[AfriNIC-rpd] Re: Proposal: Reclamation of allocated but unrouted IPv4 addresses.

[Jackson Muthili]

David,

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:54 PM, David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2011, at 5:31 AM, Jackson Muthili wrote:
>>> You think that Level(3), GE, Ford and Halliburton et. Al. are going to sign
>>> an Afrinic membership agreement and put their resources under agreement or
>>> allow their resources to be revoked by Afrinic, who had nothing to do with
>>> their initial assignment? Can you give me some basis for this belief?
>>
>> When community has decided by way of policy, what will Level3, GE,
>> Ford et al do? sue? who?
>
> My guess is they'd simply ignore a policy that negatively impacts them.

They'd ignore till the policy is implemented. If implementation
involved revocation of addresses, they'd do something.
If rpki is adopted, it will be another area where they'll need the RIR
to issue a route origin authorization.

cheers
Jack

>
> Regards,
> -drc
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>