<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Marc,</div><div><br></div><div>1- Legacy ressources holders pay annual maintenance fees per prefix they have in the Whois.</div><div><br></div><div>2- We waive the maintenance fee for people like you who became AFRINIC members and is paying for other ressources they have gotten. </div><div><br></div><div>3- Becoming AFRINIC members remain voluntary for the Legacy-only.</div><div><br></div><div>351 legacy members paying 100$ per prefix, could show 35k</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-06-22 20:20 GMT+02:00 Mark Elkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mje@posix.co.za" target="_blank">mje@posix.co.za</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'm a legacy space holder. I also Signed the AFRINIC Registration<br>
Services agreement long ago. Also became an "Individual Member" - which<br>
has since become "Associate Member" - and since pay AFRINIC for the<br>
pleasure. I also try and physically contribute to the Organisation.<br>
I would suspect most Legacy Space Holders pay AFRINIC for some sort of<br>
service - I've no idea of the stats though. I suspect most Legacy<br>
Resource holders are in South Africa and most of those are probably<br>
Universities.<br>
<br>
You should consider, Legacy Members have been around since before the<br>
beginning of the RIR System. The pioneers. I had my IPv4 address space<br>
years before even ARIN existed.<br>
<br>
I'd personally like all Legacy Resource holders to voluntarily become<br>
AFRINIC Members.<br>
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On 22/06/2016 19:58, Adam Nelson wrote:<br>
> Yup! The IPs/ASNs given to the legacy holders predate the RIRs and are<br>
> in a type of limbo. They do not currently have to pay to maintain those<br>
> numbers. They can only be encouraged to do so. I'm pretty sure this is<br>
> true vis-a-vis legacy holders in all of the regions.<br>
><br>
> -Adam<br>
><br>
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> On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Lydea Akiriza <<a href="mailto:akirizal@gmail.com">akirizal@gmail.com</a><br>
</span><span class="">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:akirizal@gmail.com">akirizal@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Dear AFRINIC,<br>
> I have an earnest desire to learn more about Internet in Africa, for<br>
> that,I am grateful for this platform.<br>
> Today I was looking through the AFRINIC website and I came across<br>
> the Legacy Resources Holders<br>
> linkhttp://<a href="http://www.afrinic.net/en/services/rs/legacy-resources-holders" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.afrinic.net/en/services/rs/legacy-resources-holders</a><br>
> <<a href="http://www.afrinic.net/en/services/rs/legacy-resources-holders" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.afrinic.net/en/services/rs/legacy-resources-holders</a>><br>
> and something stood out for me...<br>
><br>
> "Although there is no contractual relationship and obligation<br>
> between legacy resources holders and AFRINIC, legacy resources<br>
> holders still benefit from AFRINIC registry service support such as<br>
> WHOIS, reverse DNS and the Internet Routing Registry....There are<br>
> currently around 350 legacy resources holders registered in the<br>
> AFRINIC WHOIS database...AFRINIC encourages legacy resource holders<br>
> to become AFRINIC members...."<br>
><br>
> So my question is, does this mean Legacy Resource Holders despite<br>
> using AFRINIC Registry services (like WHOIS, Reverse DNS e'tal)<br>
> don't remit fees to AFRINIC?<br>
><br>
> Thanks!<br>
><br>
><br>
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