[EXTERNAL] An update on the AfriNIC situation

Fri Aug 27 16:50:47 UTC 2021

Two reasons:

1.	They don’t have an AS0 ROA policy currently.

2.	It would violate a court order.

Owen

> On Aug 27, 2021, at 09:45 , Compton, Rich A <Rich.Compton at charter.com> wrote:
> 
> Can't AfriNIC just create ROAs for the prefixes and point them to AS0?  That would pretty much make the prefixes unusable since most tier 1's are doing ROV now.
> 
> -Rich
> 
> On 8/27/21, 10:20 AM, "NANOG on behalf of Aaron Wendel" <nanog-bounces+rich.compton=charter.com at nanog.org on behalf of aaron at wholesaleinternet.net> wrote:
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>    I suppose people who wanted to take a side could also block traffic to 
>    and from Cloud Innovations IP blocks.
> 
> 
>    On 8/27/2021 10:36 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>> As many of you are aware, AfriNIC is under legal attack by Heng Lu / “Cloud Innovation.”
>> 
>> John Curran just posted an excellent summary of the current state of affairs here:
>> 
>>    https://teamarin.net/2021/08/27/afrinic-and-the-stability-of-the-internet-number-registry-system/
>> 
>> If, like me, you feel like chipping in a little bit of money to help AfriNIC make payroll despite Heng having gotten their bank accounts frozen, some of the African ISP associations have put together a fund, which you can donate to here:
>> 
>>    https://www.tespok.co.ke/?page_id=14001
>> 
>> It’s an unfortunate situation, but the African Internet community has really pulled together to defend themselves, and they’ve got a lot less resources than most of us do.
>> 
>>                                -Bill
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