[rpd] Some thoughts, and some actions required

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

Mukom, that argument is good, and I think the community will only accept it
when we reach Soft landing phase. Whatever graphs and statistics you show,
the community will always ask, what is the hurry?

I am ready to write the draft.

Regards
On Feb 2, 2016 5:44 PM, "Mukom Akong T." <mukom.tamon at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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