Re: [members-discuss] [ripe-list] A frank discussion

Hi Nabeel: The letter was published on 12th July(signed by APNIC Paul Wilson, LACNIC Oscar Robles, ARIN John Curran RIPE Hans Peter Hollen): https://www.nro.net/nro-letter-to-mauritius-government/ In the letter, NRO request to make RIR "international organisation" to achieve "better outcome". on September 8th, the Mauritius government rejected a request from AFRINIC to become an "international organization" https://www.nrs.help/post/is-afrinic-going-to-become-a-specialized-agency-of... (official statement is at the bottom of this post) In its rejection letter, the Mauritius government mentioned that AFRINIC's request was 1. made on 7th March 2022 2. Based on the "international organisations and conferences (privileges and immunities) act". With regards to the second reason, here's more information: According to the "international organisations and conferences (privileges and immunities) act" (link below), International organization means "specialized agency of the United Nations", and ITU is a "specialized agency of the United Nations". https://attorneygeneral.govmu.org/Documents/Laws%20of%20Mauritius/A-Z%20Acts... Lu Heng Chief Executive Officer LARUS Limited Email H.Lu@LARUS.netmailto:a.yan@outsideheaven.com Office tel:+852+29888918 Address A3, 11/F, TML Tower, Tsuen Wan, N.T, Hong Kong SAR Website: LARUS.net This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. ---- On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 14:49:36 +0800 NABEEL YASIN MOHAMMED AMIN <nabeelyasin@hotmail.com> wrote --- Hi Lu This is really strange request , so what was the justification or excuse for this letter. Regards Nabeel Yasin From: Lu Heng <mailto:h.lu@larus.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 1:08 PM To: NABEEL YASIN MOHAMMED AMIN <mailto:nabeelyasin@hotmail.com> Cc: Sander Steffann <mailto:sander@steffann.nl>; Randy Bush <mailto:randy@psg.com>; ripe-list <mailto:ripe-list@ripe.net>; members-discuss <mailto:members-discuss@ripe.net> Subject: Re: [ripe-list] [members-discuss] A frank discussion Hi Nabeel: The NRO send a letter to mauritus goverment request to be specialized agency of United nation and get immunity for RIR leadership without community knowledge, that is issue we discuss here. Lu Heng Chief Executive Officer LARUS Limited Email mailto:H.Lu@LARUS.netmailto:a.yan@outsideheaven.com Office tel:+852+29888918 Address A3, 11/F, TML Tower, Tsuen Wan, N.T, Hong Kong SAR Website: LARUS.net This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. ---- On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:46:56 +0800 mailto:nabeelyasin@hotmail.com<mailto:nabeelyasin@hotmail.com> wrote ---- Dear All Is there any a proposal or any political influences that RIR should be controlled by the ITU qor any other intergovernmental agency , or what exactly is being discussed over here ?! Thank you and best regards Nabeel Yasin WhatsApp/Tel : +967 777006885 From: ripe-list <mailto:ripe-list-bounces@ripe.net> on behalf of Lu Heng <mailto:h.lu@larus.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 12:11 PM To: Sander Steffann <mailto:sander@steffann.nl> Cc: Randy Bush <mailto:randy@psg.com>; ripe-list <mailto:ripe-list@ripe.net>; members-discuss <mailto:members-discuss@ripe.net> Subject: Re: [ripe-list] [members-discuss] A frank discussion Hi sander: Sending letter request to be specialized agency of United nation is “work with” government? If being specialized agency of United nation is not controlled by inter governmental body I don’t know what is. No, I am not confused here, you probably(intentionally) are. Lu Heng Chief Executive Officer LARUS Limited Email mailto:H.Lu@LARUS.netmailto:a.yan@outsideheaven.com Office tel:+852+29888918 Address A3, 11/F, TML Tower, Tsuen Wan, N.T, Hong Kong SAR Website: LARUS.net This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. ---- On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:08:02 +0800 Sander Steffann<mailto:sander@steffann.nl> wrote ---- Hi Lu, So you do support RIR to be ITU and controlled by UN You seem to (intentionally?) confuse “work together with” and “being controlled by”. Please don’t. Cheers, Sander

