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[rpd] IPv4 policy on where space is used.
Carlos M. Martinez
carlosm3011 at gmail.com
Fri May 16 19:05:42 UTC 2014
As an historical side note: when I was part of the community and not
LACNIC staff I always opposed policies trying to limit where our
resources were to be used.
My argument at the time was that it would severely limit the ability of
Latin American companies to sucesfully compete in other regions. If one
of our region's giants (Telmex comes to mind, but there are several
others) wants to open a facility like a big Datacenter or NAP in, let's
say, Asia, why should a policy limit its ability to use its resources
there?
Whether this applies to Africa or not, I don't know, but I felt my past
experience & feelings on the topic could be interesting to you.
warm regards,
~Carlos
On 5/16/14, 3:54 PM, Ben Roberts wrote:
> Thanks Seun.
>
> But it's not even about monitoring. As an African company leading the
> way in African Internet development we are expanding outwards. I will be
> opening network points in UAE and possibly Singapore this year expanding
> to Asia. Of course I should be allowed to use our resources there.
>
> Everyone seems to be worrying about Non African Internet companies
> encroaching in to use African IP resources. Just remember there are
> large African Internet companies moving outwards. We are one of those
> and I can think of others in the same category as well as groups of MNOs
> from Africa that are way bigger.
>
> Cheers
> Ben.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 16 May 2014, at 19:22, "Seun Ojedeji" <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com
> <mailto:seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> This particular one being a good example of a company that has roots
>> in Africa. For me I don't think it's more about spending more energy
>> in monitoring how you as a member use IP. It's more of reviewing
>> applicants membership requirements.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> sent from Google nexus 4
>> kindly excuse brevity and typos.
>>
>> On 16 May 2014 18:37, "Ben Roberts" <Ben.Roberts at liquidtelecom.com
>> <mailto:Ben.Roberts at liquidtelecom.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Speaking as an African multinational...
>>
>> We are headquartered in Mauritius and present with IP network in
>> twelve countries in Africa and 2 in Europe. We are also RIPE
>> members also and we pay a huge premium in LIR fees to Afrinic so I
>> think I am entitled to use my IPs where I jolly well like and will
>> oppose any policy proposal to restrict or prevent us from doing so!
>>
>> Cheers
>> Ben
>> Liquid Telecom Group Director of Network Strategy.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 16 May 2014, at 18:29, "Stephen Wilcox"
>> <steve.wilcox at ixreach.com <mailto:steve.wilcox at ixreach.com>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 16 May 2014 18:13, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> sent from Google nexus 4
>>> kindly excuse brevity and typos.
>>> On 16 May 2014 16:56, "Mark Elkins" <mje at posix.co.za
>>> <mailto:mje at posix.co.za>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I believe this is one of the pains that AFRINIC Hostmasters
>>> are trying
>>> > to deal with at the moment.
>>> >
>>> Yeah and they can only try within the limits of the policy.
>>>
>>> >
>>> So what if we said that at least 50% of all
>>> > number resources had to be for equipment in Africa?
>>> >
>>> Hmmm... that's could be an option. Perhaps also be helpful to
>>> look at reviewing the requirements that makes an organisation
>>> African enough to be consider for resource.
>>>
>>> > Should be enough for a truly African ISP to use out of the
>>> area.
>>> >
>>> Yeah 50% is a fair deal, although the other puzzle could be
>>> how to verify this after resource assignment is done ;) hence
>>> the reason why further vetting of organisation establishment
>>> status and purpose may be needed.
>>>
>>>
>>> Just playing devil's advocate - but who will do this research and
>>> maintain it? What if an African multinational is acquired by a
>>> non-African company, does it have to free its resources? Or the
>>> other way around, a non-African company buying an African one can
>>> they suddenly request huge amounts of IP?
>>>
>>>
>>> > I'm looking at somehow disallowing an "African" entity from
>>> using all
>>> > the numbering resources out side of the Afrinic Region....
>>> >
>>> Yeah a possibility that I just alluded to above. So the
>>> purpose of that African company should be checked. Things like:
>>>
>>> - What type of service do they provide and are they really
>>> services that utilises IP resource on physical
>>> infrastructures (such check more applicable to those applying
>>> as cloud services organization)
>>> - Who are their existing clients
>>> - History of establishment
>>> - Does employed staff and organisation base reflect as being
>>> continental.
>>> - Possibly a biannual check of resource usage statistics (if
>>> it's not a tall order)
>>>
>>> A company complicated enough to need this level of investigation
>>> and due diligence might well be a large company with a team of
>>> lawyers questioning how they can release information that may be
>>> under NDA. Indeed, how much client and contract information is
>>> reasonable to disclose before it becomes a liability?
>>>
>>>
>>> I think the more complicated you make the rules, the more
>>> loopholes and corner cases you create, plus more bureaucracy and
>>> red tape. Simple rules will scale better..
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> Those tall checks above may not prevent IP export, but it
>>> could ensure some functional provider establishment in Africa.
>>>
>>> Hopefully we can see some policies proposals in that direction.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> > > Cheers!
>>> > > > Regards
>>> > > > Steve
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > On 16 May 2014 15:57, Saul <saul at enetworks.co.za
>>> <mailto: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>
>>> [mailto: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 <mailto: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...
>>> > > >>
>>> > > >> --
>>> > > >> Mark James ELKINS - Posix Systems - (South) Africa
>>> > > >> mje at posix.co.za <mailto:mje at posix.co.za> Tel:
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