[Community-Discuss] Regular updates on Number Resource Applications and Approvals

[Andrew Alston]

Dewole,

That information is already available based on space allocated.  It would be a violation of the MSA and privacy clauses to disclose any application before it is granted.

The whois database contains the rest of the information as does the delegation database, just a matter of correlating them.  I for one would not support AfriNIC directly exposing the names of clients being allocated space, as I believe that it violates aspects of the MSA and violates the principles of trust.

Andrew


From: Dewole Ajao [mailto:dewole at tinitop.com]
Sent: 07 November 2016 18:15
To: mje at posix.co.za; General Discussions of AFRINIC <community-discuss at afrinic.net>
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] Regular updates on Number Resource Applications and Approvals


Responsibility of requesting entities is what I meant, Mark. Please do not attempt to declare anything on my behalf.

If an applicant knows the community sees in realtime, he/she is less likely to put in phony stuff that just wastes the hostmasters' time and increases the time taken to process legit requests.

Dewole.

On 07/11/2016 16:09, Mark Elkins wrote:





On 07/11/2016 16:53, Dewole Ajao wrote:

Once a week is good. ARIN has a daily issued feed but that's a bit

different from what I'm suggesting.



I agree the actual allocated/assigned ranges need not be disclosed; I do

however think that sharing the names of (applicant) organizations will

help with responsibility and possibly reduce the occurrence of phony

applications (if there have been any).





Isn't that basically declaring you don't trust AFRINIC staff to do the

right thing?





What I tend to hear (happened twice today) is that the Hostmasters are

so strict - its extremely difficult to get things done (according to the

entities moaning at me).



I therefore trust the Hostmasters - they are doing the right thing.







Dewole.





On 07/11/2016 15:35, Mark Elkins wrote:

Interesting. I think though a once-a-week stats figure would be

sufficient - perhaps with a projected end date?

I've seen that before somewhere....



AFRINIC should not give out the names of the organisations receiving the

address space or the actual ranges themselves though.



On 07/11/2016 16:29, Dewole Ajao wrote:

Dear Community,



I was wondering if anyone else thinks it would be useful to see

weekly/daily details (in human readable format) of new applications and

approvals for Internet number resources perhaps as a weekly/daily email

from AFRINIC to this (or the members) list.



Given increased depletion rates, I think having these details in

(almost) real-time will increase the community's awareness rather than

rely solely on the biannual statistical updates (which in any case do

not contain details of who is making attempts to acquire number

resources). I think the Org Name, Country, Type and size of resource

requested/approved would be even more useful than the resource type/size

and country data already available in delegation stats at

ftp://ftp.afrinic.net/pub/stats/afrinic/



This would be purely operational and a community value addition so it

should not require a new policy, right?



Regards,



Dewole Ajao.

(in my capacity as a community member)





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