeLong  wrote:

>Disclosure to AfriNIC privately is an option and RFG has not stated to what
>extent he has or hasn't done so.

I have already disclosed on this mailing list 100% of the AFRINIC administered
IP address blocks that I have had reason to believe may have been either stolen
or squatted.

I haven't really had time to check, but my assumption is that 100% of these
have also been mentioned in the recent official AFRINIC report regarding
WHOIS accuracy.  (I hope so anyway.)

Some other information relating to how all of this may have about... information
which may or may not be accurate, and which may or may not even be directly 
related
to these matters has been disclosed, by me, confidentially, to Eddy.

When and if I feel that this additional information is even worthy of being
shared I will do so.

Note that it is fundamentally the responsibility of AFRINIC management and the
Board to disclose how such a colossal mass of both free pool and legacy space
came to have been purloined, over a period of serveral YEARS, apparently with
no one in a position of authority, with the exception of Ernest, even noticing
that anything was amiss, despite repeated warnings from both myself and others.

As President John F. Kennedy once said "Success had a thousand fathers, but
failure is an orphan."  So it is in this case.  Other than Ernest, who had no
real choice in the matter, no other AFRINIC official or employee has been held
to account for any part of this colossal and, sadly, still ongoing calamity.


Regards,
rfg

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

[Owen DeLong]

> On Jan 30, 2021, at 5:52 PM, Noah  wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:54 PM Owen DeLong  > wrote:
>> There's quite a lot of sordid details that
>> I know about, and I've only publicly disclosed a subset of those. 
>> 
>> Please do this community a final favor and publish all details rather than 
>> just subsets of your research.
> 
> That’s an unfair ask under the circumstances.
> 
> Come'on Dude...
>  
> There are many reasons not to publicly disclose certain data, including:
>   +   Protecting the confidential source of that data
>   +   Data which might compromise an ongoing investigation
>   +   Data which disclosure would violate an NDA
>   +   Data which could cause harm to third parties
> 
> FWIW, Ron can share that information with AFRINIC directly.
> 
> Noah

And he may well have done so. You asked for public disclosure.

Re-read your post above if you think I’m wrong about that… 
“final favor and publish all details…”

Publish is a public disclosure… They even come from the same root word.

Disclosure to AfriNIC privately is an option and RFG has not stated to what
extent he has or hasn’t done so. He only spoke about the extent to which he
has made public disclosures.

Owen

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

[Noah]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:54 PM Owen DeLong  wrote:

> There's quite a lot of sordid details that
>> I know about, and I've only publicly disclosed a subset of those.
>
>
> Please do this community a final favor and publish all details rather than
> just subsets of your research.
>
>
> That’s an unfair ask under the circumstances.
>

Come'on Dude...


> There are many reasons not to publicly disclose certain data, including:
> + Protecting the confidential source of that data
> + Data which might compromise an ongoing investigation
> + Data which disclosure would violate an NDA
> + Data which could cause harm to third parties
>

FWIW, Ron can share that information with AFRINIC directly.

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

[Owen DeLong]

> There's quite a lot of sordid details that
> I know about, and I've only publicly disclosed a subset of those. 
> 
> Please do this community a final favor and publish all details rather than 
> just subsets of your research.

That’s an unfair ask under the circumstances. There are many reasons not to 
publicly disclose certain data, including:
+   Protecting the confidential source of that data
+   Data which might compromise an ongoing investigation
+   Data which disclosure would violate an NDA
+   Data which could cause harm to third parties

I’ve known Ron for a long time. He is not known for his desire to hide things, 
in fact, he is quite the opposite. Any information Ron is holding back is 
likely for good reason and I trust his judgment on what is appropriate to 
release.

Owen


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

[Mark Tinka]

On 12/25/20 06:33, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:


As regards to your "network freeze" I have no idea what that means.


https://lmgtfy.app/?q=what+is+a+network+freezehttps://lmgtfy.app/?q=what+is+a+network+freezehttps://bfy.tw/Q40g

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

[Nishal Goburdhan]

On 31 Dec 2020, at 17:56, Noah wrote:

> If that bogon ASN still continues to be routed by another AS

thanks for cleaning that up.

this is a PSA that the cidr-report produces a report for these.
see:  https://www.cidr-report.org/as2.0/bogus-as-advertisements.html

-n.

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

[Noah]

Hey Ronald,

On Fri, 25 Dec 2020, 07:38 Ronald F. Guilmette, 
wrote:

>
> (I only wish that SEACOM has been equally as observant in the early part
> of this year, and that it had likewise taken appropriate action, in the
> first months of 2020, to disconnect


This has since been resolved from the AS37100 stand point dude. That bogon
was cleared off any AS path related to AS37100.

If that bogon ASN still continues to be routed by another AS then that is
beyond the scope of our domain.

The heck with 2020 already.
Noah
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Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources

[Aftok via Community-Discuss]

Eddy,
I was able to get some info about court case between Netstyle and Afrinic.
Afrinic has hired most expensive law firm in Mauritius charging around USD750 
to USD1300 per hour and this is how members fee is used.
First Afrinic mismanaged resources and now mismanaging the funds.
Eddy you have lot to answer so lets wait for the final court orders when files 
are available on public domain.
Has Afrinic provided true info to court? No lies, No fabricated docs?
Claims, counter claims, damages not meant for organization like Afrinic.
Iana can be party in case because Afrinic is just administering it is not owner 
of IPv4 resources.
Police is investigating the case so imagine a situation Afrinic bank account is 
frozen by police for corruption or on court order? What will be the future of 
Afrinic?
Learn how litigation works and what are the consequences.
Do not play game if you do not know the rules.
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Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message 
Noah  wrote:

>And who the heck is Jan Vermeulen now?

He is a South African journalist who has written extensively about the
thefts of AFRINIC-administered IPv4 address blocks.

Google is your friend.

>There's quite a lot of sordid details that
>> I know about, and I've only publicly disclosed a subset of those.
>
>Please do this community a final favor and publish all details rather than
>just subsets of your research.
>
>This would help AFRINIC add to the pile of already misappropriated IPv4
>space they are currently looking at.

I have already posted here -all- of the IPv4 CIDRs representing -all- of
the AFRINIC-administered IPv4 address blocks that I have reason to believe
have either been "stolen" or "squatted on", as I define those terms.

I am aware of some other interesting facts relating to the overall
context and history of these thefts, and I will make that additional
information public at a time of my choosing.


Regards,
rfg

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

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message 
Noah  wrote:

>> So the question must be asked:  Why is AS37100 (or anybody else) still
>> peering with the bogon AS26754?
>>
>
>Ans dude since this was just brought into the Internet community attention
>yesterday...

My records indicate that AS26754 was de-registered by AFRINIC and became
a "bogon" ASN  on some date between December 17, 2019 and February 3rd, 2020.
In short AS26754 has been a bogon for at least 10 months already.

In all that time SEACOM never noticed that it was providing routing to a
bogon??

>and like I indicated this will be followed up even though we are
>now in a network freeze period but rest assured it's an issue being
>followed up.

Good.  I look forward to that.  Although I'm frankly not sure why you
folks at SEACOM don't just simply pull the plug on this bogon.  This isn't
rocket science, after all.

As regards to your "network freeze" I have no idea what that means.  Here
where I am, we are in the depths of winter.  But I thought that it must be
summer in Africa.  No?

>To this end, I see that AFRINIC has sort of reclaimed that ASN

I don't believe that AFRINIC is capable of "sort of" reclaiming things.
Neither do I believe that a woman can be "somewhat" pregnant.

As noted above, AFRINIC *fully* reclaimed the AS number AS26754, thus
making it into a bogon ASN more than ten months ago already.

SEACOM, for its part, should immediately stop providing connectivity to
this bogon AS26754, which appears to have been a stolen property of
Ernest Byaruhanga, who, as I'm sure you know, is supposedly under criminal
investigation, by the Mauritius police for massively ripping off AFRINIC.

It is my sincere hope that SEACOM will stop providing aid and comfort to
the criminal Ernest Byaruhanga at the earliest possible moment.  The
notion of some administrative "network freeze" is NOT a reasonable or
even a believable excuse to avoid cutting off this criminal immediately.

>as you rightfully indicated in your post so something is in th works.

I'm sorry Noah, but you have misinterpreted.  Nothing is "in the works"
with respect to this bogon AS number AS26754.  AFRINIC staff already
figured out that this was yet one more thing that had been stolen by
Ernest, and thus, quite apprpriately, they took it back over 10 months
ago now.

(I only wish that SEACOM has been equally as observant in the early part
of this year, and that it had likewise taken appropriate action, in the
first months of 2020, to disconnect from Ernest and his stolen properties.)

So AFRINIC's work on this particular case is 100% done and completed, and
was so already, more than 10 months ago.  The only thing that now remains
to be done is for SEACOM... and others... to stop peering with this bogon
ASN, AS26754.

I see no reason why that  either cannot or should not happen immediately,
and with the flip of a switch.

Also, I would very much appreciate it if SEACOM could provide me, and 
AFRINIC, and the Mauritian police, with all relevant documentation showing
exactly how Ernest has been paying SEACOM for his connectivity for the
past 1+ year, including any information about the specific bank account
number or numbers he has used to make these payments.  I am quite sure
that this type of information would be most helpful, when and if AFRINIC
ever attempts to recoup even some of the cash that Ernest managed to milk
out of AFRINIC for so many years, via his huge embezzlement scheme.

Just out of curiosity, what was the most recent date on which SEACOM
received a payment from Ernest to continue to maintain connectivity to
AS26754?  Has Ernest been making these payments monthly?  If so, then
quite obviously his most recent payment information will be most helpful
in finding where he has stashed all of his ill-gotten embezzled cash.


Regards,
rfg


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[d...@darwincosta.com]

> On 24 Dec 2020, at 13:32, Libra via Community-Discuss 
>  wrote:
> 
> 
> Noah are you member or LIR? If you are real person then what is the problem 
> in submitting our id proofs to Moderator ? Verification and censorship are 
> two different things. 
What are you talking about? 

