Re: [EXTERNAL] An update on the AfriNIC situation

[Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

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 () 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 () nanog org on 
> behalf of aaron () 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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