AFRINIC placed in receivership

Sat Sep 16 00:30:09 UTC 2023

I'm not quite sure that we agree on the meaning of "legitimate application"
when a HK based corporate entity is using and claiming permanent rights to
AFRINIC IP space, primarily for ISP operations in east asia.

There have been multiple well documented instances of AFRINIC insiders with
privileged access shoveling IP space out the back door by less than
legitimate means. For a number of different suspicious recipients.

Undoubtedly this is part of what contributed to its board members and
management fleeing the organization in the face of litigation and
investigations.

The fact that these organizations that received IP space by less than
honest means are now suing AFRINIC into financial oblivion honestly does
not help the situation.

On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 5:04 PM Delong.com <owen at delong.com> wrote:

> Noe… You are conflating two completely different cases, sir.
>
> CI submitted legitimate applications and their addresses were issued prior
> to Ernest’s activities.
>
> You’re mixing Lu Heng up with Elad Cohen.
>
> Owen
>
>
> On Sep 15, 2023, at 16:32, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/international/1813989-the-strange-case-of-africas-stolen-ip-addresses
>
>
> https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=Ernest+Byaruhanga+afrinic
>
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 4:30 PM Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > AFRINIC legitimately issued those (closer to 6M) IP addresses to Cloud
>> Innovation based on justifications submitted. AFRINIC then attempted, using
>> claims that usage out of region is not permitted by the bylaws
>> (It is not prohibited by the bylaws, feel free to read them yourself), to
>> reclaim those addresses.
>>
>> This is not what happened. AFRINIC issued those IP addresses to Cloud
>> Innovations based on fundamental misrepresentations by the applicant and
>> internal fraudulent activity conducted by a single employee within AFRINIC.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 4:17 PM Delong.com <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 15, 2023, at 15:05, Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> A much better explanation of the situation can be found at:
>>>
>>> https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/03/nrs_afrinic_review/
>>>
>>> I also recommend that everyone who is not yet familiar with the issue
>>> google Lu Heng and Cloud Innovations, the Hong Kong based corporate entity
>>> in question which caused this.
>>>
>>>
>>> Fair suggestion, but I wouldn’t say it’s fair to say Lu Heng or CI
>>> caused this. I’d say that AFRINIC’s
>>> leadership at the time had an at least equal role in creating the
>>> problems and in failing to address
>>> Them in a timely manner.
>>>
>>> CI didn’t sue AFRINIC for nothing. AFRINIC, in violation of the actual
>>> text of their bylaws attempted
>>> to revoke CI space and created major disruptions to a number of networks
>>> in the process. Had CI
>>> not received the injunctions they got from the courts, likely the
>>> disruption would have been much
>>> worse and caused some pretty wide-spread outages.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=lu+heng+cloud+innovation
>>>
>>> The short version of this is that a HK based corporate entity claims it
>>> is the legitimate "owner" of 7 million AFRINIC IPs.
>>>
>>>
>>> AFRINIC legitimately issued those (closer to 6M) IP addresses to Cloud
>>> Innovation based on justifications submitted. AFRINIC then attempted, using
>>> claims that usage out of region is not permitted by the bylaws
>>> (It is not prohibited by the bylaws, feel free to read them yourself),
>>> to reclaim those addresses.
>>>
>>> AFRINIC whois and the courts have confirmed that Cloud Innovation is the
>>> rightful registrant of those
>>> addresses at the time and as of now. Until a court rules otherwise
>>> (which is very unlikely at this point),
>>> they don’t “own” the addresses, but they do “own” the rights to those
>>> registrations in the AFRINIC
>>> database.
>>>
>>> (Nobody “owns” any integers… Everyone remains equally free to use the
>>> number 5 as much as they want.)
>>>
>>> Owen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 6:09 AM Bryan Fields <Bryan at bryanfields.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 9/13/23 9:27 PM, Bryan Fields wrote:
>>>> > I think this qualifies as potentially operational.
>>>> >
>>>> > Afrinic placed in receivership, board elections to be held in six
>>>> months:
>>>> > https://archive.ph/jOFE4
>>>>
>>>> Looks like archive.ph is having problems.  This is the original
>>>> article.
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> https://www.capacitymedia.com/article/2c6pnx4ymt7sd5c493wg0/news/exclusive-afrinic-placed-in-receivership-board-elections-to-be-held-in-six-months
>>>> --
>>>> Bryan Fields
>>>>
>>>> 727-409-1194 - Voice
>>>> http://bryanfields.net
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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