<br /><br /><div>Hi Daniel,</div><div><br /></div><div>I guess you are reacting because of the assignment's country code.</div><div><br /></div><div>Please download the file from AFRINIC:</div><div><br /></div><div>https://ftp.afrinic.net/pub/pub/dbase/afrinic.db.gz</div><div><br /></div><div>Do a search for "country: " and see for yourself, assignments out of Africa are not uncommon at all and are done in small to large scale by many LIRs.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here is an example of a larger one, not affiliated to CI as far as I could see:</div><div><br /></div><div><div>inetnum: X.X.128.0 - X.X.143.255</div><div>netname: XXXXXX-ASSIGNMENTS-CUSTOMERS</div><div>descr: Assignment made to XXXXXX Customers.</div><div>descr: In case of abuse, please contact abuse@XXXXXX.mu</div><div>country: FR</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I understood from the discussions here and from the policy texts, only the more recent allocations are truly restricted to be used in region only, this means that older LIRs with old allocations can indeed offer services out of region with their address space.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now, if you find assignments or sub-allocations made from allocations issued under the current soft landing phase that are registered for out of regions. </div><div>Those may need AFRINIC to double check what is going on.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Dabu</div><br /><br /><br />10:52, 14 July 2021, DANIEL NANGHAKA <dndannang@gmail.com>:<br /><blockquote class="210e7a848e8fcb45wmi-quote"><div dir="ltr">Someone, please help - What is the meaning of this? <div><div><br /></div><div><inline-image alt="image.png" height="562" width="432">ii_kr38qdra0</inline-image><br /></div></div></div><div style="max-height:1px"><img src="https://mailfoogae.appspot.com/t?sender=aZG5kYW5uYW5nQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ%3D%3D&type=zerocontent&guid=f80c680b-0be5-4092-9b1a-970c7d91ead5" style="max-height:0px;overflow:hidden;width:0px" /><font color="#ffffff" size="1">ᐧ</font></div><br /><div class="f13ca48719c8a60033905b23b39675agmail_quote"><div class="334d7d341e3233c5b27ca91297445127gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 11:36, Owen DeLong via Community-Discuss <<a href="mailto:community-discuss@afrinic.net">community-discuss@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<br /></div><blockquote class="f13ca48719c8a60033905b23b39675agmail_quote" style="border-left-color:rgb( 204 , 204 , 204 );border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:1px;margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">Could AFRINIC please comply with the court order to reinstate Cloud Innovation?<br />
<br />
It’s one thing when you can’t follow your own rules, but you’re now violating the law and<br />
working hard towards a contempt citation. It didn’t take long to screw up our whois entries,<br />
it shouldn’t take long to put them back.<br />
<br />
As of 12:26 PM Mauritius time, Wed. July 14, 2021:<br />
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whois -h <a href="http://whois.afrinic.net" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">whois.afrinic.net</a> 154.88.0.0 2021/07/14 1:25:44<br />
% This is the AfriNIC Whois server.<br />
% The AFRINIC whois database is subject to the following terms of Use. See <a href="https://afrinic.net/whois/terms" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://afrinic.net/whois/terms</a><br />
<br />
% Note: this output has been filtered.<br />
% To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag.<br />
<br />
% Information related to '154.88.0.0 - 154.88.0.255'<br />
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% No abuse contact registered for 154.88.0.0 - 154.88.0.255<br />
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inetnum: 154.88.0.0 - 154.88.0.255<br />
netname: CloudInnovation<br />
descr: CloudInnovation infrastructure<br />
country: US<br />
admin-c: APC1-AFRINIC<br />
tech-c: APC1-AFRINIC<br />
status: ASSIGNED PA<br />
remarks: ============REMARK====================<br />
remarks: As a consequence of the termination of the Registration Service<br />
remarks: Agreement with Cloud Innovation Ltd, this IP prefix has been revoked<br />
remarks: from this Resource Member and it only exists as a placeholder record on<br />
remarks: WHOIS as from 8th July 2021 and will be deleted after 7th October 2021.<br />
remarks: Kindly note that no further changes are possible for this<br />
remarks: prefix(frozen/locked). Users of this prefix and its corresponding route<br />
remarks: objects and reverse DNS objects are advised to consider other available<br />
remarks: options before the said date. This grace period of 90 days is a<br />
remarks: demonstration of good faith of AFRINIC as a Regional Internet Registry<br />
remarks: to prevent sudden disruption to the Internet connectivity of the<br />
remarks: relevant users.<br />
remarks: ============REMARK====================<br />
mnt-by: AFRINIC-HM-MNT<br />
mnt-routes: AFRINIC-HM-MNT<br />
source: AFRINIC # Filtered<br />
parent: 154.80.0.0 - 154.95.255.255<br />
<br />
person: AFRINIC Placeholder Contact<br />
address: 11th Floor, Standard Chartered Tower, 19, Cybercity, Ebène, Mauritius<br />
phone: <a href="tel:+230-403-5100">tel:+230-403-5100</a><br />
nic-hdl: APC1-AFRINIC<br />
mnt-by: AFRINIC-DB-MNT<br />
source: AFRINIC # Filtered<br />
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Please correct this with all due haste before further enforcement action is required.<br />
<br />
<br />
Thanks,<br />
<br />
Owen<br />
<br />
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