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

[Danny]

> 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.
>>
>
I would like:

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 that can be
interesting money for research and development.

cheers





>
>> 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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