[Community-Discuss] Closed members and recovered resources

[Noah]

On 19 Jun 2017 4:07 p.m., "Alan Barrett" <alan.barrett at afrinic.net> wrote:

In response to several questions, I can give the following information
about organisations whose Afrinic membership was terminated and their
resources reclaimed.

In 2014:

15 members were closed
18 ASNs were reclaimed
211968 IPv4 Addresses (/32s) were reclaimed
5 IPv6 /32s were reclaimed

In 2015: No members were closed.

In 2016:

12 members were closed
8 ASNs were reclaimed
71680 IPv4 /32s were reclaimed
1 IPv6 /48 was reclaimed

In 2017:

19 members have been closed (or are near the end of the closure process)
16 ASNs have been reclaimed
45056 IPv4 /32s have been reclaimed
2 IPv6 /32s have been reclaimed


To find exactly what space is currently quarantined, you can download the
extended statistics file from <ftp://ftp.afrinic.net//stats/
afrinic/delegated-afrinic-extended-latest>, search for “reserved” in the
seventh pipe-delimited column, and then exclude any space within the
following ranges which are reserved by policy:

IPv4 196.60.0.0/16      Reserved for IXPs peering networks per CPM 11.4
IPv4 196.49.0.0/16      Reserved for IXPs management networks per CPM 11.4
IPv4 102.224.0.0/12     Reserved for future use per CPM 5.4.7
ASN 37769-37887         Reserved for use in BGP route servers at IXPs per
CPM 11.4

In the case of IPv6, the extended statistics file shows that, for each
allocated /48, space is reserved up to the next /44 boundary, and for each
allocated /32, space is reserved up to the next /29 boundary.  If you are
looking for quarantined space, you will also have to ignore these
reservations.



Hi Alan

Thank you for the effort and sharing this information.

We will appreciate as a community that this information is and must be made
available online as part of the annual report[1]

Checking again the link ftp://ftp.afrinic.net//stats/a
frinic/delegated-afrinic-extended-latest

Besides the block below which you indicated as reserved per CPM 5.4.7.

afrinic|ZZ|ipv4|102.224.0.0|1048576||reserved

It does also shows for instance, the below space as reserved

afrinic|ZZ|ipv4|102.160.0.0|524288||reserved
afrinic|ZZ|ipv4|102.178.0.0|131072||reserved
afrinic|ZZ|ipv4|102.180.0.0|65536||reserved

Which means either this stats are outdated or wrong since your email and
explaination doesnt indicate why the above 3 blocks are marked as reserved
and which can't be recovered space as per the recovery numbers for 2017.

And why is the recovered and/or reseved space not listed in Afrinic's
normal pool or at a dedicated web page like below for better trasparency.

http://www.lacnic.net/web/lacnic/revocacion-de-recursos

Why can't Afrinic create similar tools?.

And what is the rational behind the 2 years quarantine  before the
recovered space can be reallocated?

What is the process of determining and/or restoring recovered space
reputation from previous activities

BR,
Noah



[1] By the way,  where is the annual report for 2016? The bylaws make its
publication mandatory.


[1] The community has requested and we agreed that In order to enhance
AFRINIC accountability, we make sure that this information is published
yearly so that the community/membership can know how much space is
recovered and available in the inventory.
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