Re: AFRINIC placed in receivership

[Steve Sullivan]

XX  was running for a Board Seat at APNIC and may have been in attendance in the recent APNIC conference. Very controversial stuff there, with lessons to be learned and remembered and situations to be avoided at all costs.

Corruption and $$$$$$$.


On 9/15/2023 3:05 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:

A much better explanation of the situation can be found at:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/03/nrs_afrinic_review/

I also recommend that everyone who is not yet familiar with the issue google Lu Heng and Cloud Innovations, the Hong Kong based corporate entity in question which caused this. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=lu+heng+cloud+innovation <https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=lu+heng+cloud+innovation>

    On 9/13/23 9:27 PM, Bryan Fields wrote:
    > I think this qualifies as potentially operational.
    >
    > Afrinic placed in receivership, board elections to be held in
    six months:
    > https://archive.ph/jOFE4

    Looks like archive.ph <http://archive.ph> is having problems. 
    This is the original article.

    >
    
https://www.capacitymedia.com/article/2c6pnx4ymt7sd5c493wg0/news/exclusive-afrinic-placed-in-receivership-board-elections-to-be-held-in-six-months


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The short version of this is that a HK based corporate entity claims it is the legitimate "owner" of 7 million AFRINIC IPs. On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 6:09 AM Bryan Fields <br...@bryanfields.net> wrote: -- Bryan Fields

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