> Who knows maybe you and Ronald are are same person or maybe I am sock puppet 
> :) 
> Your psychological warfare tactics are not working so try hard.
> We are the members of Afrinic and we have full faith in Afrinic management.
If you really care about AFRINIC then you should care how things are being 
conducted to. 
> Afrinic management is working as gatekeepers. Gatekeepers are protecting the 
> resources and interest of its members. Resources are not allocated without 
> justification and consent of the management so accusing misappropriate use of 
> resources is direct attack on Afrinic management and accusing its management 
> of crime. 
> We do not know history and issue is between Afrinic and its members. Those 
> who are not members please excuse us and leave Afrinic and its members alone.
> Moderator please verify and I can bet Ronald and Noah will disappear.
Oh oh oh, please enjoy your Xmas and don’t bother the “moderator” with non 
sense. 
> 
> 
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Ronald F. Guilmette
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Ronald F. Guilmette
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   libren at tuta.io
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Noah
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Noah
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Sami Salih
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Noah
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Noah
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Ronald F. Guilmette
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Ronald F. Guilmette
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   libren at tuta.io
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Emem William
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   AFRINIC Communication
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Noah
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Noah
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Noah
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Ronald F. Guilmette
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Ronald F. Guilmette
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Ronald F. Guilmette
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Noah
> [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources 
>   Noah
> 
> -- 
Darwin-.
> 
> 
> Dec 23, 2020, 18:54 by n...@neo.co.tz:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 3:59 PM Libra via Community-Discuss 
>  wrote:
> Too much spam is generated by couple of morons in this community list.
> 
> Take a chill pill and stop spamming the community list since they want to 
> hear how well AFRINIC’S IPv4 resources are being used in serving Africa’s 
> internet and advancing its network infrastructure.
> 
> 
> How about only verified members allowed to use this mailing list? 
> Those who are Afrinic member or Lir can link their main account and those who 
> are not members or LIR can submit their id proof for verification.
> 
> While I am not a big fan of sock puppets, I don't believe in censorship the 
> likes of which you are advocating on a public forum which welcomes everyone 
> with interest.
> 
> Noah
>  
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Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources

[d...@darwincosta.com]

> On 24 Dec 2020, at 14:14, Nishal Goburdhan  wrote:
> 
> On 24 Dec 2020, at 14:29, Libra via Community-Discuss wrote:
> 
>> Noah are you member or LIR?
> 
> [snip nonsense]
> 
> hey noah,  (and other bona fide people)
> 
> please don’t feed the trolls.
> it only makes them hungrier, and appear more often.
Indeed.
> 
> —n.

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[Noah]

On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, 16:15 Nishal Goburdhan, 
wrote:

> On 24 Dec 2020, at 14:29, Libra via Community-Discuss wrote:
>
> > Noah are you member or LIR?
>
> [snip nonsense]
>
> hey noah,  (and other bona fide people)
>
> please don’t feed the trolls.
> it only makes them hungrier, and appear more often.
>

Noted Nishal.

Noah


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

[Nishal Goburdhan]

On 24 Dec 2020, at 14:29, Libra via Community-Discuss wrote:

> Noah are you member or LIR?

[snip nonsense]

hey noah,  (and other bona fide people)

please don’t feed the trolls.
it only makes them hungrier, and appear more often.

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[Noah]

On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, 15:33 Libra via Community-Discuss, <
community-discuss@afrinic.net> wrote:

> - Noah are you member or LIR?
>

Who is asking?

- If you are real person then what is the problem in submitting our id
> proofs to Moderator ?
>

Mr.Moderator I am at your disposal.

- Verification and censorship are two different things.
> - Who knows maybe you and Ronald are are same person or maybe I am sock
> puppet :)
>

Ronald claims to be an American, never met him and not interested either in
knowing him beyond the revelations he makes on this forum as relates to
IPv4 number resources misappropriation.

As for me, I am a breath gasping, heart pumping decaying body so go
figure.


- We are the members of Afrinic and we have full faith in Afrinic
> management.
>


Then you have nothing to worry about. But the AFRINIC management has the
obligation to do what is right and they are doing exactly that todate.

- Afrinic management is working as gatekeepers. Gatekeepers are protecting
> the resources and interest of its members.
>

You reminded me of Lu and his claim that AFRINIC is a book keeper. Actually
AFRINIC does more than just registry services. Please do your homework.

Resources are not allocated without justification and consent of the
> management so accusing misappropriate use of resources is direct attack on
> Afrinic management and accusing its management of crime.
>

You are correct but then what happens after resources have been allocated
but instead a members decides to misappropriate them by leasing them
outside the AFRINIC service region to entities in North America and Europe
to use to advance the Internet Infrastructure there to the disadvantage of
AFRICA.

Do you think the AFRINIC management would be doing it's members and the
community a service if they looked into such violations.

There are some provisions in the AFRINIC, RSA that allows the management to
investigate any violations of terms of RSA in order to enforce compliance
by its resources members.

Moderator please verify and I can bet Ronald and Noah will disappear.
>

Very funny dude.

Noah
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[Libra via Community-Discuss]

Noah are you member or LIR? If you are real person then what is the problem in 
submitting our id proofs to Moderator ? Verification and censorship are two 
different things. 
Who knows maybe you and Ronald are are same person or maybe I am sock puppet :) 
 Your psychological warfare tactics are not working so try hard.
We are the members of Afrinic and we have full faith in Afrinic management.
Afrinic management is working as gatekeepers. Gatekeepers are protecting the 
resources and interest of its members. Resources are not allocated without 
justification and consent of the management so accusing misappropriate use of 
resources is direct attack on Afrinic management and accusing its management of 
crime. 
We do not know history  and issue is between Afrinic and its members. Those who 
are not members please excuse us and leave Afrinic and its members alone.
Moderator please verify and I can bet Ronald and Noah will disappear.


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

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Dec 23, 2020, 18:54 by n...@neo.co.tz:

>
>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 3:59 PM Libra via Community-Discuss <> 
> community-discuss@afrinic.net> > wrote:
>
>> Too mu

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

[Noah]

On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, 01:02 Ronald F. Guilmette, 
wrote:

> In message  wddrabazo4rx9qof1mcbkug4m+...@mail.gmail.com>
> Noah  wrote:
>
> rfg> Please note that Ernest Byaruhanga is still enjoying some of his
> rfg> stolen AFRINIC space,
> >
> >
> >You have repeated the above quite a lot in all your emails...
>
> I might be mistaken, but I don't believe so.  In fact, I don't believe
> that I have previously mentioned these blocks... which appear to me to
> be in use by a party or parties who may or may not be Ernest Byaruhanga...
>

Ok Ronald noted.

to anyone at all, except for maybe Jan Vermeulen.
>

And who the heck is Jan Vermeulen now?

>

There's quite a lot of sordid details that
> I know about, and I've only publicly disclosed a subset of those.


Please do this community a final favor and publish all details rather than
just subsets of your research.

This would help AFRINIC add to the pile of already misappropriated IPv4
space they are currently looking at.
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[Noah]

On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, 01:14 Ronald F. Guilmette, 
wrote:

> Let me begin by saying that I have only just been informed that there is
> some connection between Noah  and SEACOM.  My apologies
> to him.


No need to apologize Some members of the AFRICAN Internet community
besides myself tend to wear multiple hats :-).

If I had known of that connection, I might have raised the
> issus of the Ugandan bogons with him privately.


It's best to address issues publicly because chances are that I personally
will not respond privately as I find private convos dodgy.

We run real networks and with that comes all sort of issues and this is one
of those that will be fixed.


> So the question must be asked:  Why is AS37100 (or anybody else) still
> peering with the bogon AS26754?
>

Ans dude since this was just brought into the Internet community attention
yesterday and like I indicated this will be followed up even though we are
now in a network freeze period but rest assured it's an issue being
followed up.

To this end, I see that AFRINIC has sort of reclaimed that ASN as you
rightfully indicated in your post so something is in th works.


> That should not be happening.


100% and FWIW while most might be aware, we rolled out RPKI [1] so that we
can be able to deal with such incidents but similarly its good for us as
the Internet community to keep each other informed as well.

Cheers,
Noah

[1]
https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2019-April/002821.html
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[Ronald F. Guilmette]

Let me begin by saying that I have only just been informed that there is
some connection between Noah  and SEACOM.  My apologies
to him.  If I had known of that connection, I might have raised the
issus of the Ugandan bogons with him privately.  But since this is
now a matter of public discussion, I will respond publicly.

In message 
Noah  wrote:

>Actually those prefixes on the link above are being originated by
>ITC AS26754 and announced by two different upstream providers.

That is 100% correct.  So SEACOM is certainly -not- the only network
that is doing something wrong here.

The real problem is that *nobody* should be peering with AS26754 which
is a bogon ASN that was previously registered (or stolen) by Ernest
Byaruhanga.  Quite obviously, AFRINIC staff already realized that some
time ago and they then appropriately de-registered AS26754 and returned
that AS number to the free pool.  Thus, AS26754 has been a "bogon" ASN
for some time now.

So the question must be asked:  Why is AS37100 (or anybody else) still
peering with the bogon AS26754?

That should not be happening.


Regards,
rfg


P.S.  I am greatly looking forward to more widespread adoption of RPKI
which may reduce some of these kinds of problems.

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

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message 
Noah  wrote:

rfg> Please note that Ernest Byaruhanga is still enjoying some of his
rfg> stolen AFRINIC space,
>
>
>You have repeated the above quite a lot in all your emails...

I might be mistaken, but I don't believe so.  In fact, I don't believe
that I have previously mentioned these blocks... which appear to me to
be in use by a party or parties who may or may not be Ernest Byaruhanga...
to anyone at all, except for maybe Jan Vermeulen.

You'll have to forgive me.  There's quite a lot of sordid details that
I know about, and I've only publicly disclosed a subset of those.  And
there are so many details that it's hard to remember which ones I have,
and which ones I haven't already mentioned publicly.


Regards,
rfg

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

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message 
Emem William  wrote:

>In your comprehensive routing data, I noticed that the following name
>stands out quite often, PEG Tech Inc. It seems like they are providing a
>lot of route to those ranges. I am wondering if you have done any research
>about them?

I have, but only a limited amount.  I believe that is a California (US)
based company, and that its Chief Executive Officer, as per California
state corporation records, is a person named Wei Zhang.

>Also why is Seacom still routing stolen AFRINIC IP?

I cannot provide any answer.  This question is best directed to SEACOM.

