[rpd] Draft inbound policy

[Timothy Ola Akinfenwa]

Andrew, please pardon my curiosity. Was thinking what exactly the law says
(if there is any for a situation like this).

Guess the community would be better informed should there be a next time.
Or should we now rely solely on whatever comes out from the co-chairs?

Timothy
On 17 Jun 2016 4:08 p.m., "Andrew Alston" <Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com>
wrote:

> Evelyn,
>
> Actually as one the authors I have the right to post the policy to the
> list. This was how it was confirmed to me by the previous co-chairs when I
> drafted the last policy, that either they or the authors could post it.
>
> So, I followed exactly what was said to me by the co-chairs at the time of
> the authoring of the last policy.
>
> That is unless you as a community member have suddenly become a co-chair
> and override what the pdp co chairs have stated to me, another community
> member?
>
> Andrew
>
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> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 5:49 PM +0300, "Evelyn Namara" <
> evelyngeek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Isn't it the job of the PDP co-chairs to post policy proposal drafts?  Or
> has it now become a function of board members as well to do so even if they
> are part of the community?
>
> EN.
> Hi All,
>
> The following has been submitted to policy-submission and I am also
> posting it here for discussion in the mean time.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrew
>
> Draft Policy Name: Inbound Transfer Policy
> Unique Identifier:
> Status: Under Discussion
> Submission Date: 17 June 2016
> Amends: N/A
>
> Author(s):
> a. Andrew Alston (andrew.alston at liquidtelecom.com)
> b. Christopher Mwangi (Christopher.mwangi at liquidtelecom.com)
>
>
> 1. Introduction:
> The AfriNIC Service Region has the lowest amount of IPv4 space of any of
> the RIR defined regions.  As such, when AfriNIC depletes its current space,
> there will still be a need for further IPv4 addresses on the continent. In
> addition to this, there may be circumstances where companies wish to use
> specific v6 resources and ASN’s unavailable on the continent.
>
> While the community has voiced concerns that enacting a transfer policy
> will result in the flow of resources off the continent, this policy
> addresses that by purely catering for inbound transfers, without allowing
> or affecting transfers flowing out of the continent to other RIR service
> regions.
>
> 2. Resources covered under this policy
> This policy covers the inbound transfer of all IP resources, including
> ASN’s, both 16bit and 32bit, IPv4 space and IPv6 space
>
> 3. Details of inbound transfer requirements
> AfriNIC shall accept all inbound transfers of all resources explicitly
> referred to in section 2
> For transfers into the region, the recipient of IP space (v4 or v6) must
> provide a plan to AfriNIC for the use of at least 50% of the transferred
> resource within the next 5 years.
> Once received, the space shall form part of the recipient’s normal
> allocations for the purpose of evaluating the size of the recipient from an
> AfriNIC membership perspective.
> Should a recipient of transferred space apply for further resources from
> AfriNIC directly, all space received via transfers shall be included in any
> evaluation done for further resource allocation by AfriNIC.
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