Re: An update on the AfriNIC situation

["Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc () gmail com>]

On 29/08/2021, Jay Hennigan <jay () west net> wrote:
> On 8/29/21 11:42, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
>
> > It would seem reasonable to leave the whole issue up to the courts,
> > instead of engaging in contempt of foreign courts, and to stop the
> > vigilante justice against any of the parties, especially the end users
> > who are not even a party to this whole dispute.
>
> The end users are an indirect party.
>
> Assume someone were in the business of stealing cars, forging their
> titles, and selling them to innocent third parties. A police officer
> pulling someone over for speeding might compare the VIN on the title to
> that on the car and discover that it was stolen. The stolen property
> would be returned to its owner and the end user purchaser would be out
> of luck other than having recourse against the thief.
>
> The same principle applies to someone who innocently accepts counterfeit
> money.
>
> If the Internet community as a whole or significant players therein were
> to treat these number resources as stolen property fraudulently obtained
> under false pretenses and stop routing those netblocks, the end users
> would indeed suffer just like the person who unwittingly bought a stolen
> car or accepted a counterfeit bill. The end user would pursue recourse
> against the party who rented or sold the fraudulently obtained netblocks
> and the business model of obtaining number resources under false
> pretenses solely to rent or resell at a profit would collapse.

But it is up to the courts to decide whether or not the property was
obtained under false pretences.

The situation is more akin to buying a car from an authorised dealer,
and then the dealer having a dispute with the manufacturer, or the
manufacturer having a dispute with a supplier.  A business dispute
doesn't suddenly make the item you have the title for to be stolen
property, now does it?

What you're advocating for is hiring a hitman to take care of the
problem outside of the justice system, to take things by force which
are not yours for the taking, just because you don't like the business
authorised dealers are in.  Please don't; the courts are already
looking into the business dispute.  Plus, you keep ignoring the fact
that everyone else is already reselling IP address space from other
RIRs, why is Cloud Innovation Ltd and AfriNIC space resale suddenly
treated differently here?  Please have some respect for the Mauritian
court that's already handling this business dispute.  It sounds like
the whole situation with the asset freeze could have been avoided had
AfriNIC not engaged in contempt of court to start with; surely having
more contempt of court is not the solution here, now is it?

C.