[rpd] Fwd: [IANAOversight] IANA Numbering Services SLA Draft Call for Comments

[Owen DeLong]

> On May 2, 2015, at 14:02 , Nii Narku Quaynor <quaynor at ghana.com> wrote:
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>> On May 2, 2015, at 13:24, Alan Barrett <alan.barrett at afrinic.net> wrote:
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>>> On Sat, 02 May 2015, Nii Narku Quaynor wrote:
>>> Is there an accompanying SLA between Afrinic and LIRs to share?
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>> The relationship between Afrinic and LIRs is goverened by the
>> registration service agreement <http://www.afrinic.net/en/services/rs/rsa>..
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>> This agreement says that "AFRINIC shall provide the services applied for under the present agreement in terms of the "best effort" criterion".
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> Thanks. The import of the question was that while Afrinic on one hand ask SLA from ICANN on the other offers "best effort" service to LIRs which is not symmetric thus wondered if corresponding enhancement to RSA would be appropriate for members

There is a huge difference between the relationship RIR<->IANA vs. RIR<->LIR, so I think attempting to seek symmetry in the contracts on that basis is probably ill-advised.

Owen