[rpd] AfriNIC policy AFPUB-2014-GEN-002-DRAFT-01 reject

[Mark Elkins]

Can I please ask you - in which African Country do you live?

If a non African company moves into Africa - why would the policy not
allow them IPv4 address space?

On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 13:12 +0800, Victor wrote:
> In my opinion, the proposal itself intended to keep the resources
> within the region and may prevent business investment in Africa which
> is not good at all.
> 
> 
> Technically how to define out-of-region is another question to
> discuss. Without proper definition, this policy will NOT solve any
> problem which stated initially "leaving staff to arbitrarily decide
> how to handle Out-Of-Region requests". It simply create another
> problem "leaving staff to arbitrarily decide how to DEFINE
> Out-Of-Region", providing extra execute to reject some resources
> applications.
> 
> 
> There is no reason to get it implement.
> 
> 
> --
> Victor
>  
> 
> On 10/19/2014 11:52 AM, Vladimir Kangin wrote:
>         
>         
>         Dear Community Members,
>         
>         I would like to comment on AFPUB-2014-GEN-002-DRAFT-01
>         
>         In my humble opinion the split 40/60% is not appropriate and
>         "Out-Of-Region use" definition is something inappropriate for
>         Internet
>         in general. Why you do not offer 30/70% or 50/50%? How did you
>         come up
>         with 40/60% figures?
>         
>         The percentage of "Out-Of-Region use" cannot be indifferent to
>         type of
>         business companies do.
>         
>         For instance we take an African local ISP. Why they could need
>         40% of
>         allocated space for use outside of Africa? It would eventually
>         seduce
>         them into sell/rent IPs only. Normally they would need less
>         then 1%
>         and in very rare cases only.
>         
>         Or for instance take a satellite services company that would
>         like to
>         focus on serving customers that Out-Of-Region. Then all is
>         opposite and
>         they need 1% of allocated space for infrastructure use at
>         African
>         Satellite HUB and the rest 99% will be on customer end. Will
>         you close
>         the door for such business?
>         
>         We can discuss many other options like VPNs, Clouds, CDNs etc
>         but
>         obviously 40% of Internet number resources for use by a member
>         to be
>         outside the region is not a solution. The approach shall be
>         beneficial
>         for Afrinic in a way of controlling resources as well as
>         maintain
>         attractiveness for businesses.
>         
>         I kindly request to consider my reject on
>         AFPUB-2014-GEN-002-DRAFT-01.
>         
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