[AfriNIC-rpd] Last Call: IPv4 Soft Landing Policy - AFPUB-2010-v4-005-draft-03

[McTim]

Hi,

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:03 PM, David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:
> McTim,
>
> On May 25, 2011, at 7:49 AM, McTim wrote:
>> If consensus is NOT reached, would you have any objection to a "no
>> transfer" policy.  In other words, we would have to write some text
>> like:
>>
>> AfriNIC resources are meant to be used by African organisations,
>
> Just for clarity:
>
> What do you mean by "African organisations'?

I was hoping not to define that one ;-)


  Would you disallow (say) Médecins Sans Frontières from getting
address space from AfriNIC for use in their offices in African
countries?

No.


>
>> primarily in the AfriNIC region.
>
> Do you mean to disallow any African ISP from using this address space to provide Internet services outside of Africa?

No, am trying to come up with a way to codify the community's intent
to keep the bulk of AfriNIC IP space in use for the development of the
Internet in Africa.  hence my "trial balloon".

>
>> To that end transfers of address
>> space from AfriNIC LIRs to organisations outside of Africa are
>> prohibited"
>>
>> Just a rough draft, but what do you all think???
>
> I would think it would be better to be explicit in what you expect AfriNIC to do, e.g.:
>
> Perhaps:
>
> "AfriNIC resources are meant to benefit Internet development in the African region. To that end, transfer of those resources to organizations outside of the region served by AfriNIC will not be reflected in the AfriNIC registration database."


Might be strong enough. Not sure, will have to sleep on it.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel