[AfriNIC-rpd] Draft Policy: Anycast Assignments in the AfriNIC region

[McTim]

Dear RPD,

Below is the proposal on Anycast I submitted to pdwg last week.

It is somewhat of a "strawman" in that it gives us a starting point
for discussion.

I look forward to your feedback.

-- 
Cheers,

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


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> Unique identifier:  AFPUB-2012-V4-001-DRAFT-01
> Draft Policy Name: Anycast Assignments in the AfriNIC region
> Authors:
> a)    Tim McGinnis | dogwallah at gmail.com | ISC/PDWG Co-Chair
> b)    Mark J Elkins | <mje at posix.co.za  | Posix Systems - South Africa
> c)    Mauritz Lewies | <mauritz at three6five.com  | Co-founder at
> Three6Five Network Solutions
>
> Submission Date: April 17 2012
> Related Policies: None
> Obsoletes: None
> Amends: AFPUB-2005-v4-001, AFPUB-2006-GEN-001,
> AFPUB-2010-v4-005-draft-05
>
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> 1.    Summary of the Problem Being Addressed by this Policy Proposal
>
> Unless one is in charge of "critical infrastructure" in the AfriNIC
> region, an organization cannot get an allocation or assignment
> purely for anycast or GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX) usage. I
> understand there are organizations that would like to use
> anycast/GRX for non-critical infrastructure in the region, but
> cannot due to policy limitations.
>
> In addition, current anycast practice announces an entire /24.
> AfriNIC's current IPv4 policy states that the minimum allocation
> size on initial allocation is a /22. To use a /22 for anycast when
> you potentially are only using a few addresses in the block is wasteful.
>
> Also, if an organisation uses some of its allocation (or assignment)
> for anycast services, it may not be able to justify the use of it's
> current allocation/assignment when requesting additional resources.
>
> 2.     Summary of How this Proposal Addresses the Problem
>
> This proposal allows the use of one (1) /24 of IPv4 for anycast
> services from a PA allocation or end user assignment. These /24s
> will be assumed to be "fully utilised" by AfriNIC staff when
> considering utilisation for first allocation or for an additional
> allocation or assignment.
>
> 3.    Proposal
>
> 3.1 An organization may obtain one (1) /24 IPv4 prefix for anycast
> or GRX purposes from an allocation or end-user assignment. These
> prefixes must be used for the sole purpose of anycasting web or
> authoritative DNS servers as described in BCP126/RFC 4786
> (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4786.txt or for GPRS Roaming Exchange.
>
> These prefixes will count as being fully utilised when an
> organization applies for additional resources. The utilization
> criteria that apply to all IPv4 initial allocation or assignment
> requests shall be waived for anycast allocation or assignment requests.
>
> 3.2 Blocks used for anycast services cannot be further assigned or
> sub-allocated. They shall be tagged with the status attribute in the
> AfriNIC DB as "ASSIGNED ANYCAST".
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