>As you have rightfully
>pointed out https://bgp.he.net/AS26754#_graph4 , they seem to be the only
>upstream provider that still routes Afrinic=E2=80=99s stolen IP.

NOT SO!  You seem to have grossely misinterpreted what I posted.

There are *numerous* different ASN that are routing various parts of
what I consider to be either (a) provably stolen AFRINIC legacy IPv4
space that AFRINIC has not yet acted to return to its rightful owners
or else (b) IPv4 space that *was* stolen, but which AFRINIC *has*
returned to its rightful owners (but which some unrelated network owners
are still illicitly squatting on anyway) or (c) IPv4 address space that
has been reclaimed into the free pool by AFRINIC, and which are thus
now "bogons", but which some network operators are still routing anyway.

In the specific case illustrated by the link I posted:

   https://bgp.he.net/AS2675

the IPv4 address blocks in question were parts of various IPv4 blocks
that have already been reclaimed into the free pool by AFRINIC.  And in
this case, even the AS number, AS2675, has also been reclaimed into the
ASN free pool by AFRINIC.  (So *nobody* should even be using that ASN
-at all- on the public internet.)

The problem here is that AS2675, which is now a "bogon" ASN, *is* still
being used to announce routes to multiple IPv4 address blocks which are
themselves now "bogons".  This is apparently only possible because *two*
other ASNs are providing correctivity to the bogon ASN, AS2675, as shown
on the page linked to above.  These two other ASNs are:

AS328616 Spidd Africa Ltd
AS37100  SEACOM Limited

Neither of these two should be peering with the bogon AS2675 -at all-.

SEACOM, you already know about.  That is a big provider in Africa that
ought to know better.  The other one, AS328616 Spidd Africa Ltd is a
bit mysterious, but is apparently headquartered in Uganda, and it also
is receiving connectivity from two other ASNs as shown here:

https://bgp.he.net/AS328616

The two ASNs that are providing connectivity to Spidd Africa... which I
believe is strongly linked to Ernest... are as follows:

AS328015  Sombha Solutions Store Limited
AS37100  SEACOM Limited

Both of these appear to be essentially legitimate companies... and SEACOM
surely is... but I do have to question why either of them should be
providing connectivity to AS328616 Spidd Africa Ltd., which I believe
to be a small-time operation which is most probably the property of good
friends of Ernest in Uganda.

I could provide even some more interesting information here about these
various networking connections in Uganda, but I'll leave that for another
time.


Regards,
rfg

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[Noah]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 3:59 PM Libra via Community-Discuss <
community-discuss@afrinic.net> wrote:

> Too much spam is generated by couple of morons in this community list.
>

Take a chill pill and stop spamming the community list since they want to
hear how well AFRINIC’S IPv4 resources are being used in serving Africa’s
internet and advancing its network infrastructure.


> How about only verified members allowed to use this mailing list?
>
Those who are Afrinic member or Lir can link their main account and those
> who are not members or LIR can submit their id proof for verification.
>

While I am not a big fan of sock puppets, I don't believe in censorship the
likes of which you are advocating on a public forum which welcomes everyone
with interest.

Noah
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[Noah]

Emem,

Since I wear many hats, allow me to respond to you inline.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 4:10 PM Emem William  wrote:

>
> Also why is Seacom still routing stolen AFRINIC IP?
>

A lot of stolen or misappropriated IPv4 number resources are being routed
everyday by ISP and transit providers globally. The reasons vary from,
misinformation, hijacks, misappropriated IPv4 addresses. All this is
perfectly recorded on the RIR database. Until recently, Ronald started
shading light to the fact that a huge number of AFRINIC IPv4 space, both
legacy and non-legacy has been fraudulently obtained while others
misappropriated and perfectly recorded in the whois database.

I am assuming that you are not a network engineer and as such, you are
ignorant of how the internet works and to enlighten you, SEACOM is largest
transit provider in AFRICA and does run prefix/asn checks before prefixes
from downstream customers are announced. This checks involves AFRINIC whois
database checks and even LoA letter requests.

So to answer your question, this is a ticket worthy logging and
chasing..but meanwhile...to continue enlightening you.


> As you have rightfully pointed out https://bgp.he.net/AS26754#_graph4 ,
> they seem to be the only upstream provider that still routes Afrinic’s
> stolen IP.
>

Actually those prefixes on the link above are being originated by
ITC AS26754 and announced by two different upstream providers. The question
then is, is AS26754 authorised to announce those prefixes and if so, are
the records on the AFRINIC whois database. If the answer is yes, then the
ISP is correct to route them after checking all those route objects to
confirm compliance etc.

Remember there was a case months ago where one AFRINIC member Cloud
Innovation Ltd, sub-allocated AFRINIC based IPv4 addresses to a customer in
HongKong who then sub-allocated to another customer in Manila Philippines
who then hijacked SEACOM ASN in order to announced the Cloud Innovation Ltd
prefix from Philippines in Manila. Crazy right, well the issue was
immediately fixed and the outcome is in the archives of this mailing list.

*Rest assured, if those prefixes are stolen and are being originated by
ITC, then the AFRINIC team should take this up and I have copied Ashil from
the communications team herein to pass this case to the Audit Committee as
well.*

Cheers,
Noah
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[Noah]

Hi Ronald,

I have taken note and please see my response inline below.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 10:16 AM Ronald F. Guilmette 
wrote:

>
> ORG-TL1-AFRINIC - Trentyre (Pty) Ltd
> 160.122.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>256  137951  HK  Clayer Limited
>
> ORG-AA79-AFRINIC - Agrihold
> 163.198.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>248  202769  US  Cooperative Investments LLC
>  4  0   ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>  2  43092   JP  OSOA Corporation., LTD
>  2  19969   US  Joe's Datacenter, LLC
>
> (Note that the contact person for "Cooperative Investments LLC" these days
> is Elad Cohen.)
>
> ORG-AHL1-AFRINIC - Argus Holdings (Pty) Ltd
> WHOIS contacts now set to legacy-...@afrinic.net
> 164.88.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>252  137951  HK  Clayer Limited
>  2  140733  HK  HostUS Solutions LLC
>  1  138538  CN  Ningbo Nanbian Tuoluo Xinxi Jishu Co., Ltd
>  1  18013   HK  Asline Limited
>
> ORG-WA1-AFRINIC - Woolworths Holdings Limited
> WHOIS contacts now restored/remediated (?)
> 165.3.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>128  0   ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>113  54600   US  Peg Tech Inc
> 10  21859   US  Zenlayer Inc
>  3  137951  HK  Clayer Limited
>  1  38197   AU  Sun Network (Hong Kong) Limited ***
>  1  133441  KR  Cloud Information Technology (Intl) Telecom Group
> LIMITED
>
> ORG-AISL1-AFRINIC - AECI Information Services (Pty) Ltd
> 168.80.0.0/15
> Current routing summary:
>265  202769  US  Cooperative Investments LLC
>135  19969   US  Joe's Datacenter, LLC
> 26  132335  IN  LeapSwitch Networks Pvt Ltd
> 16  23679   AU  Media Antar Nusa PT.
>  9  43092   JP  OSOA Corporation., LTD
>  8  36351   US  SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
>  8  45671   AU  Servers Australia Pty. Ltd
>  8  63018   US  Dedicated.com
>  8  56611   NL  REBA Communications BV
>  8  24567   AU  QT Inc.
>  6  0   ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>  4  57717   NL  FiberXpress BV
>  4  262287  BR  Maxihost LTDA
>  3  49335   RU  LLC "Server v arendy"
>  2  11990   US  Unlimited Net, LLC
>  2  13737   US  INCX Global, LLC
>
> (See note above regarding "Cooperative Investments LLC".)
>
> ORG-IA41-AFRINIC - Network and Information Technology Limited
> 196.16.0.0/14
> Current routing summary:
>539  202425  SC  IP Volume inc
>360  19969   US  Joe's Datacenter, LLC
> 47  63956   AU  Colocation Australia Pty Ltd
> 12  56611   NL  REBA Communications BV
>  6  43092   JP  OSOA Corporation., LTD
>  6  134451  ID  NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
>  5  38001   AU  NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
>  5  57717   NL  FiberXpress BV
>  4  263812  AR  TL Group SRL ( IPXON Networks )
>  4  49367   IT  Seflow S.N.C. Di Marco Brame' & C.
>  4  20860   GB  Iomart Cloud Services Limited
>  4  204655  GB  Novogara LTD
>  4  42831   GB  UK Dedicated Servers Limited
>  4  49335   RU  LLC "Server v arendy"
>  2  31122   IE  Digiweb ltd
>  2  136782  JP  Pingtan Hotline Co., Limited
>  2  44066   DE  First Colo GmbH
>  2  17216   US  Dc74 Llc
>  2  53999   CA  Priority Colo Inc
>  2  45382   KR  Ehostict
>  2  262287  BR  Maxihost LTDA
>  2  63018   US  Dedicated.com
>  1  23470   US  ReliableSite.Net LLC
>  1  9009GB  M247 Ltd
>  1  202769  US  Cooperative Investments LLC
>  1  203833  DE  First Colo GmbH
>
> ORG-AFNC1-AFRINIC - "ITC" - All blocks reclaimed to free pool by AFRINIC
> 196.193.0.0/16 -- unrouted
> 196.63.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>255  0   ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>  1  54600   US  Peg Tech Inc
> 196.246.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>252  0   ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>  4  133495  PK  Vision telecom Private limited
> 196.45.112.0/20
> Current routing summary:
>  5  0   ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>  4  30827   GB  Extraordinary Managed Services Ltd
>  2  198381  AE  Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
>  2  26754   ??  {{unknown organization}} > AS26754->"ITC" (see
> below)
>  2  198394  AE  Star Satellite Communications Company - PJSC
>  1  36351   US  SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
>
> ORG-SCS1-AFRINIC - Safren Computer Services
> 155.159.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>256  137951  HK  Clayer Limited
>
> ORG-AA78-AFRINIC - Anglo American
> 163.197.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
>128  140107  HK  xiamen zhongheng Technology Ltd 
> 64  54600   US  Peg Tech Inc *** 
> 48  139330  HK  Sanren Data Limited 
> 16  137443  HK  Anchnet Asia Limited *** 
>
> ORG-SL72-AFRINIC - Sentrachem Limited
> 164.155.0.0/16
> Current routing summary:
> 96  54600   US  Peg Tech Inc *** 
> 77  139330  HK  Sanren Data Limited 
> 32  137951  HK  Clayer Limited
> 32  136800  HK  Xiaozhiyun L.L.C *** 
> 17  132422  HK  Hong Kong Business Telecom Limited ***
>  2  0   ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
>
> ORG-COCT1-AFRINIC - 

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[Version en français au bas]

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The list is not subject to any moderation or censorship as we trust that the 
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You are all hereby reminded to abide by the AFRINIC Code of Conduct when 
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I urge you all to read this to make sure you are up to date on our code of 
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….

