[AfriNIC-rpd] Re: Legacy IPv4 addresses

[ALAIN AINA]

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On May 4, 2011, at 11:51 PM, sm+afrinic at elandsys.com wrote:

> Hi Alain,
> 
> There seems to be some confusing about legacy IPv4 addresses.

AfriNIC legacy space holders are mainly AfriNIC region organizations
that were 'inherited' from other RIRs when AfriNIC started RIR
operations - who did not have any contract/RSA with the source RIR
at the time of the transfer. AfriNIC basically carried over the same
arrangement.


>  Would it be possible for AfriNIC to provide some information about the following:
> 

See below

> (a) Which existing policies cover legacy IPv4 addresses?

None.


> 
> (b) Are there any agreements or "rules" that affect legacy IPv4 addresses
>     that the Policy Development Working Group should take into
>     consideration when proposals are discussed?


No agreements.
Some business exceptions occur. Legacy space holders are not
accorded some services only available to members in good standing.
Such as:
- - Use of the member portal for management of the member account and
resources.
- - Resource Certification
- - Voting (Board Elections)

> 
> (c) Are there any issues related to the implementation of policies in
>     regards to legacy IPv4 addresses?
> 

At the moment, we keep it simple. A legacy member requesting any
additional resource from AfriNIC would have to sign RSA and be
treated as ordinary member after that. 

> (d) How many legacy IPv4 addresses are currently listed in Whois for the
>     AfriNIC service region?
> 

7,798,528 IP addresses

> (e) Are there any statistics about the distribution of legacy IPv4 addresses
>     by country in the AfriNIC service region?


- --------------------------------------------
Country        Addresses    Percentage
- --------------------------------------------
South Africa   7,727,104      99.08
Egypt             16,640       0.21
Morocco           16,384       0.21
Namibia            8,960       0.15
Cameroon           8,448       0.11
Kenya              8,192       0.11
Others            12,800       0.16
- --------------------------------------------
> 
> (f) Is there any agreement with other RIRs about legacy IPv4 addresses that
>     the Policy Development Working Group should be aware of?

No.


Regards

- --Alain
Acting CEO

> 
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
> Interim co-chair, AfriNIC Policy Development Working Group
> 

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