[rpd] Some thoughts, and some actions required

[Mukom Akong T.]

On 2 February 2016 at 17:30, Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com>
wrote:

> My view is simply that the transfers will happen, and we have two options
>
> A.) They can happen legitimately under a transfer policy and the whois
> databases can be kept accurate with good information in an open and
> transparent form
>
> Or
>
> B.) We can hide our heads in the sand and pretend they won’t happen and
> accept the fact that the whois databases may be vastly inaccurate.
>


You can blame it on anything (from ignorance to cluelessness all the way
through intentional malice, they are those who would say let there be some
kind consequence for plunderers :-)


For the record, my position has always been: legitimate African
organisations should reduce their NAT dependence and get IPv4 allocations.
That's the only way to stem the plundering.




>
> If we want to stop the mass leakage of space that AfriNIC still holds, the
> transfer policy can also be carefully worded and timed so that it doesn’t
> kick in before we hit phase 2 of the exhaustion policy OR make it such that
> anyone who conducts a transfer of space AWAY from them, does not qualify
> for more space from AfriNIC for a period of X time (to be defined).
>


Makes sense. It's clauses like these that *might* convince the community
that such a policy isn't a "The AFRINIC IPv4 Space Plundering Policy" :-)



>
> This means, if someone sells their space, they can’t simply come back and
> get more, and transfer of their space away from them will leave them with
> none and liable to being without any.  This is a damn good incentive not to
> transfer the space to anyone else.
>


I agree!

Now is there anyone willing to formulate the draft of such a policy? Of
course I can't :-)))))




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Mukom Akong T.

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