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<p><font face="Times New Roman,serif">Hi Libren,</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman,serif">Sorry for the delay in
responding to your previous mail.</font><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
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mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;color:black;
background:white" lang="EN-US">In </span><span
style="font-family:"Times New
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lang="EN-US">January, 2020 AFRINIC as
the regional Internet registry for the African region and
custodian of this
continent’s Internet number resources kicked off a project to
review and update
all WHOIS database records to guarantee the WHOIS database
accuracy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";
mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;color:black;
background:white" lang="EN-US">As you can imagine this project
is a massive undertaking not
only in terms of human resources working on it but also the due
diligence requirements
that are needed to deal with this matter to guarantee the
highest degrees of
accuracy possible.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";
mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;color:black;
background:white" lang="EN-US">As I mentioned in my previous
communication in phase one of
this project we have managed to reclaim over 1 million IPv4
addresses.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:
major-bidi" lang="EN-US">Reclaimed addresses are those IP
addresses that have been de-registered (deleted) from the
WHOIS database.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Upon their deletion, AFRINIC has quarantined these IPs
until such time
that they can be brought back to the available AFRINIC pool.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
Roman";
mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;color:black;
background:white" lang="EN-US">We also managed to reverse the
registration of over 300K IPv4
addresses.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:
major-bidi" lang="EN-US">Reversals on IP address prefixes
usually will entail reversing some
changes that were made to them on the AFRINIC WHOIS database.
These IP prefixes
will continue to be present in the AFRINIC WHOIS database with
changes to some
of its attributes. </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:
major-bidi" lang="EN-US">We are still investigating over 2
million IPv4 addresses which is
why I cannot go into too much detail on a public mailing list.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:
major-bidi" lang="EN-US">Having said that we are working on
producing a full report for the
community as soon as we legally can. I ask the AFRINIC members
and community
for its kind understanding on the matter and I promise more will
follow soon.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:
major-bidi" lang="EN-US">As for other matters such as route
leaks or hijacks and other
Internet incidents that might occur on the Internet routing
table, AFRINIC in
its mandate as custodian of the resources has no mandate to act
as the routing
police. The boundaries of what AFRINIC can and cannot do are
based on the
policies that the community has defined and those are all
available on our website. You will also understand that we
prefer not discuss member specific complaint on mailing-list. We
still have the duty to maintain confidentiality in all matters
concerning both our members as well as other parties with whom
we have a working relationship. However, should you have valid
concerns, inter-Alia, regarding the status of a particular
member-organization, or the manner that we operate, you are
invited to contribute and communicate your feedback through
different existing channels and we guarantee that due
consideration will be given to the same.</span><span
class="MsoCommentReference"><span style="font-size:8.0pt"
lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-special-character:comment"></span></span></span><span
style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:
major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi"
lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:
major-bidi" lang="EN-US">As for dealing with such technical
incidents, the Internet
community has managed to successfully handle them time and time
again and I know
for a fact that the African technical community is both
knowledgeable and
self-organized enough to deal with any technical issues related
to such
matters.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;
mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:
major-bidi" lang="EN-US">Kind regards,<br>
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Eddy Kayihura
Chief Executive Officer
African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC)
t: +230 403 5100 | tt: @afrinic | w: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.afrinic.net">www.afrinic.net</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.afrinic.net"><http://www.afrinic.net></a></pre>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/06/2020 17:56, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:libren@tuta.io">libren@tuta.io</a>
wrote:<br>
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<div>Dear Eddy,<br>
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<div>Thank you for updating the community. <br>
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<div>Can you give some more details about your first point?<br>
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<li>IP were claimed because of wrong WHOIS? when these Ip will
be available for recycle?<br>
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<li>What is difference between ip addresses reclaimed and IP
addresses reversed?<br>
</li>
<li>Wondering on what grounds IP were allocation in the first
place which are reversed and claimed?</li>
<li>
<div>There is one more thread active about cloud innovations
they have 2 x /11 and none of the IP are announced from
Afrinic ASN or region but USA via Multacom ASN <a
href="https://bgp.he.net/AS35916" rel="noopener
noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://bgp.he.net/AS35916</a> <br>
</div>
<div>It is a violation of Afrinic policy if IP are not
announced from Africa region or Afrinic ASN. Are such kind
of allocations under investigation?<br>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;
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class=""><span class="font"
style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span
class="" style=""><span style="" class=""><span
class="size" style="font-size:medium">1.
Regarding the WHOIS database accuracy, we
have completed the</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;
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inline !important;"><span class="" style=""><span style=""
class=""><span class="font"
style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span
class="" style=""><span style="" class=""><span
class="size" style="font-size:medium">first
phase of the task. We have done all the
reclaims and reversals</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
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inline !important;"><span class="" style=""><span style=""
class=""><span class="font"
style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span
class="" style=""><span style="" class=""><span
class="size" style="font-size:medium">possible.
We have also initiated communication with the
remaining</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
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255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial;
text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display:
inline !important;"><span class="" style=""><span style=""
class=""><span class="font"
style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span
class="" style=""><span style="" class=""><span
class="size" style="font-size:medium">holders
of resources to allow them to prove the basis
of their claim to</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
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255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial;
text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display:
inline !important;"><span class="" style=""><span style=""
class=""><span class="font"
style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span
class="" style=""><span style="" class=""><span
class="size" style="font-size:medium">the
right of use.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;
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class=""><span class="font"
style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span
class="" style=""><span style="" class=""><span
class="size" style="font-size:medium"> [Some
stats: 1,060,864 IP addresses reclaimed,
336,640 IP addresses</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;
font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;
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inline !important;"><span class="" style=""><span style=""
class=""><span class="font"
style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><span
class="" style=""><span style="" class=""><span
class="size" style="font-size:medium">reversed,
2,517,760 IP addresses still under
investigation]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br>
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<div><br>
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<div>Regards,<br>
</div>
<div>Libren<br>
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