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> On 23 Dec 2020, at 17:07, Emem William  wrote:
> 
> Dear Ronald,
> 
> Thanks for the information.
> 
> In your comprehensive routing data, I noticed that the following name stands 
> out quite often, PEG Tech Inc. It seems like they are providing a lot of 
> route to those ranges. I am wondering if you have done any research about 
> them?
> 
> Also why is Seacom still routing stolen AFRINIC IP? As you have rightfully 
> pointed out https://bgp.he.net/AS26754#_graph4 
>  , they seem to be the only upstream 
> provider that still routes Afrinic’s stolen IP.
> 
> Cheers,
> Emem William
> 
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 02:23 Ronald F. Guilmette  > wrote:
> In message mailto:mp9igyd--...@tuta.io>>, 
> lib...@tuta.io  wrote:
> 
> >Ronald F Guilmette are you a real person or using some fake name?
> 
> I am a real person and this is my real name.
> 
> Who are YOU?  An what is YOUR real name?
> 
> >You are like ghost on internet.Do you have any linkedin profile or company?
> 
> That is correct.  I am indeed a "ghost" as regards to social media.  And
> that is certainly by intent.
> 
> Unlike most people these days, I have always been concerned with my
> personal privacy, and thus, unlike most people these days, I have
> elected NOT to splatter out my entire life story onto the Internet
> for people I don't know to snoop on.
> 
> If anyone wants to know anything about me, they can ask me.
> 
> >I am wondering if you are not LIR or member of Afrinic then why are you even
> >part of this community mailing list or why you are taking so much interest
> >in community mailing list?
> 
> I am so glad you asked.
> 
> Here in the United States, there has been a long running TV ad campaign
> that promotes tourism to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada.  The tag line
> contained in each of these TV commericals is well known here... "What
> happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."  (The idea being sold is that people
> can go to Las Vegas, act crazy, and tnen go back to their hometowns
> without anyone there knowing about their crazy behavior in "Vegas".)
> 
> Unfortunately, what happens in the African part of the Internet most
> definitely DOES NOT stay just in the African part of the Internet.  It
> spills out and affects me here, 10,000+ miles and entire oceans away.
> 
> Such is the nature of the Internet, in case you are not aware.
> 
> It has REPEATEDLY been the case that stolen or squatted AFRINIC administered
> IPv4 address blocks have been used, both to spam me and to try to hack me,
> and also and likewise, probably hundreds of millions more Internet users,
> all around the world.
> 
> I am not amused.  And thus, whether I like it or not, I have been effectively
> -foerced- to pay attention to the crap coming out of "African" IP address

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

[Emem William]

Dear Ronald,

Thanks for the information.

In your comprehensive routing data, I noticed that the following name
stands out quite often, PEG Tech Inc. It seems like they are providing a
lot of route to those ranges. I am wondering if you have done any research
about them?

Also why is Seacom still routing stolen AFRINIC IP? As you have rightfully
pointed out https://bgp.he.net/AS26754#_graph4 , they seem to be the only
upstream provider that still routes Afrinic’s stolen IP.

Cheers,
Emem William

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 02:23 Ronald F. Guilmette 
wrote:

> In message , lib...@tuta.io wrote:
>
> >Ronald F Guilmette are you a real person or using some fake name?
>
> I am a real person and this is my real name.
>
> Who are YOU?  An what is YOUR real name?
>
> >You are like ghost on internet.Do you have any linkedin profile or
> company?
>
> That is correct.  I am indeed a "ghost" as regards to social media.  And
> that is certainly by intent.
>
> Unlike most people these days, I have always been concerned with my
> personal privacy, and thus, unlike most people these days, I have
> elected NOT to splatter out my entire life story onto the Internet
> for people I don't know to snoop on.
>
> If anyone wants to know anything about me, they can ask me.
>
> >I am wondering if you are not LIR or member of Afrinic then why are you
> even
> >part of this community mailing list or why you are taking so much interest
> >in community mailing list?
>
> I am so glad you asked.
>
> Here in the United States, there has been a long running TV ad campaign
> that promotes tourism to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada.  The tag line
> contained in each of these TV commericals is well known here... "What
> happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."  (The idea being sold is that people
> can go to Las Vegas, act crazy, and tnen go back to their hometowns
> without anyone there knowing about their crazy behavior in "Vegas".)
>
> Unfortunately, what happens in the African part of the Internet most
> definitely DOES NOT stay just in the African part of the Internet.  It
> spills out and affects me here, 10,000+ miles and entire oceans away.
>
> Such is the nature of the Internet, in case you are not aware.
>
> It has REPEATEDLY been the case that stolen or squatted AFRINIC
> administered
> IPv4 address blocks have been used, both to spam me and to try to hack me,
> and also and likewise, probably hundreds of millions more Internet users,
> all around the world.
>
> I am not amused.  And thus, whether I like it or not, I have been
> effectively
> -foerced- to pay attention to the crap coming out of "African" IP address
> space.
>
> I sincerly wish it were otherwise.  And I wish that AFRINIC would clean
> up all of this crap, once and for all, and stop allowing crooks from
> Israel, the Netherlands, India, and the U.S. to make Africans all appear
> to be either corrupt or incompetent or both.  (I know this is not the
> case, but I am still looking for the Africans who will stand up for
> principal and not allow non-African foreigners to effectively defecate
> all over AFRINIC and its global reputation.)
>
> I started publicly reporting on the skulduggery taking place within the
> AFRINIC region in the summer of 2016.  I have now been waiting for nearly
> four and half years for someone with guts to step forward,  do the Right
> Thing, and clean up this colossal mess.  I am still waiting.
>
> >There are thousands of members in this list you are just spamming everyone
> >with your findings.
>
> Others may disagree.
>
> >Who cares who is doing what? This is something between Afrinic and its
> members.
>
> See above.  It is *not* just between Afrinic and its members.  What happens
> in Africa DOES NOT stay within Africa.
>
> The incompetence and corruption within AFRINIC has allowed an entire
> planet's
> worth of Internet users... several billion people... to get repeatedly
> hacked and spammed.  And it is still doing so even as we speak.
>
> Who exactly has an interest in preserving that unfortnate status quo?
>
> You, apparently.
>
> Which brings me back to the question I raised above... Who are you really?
>
>
> Regards,
> rfg
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[Libra via Community-Discuss]

Too much spam is generated by couple of morons in this community list. 
How about only verified members allowed to use this mailing list?
Those who are Afrinic member or Lir can link their main account and those who 
are not members or LIR can submit their id proof for verification. 
This is the only way to keep community clean. 



Dec 22, 2020, 14:42 by n...@neo.co.tz:

>
>
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2020, 16:56 Libra via Community-Discuss, <> 
> community-discuss@afrinic.net> > wrote:
>
>>
>> >>> @Ronald F. Guilmette are you LIR or member of Afrinic?
>>  >>>No sir, I am neither.
>> Ronald F Guilmette are you a real person or using some fake name?  You are 
>> like ghost on internet.
>
> How about you Libra? Are you a real person or a sock puppet?
>
> Noah
>

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

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message 
Noah  wrote:

>Please can you consolidate your very important and yet great research
>around the individuals Cohen, Uerlings, Abizeid, Deepak Mehta and Lu Heng.

I can only summarize the specific still-outstanding problems & issues
that I am aware of.  There could very well be much more, under the surface,
that I am not aware of.

I have repeatedly requested bulk access to AFRINIC WHOIS data which is
both (a) unredacted and also (b) historical and also (c) unredacted AND
historical.  I have been denied this data at every turn.  To add further
insult to injury, Ashil Oogarah, posting here as "AFRINIC Communication",
recently attempted to pretend that my data requests could be easily
accomodated by simply filing out a form for "bulk access".  But the
reality is that even if I did that, I would still be given only redacted
and -current- AFRINIC WHOIS data, *not* the unredacted and historical
data that I would need to make further progress in unraveling all of the
sordid mischief that has taken place with repsect to the AFRINIC WHOIS
data base over the years.  (Indeed it is a minor miracle that I have
been able to puzzle out as much as I have done, given the extreme and
pointless limits on WHOIS access that AFRINIC Management has imposed.)

Given the limitations under which I still labor, here is what I can tell
you.

The following legacy blocks are still "stolen", according to my definition
of that word in this context, and are still reaping profits, even as we
speak, for Mr. Cohen, Mr. Uerlings, and possibly also Mr. Byaruhanga,
who is still free to enjoy the fruits of his thefts from his comfortable
upscale home in Uganda.


ORG-TL1-AFRINIC - Trentyre (Pty) Ltd
160.122.0.0/16
Current routing summary:
   256  137951  HK  Clayer Limited

ORG-AA79-AFRINIC - Agrihold
163.198.0.0/16
Current routing summary:
   248  202769  US  Cooperative Investments LLC
 4  0   ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
 2  43092   JP  OSOA Corporation., LTD
 2  19969   US  Joe's Datacenter, LLC

(Note that the contact person for "Cooperative Investments LLC" these days 
is Elad Cohen.)

