[afnog] ip address and Lir (Jean Robert HOUNTOMEY)

McTim dogwallah at gmail.com
Fri Jun 13 13:27:05 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Maina Noah <mainanoah at ipexpertz.net> wrote:
> Jean,
>
> this is what i termed as "broad daylight robbery"

agreed.

of old payers in the
> market trying to not only monopolize the whole Internet business in such
> countries but to also rob customers of their right to free public resources.

??

> Public IP numbers are free resources which every customers is entitled to.

Not so AFAIK, where in the AfriNIC policies is this specified?

The thing that this LIR is exploiting is that LIRs can charge pretty
much what they like for IP addresses.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim




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