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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
        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">In </span><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">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>
      </span></p>
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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>
        </div>
        <div>Can you give some more details about  your first point?<br>
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        <ol>
          <li>IP were claimed because of wrong WHOIS? when these Ip will
            be available for recycle?<br>
          </li>
          <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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          </li>
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          <div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;
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                          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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                          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;
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                          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;
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                          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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                    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="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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                          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>Regards,<br>
        </div>
        <div>Libren<br>
        </div>
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