[Community-Discuss] Legacy Resource Holders WHOIS... fees remits.

[Lydea Akiriza]

Very enlightening couple of responses.
@Mark and the rest of us that responded, thanks for the proper break down...

But now it gets me thinking...since Legacy Resource Holders have the
OPTION:-) of only becoming AFRINIC members 'voluntarily',how best would
AFRINIC as an entity encourage  Legacy Resource Holders  to actually become
members. I believe that AFRINIC is a very involved entity in taking
Africa...through the Internet to the next level...wouldn't it only be made
obvious that Legacy Resource Holder's involvement (as far as such fees are
concerned) even now would be such an amazing asset? Isn't there a way that
can be made obvious?

"These are only my two scents!"
On 23 Jun 2016 19:15, "Danny" <afahounko at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Marc,
>
> 1- Legacy ressources holders pay annual maintenance fees per prefix  they
> have in the Whois.
>
> 2- We waive the maintenance fee for people like you who became AFRINIC
> members  and is paying for other ressources they have gotten.
>
> 3- Becoming AFRINIC members remain voluntary for the Legacy-only.
>
> 351 legacy members paying 100$ per prefix, could show 35k
>
> 2016-06-22 20:20 GMT+02:00 Mark Elkins <mje at posix.co.za>:
>
>> I'm a legacy space holder. I also Signed the AFRINIC Registration
>> Services agreement long ago. Also became an "Individual Member" - which
>> has since become "Associate Member" - and since pay AFRINIC for the
>> pleasure. I also try and physically contribute to the Organisation.
>> I would suspect most Legacy Space Holders pay AFRINIC for some sort of
>> service - I've no idea of the stats though. I suspect most Legacy
>> Resource holders are in South Africa and most of those are probably
>> Universities.
>>
>> You should consider, Legacy Members have been around since before the
>> beginning of the RIR System. The pioneers. I had my IPv4 address space
>> years before even ARIN existed.
>>
>> I'd personally like all Legacy Resource holders to voluntarily become
>> AFRINIC Members.
>>
>> On 22/06/2016 19:58, Adam Nelson wrote:
>> > Yup!  The IPs/ASNs given to the legacy holders predate the RIRs and are
>> > in a type of limbo.  They do not currently have to pay to maintain those
>> > numbers.  They can only be encouraged to do so.  I'm pretty sure this is
>> > true vis-a-vis legacy holders in all of the regions.
>> >
>> > -Adam
>> >
>> > --
>> > About Adam: www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson
>> > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson>
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Lydea Akiriza <akirizal at gmail.com
>> > <mailto:akirizal at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Dear AFRINIC,
>> >     I have an earnest desire to learn more about Internet in Africa, for
>> >     that,I am grateful for this platform.
>> >     Today I was looking through the AFRINIC website and I came across
>> >     the Legacy Resources Holders
>> >     linkhttp://www.afrinic.net/en/services/rs/legacy-resources-holders
>> >     <http://www.afrinic.net/en/services/rs/legacy-resources-holders>
>> >     and  something stood out for me...
>> >
>> >     "Although there is no contractual relationship and obligation
>> >     between legacy resources holders and AFRINIC, legacy resources
>> >     holders still benefit from AFRINIC registry service support such as
>> >     WHOIS, reverse DNS and the Internet Routing Registry....There are
>> >     currently around 350 legacy resources holders registered in the
>> >     AFRINIC WHOIS database...AFRINIC encourages legacy resource holders
>> >     to become AFRINIC members...."
>> >
>> >     So my question is, does this mean Legacy Resource Holders despite
>> >     using AFRINIC Registry services (like WHOIS, Reverse DNS e'tal)
>> >     don't remit fees to AFRINIC?
>> >
>> >     Thanks!
>> >
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