[db-wg] AFRINIC Audit report

Hi All

Your post, Ronald, also has nothing to do with the RIPE Database.
Please contact the webmaster at ripe.net if you have some issues with the
web site.

There is no need for either of you to reply to this email. Let's close
this discussion on this mailing list.

cheers
denis
co-chair DB-WG

On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 00:52, Elad Cohen <elad at netstyle.io> wrote:
>
> Hi Denis,
>
> And what Ronald wrote has something to do with the RIPE database? him crying for not receiving "credits" (for his imagination) in his misery life and crying that he couldn't post a comment in RIPE website ...
>
> Kind Regards,
> Elad
> ________________________________
> From: denis walker <ripedenis at gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2021 1:38 AM
> To: Elad Cohen <elad at netstyle.io>
> Cc: anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net <anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net>; db-wg at ripe.net <db-wg at ripe.net>; Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com>
> Subject: Re: [db-wg] AFRINIC Audit report
>
> HI Elad
>
> As co-chair of the DB-WG I would like to point out that what you are
> talking about.has nothing to do with the RIPE Database. Please don't
> use this mailing list for these discussions.
>
> cheers
> denis
> co-chair DB-WG
>
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 20:30, Elad Cohen via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
> >
> > Yes Ronald, good job for causing Afrinic to spend $150k of their members money for legal expenses that you created with your proofless imaginative theories, and Afrinic will lose due to it, because unlike public perception which is based on "+1's" , in court what count is only facts and data.
> >
> > and good job by showing us how powerful your friends of spamhaus and ops-trust (https://portal.ops-trust.net/) are, that they can put a sword on the neck of any RIR in order for the RIR to give any head that they will like.
> >
> > Afrinic with all of their actions and all of their "report", didn't touch the company Cloud Innovation Ltd that didn't purchase legacy netblocks for money, but received two /11's and massive number of /16's for "free" from Afrinic, for the purposes of leasing worldwide, part of them can be seen in the link: https://bgp.he.net/cc#_prefixes
> > Maybe it is because that the owner of Cloud Innovation Ltd, knows who to pay, such as Owen DeLong that admitted in Afrinic community-discuss that he received money from Cloud Innovation Ltd and also Owen DeLong wrote in Afrinic community-discuss mailing list the text "Nothing to see here" when people tried to raise questions regarding Cloud Innovation Ltd.
> >
> > Owen DeLong is a Ops-Trust community member, and also a friend of Ronald Guilmette.
> >
> > ----
> >
> > To remind to you and to everyone, Mr. Jan Vermeulen interfered with the latest RIPE NCC Executive Board elections, by doing it he hurt the rights of all of RIPE community members.
> >
> >
> > Last comment:
> > Any ops-trust member or spamhaus university loser, please spare the brainwashing +1's.
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: db-wg <db-wg-bounces at ripe.net> on behalf of Ronald F. Guilmette via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net>
> > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2021 7:20 PM
> > To: anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net <anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net>; db-wg at ripe.net <db-wg at ripe.net>
> > Subject: [db-wg] AFRINIC Audit report
> >
> > The following has recebntly been posted to the RIPE web site:
> >
> > https://labs.ripe.net/Members/alun_davies/outcome-of-the-afrinic-audit
> >
> > I have attempted to lodge the following comment, but apparently my comment
> > is being held for review, presumably to insure that it does not contain
> > any four letter words, nor any material that might violate GDPR, another
> > four letter word.
> >
> >    When I and my journalistic colleague, Jan Vermeulen of MyBroadband.co.za
> >    began our investigations into this colossal and truly epic malfeasance
> >    and theft of valuable IPv4 resources in mid 2019, the notion of either
> >    of us becoming famous or of receiving any credit for unraveling and
> >    publicly documenting this gigantic scandal was not what motivated us,
> >    nor has it been, since the beginning.  Rather, we merely wished to right
> >    some wrongs and return to the people of Africa some valuable IP resources
> >    critically needed for the ongoing development of the Internet in Africa.
> >    Nonetheless, it would have been, I think, at least minimally respectful
> >    if either AFRINIC or (now) RIPE had taken a moment to at least mention
> >    our names and our very evident, abundant, and key contributions towards
> >    exposing this whole huge mess.  Neither organization, it seems, has thus
> >    far elected to do so publicly.  Such is the reward, or lack thereof, of
> >    a job well done.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > rfg
> >