ORG-AHL1-AFRINIC - Argus Holdings (Pty) Ltd
WHOIS contacts now set to legacy-...@afrinic.net
164.88.0.0/16
Current routing summary:
   252  137951  HK  Clayer Limited
 2  140733  HK  HostUS Solutions LLC
 1  138538  CN  Ningbo Nanbian Tuoluo Xinxi Jishu Co., Ltd
 1  18013   HK  Asline Limited

ORG-WA1-AFRINIC - Woolworths Holdings Limited
WHOIS contacts now restored/remediated (?)
165.3.0.0/16
Current routing summary:
   128  0   ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
   113  54600   US  Peg Tech Inc
10  21859   US  Zenlayer Inc
 3  137951  HK  Clayer Limited
 1  38197   AU  Sun Network (Hong Kong) Limited ***
 1  133441  KR  Cloud Information Technology (Intl) Telecom Group LIMITED

ORG-AISL1-AFRINIC - AECI Information Services (Pty) Ltd
168.80.0.0/15
Current routing summary:
   265  202769  US  Cooperative Investments LLC
   135  19969   US  Joe's Datacenter, LLC
26  132335  IN  LeapSwitch Networks Pvt Ltd
16  23679   AU  Media Antar Nusa PT.
 9  43092   JP  OSOA Corporation., LTD
 8  36351   US  SoftLayer Technologies Inc.
 8  45671   AU  Servers Australia Pty. Ltd
 8  63018   US  Dedicated.com
 8  56611   NL  REBA Communications BV
 8  24567   AU  QT Inc.
 6  0   ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
 4  57717   NL  FiberXpress BV
 4  262287  BR  Maxihost LTDA
 3  49335   RU  LLC "Server v arendy"
 2  11990   US  Unlimited Net, LLC
 2  13737   US  INCX Global, LLC

(See note above regarding "Cooperative Investments LLC".)

ORG-IA41-AFRINIC - Network and Information Technology Limited
196.16.0.0/14
Current routing summary:
   539  202425  SC  IP Volume inc
   360  19969   US  Joe's Datacenter, LLC
47  63956   AU  Colocation Australia Pty Ltd
12  56611   NL  REBA Communications BV
 6  43092   JP  OSOA Corporation., LTD
 6  134451  ID  NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
 5  38001   AU  NewMedia Express Pte Ltd
 5  57717   NL  FiberXpress BV
 4  263812  AR  TL Group SRL ( IPXON Networks )
 4  49367   IT  Seflow S.N.C. Di Marco Brame' & C.
 4  20860   GB  Iomart Cloud Services Limited
 4  204655  GB  Novogara LTD
 4  42831   GB  UK Dedicated Servers Limited
 4  49335   RU  LLC "Server v arendy"
 2  31122   IE  Digiweb ltd
 2  136782  JP  Pingtan Hotline Co., Limited
 2  44066   DE  First Colo GmbH
 2  17216   US  Dc74 Llc
 2  53999   CA  Priority Colo Inc
 2  45382   KR  Ehostict
 2  262287  BR  Maxihost LTDA
 2  63018   US  Dedicated.com
 1  23470   US  ReliableSite.Net LLC
 1  9009GB  M247 Ltd
 1  202769  US  Cooperative Investments LLC
 1  203833  DE  First Colo GmbH

ORG-AFNC1-AFRINIC - "ITC" - All blocks reclaimed to free pool by AFRINIC
196.193.0.0/16 -- unrouted
196.63.0.0/16 
Current routing summary:
   255  0   ??  UNROUTED IP SPACE
 1  54600   US  Peg Tech 

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 a real person or using some fake name?

I am a real person and this is my real name.

Who are YOU?  An what is YOUR real name?

>You are like ghost on internet.Do you have any linkedin profile or company?

That is correct.  I am indeed a "ghost" as regards to social media.  And
that is certainly by intent.

Unlike most people these days, I have always been concerned with my
personal privacy, and thus, unlike most people these days, I have
elected NOT to splatter out my entire life story onto the Internet
for people I don't know to snoop on.

If anyone wants to know anything about me, they can ask me.

>I am wondering if you are not LIR or member of Afrinic then why are you even
>part of this community mailing list or why you are taking so much interest
>in community mailing list?

I am so glad you asked.

Here in the United States, there has been a long running TV ad campaign
that promotes tourism to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada.  The tag line
contained in each of these TV commericals is well known here... "What
happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."  (The idea being sold is that people
can go to Las Vegas, act crazy, and tnen go back to their hometowns
without anyone there knowing about their crazy behavior in "Vegas".)

Unfortunately, what happens in the African part of the Internet most
definitely DOES NOT stay just in the African part of the Internet.  It
spills out and affects me here, 10,000+ miles and entire oceans away.

Such is the nature of the Internet, in case you are not aware.

It has REPEATEDLY been the case that stolen or squatted AFRINIC administered
IPv4 address blocks have been used, both to spam me and to try to hack me,
and also and likewise, probably hundreds of millions more Internet users,
all around the world.

I am not amused.  And thus, whether I like it or not, I have been effectively
-foerced- to pay attention to the crap coming out of "African" IP address
space.

I sincerly wish it were otherwise.  And I wish that AFRINIC would clean
up all of this crap, once and for all, and stop allowing crooks from
Israel, the Netherlands, India, and the U.S. to make Africans all appear
to be either corrupt or incompetent or both.  (I know this is not the
case, but I am still looking for the Africans who will stand up for
principal and not allow non-African foreigners to effectively defecate
all over AFRINIC and its global reputation.)

I started publicly reporting on the skulduggery taking place within the
AFRINIC region in the summer of 2016.  I have now been waiting for nearly
four and half years for someone with guts to step forward,  do the Right
Thing, and clean up this colossal mess.  I am still waiting.

>There are thousands of members in this list you are just spamming everyone
>with your findings.

Others may disagree.

>Who cares who is doing what? This is something between Afrinic and its members.

See above.  It is *not* just between Afrinic and its members.  What happens
in Africa DOES NOT stay within Africa.

The incompetence and corruption within AFRINIC has allowed an entire planet's
worth of Internet users... several billion people... to get repeatedly
hacked and spammed.  And it is still doing so even as we speak.

Who exactly has an interest in preserving that unfortnate status quo?

You, apparently.

Which brings me back to the question I raised above... Who are you really?


Regards,
rfg

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[Noah]

Hi Ronald

Thank you for your posts especially the relevant sections that shed light
to the misappropriation of AFRINIC number resources both legacy and
non-legacy IPv4 address space that belong to the AFRINIC inventory. No name
calling please, its been a frustrating 2020 already.

Please can you consolidate your very important and yet great research
around the individuals Cohen, Uerlings, Abizeid, Deepak Mehta and Lu Heng.

The reason I am requesting you to do this is so that we as a community can
have one comprehensive piece of information from all the various posts you
have made here in the past couple of months and make it easier for all of
us to follow through.

This will enable us contribute effectively and collaborate with AFRINIC to
get all this addressed as resources members whose fees goes into running
the Organization.

My the gods be with you.
Noah

On Thu, 17 Dec 2020, 21:37 Ronald F. Guilmette, 
wrote:

> I'm sorry friends, but I have to say that this really chaps my hide.
>
> Once again we get an "update" from Eddy in which he says... well...
> absolutely nothing.  He apparently writes just to tell the AFRINIC
> community that everything is still cloaked in secrecy, I guess because
> you are all children and can't handle and/or are not entitled to know
> what's really going on.
>
> Unlike Eddy, I certainly have a great many bits of hard-won facts and
> evidence to share with the community, and I would have done so long
> before now if I didn't have a life and other pressing matters to
> attend to, including other Internet-based criminal enterprises that
> I am actively investigating and working with journalists on, even as
> we speak.
>
> For today, I'll just drop a couple of things on you that you all may
> perhaps find new and interesting.
>
> My friend, juornalist Jan Vermeulen has informed me that according to
> his calculations (which were based on numbers given to him by Eddy)
> there are still around one million+ IPv4 addresses that AFRINIC already
> knows were stolen, and that were NOT included in any of the reports
> that Jan has published in mybroadband.co.za.  That's one hell of a
> lot of valuable IPv4 real estate!  So where is it all and why hasn't
> AFRINIC reclaimed it?  (Note:  I'm not even talking about the stolen
> legacy blocks, which Eddy and the board are still dragging their feet
> on, and refusing to do anything about, even after a full year of knowing
> about those, and even after seeing the compelling evidence that Cohen
> and Uerlings registered a lot of contact email domains with the clear
> and deliberate intent to cover up their gigantic theft scheme.)
>
> So anyway, I do know where at least some of those other stolen 1 million
> IP addreses have gone, and I'm frankly stunned that neither Eddy nor
> anybody else in the AFRINIC hierarchy have lifted a finger to reclaim
> any of this other IPv4 space that has been stolen.  What are they
> waiting for?  An engraved invitation?  Do they just need to have either
> Jan or myself expose thesse additional thefts first, so as to take any
> possible legal heat off them?
>
> I call your attention to the following listing of the historical
> WHOIS data for the 196.52.0.0/14 block.  Please note that the name "ITC",
> under which this block was originally registered is one that I and Jan
> long ago concluded was a totally made-up name for a fake corporate entity
> that never existed anywhere, and one that was invented out of whole cloth
> by Ernest Byaruhanga as a kind of WHOIS cover story for many of his
> thefts...
> thefts which have now been effectively confirmed by virtue of that fact
> that AFRINIC has already reclaimed all of the blocks that were still
> registered to "ITC" as of December of last year.
>
> https://pastebin.com/raw/DW4nGii3
>
> The bottom line here is clear.  The 196.52.0.0/14 block was another one
> of Ernest's thefts from the free pool, and one that was subsequently
> sold or gifted to the proprietor of LogicWeb, Inc. of New York, USA,
> i.e. a certain Mr. Chad Abizeid:
>
> https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ny/3034414
>
> It should be noted that some time after he received this large chunk of
> property that was stolen by Ernest from AFRINIC... a chunk of real estate
> worth well over $5 million dollars, USD, at current market prices... Mr.
> Abizeid tried to sell off the entire thing in one big chunk (for one big
> payday):
>
>
> https://www.facebook.com/mailchimp/posts/im-trying-to-get-in-touch-with-whomever-is-in-charge-of-your-ip-addresses-i-own-/10152414268080777/
>
> I want everyone to note also that, the last time I checked anyway, not
> a single IP address of this huge IPv4 block was being routed to or used
> anywhere even close to the AFRINIC region.
>
> So there are several problems here.
>
> First and foremost, the history indicates quite persuasively that this /14
> block was stolen by Ernest.
>
> Second, Eddy and the board appear to already have known this to be true
> for some time 

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

[Noah]

On Tue, 22 Dec 2020, 20:10 Sami Salih,  wrote:

> I'm not comfortable with anonymous posting in our member-based list.
>

Sami, not so many people can stand tall and speak out their minds here
within our region.

