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

[Mark Elkins]

Can I read into this that you support this then!  Cool.


On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 08:50 +0300, Badru Ntege wrote:
> Sounds logical and seems to make sense
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rpd-bounces at afrinic.net [mailto:rpd-bounces at afrinic.net] On Behalf
> > Of McTim
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 1:52 AM
> > To: AfriNIC Resource Policy Discussion List
> > Subject: [AfriNIC-rpd] Draft Policy: Anycast Assignments in the AfriNIC
> region
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > > ===
> > >
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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