Peace, Inline, On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 2:34 PM Lu Heng <h.lu@larus.net> wrote:
The NRO send a letter to mauritus goverment request to be specialized agency of United nation
Your statement does not make sense. One cannot request a UN agency status from the Mauritius government, because the Mauritius government cannot grant such a status. Only the UN can. On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 8:49 AM Lu Heng <h.lu@larus.net> wrote:
The letter [to the Mauritius government] was published on 12th July [..] In the letter, NRO request to make RIR "international organisation" to achieve "better outcome".
on September 8th, the Mauritius government rejected a request from AFRINIC
According to the "international organisations and conferences (privileges and immunities) act" (link below), International organization means "specialized agency of the United Nations", and ITU is a "specialized agency of the United Nations".
Aha, so it just seems like a malformed request. The requestors didn't know about these nuances of the Mauritian legislation. Sad, but understandable. I believe it was even discussed before, elsewhere. Not quite what you declared it to be, though. -- Töma

Hi Toma: "The requestors didn't know about these nuances of the Mauritian legislation." Hans have confirm the request was reviewed and approved by 5 RIR's lawyers, in a common sense, I would expect him to know the nuance before signing such letter on behalf of RIPE. And obviously AFRINIC knows the nuance, can you confirm the above statement you refer RIPE NCC did not know? where is your knowledge come from? And someone from RIPE NCC or Hans himself please confirm this is information was told to the community in private during RIPE meeting, because I did not see any official statement about it. I did not declare anything, I simply state the fact based on public available information. Lu Heng Chief Executive Officer LARUS Limited Email H.Lu@LARUS.netmailto:a.yan@outsideheaven.com Office tel:+852+29888918 Address A3, 11/F, TML Tower, Tsuen Wan, N.T, Hong Kong SAR Website: LARUS.net This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. ---- On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 17:41:14 +0800 Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@gmail.com> wrote --- Peace, Inline, On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 2:34 PM Lu Heng <mailto:h.lu@larus.net> wrote:
The NRO send a letter to mauritus goverment request to be specialized agency of United nation
Your statement does not make sense. One cannot request a UN agency status from the Mauritius government, because the Mauritius government cannot grant such a status. Only the UN can. On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 8:49 AM Lu Heng <mailto:h.lu@larus.net> wrote:
The letter [to the Mauritius government] was published on 12th July [..] In the letter, NRO request to make RIR "international organisation" to achieve "better outcome".
on September 8th, the Mauritius government rejected a request from AFRINIC
According to the "international organisations and conferences (privileges and immunities) act" (link below), International organization means "specialized agency of the United Nations", and ITU is a "specialized agency of the United Nations".
Aha, so it just seems like a malformed request. The requestors didn't know about these nuances of the Mauritian legislation. Sad, but understandable. I believe it was even discussed before, elsewhere. Not quite what you declared it to be, though. -- Töma

Peace, On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:23 PM Lu Heng <h.lu@larus.net> wrote:
Hi Toma:
"The requestors didn't know about these nuances of the Mauritian legislation."
Hans have confirm the request was reviewed [..skipping the rest - TG..]
All of this is entirely irrelevant to the simple fact that the RIRs (as you stated) can not request an UN "specialized agency" status from the Mauritian government, the Serbian government, the barista at Metropol, me, or any other unrelated party. The official UN status could only be granted by the UN, and therefore could only be requested from the UN office. There were no such requests I'm aware of to the UN office from any of the RIRs. You're welcome to present a proof of such a request, with strictly *the UN office* being the addressee, should you have one. Unless you have it (which is unlikely), the topic seems closed to me because your original claim is addressed. With whatever unrelated complaints you have about the operations of the NCC legislation office, please spawn a separate thread and not change subjects in an e-mail conversation. This is pretty much e-mail etiquette respected and followed for 30+ years. -- Töma

