It strikes me that ( without pointing at anyone in particular ) that there's a bit of absolutism trending in this conversation. 

It's possible for many things in this list to be true.

- It's possible that AFRINIC may have been following it's policies accurately at the time of the initial allocations,and the current leadership was overstepping their bounds trying to reclaim them.
- It's possible that AFRINIC may NOT have been following it's own policies at the time of the initial allocations, and the current leadership is trying to correct those past mistakes. 
- It's possible that CI accurately represented information to AFRINIC.
- It's possible that CI did not. 
- It's possible that CI has, at all times,been properly in compliance with AFRNIC policies. 
- It's possible that CI has not. 
- It's possible that CI may been been following the letter, if not the spirit of the policies. 
- It's possible that AFRINIC was intentionally delaying restoration of the allocations after the court order. 
- It's possible that AFRINIC was a little slow to respond, waiting on advice from legal counsel before taking action.

I think we could mostly agree that while potentially frustrating ,such things can and have happened in the past,and can and have been rectified. 

However, where I think we ALL should be able to agree is that CI's garnishment action is exceptionally punitive and out of line. 

On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 10:08 PM John Kristoff <jtk@dataplane.org> wrote:
On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 16:29:48 -0700
Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:

> Further, the registries are not engaged in the daily operations of the internet.

Hi Owen,

Your statement above I have to insist is simply incorrect.  In addition
to the traditional services that are relied upon in a variety of daily
operations (e.g. WHOIS, IRR, DNS reverse delegations), the increasingly
important RPKI TAs/PPs services are of utmost importance in the daily
operations of an increasing number of networks within and outside their
region.  They are just a different kind of infrastructure service
operator than we may be commonly thing of when it comes to network
operations.

John