Majority prefer to whisper and/or speak from behind the curtains even when
what is happening affects them dearly.

I hope we can resolve this issue so anyone is well known to each other's.
>

Especially in our region. I know people from outside the region have no
problem speaking their minds or calling each others out.

Its only within the AFRINIC service region where sock puppets are running
rampant and some sock puppet seems like recruitment from outside AFRICAN
region.

Noah

>
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[Sami Salih]

I don't have any comment about the content of lib...@tuta.io messages, but I'm 
not comfortable with anonymous posting in our member-based list.
I hope we can resolve this issue so anyone is well known to each other's.


Sami Salih

From: Noah 
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 7:37 PM
To: lib...@tuta.io 
Cc: Community Discuss 
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of 
IPv4 resources



On Tue, 22 Dec 2020, 16:56 Libra via Community-Discuss, 
mailto:community-discuss@afrinic.net>> wrote:

>@Ronald F. Guilmette are you LIR or member of Afrinic?
 >>>No sir, I am neither.
Ronald F Guilmette are you a real person or using some fake name?  You are like 
ghost on internet.

How about you Libren? Are you a real person or a coward sock puppet?


Do you have any linkedin profile or company?

Do you have one we can look at?

I am wondering if you are not LIR or member of Afrinic then why are you even 
part of this community mailing list

Is this mailing list for only LIR or members only?

Who gives you Libren the right to discriminate against others?

The Code of Conduct for this very community list does not allow discretionary 
remarks like the ones you are parading against Ronald.


or why you are taking so much interest in community mailing list?

Why should any sane and ethical member of the internet community not take 
interest and participate in this forum.

Do you Libren have a problem with internet community members participating 
openly in such a forum.

Are you perhaps one of the affected parties of Ronald revelations which are 
extremely concerning and must be addressed.

There are thousands of members in this list you are just spamming everyone with 
your findings.

Spamming is that your excuse to divert attention.

If you have a problem with Ronald posts,  please do yourself a favor and 
unsubscribe yourself from this list. No one forced you to stay on it.

Who cares who is doing what?

I do care and I am involved in running real African network infrastructure  
that has real impact in AFRICA and I am a real warm blooded person with a heart 
pumping breath gasping decaying body.

This is something between Afrinic and its members.


Well the networks I am invloved with are AFRINIC members and yes everything 
Ronald has revealed is something that concerns us.


If you want to play good cop then report to Afrinic because spamming community 
mailing will not do anything

You clearly have a problem with those who attempt to ethically speak out 
against potential fraud as it shall be revealed in the promised audit report 
from AFRINIC.

Btw, where have you been. Dont you know that Ronalds past revelations on this 
very mailing list led to the ongoing massive Audit by AFRINIC which as 
partially reported has led to recovery of millions of misappropriated IPv4 
addresses and an ongoing litigation at the Mauritius court.


You are working as influence marketer to provoke community and Afrinic by 
playing divide and rule?

How has Ronald divided this community. Please share your evidence of your 
unfounded claims and innuendos others give us a break.


Afrinic need new ideas and solutions

Those ideas and solutions can wait.

not problems and no one is interested in your nonsense.

What nonsense.

AFRINIC needs to clean up the never ending crap. You are calling what seems 
like fraud and corruption nonsense. You are clearly a very unethical individual.

If people made mistakes then they should be held accountable and those mistakes 
fixed. That is the only sensible achievement we seek.

This community is anxiously waiting for the audit report as recently reported 
by the CEO and AFRINIC communications team.

Noah  *A real person*
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[Noah]

On Tue, 22 Dec 2020, 16:56 Libra via Community-Discuss, <
community-discuss@afrinic.net> wrote:

>
> >*@Ronald F. Guilmette are you LIR or member of Afrinic?*
>  >>>No sir, I am neither.
> Ronald F Guilmette are you a real person or using some fake name?  You are
> like ghost on internet.
>

How about you Libren? Are you a real person or a coward sock puppet?


Do you have any linkedin profile or company?
>

Do you have one we can look at?

I am wondering if you are not LIR or member of Afrinic then why are you
> even part of this community mailing list
>

Is this mailing list for only LIR or members only?

Who gives you Libren the right to discriminate against others?

The Code of Conduct for this very community list does not allow
discretionary remarks like the ones you are parading against Ronald.


or why you are taking so much interest in community mailing list?
>

Why should any sane and ethical member of the internet community not take
interest and participate in this forum.

Do you Libren have a problem with internet community members participating
openly in such a forum.

Are you perhaps one of the affected parties of Ronald revelations which are
extremely concerning and must be addressed.

There are thousands of members in this list you are just spamming everyone
> with your findings.
>

Spamming is that your excuse to divert attention.

If you have a problem with Ronald posts,  please do yourself a favor and
unsubscribe yourself from this list. No one forced you to stay on it.

Who cares who is doing what?
>

I do care and I am involved in running real African network infrastructure
that has real impact in AFRICA and I am a real warm blooded person with a
heart pumping breath gasping decaying body.

This is something between Afrinic and its members.
>


Well the networks I am invloved with are AFRINIC members and yes everything
Ronald has revealed is something that concerns us.


If you want to play good cop then report to Afrinic because spamming
> community mailing will not do anything
>

You clearly have a problem with those who attempt to ethically speak out
against potential fraud as it shall be revealed in the promised audit
report from AFRINIC.

Btw, where have you been. Dont you know that Ronalds past revelations on
this very mailing list led to the ongoing massive Audit by AFRINIC which as
partially reported has led to recovery of millions of misappropriated IPv4
addresses and an ongoing litigation at the Mauritius court.


You are working as influence marketer to provoke community and Afrinic by
> playing divide and rule?
>

How has Ronald divided this community. Please share your evidence of your
unfounded claims and innuendos others give us a break.


Afrinic need new ideas and solutions
>

Those ideas and solutions can wait.

not problems and no one is interested in your nonsense.
>

What nonsense.

AFRINIC needs to clean up the never ending crap. You are calling what seems
like fraud and corruption nonsense. You are clearly a very unethical
individual.

If people made mistakes then they should be held accountable and those
mistakes fixed. That is the only sensible achievement we seek.

This community is anxiously waiting for the audit report as recently
reported by the CEO and AFRINIC communications team.

Noah  *A real person*
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[Noah]

On Tue, 22 Dec 2020, 16:56 Libra via Community-Discuss, <
community-discuss@afrinic.net> wrote:

>
> >*@Ronald F. Guilmette are you LIR or member of Afrinic?*
>  >>>No sir, I am neither.
> Ronald F Guilmette are you a real person or using some fake name?  You are
> like ghost on internet.
>

How about you Libra? Are you a real person or a sock puppet?

Noah
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[Libra via Community-Discuss]

>@Ronald F. Guilmette are you LIR or member of Afrinic?
 >>>No sir, I am neither.
Ronald F Guilmette are you a real person or using some fake name?  You are like 
ghost on internet.Do you have any linkedin profile or company? 
I am wondering if you are not LIR or member of Afrinic then why are you even 
part of this community mailing list or why you are taking so much interest in 
community mailing list?
There are thousands of members in this list you are just spamming everyone with 
your findings.
Who cares who is doing what? This is something between Afrinic and its 
members.If you want to play good cop then report to Afrinic because spamming 
community mailing will not do anything
You are working as influence marketer to provoke community and Afrinic by 
playing divide and rule?
Afrinic need new ideas and solutions not problems and no one is interested in 
your nonsense. 




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[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] [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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[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 
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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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>> On 19 Dec 2020, at 18:09, Noah  wrote:
>>
>> ?
>>
>>> 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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Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources

[yamadu]

i think we should fellow due processes to address issues as a  community. 
AFRINIC has policies and legal framework that we are aware, so we should comply 
with when we want to address any concern. My take.Yusif Sent from my Samsung 
Galaxy smartphone.
 Original message From: AFRINIC Communication 
 Date: 20/12/2020  8:05 a.m.  (GMT+00:00) To: 
community-discuss@afrinic.net Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates 
on the misappropriation of
  IPv4 resources [Version en français au bas]Dear AFRINIC Community,AFRINIC is 
governed by certain processes, PDP policies and legal frameworks that we need 
to comply with as an organisation. We can only act within the established 
framework or the ramifications could be extremely damaging. Access to the bulk 
whois data is granted once anyone who requires the data fully completes the 
process published 
at:https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data
 We welcome any information provided on the misappropriation of Internet number 
resources. However, as mentioned above, at this stage, we are unable to comment 
on what we know or do not know regarding the information shared. We trust that 
once we are able to publish the audit report, it will bring clarifications to 
the community's concerns on the misappropriation of Internet number 
resources.RegardsAshil Oogarahon behalf of AFRINIC Communications and PR 
Team……..Chère Communauté d'AFRINIC,AFRINIC est régie par 
certains processus, politiques et cadres juridiques que nous devons respecter 
en tant qu'organisation. Nous ne pouvons agir dans ce cadre établi, sinon les 
conséquences pourraient être extrêmement dommageables. L'accès aux données 
whois est accordé une fois que toute personne ayant besoin de ces données 
complète le processus publié 
àhttps://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data
 Toute information sur la manipulation non autorisée des ressources numériques 
Internet est la bienvenue. Toutefois, comme mentionné ci-dessus, nous ne sommes 
pas en mesure, à ce stade, de faire des commentaires sur ce que nous savons ou 
ne savons pas concernant les informations partagées. Nous espérons qu'une fois 
que nous serons en mesure de publier le rapport d'audit, il apportera des 
éclaircissements sur les préoccupations de la communauté concernant la 
manipulation non autorisée des ressources numériques internet.RegardsAshil 
Oogarahau nom de l'équipe Communications et RP d’AFRINIC> On 20 Dec 2020, at 
04:20, Ronald F. Guilmette  wrote:> > In message 
<9a35ce76-e056-4547-b7fd-52696c5c7...@darwincosta.com>, > 
"d...@darwincosta.com"  wrote:> >> @Mr. Ronald I was 
reading your email and findings over and over again yesterday>> night and this 
morning... Thank you very much for bringing all of this into>> our attention 
and YES - we "will" or "have">> to do whatever it's necessary to revert this 
situation and to ensure>> that AFRINIC returns to AFRINIC as it should be.> > 
Thank you for yor support.> > I suppose that it should be apparent to all that 
I am upset and angry> about many of the things that have gone on within the 
AFRINIC region.> But the various IP block thefts themselves are, to my way of 
thinking,> the least of it all.> > Quite some time ago now, Eddy announced to 
everyone that AFRINIC was> going to be performing an exhaustive audit of all 
AFRINIC WHOIS changes,> back to the beginning of time, with the intent 
obviously being to ferret> out any -more- instances of questionable IPv4 
allocations, above and> beyond those that I and journalist Jan Vermeulen 
already brought to> light last year (2019).  Eddy even said that technical 
personnel and> representatives of one of the more senior RIRs (APNIC) were 
being> brought in to help with this effort.> > That was many MANY months ago 
now.  (Also, as I'm sure many of you know,> Ernest's malfeasance has been known 
about by the AFRINIC Board and> management for over an entire calendar year 
now.)> > So this raises the obvious question:  Why didn't Eddy and the Board> 
already know about the apparent connections bewteen the AFRINIC IPv4> 
allocations held by Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta long long before my> posting the 
other day about those?  And if they did know, then why did> they elect to give 
both Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta a pass, allowing> them both to *keep* the 
sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations that appear> to have been provided to them... 
presumably in fundamentally crooked> transactions... by the now disgraced and 
long ago terminated ex-employee> Ernest Byaruhanga?> > It has to be one or the 
other.  There is no third possibility.> > Either Eddy & the Board knew, and 
elected to do nothing and keep silent,> or else their much heralded "exh

