The Great $50M African IP Address Heist

Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist by notlukesky on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @06:41PM (#21767979)

Insider jobs are unusually common in the non-private sector in developing markets. They also occur in the non-private sector in developed countries but not at the same scale.

The only "solution" in most of these developing countries is to have open and transparent auctions without onerous rules (another way of gaming the process) or to turn them into being private.

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Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist by codetrotter on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @07:47PM (#21768365)

> the non-private sector

Aka the public sector. Or are there additional sectors that I am not aware of?

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Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist by sansnomme on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @08:03PM (#21768439)

Weird NGOs that straddle the divide, think tanks, white collar unions aka "professional associations" that somehow acquired regulatory powers; see medicine, law, engineering, architecture etc. Corruption exists in all sorts of places.

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Re:The Great $50M African IP Address Heist by notlukesky on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @08:31PM (#21768565)

You framed it perfectly! There are so many non-private sector institutions out there that I refrained from calling them even quasi public sector. In fact the example you mention of "professional associations" that have acquired regulatory powers is great as most of them are rife and riddled with corruption and act to either the benefit of their management or members and against the public interest.

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