These are the named people behind the authority problem.
If communiqués are issued in AFRINIC’s name, members deserve to know who is personally standing behind them. The question is no longer abstract governance. It is whether this Receiver and this purported Board are prepared to use AFRINIC’s registry chokepoint power to threaten the Internet operations of the very members they claim to serve.
Gowtamsingh Dabee
Receiver
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Abdelaziz Hilali
Purported Board Seat 1 / Northern Africa
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Emmanuel Adewale Adedokun
Purported Board Seat 2 / Western Africa
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Kaleem Ahmed Usmani
Purported Board Seat 3 / Indian Ocean
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Kayemba Laurent Ntumba
Purported Board Seat 4 / Central Africa
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Carla Sanderson
Purported Board Seat 5 / Southern Africa
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Fiona Asonga
Purported Board Seat 6 / Eastern Africa
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Benjamin Mark Roberts
Purported Board Seat 7 / Non-Regional
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Ajao Adewole David
Purported Board Seat 8 / Non-Regional
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NRS is not asking an abstract institution. NRS is asking the named Receiver and each named purported Board member. If AFRINIC wants to turn normal address use into a chokepoint weapon, the people whose names appear on the governance structure must answer in their own names.
Silence will be recorded as no public dissent. Until a named person answers, operators should assume that person has not publicly rejected the communiqué, has not publicly rejected the anti-leasing narrative, and has not publicly rejected the attempt to push Resource Members away from statutory rights.
Status note: NRS has sent these questions to the above individuals and has yet to receive an answer. This page will be updated if any response is received.