[AusNOG] An urgent call to action - Do your part and protect APNIC

[Karl Kloppenborg]

Hi Everyone,

I’d like to quickly remind you that any cold calling should be immediately reported to election-conduct at apnic.net<mailto:election-conduct at apnic.net>

It’s super important these are reported, per 8(d)of the Code of Conduct for Executive Council Election Nominees
https://www.apnic.net/community/participate/elections/ec/nominations-for-apnic-ec-elections/code-of-conduct-for-ec-nominees/

You can see here that Larissa Santos from LARUS has already been in breach once (https://2023.apricot.net/elections/nominations/larissasantos/)

This conduct is only a glimpse of the unethical conduct these organisations have caused, and I will remind those waking up this morning, please look at this email thread and take a read of the documents I have shared.

Kind Regards,
--
Karl Kloppenborg – 0437 239 565


From: AusNOG <ausnog-bounces at ausnog.net> on behalf of Dan Irwin <rummymobile at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, 15 February 2023 at 8:57 am
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] An urgent call to action - Do your part and protect APNIC
Just yesterday I had a cold call from these guys. From a number based in Singapore. Initially they pretended to be from APNIC, but when they didn't know my email address, I knew something was up.

I suspect they are abusing whois data and cold calling apnic members.

The subsequent email came from NRS/Larus, and had links to the misinformation they propagate. Included was their list of preferred nominees.

Now that I have done some research, the threat to APNIC appears to be substantial. The proposed changes to these by-laws need to happen.

--

Dan

On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 6:14 PM Karl Kloppenborg <k at rl.ag<mailto:k at rl.ag>> wrote:
Everyone,

As many are aware, EC Elections are upon us, but few are aware of the dangers currently ahead.
Some of the nominees are attempting to board stack and gain control of the EC.

I implore you to read my attached document and do your part by contacting the EC with the provided template.

By-laws require a very large voter base to enact, but it is possible. Australia and NZ have some of the largest voter block in the APNIC and enough to trigger a by-law change.

I cannot stress this enough; the danger is very real – at the time of sending this email at least five candidates are either directly endorsed by NRS or the company LARUS.

You can review this yourself here: https://2023.apricot.net/elections/nominations/

Do your part, pass this email, send this template to APNIC members you know and let's garnish the votes necessary to protect our internet and our APNIC.

Thank you,
Karl Kloppenborg.
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