Hi Tome: You are confusing the issue here. My statement are simply reflect the factual event have happened. NRO joined send a letter to Mauritius government to request them make an RIR specialised agency of United nation under a law of Mauritius. This is undisputed fact with evidential document have been shared here multiple times. The logic you going here, is simply "because what NRO did something does not make common sense, so the community can not discuss it here" On the contrary, in my view, this is exactly why the community need to discuss here because what they did something make no sense! That called community scrutiny! The questions you raised in additional to the key ones I have asked. Does Mauritius government have such mandate to give an local company UN status? Why NRO believe Mauritius government have such mandate to do so? Why NRO believe such letter will achieve their intent results in which is give RIR official immunity for in their view, a better outcome? All those questions are for NRO or Hans Peter, who signed the letter, to answer, and he have been extremely evasive to the any of those question, his follow up email with diplomatic double speaking put politician in shame. so Hans, can you please tell the community why you believe the Mauritian government can make a local company UN agency? Lu Heng Chief Executive Officer LARUS Limited Email H.Lu@LARUS.netmailto:a.yan@outsideheaven.com Office tel:+852+29888918 Address A3, 11/F, TML Tower, Tsuen Wan, N.T, Hong Kong SAR Website: LARUS.net This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. ---- On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 19:58:47 +0800 Töma Gavrichenkov<ximaera@gmail.com> wrote ---- Peace, On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 12:23 PM Lu Heng <mailto:h.lu@larus.net> wrote:
Hi Toma:
"The requestors didn't know about these nuances of the Mauritian legislation."
Hans have confirm the request was reviewed [..skipping the rest - TG..]
All of this is entirely irrelevant to the simple fact that the RIRs (as you stated) can not request an UN "specialized agency" status from the Mauritian government, the Serbian government, the barista at Metropol, me, or any other unrelated party. The official UN status could only be granted by the UN, and therefore could only be requested from the UN office. There were no such requests I'm aware of to the UN office from any of the RIRs. You're welcome to present a proof of such a request, with strictly *the UN office* being the addressee, should you have one. Unless you have it (which is unlikely), the topic seems closed to me because your original claim is addressed. With whatever unrelated complaints you have about the operations of the NCC legislation office, please spawn a separate thread and not change subjects in an e-mail conversation. This is pretty much e-mail etiquette respected and followed for 30+ years. -- Töma

Dear Lu, You will have seen that the RIPE Chair has declared discussion on this topic to be concluded on the RIPE List as she does not see any new arguments or information: https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2022-October/002723.html I agree with her that there is little to be gained by continuing this discussion. I have made the RIPE NCC position clear on numerous occasions, and I will do so here for the last time in an effort to remove any remaining doubt. We fully support the continuation of the current system of Internet governance. This statement fully negates all the concerns you have raised. In particular, it should make clear that there is no desire on anyone's part for any RIR to become “a specialised agency of the United Nations”. It has been pointed out already on the lists that an NRO letter to the Mauritius government in no way demonstrates an intent to become formally connected to a completely different entity, such as the United Nations. This idea seems to be at the root of your concerns, but you can rest assured that it is completely without basis in reality. To restate the intent of that NRO letter, AFRINIC believed that a letter from the NRO would lend weight to its request to be granted a status within Mauritius that would help with its efforts to address the governance issues it faces. Questions about the specifics of AFRINIC's request should be raised in the AFRINIC community if you feel there are still concerns to be addressed. However, if I felt that signing such a letter would in some way change the current system of Internet governance or undermine the community-driven aspect of that system, I would not have signed it. The five RIRs work closely together to maintain the system you claim to believe in, and we were willing to lend our support when one of those RIRs believed it would strengthen its position. Finally, I would like to add that I am very grateful for the support the RIPE community has shown recently for our efforts to engage with governments and to make sure the views of the technical community are known and understood. This list is for members to discuss matters of importance to them, so I am not in a position to declare an end to discussions here in any way. However, I will state that I see no value to be gained by our making further contributions to those discussions. Regards, Hans Petter Holen Managing Director RIPE NCC
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