[afrinic-discuss] Last call for comments on proposed policies

[Ernest, B.M (AfriNIC - ZA)]

Dear Colleagues,

During the 3rd AfriNIC Public Policy Meeting in Cairo held from 12th
to 13th December 2005, the community consented and voted to forward
the following policy proposals to the AfriNIC Board of Directors for
approval:

o  Policy for PI/Direct Assignments to End-User Organisations
    http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-v4eu200504.htm

o  Temporary Address Assignments / Assignments for Critical
    network/internet infrastructure
    http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-tmpal200504.htm

o  Change to criteria for ASN assignments
    http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/drafts/afpol-chgasn200508.htm

o  IPv6 IANA to RIR allocations
    http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/drafts/afpol-glbipv6200508.htm

This is a last call for comments from the entire community on these
proposals. After 15 days, the proposed policies above will be
forwarded to the AfriNIC Board for review.

All your comments should be sent to policy-wg at afrinic.net

This last call will expire 15 days from today.

A summary of the face-to-face discussions for each of the above
proposals during the AfriNIC-3 meeting is below:

o  Temporary Address Assignments / Assignments for Critical
    network/internet infrastructure
    http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-tmpal200504.htm

       - Concerns about 3.2 (Commercial Use Prohibited) : This
         would be difficult to justify by AfriNIC and may involve
         some legal issues.

         Suggestion was to delete the whole of 3.2 from the
         document.

       - Questions as to why a temporary assignment cannot be
         obtained from the upstream ISP?

         Answer was that some ISPs will argue not to have enough
         IPs to assign, and that its good practice for all temporary
         assignments to come from an RIR block reserved for this
         purpose. Other answers were that various upstreams reserve
         their prefixes for different products/services, and may
         not have a prefix ready for temporary use.

         It was agreed that policy be passed only if AfriNIC can
         reserve a large block for this purpose.

       - Temporary  assignments are vulnerable to hi-jacking,
         especially when some one 'keeps an eye' on the temporary
         assignment and knows its not in use anymore, they will start
         using these IPs.

         Other comments: whole prefix would be listed
         as bogus, hence the need for the RIR to allot another
         prefix for temporary assignments.

       ** Concensus was realized (pending suggested edits)


o  Policy for PI/Direct Assignments to End-User Organisations
    http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-v4eu200504.htm

        - the minimum /24 assignments may have an impact on the
          global routing table.

          other comments; the routing table is already so saturated
          that such small assignmenst wouldnt have such a noticeable
          effect.

        - APNIC also stated that the minimum is /24 in their region.

        - Some people suggested a similar proposal for IPv6.

        - replace 5.0, ICANN-sanctioned root, gTLD, and ccTLD ..
          with specifics. TLDs were not deemed critical infrastructure
          by some, and only IXPs and root servers were proposed.

          ** Policy realized concensus.

o  Change to criteria for ASN assignments
    http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/drafts/afpol-chgasn200508.htm

         ** No discussion, policy realized concensus.

o  IPv6 IANA to RIR allocations
    http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/drafts/afpol-glbipv6200508.htm

         ** No discussion, policy realized concensus.

Please send all your comments to policy-wg at afrinic.net within 15 days
from the date of this last call.

Kind regards,

Ernest
AfriNIC



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