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

[AFRINIC Communication]

[Version en français au bas]

Dear AFRINIC Community,

AFRINIC is governed by certain processes, PDP policies and legal frameworks 
that we need to comply with as an organisation. We can only act within the 
established framework or the ramifications could be extremely damaging. 

Access to the bulk whois data is granted once anyone who requires the data 
fully completes the process published at:

https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data
 

We welcome any information provided on the misappropriation of Internet number 
resources. However, as mentioned above, at this stage, we are unable to comment 
on what we know or do not know regarding the information shared. 

We trust that once we are able to publish the audit report, it will bring 
clarifications to the community's concerns on the misappropriation of Internet 
number resources.

Regards

Ashil Oogarah
on behalf of AFRINIC Communications and PR Team

……..

Chère Communauté d'AFRINIC,

AFRINIC est régie par certains processus, politiques et cadres juridiques que 
nous devons respecter en tant qu'organisation. Nous ne pouvons agir dans ce 
cadre établi, sinon les conséquences pourraient être extrêmement dommageables. 

L'accès aux données whois est accordé une fois que toute personne ayant besoin 
de ces données complète le processus publié à

https://afrinic.net/support/general-queries/how-can-i-request-for-bulk-whois-data
 

Toute information sur la manipulation non autorisée des ressources numériques 
Internet est la bienvenue. Toutefois, comme mentionné ci-dessus, nous ne sommes 
pas en mesure, à ce stade, de faire des commentaires sur ce que nous savons ou 
ne savons pas concernant les informations partagées. 

Nous espérons qu'une fois que nous serons en mesure de publier le rapport 
d'audit, il apportera des éclaircissements sur les préoccupations de la 
communauté concernant la manipulation non autorisée des ressources numériques 
internet.

Regards

Ashil Oogarah
au nom de l'équipe Communications et RP d’AFRINIC


> On 20 Dec 2020, at 04:20, Ronald F. Guilmette  wrote:
> 
> In message <9a35ce76-e056-4547-b7fd-52696c5c7...@darwincosta.com>, 
> "d...@darwincosta.com"  wrote:
> 
>> @Mr. Ronald I was reading your email and findings over and over again 
>> yesterday
>> night and this morning... Thank you very much for bringing all of this into
>> our attention and YES - we "will" or "have"
>> to do whatever it's necessary to revert this situation and to ensure
>> that AFRINIC returns to AFRINIC as it should be.
> 
> Thank you for yor support.
> 
> I suppose that it should be apparent to all that I am upset and angry
> about many of the things that have gone on within the AFRINIC region.
> But the various IP block thefts themselves are, to my way of thinking,
> the least of it all.
> 
> Quite some time ago now, Eddy announced to everyone that AFRINIC was
> going to be performing an exhaustive audit of all AFRINIC WHOIS changes,
> back to the beginning of time, with the intent obviously being to ferret
> out any -more- instances of questionable IPv4 allocations, above and
> beyond those that I and journalist Jan Vermeulen already brought to
> light last year (2019).  Eddy even said that technical personnel and
> representatives of one of the more senior RIRs (APNIC) were being
> brought in to help with this effort.
> 
> That was many MANY months ago now.  (Also, as I'm sure many of you know,
> Ernest's malfeasance has been known about by the AFRINIC Board and
> management for over an entire calendar year now.)
> 
> So this raises the obvious question:  Why didn't Eddy and the Board
> already know about the apparent connections bewteen the AFRINIC IPv4
> allocations held by Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta long long before my
> posting the other day about those?  And if they did know, then why did
> they elect to give both Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta a pass, allowing
> them both to *keep* the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations that appear
> to have been provided to them... presumably in fundamentally crooked
> transactions... by the now disgraced and long ago terminated ex-employee
> Ernest Byaruhanga?
> 
> It has to be one or the other.  There is no third possibility.
> 
> Either Eddy & the Board knew, and elected to do nothing and keep silent,
> or else their much heralded "exhaustive audit" of the history of all
> AFRINIC allocations was so fundementally flawed and incomplete that
> it failed to catch obviously questionable allocations of great swaths
> of AFRINIC non-legacy IPv4 address space, totaling well over a million
> IPv4 addresses.
> 
> I'm not sure which of these two possibilities is worse.  Either the
> so-called "audit" was done in a glaringly incompetent manner, or else
> Eddy and the Board have been complicit in trying to sweep under the
> carpet the questionable nature of the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations
> held by -both- Mr. Abizeid -and- Mr. Mehta... neither of whom is either
> 

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

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message <9a35ce76-e056-4547-b7fd-52696c5c7...@darwincosta.com>, 
"d...@darwincosta.com"  wrote:

>@Mr. Ronald I was reading your email and findings over and over again yesterday
>night and this morning... Thank you very much for bringing all of this into
>our attention and YES - we "will" or "have"
>to do whatever it's necessary to revert this situation and to ensure
>that AFRINIC returns to AFRINIC as it should be.

Thank you for yor support.

I suppose that it should be apparent to all that I am upset and angry
about many of the things that have gone on within the AFRINIC region.
But the various IP block thefts themselves are, to my way of thinking,
the least of it all.

Quite some time ago now, Eddy announced to everyone that AFRINIC was
going to be performing an exhaustive audit of all AFRINIC WHOIS changes,
back to the beginning of time, with the intent obviously being to ferret
out any -more- instances of questionable IPv4 allocations, above and
beyond those that I and journalist Jan Vermeulen already brought to
light last year (2019).  Eddy even said that technical personnel and
representatives of one of the more senior RIRs (APNIC) were being
brought in to help with this effort.

That was many MANY months ago now.  (Also, as I'm sure many of you know,
Ernest's malfeasance has been known about by the AFRINIC Board and
management for over an entire calendar year now.)

So this raises the obvious question:  Why didn't Eddy and the Board
already know about the apparent connections bewteen the AFRINIC IPv4
allocations held by Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta long long before my
posting the other day about those?  And if they did know, then why did
they elect to give both Mr. Abizeid and Mr. Mehta a pass, allowing
them both to *keep* the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations that appear
to have been provided to them... presumably in fundamentally crooked
transactions... by the now disgraced and long ago terminated ex-employee
Ernest Byaruhanga?

It has to be one or the other.  There is no third possibility.

Either Eddy & the Board knew, and elected to do nothing and keep silent,
or else their much heralded "exhaustive audit" of the history of all
AFRINIC allocations was so fundementally flawed and incomplete that
it failed to catch obviously questionable allocations of great swaths
of AFRINIC non-legacy IPv4 address space, totaling well over a million
IPv4 addresses.

I'm not sure which of these two possibilities is worse.  Either the
so-called "audit" was done in a glaringly incompetent manner, or else
Eddy and the Board have been complicit in trying to sweep under the
carpet the questionable nature of the sizable AFRINIC IPv4 allocations
held by -both- Mr. Abizeid -and- Mr. Mehta... neither of whom is either
located in the AFRINIC region, and neither of whom, it appears, is
providing -any- services whatsoever within the AFRINIC region.

I look forward to Eddy and the Board clarifying when they learned about
the apparent connections between the IPv4 holdings of Mr. Abizeid and
Mr. Mehta and the fradulent "ITC" fake corporation that for years served
to hide so many of the thefts of Ernest Byaruhanga.

If Eddy and the Board only learned about those connections from my public
posting of a couple of days ago, then maybe it is time, at long last, for
them to grant me access to the historical AFRINIC WHOIS information that
I have been repeatedly requesting for more than a year now, so that I can
perform a proper sort of audit and analysis of those records.

On the other hand, if they are none too pleased with me having been able
to find and expose the many AFRINIC WHOIS anomalies that I have already
managed to find and expose... even with very limited WHOIS access... then
I guess they will continue to want to keep me as far away as possible
from any historical WHOIS information, above and beyond what all ordinary
man-on-the-street netizens are privy to.


Regards,
rfg


P.S.  I am more than a little inclined to believe that Eddy and the
AFRINIC Board do want to, and have wanted to just sweep these matters
under the carpet, as much as possible.  My belief is based on the
fact that Eddy & The Board have quite clearly made a decision...
privately and without even having the courtesy of informing the
AFRINIC membership... to allow the crooks, Mr. Uerlings & Mr. Cohen,
to keep any and all of the legacy IPv4 address blocks that they had
successfully stolen, and for which no rightful owner has showed up to
protest.

The result has been an inconsistant hodge-podge with things only
partially set right.  The City of Cape Town, the commercial South
African firm Columbus Stainless, the South African state-owned oil
company, Sasol, and others have all managed to get their legacy
IPv4 blocks back from the clutches of the fraudsters, Mr. Cohen and
Mr. Uerlings, simply by showing up to assert their rightful claims.

