Dear Community:
Craig’s email opens as a community email addressing “Colleagues”, but later on the tone changes as he is not referring to me but addressing me by changing to “you” and “your organisation”
Logic of the whole event was, APNIC staff’s comment during prop-118 could be misunderstood as implying publicly Larus Cloud Service was gaming the CONFER system during our colleague's presentation, when I confronted them with that after the session closed, I was asked directly in private if we did it.
According to my reading of the Email of Craig, such behaviour is acceptable for APINIC staff. And the company or individual they are defaming have no rights to be angry, because the reputation of the individual or the company does not matter, the volume of the voice is more important than serious accusation or doubt made by APINIC staff.
We value our reputation dearly, we value the community dearly, and bottom up process, community based policy development process are the core parts to the very existence of the RIR system, CONFER being a larger step forward towards more inclusive community, that would allow people who don't speak English well to express their opinion as well as others, are an important step both for the community as well as for APINIC.
That is the reason, assuring anyone abuse the very core system of the community, is accusing someone manipulate the consensus process, it is the most serious crime you can accuse someone for in this community.
And because of the seriousness, naturally we feel emotionally angry, and while we trying to explain, however we thereafter being confronted by APNIC staff with direct doubt and accusation of being liar, I am human, raise the volume of my voice while I made the complaint to the staff's boss, was the very least I can do.
We hope for an open transparent community, fairly treating everyone, not because community give someone power, that someone can bully community member at personal will.
I have told my story to Paul Wilson and Gaurab Raj, and already admitted in my first email I was emotional, however, what we do not accept is that APNIC is implying a member's serious wrong doing without evidence, that is not considered as the source of these emotions being released and just brushed away.
As we all little man, we are nobody, but we elect people to power positions for our own good, not for them to use that power against us.
* sig-policy: APNIC SIG on resource management policy *