[AfriNIC-rpd] Definitions of LIR versus End User

[Duncan Martin]

I support Sunday's call for a review of AfriNIC's fee structures.
The present huge differences between the fees charged to End-Users and those charged to LIRs show that AfriNIC's fees are not based on cost-recovery, as would befit a non-profit entity, but, evidently, on perceptions of the prices and implicit cross-subsidisations that different market segments will tolerate.
If definitions of End Users and LIRs and distinctions between End Users and LIRs are indeed required in AfriNIC's fee structures, should these not be justified in terms of AfriNIC's obligations and responsibility as a RIR to ensure/promote good Internet numbering practice in the Region?
Duncan Martin
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From: rpd-bounces at afrinic.net on behalf of Sunday Folayan
Sent: Fri 2012/07/20 09:36 PM
To: Guy Antony Halse
Cc: AfriNIC Resource Policy Discussion List
Subject: Re: [AfriNIC-rpd] Definitions of LIR versus End User



All of this exercise at definitions and ambiguity discoveries points to a total warp in the afrinic fee structure. That is what needs equitable review, not definitions.

My 1 micro-lira.

SF.

	On 13 Jul 2012 08:13, "Guy Antony Halse" <G.halse at ru.ac.za> wrote:
	
	Hi
	

	
	On Wed 2012-07-11 (20:12), Seun Ojedeji wrote:
	> end-user:
	> An end-user is an organization receivi...

	When coupled with the definition of LIR:
	

	
	> > A Local Internet Registry (LIR) is an IR that receives allocations from
	> > an RIR and primaril...

	this creates exactly the sort of ambiguity I referred to previously.
	
	There exists the potential for an organisation that neither uses its IP
	assignments *exclusively* for its internal use, nor *primarily* assigns
	address space to end-users.  (Note the emphasised words.)  From the
	discussions, most universities come to mind.
	
	Ergo (at least some) universities are neither end-users nor LIRs.
	
	Which is why I think that end-user should be !(LIR || RIR).
	

	
	- Guy
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	Systems Manager, IT Division, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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