Other legitimate legacy block holders have, unfortunately, been either
too lazy, too confused, or too timid to even 

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[Noah]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2020, 14:51 Philip Paeps,  wrote:

> On 2020-12-18 17:23:55 (+0800), Bill Woodcock wrote:
> > I can just imagine the founders, sitting around a table: “What name
> > shall we choose, to instill confidence in our customers?  A name
> > anyone will trust?  One that embodies sober responsibility?  I’ve
> > got it…!”
> >
> > "Midnight Proxies LLC!”
>

Or better yet "Cloud" something something.

Noah
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[ABDULKARIM OLOYEDE]

Dear Ronald,
Thank you for this eyeopener email of yours.
AK

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 12:19 AM Arnaud AMELINA  wrote:

> English version :
>
> Mr Ronald Guilmette,
>
>
> *If everything you report is true, then, on behalf of the entire AFRINIC
> community, I would like to express our gratitude to you. For all the
> information provided. We promise to hold accountable the Members of the
> Board as well as the CEO and his staff of AFRINIC, for the apparent
> inaction to which you refer. *
>
>
> *In light of what I just read, we understand some knee-jerk reactions from
> some members of the community, hum! They are just defending themselves. *
>
>
> * We will do what is necessary to ensure that what is for AFRINIC returns
> to AFRINIC. *
>
> * Good evening to all.*
>
> *Regards *
>
> --
> Arnaud
>
>
>
> Le jeu. 17 déc. 2020 à 22:59, Arnaud AMELINA  a
> écrit :
>
>> Monsieur Ronald Guilmette,
>>
>> Si tout ce que vous rapportez est avéré, alors, je voudrais au nom de
>> toute la Communauté d'AFRINIC, vous manifester toute notre gratitude. Pour
>> toutes les informations fournies. Nous vous promettons de demander des
>> comptes aux Membres du Board ainsi qu'au CEO et son Staff d'AFRINIC, sur
>> l'apparente inaction à laquelle vous faites allusion.
>>
>> À la lumière de tout ce que je viens de lire, nous comprenons certaines
>> réactions épidermiques de certains membres de la communauté, hum ! Ils ne
>> font que se défendre.
>>
>> Nous ferons le nécessaire pour que ce qui est à AFRINIC, revienne à
>> AFRINIC.
>>
>>  Bonne soirée à tous.
>>
>> Cordialement
>>
>> --
>> Arnaud
>>
>> Le jeu. 17 déc. 2020 à 18:34, Ronald F. Guilmette 
>> a écrit :
>>
>>> I'm sorry friends, but I have to say that this really chaps my hide.
>>>
>>> Once again we get an "update" from Eddy in which he says... well...
>>> absolutely nothing.  He apparently writes just to tell the AFRINIC
>>> community that everything is still cloaked in secrecy, I guess because
>>> you are all children and can't handle and/or are not entitled to know
>>> what's really going on.
>>>
>>> Unlike Eddy, I certainly have a great many bits of hard-won facts and
>>> evidence to share with the community, and I would have done so long
>>> before now if I didn't have a life and other pressing matters to
>>> attend to, including other Internet-based criminal enterprises that
>>> I am actively investigating and working with journalists on, even as
>>> we speak.
>>>
>>> For today, I'll just drop a couple of things on you that you all may
>>> perhaps find new and interesting.
>>>
>>> My friend, juornalist Jan Vermeulen has informed me that according to
>>> his calculations (which were based on numbers given to him by Eddy)
>>> there are still around one million+ IPv4 addresses that AFRINIC already
>>> knows were stolen, and that were NOT included in any of the reports
>>> that Jan has published in mybroadband.co.za.  That's one hell of a
>>> lot of valuable IPv4 real estate!  So where is it all and why hasn't
>>> AFRINIC reclaimed it?  (Note:  I'm not even talking about the stolen
>>> legacy blocks, which Eddy and the board are still dragging their feet
>>> on, and refusing to do anything about, even after a full year of knowing
>>> about those, and even after seeing the compelling evidence that Cohen
>>> and Uerlings registered a lot of contact email domains with the clear
>>> and deliberate intent to cover up their gigantic theft scheme.)
>>>
>>> So anyway, I do know where at least some of those other stolen 1 million
>>> IP addreses have gone, and I'm frankly stunned that neither Eddy nor
>>> anybody else in the AFRINIC hierarchy have lifted a finger to reclaim
>>> any of this other IPv4 space that has been stolen.  What are they
>>> waiting for?  An engraved invitation?  Do they just need to have either
>>> Jan or myself expose thesse additional thefts first, so as to take any
>>> possible legal heat off them?
>>>
>>> I call your attention to the following listing of the historical
>>> WHOIS data for the 196.52.0.0/14 block.  Please note that the name
>>> "ITC",
>>> under which this block was originally registered is one that I and Jan
>>> long ago concluded was a totally made-up name for a fake corporate entity
>>> that never existed anywhere, and one that was invented out of whole cloth
>>> by Ernest Byaruhanga as a kind of WHOIS cover story for many of his
>>> thefts...
>>> thefts which have now been effectively confirmed by virtue of that fact
>>> that AFRINIC has already reclaimed all of the blocks that were still
>>> registered to "ITC" as of December of last year.
>>>
>>> https://pastebin.com/raw/DW4nGii3
>>>
>>> The bottom line here is clear.  The 196.52.0.0/14 block was another one
>>> of Ernest's thefts from the free pool, and one that was subsequently
>>> sold or gifted to the proprietor of LogicWeb, Inc. of New York, USA,
>>> i.e. a certain Mr. Chad Abizeid:
>>>
>>> https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ny/3034414
>>>
>>> It should be noted that some 

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

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

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

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

[Arnaud AMELINA]

English version :

Mr Ronald Guilmette,


*If everything you report is true, then, on behalf of the entire AFRINIC
community, I would like to express our gratitude to you. For all the
information provided. We promise to hold accountable the Members of the
Board as well as the CEO and his staff of AFRINIC, for the apparent
inaction to which you refer. *


*In light of what I just read, we understand some knee-jerk reactions from
some members of the community, hum! They are just defending themselves. *


* We will do what is necessary to ensure that what is for AFRINIC returns
to AFRINIC. *

* Good evening to all.*

*Regards *

--
Arnaud



Le jeu. 17 déc. 2020 à 22:59, Arnaud AMELINA  a écrit :

> Monsieur Ronald Guilmette,
>
> Si tout ce que vous rapportez est avéré, alors, je voudrais au nom de
> toute la Communauté d'AFRINIC, vous manifester toute notre gratitude. Pour
> toutes les informations fournies. Nous vous promettons de demander des
> comptes aux Membres du Board ainsi qu'au CEO et son Staff d'AFRINIC, sur
> l'apparente inaction à laquelle vous faites allusion.
>
> À la lumière de tout ce que je viens de lire, nous comprenons certaines
> réactions épidermiques de certains membres de la communauté, hum ! Ils ne
> font que se défendre.
>
> Nous ferons le nécessaire pour que ce qui est à AFRINIC, revienne à
> AFRINIC.
>
>  Bonne soirée à tous.
>
> Cordialement
>
> --
> Arnaud
>
> Le jeu. 17 déc. 2020 à 18:34, Ronald F. Guilmette 
> a écrit :
>
>> I'm sorry friends, but I have to say that this really chaps my hide.
>>
>> Once again we get an "update" from Eddy in which he says... well...
>> absolutely nothing.  He apparently writes just to tell the AFRINIC
>> community that everything is still cloaked in secrecy, I guess because
>> you are all children and can't handle and/or are not entitled to know
>> what's really going on.
>>
>> Unlike Eddy, I certainly have a great many bits of hard-won facts and
>> evidence to share with the community, and I would have done so long
>> before now if I didn't have a life and other pressing matters to
>> attend to, including other Internet-based criminal enterprises that
>> I am actively investigating and working with journalists on, even as
>> we speak.
>>
>> For today, I'll just drop a couple of things on you that you all may
>> perhaps find new and interesting.
>>
>> My friend, juornalist Jan Vermeulen has informed me that according to
>> his calculations (which were based on numbers given to him by Eddy)
>> there are still around one million+ IPv4 addresses that AFRINIC already
>> knows were stolen, and that were NOT included in any of the reports
>> that Jan has published in mybroadband.co.za.  That's one hell of a
>> lot of valuable IPv4 real estate!  So where is it all and why hasn't
>> AFRINIC reclaimed it?  (Note:  I'm not even talking about the stolen
>> legacy blocks, which Eddy and the board are still dragging their feet
>> on, and refusing to do anything about, even after a full year of knowing
>> about those, and even after seeing the compelling evidence that Cohen
>> and Uerlings registered a lot of contact email domains with the clear
>> and deliberate intent to cover up their gigantic theft scheme.)
>>
>> So anyway, I do know where at least some of those other stolen 1 million
>> IP addreses have gone, and I'm frankly stunned that neither Eddy nor
>> anybody else in the AFRINIC hierarchy have lifted a finger to reclaim
>> any of this other IPv4 space that has been stolen.  What are they
>> waiting for?  An engraved invitation?  Do they just need to have either
>> Jan or myself expose thesse additional thefts first, so as to take any
>> possible legal heat off them?
>>
>> I call your attention to the following listing of the historical
>> WHOIS data for the 196.52.0.0/14 block.  Please note that the name "ITC",
>> under which this block was originally registered is one that I and Jan
>> long ago concluded was a totally made-up name for a fake corporate entity
>> that never existed anywhere, and one that was invented out of whole cloth
>> by Ernest Byaruhanga as a kind of WHOIS cover story for many of his
>> thefts...
>> thefts which have now been effectively confirmed by virtue of that fact
>> that AFRINIC has already reclaimed all of the blocks that were still
>> registered to "ITC" as of December of last year.
>>
>> https://pastebin.com/raw/DW4nGii3
>>
>> The bottom line here is clear.  The 196.52.0.0/14 block was another one
>> of Ernest's thefts from the free pool, and one that was subsequently
>> sold or gifted to the proprietor of LogicWeb, Inc. of New York, USA,
>> i.e. a certain Mr. Chad Abizeid:
>>
>> https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ny/3034414
>>
>> It should be noted that some time after he received this large chunk of
>> property that was stolen by Ernest from AFRINIC... a chunk of real estate
>> worth well over $5 million dollars, USD, at current market prices... Mr.
>> Abizeid tried to sell off the entire thing in one big