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</style><div id='d_1589534606628' style="font-family:Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size:11.0pt; color:#025E14"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">FYI, the voting results for the three positions on the RIPE exec board were just announced and Elad was NOT elected. </p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">No doubt we should thank the super illegal, criminal and anonymous Spamhaus cabal as well as the super shady and corrupt IPv6 lobby for manipulating this election from the shadows! </p>
<div id="signature-x" style="-webkit-user-select:none; font-family:Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size:11.0pt; color:#025E14"><html><head></head><body class="airwise"><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;font-size:11.0pt;">-- <br>Regards,<br> Terrence Koeman, PhD/MTh/BPsy<br> Darkness Reigns (Holding) B.V.<br><br>Please quote relevant replies.<br>Spelling errors courtesy of my 'smart'phone.</span><span style="font-family:courier new,courier,monospace;font-size:9.0pt;"><br></span></body></html></div></div><div class="quoted_separate_body"/><div id="quoted_header" style="clear:both;"><hr style="border:none; height:1px; color:#E1E1E1; background-color:#E1E1E1;"/><div style="border:none; padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com><br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 13 May 2020 11:51<br><b>To:</b> nanog@nanog.org<br><b>Subject:</b> RIPE NCC Executive Board election<br></span></div></div><br type='attribution'><div id="quoted_body"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Many of you here may be dues-paying members of both ARIN and RIPE.
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<br>
Those of you who are may wish to be aware of the fact that there will
<br>
be an election held on (I believe) May 14th, just a day or two from
<br>
now, for three open RIPE NCC Executive Board seats.
<br>
<br>
I have it on good authority that one of the candidates running for
<br>
the open RIPE NCC board seats in this election has hired legal
<br>
counsel in South Africa, and that said legal counsel has then
<br>
proceeded to threaten various officials of the City of Cape Town,
<br>
South Africa with possible legal action if they do not relinquish
<br>
to him their rights in and title to the 165.25.0.0/16 block, a
<br>
block that all historical records, including even ARIN "WhoWas"
<br>
historical records show, clearly and unambiguously, has been
<br>
legally registered to the City of Cape Town for over twenty years.
<br>
(I am assured that at no time did the City of Cape Town ever sell,
<br>
trade, or barter away their rights to this valuable IPv4 block,
<br>
and that they are defending themselves, as best as they can, against
<br>
this attempt to extort them out of their rightful prooperty.)
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<br>
Where I come from, this kind of thing is called barratry, but you
<br>
be the judge.
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<br>
In any case, prior to the RIPE election, I wanted to let you all
<br>
know these facts about the candidate in question, as well as a
<br>
number of additional startling facts relating to the people who
<br>
nominated this candidate for a RIPE NCC Executive board seat, as
<br>
documented by my friend, South African journalist Jan Vermeulen:
<br>
<br>
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/350973-man-connected-to-african-ip-address-heist-running-for-board-position-at-european-ip-address-organisation.html
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<br>
I could go into more detail about many of the nominators mentioned
<br>
in the above article, but I don't want to make this email too long,
<br>
so I'll await some explict request for that additional info. For now
<br>
it should suffice to make at least some of the basic facts more widely
<br>
available, a task which is accomplished just by sharing the above link,
<br>
IMHO.
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<br>
<br>
Regards,
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rfg
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<br>
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P.S. I have been specifically and explicitly enjoined and constrained
<br>
from posting here anything at all that might smack of being either
<br>
partisan or of an even vaguely "political" nature, and thus, I will
<br>
refrain from doing so. I would be remiss hoever if I did not at least
<br>
note in passing that history records that in times such as these, when
<br>
people of good character and good intent are, as they rightly should be,
<br>
focused on the health and safety of themselves, their loved ones, and
<br>
their professional collegues, and when the gaze of the world is elsewhere,
<br>
persons of less than honorable intent reach for power and, with unfortunate
<br>
regularity, obtain it.
<br>
<br>
I cannot and do not ask that those of you who have been saddled with
<br>
personal or local crises during this sad time turn away from those
<br>
responsibilities to give attention to matters of Internet governance,
<br>
however urgent those may appear at the moment. For all of us, our first-
<br>
order duty lies nearby, with family, friends, and collegues. But for
<br>
those of you who still have a few cycles to spare, I do ask that you
<br>
consider carefully the newfound and critical importance of this tool,
<br>
this Internet, in the lives of so many millions, all around the world,
<br>
and the self-evident risks of its governance being handed over, by default
<br>
or otherwise, to persons with an interest only in what is best for them
<br>
personally, to the exclusion of all else.
<br>
<br>
P.P.S. I would be posting this info and the above link also to the
<br>
very relevant RIPE members-discuss mailing list, but as I am not a
<br>
due-paying member of RIPE, I have no ability to do so. Separately,
<br>
due in no small part to the candidate's own recent and manifest on-list
<br>
transgressions on that very list, that list has recently been switched
<br>
to a heavy-handed moderation, under which, it seems, even discussion of
<br>
the pros and cons of candidates in the upcoming RIPE NCC Executive Board
<br>
election are now categorized as "too controversial" and thus, themselves,
<br>
are now entirely off-limits.
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<br>
I cannot help but be reminded of a catch-phrase that I saw somewhere,
<br>
not too long ago:
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<br>
"Democracy dies in darkness."
<br>
-- anon
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