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[rpd] IPv4 issues
Jackson Muthili
jacksonmuthi at gmail.com
Tue Dec 2 09:02:29 UTC 2014
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Kofi ANSA AKUFO <kofi.ansa at gmail.com>
wrote:> Hi Jackson
>
> Are you saying AfriNIC gave out another /12 IPv4 yesterday?
yes
inetnum: 45.192.0.0 - 45.207.255.255
netname: Cloud-Innovation-v4-I
descr: Cloud Innovation Ltd
country: SC
org: ORG-CIL1-AFRINIC
admin-c: OS9-AFRINIC
tech-c: OS9-AFRINIC
status: ALLOCATED PA
notify: tech at cloudinnovation.org
mnt-by: AFRINIC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower: CIL1-MNT
mnt-domains: CIL1-MNT
changed: hostmaster at afrinic.net 20141201
source: AFRINIC
parent: 45.192.0.0 - 45.222.255.255
organisation: ORG-CIL1-AFRINIC
org-name: Cloud Innovation Ltd
org-type: LIR
country: SC
address: C/o Abacus (Seychelles) Limited
address: Mont Fleuri, Mahe
address: Seychelles
address: Mahe
e-mail: tech at cloudinnovation.org
phone: +248 4 610 795
phone: +248 4 610 795
admin-c: OS9-AFRINIC
tech-c: OS9-AFRINIC
mnt-ref: AFRINIC-HM-MNT
mnt-ref: CIL1-MNT
mnt-by: AFRINIC-HM-MNT
notify: tech at cloudinnovation.org
changed: hostmaster at afrinic.net 20130716
changed: hostmaster at afrinic.net 20130722
changed: hostmaster at afrinic.net 20130724
changed: support at outsideheaven.com 20140120
source: AFRINIC
person: OutsideHeaven Support
nic-hdl: OS9-AFRINIC
address: Ebene
address: MU
address: Mahe
address: Seychelles
e-mail: tech at cloudinnovation.org
phone: +248 4 610 795
changed: support at outsideheaven.com 20130416
changed: tech at cloudinnovation.org 20140120
source: AFRINIC
>
> Anyway the stats as of December 02, 2014 (according to
> ftp://ftp.afrinic.net/pub/stats/afrinic/ ) indicates 6 organisations have
> received /12 IPv4 allocations for 2014.
>
> Find attached files for your perusal.
>
> cheers
>
> K.
>
> On 2 December 2014 at 09:51, Jackson Muthili <jacksonmuthi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Marcus makes good points. Afrinic yesterday give out that /12.
>>
>> Here my take on Markus inputs:
>>
>> By Laws have the following as some of powers of Afrinic Board
>>
>> 15.1.ii Supervising the management of the business and affairs of
>> the Company.
>> 15.3.i Determine the guidelines for the allocation of address space
>> to members in line with the member driven PDP
>>
>> 15.1.ii give board supervisory authority of all Afrinic business. I
>> dont see why Board now come out and say they dont get involved in IP
>> allocation affairs YET THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT business of Afrinic!
>> Have board read these by law or have Afrinic legal staffs educated
>> board of the responsibility give to them by these by-law?
>>
>> Separately may I point 6.1.i of by law which say Afrinic to give IPs
>> to companies geographically based within, and providing services in
>> the Africa. Does Afrinic enforce this clause?
>>
>> J.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Marcus K. G. Adomey <madomey at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Dear Chairman of AFRINIC Board and Board Members,
>> >
>> > 28 November 2014 marked the conclusion of the 21st meeting of AFRINIC.
>> > The
>> > following are my reflection which I want to share with you.
>> >
>> > As you are aware, the saga of IPv4 /12 has generated a lot of
>> > discussions
>> > with lot controversies in which a lot of AFRINIC community members and
>> > observers concluded that something went wrong, maybe at the policy
>> > level,
>> > operations level, the board level or elsewhere. Also, it is noticed that
>> > there is a hard push from some members of the community to ease or
>> > simplify
>> > the process of acquiring resources from AFRINIC. Why this hard push?
>> >
>> > The duty of the board is to protect the interest of the community by
>> > using
>> > the policies the community has put in place. When there is no policy to
>> > guide the actions of the board in some circumstances, and when the
>> > interest
>> > of the AFRINIC community is as take, the board is supposed to do
>> > everything
>> > possible to protect the interest and the resources of the AFRINIC
>> > community
>> > who elected them there as board members to represent their interest.
>> > There
>> > are precedence of this unwritten disposition in the history of the
>> > world.
>> >
>> > AFRINIC is entering the state of transition caused by the announcement
>> > of
>> > the resignation of the CEO. Moreover, for the sake of “smooth
>> > transition”,
>> > there is a change in the chairmanship of the Board of AFRINIC. In
>> > general,
>> > it is observed that, at times, some transitions can be chaotic due to a
>> > number of reasons. In the AFRINIC community the resources attribution
>> > that
>> > has generated a lot of discussions and indignation from the community
>> > and
>> > observers is IPv4 /12.
>> >
>> > To protect the resources of the AFRINIC community as well as protect the
>> > image and the integrity of the AFINIC board during this transition, I
>> > believe that the allocation of the IPv4 address above IPv4 /18 should be
>> > done in a way and manner that would protect the interest of the AFRINIC
>> > community.
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Marcus
>> >
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