[rpd] IPv4 policy on where space is used.

[Mark Elkins]

On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 16:26 +0100, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
> sent from Google nexus 4
> kindly excuse brevity and typos.
> On 16 May 2014 16:16, "Stephen Wilcox" <steve.wilcox at ixreach.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Saul, 
> >  so a successful African company that wishes to expand outside
> Africa is forced to go to APNIC, RIPE, etc who are unable to assign
> space as they have ran out. Isn't this an issue with regionalising
> resources for global business?
> >
> Sure it's difficult to make such restriction and it's really not a
> path that will yield much success. However I believe it's possible to
> ensure those organisation are indeed well grounded African
> organisation before handing resources to them.

I believe this is one of the pains that AFRINIC Hostmasters are trying
to deal with at the moment. So what if we said that at least 50% of all
number resources had to be for equipment in Africa?

Should be enough for a truly African ISP to use out of the area.

I'm looking at somehow disallowing an "African" entity from using all
the numbering resources out side of the Afrinic Region....



> 
> Cheers!
> > Regards
> > Steve
> >
> >
> >
> > On 16 May 2014 15:57, Saul <saul at enetworks.co.za> wrote:
> >>
> >> Personally I am in favour of keeping our resources regional. I
> think that we
> >> have all been offered large sums of money to get space and then
> sell it off
> >> the continent.
> >>
> >> But then its IP... does it really matter?
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: rpd-bounces at afrinic.net [mailto:rpd-bounces at afrinic.net] On
> Behalf Of
> >> Mark Elkins
> >> Sent: 15 May 2014 09:09 PM
> >> To: rpd at afrinic.net
> >> Subject: [rpd] IPv4 policy on where space is used.
> >>
> >> On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 21:46 +0400, Kofi ansa akufo wrote:
> >> >  ....the resource was going out of the region....
> >>
> >>
> >> As far as I am aware, the current requirement for getting address
> space is
> >> that you are a company properly established (all legal - as such)
> in Africa.
> >> There is currently no policy (except with the last /8) that states
> the
> >> resources you get have to be used in Africa....
> >>
> >> This might be good.... (get rid of all the IPv4, start using IPv6)
> or Bad...
> >> (we are doing *what* with our resources???)
> >>
> >> Maybe some policy needs to be designed - how do people feel...
> >>
> >> --
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