Re: [apnic-talk] [Apnic-announce] AfriNIC Moving Closer to FinalRecognition as an RIR

[Paul Wilson <pwilson@apnic.net>]

Jeff, it seems that you would propose to entrench the digital divide by 
punishing all of Africa for alleged crimes of a few Africans.

You are fully aware I believe that RIRs have never been given authority to 
police spam, and therefore have no responsibility whatsoever in that regard.

As in other region of the world, spamming activity in Africa is a problem; 
but it is one which has no bearing whatsoever on the RIR for the region, and 
certainly no relevance to the approval of AfriNIC.

Paul Wilson
APNIC


Jeff Williams wrote:
> All,
>
>
>   Well there went the neiberhood!  Bad decision here.  Given the amount
> of UCE spam coming from Africa and in particular IP addresses from
> african nations, it would be obvious that AFriNIC is not ready for
> prime time yet...
>
> APNIC Secretariat wrote:
>
>
> > This message is forwarded on behalf of the NRO:
> >
> > ---------------------------
> >
> > The Number Resource Organization (NRO) has provided its full support to
> > the emergence of the African Network Information Center (AfriNIC) as a
> > new Regional Internet Registry (RIR).
> >
> > The full text of the announcement is available at:
> >
> >   http://www.nro.net/archive/news/afrinic-2005.html
> >
> >
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