[afrinic-discuss] IP addresses returned to AfriNIC by TENET

[Adiel A. Akplogan]

[Sorry for cross posting]

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Joint announcement by AfriNIC and TENET
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Tertiary Education Network (TENET), in its role as a Local
Internet Registry, has relinquished responsibility for the
following six blocks of IPv4 address space:

192.96.0.0/16;
196.6.0.0/16;
196.10.0.0/16;
196.11.0.0/16;
196.13.0.0/16 and
198.54.0.0/16.

AfriNIC has taken over the responsibility for these blocks
and has updated its whois database accordingly.

No current assignments from these blocks to any end user organisation
are affected by this change.  In particular, AfriNIC acknowledges and
will respect the portability of such assignments. To perform its role
as a registry, AfriNIC will contact holders of prefixes in the related
blocks in order to get the correct contact information so that these
assignments can be properly registered in the public whois database.

TENET remains the Local Internet Registry responsible for the blocks
196.21.0.0/16 and 196.24.0.0/16. Assignments from these blocks are not
portable in the hands of assignee organisations, as route announcements
to all addresses in these blocks are aggregated within TENET's ASN 2018.

By way of background, the six blocks listed above were originally
allocated by the then Internic to TENET's predecessor organisation, the
UNINET Project of the then Foundation for Research Development. Over the
years many assignments, mostly small ones, were made to organisations
throughout South Africa without regard to the type of organisation, locality
or aggregatability of routes.

In April 2005, AfriNIC took over from the American Registry for Internet
Numbers (ARIN), the Réseaux IP Européens - Network Coordination Centre
(RIPE NCC) and the Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean Network Information Centre
(APNIC) the responsibility to serve Africa and the Indian Ocean Regions as
a Regional Internet Registry (RIR).  TENETs request that AfriNIC takes over
the responsibility simply reflects the fact that TENET has no business
relationship with the great majority of assignees and has no value to add
through being the responsible LIR.

All enquiries regarding assignments from the above-mentioned six blocks
should henceforth be directed to AfriNIC at hostmaster at afrinic.net.

Adiel A. Akplogan
CEO AfriNIC Ltd.
www.afrinic.net