[rpd] Legacy addresses in Afrinic region

[Kris Seeburn]

Thanks Lee

It surely adds to the debate and if I am not wrong there are around :

>  351 Legacy Space Holders
> Total IPv4 (legacy) space held by legacy space holders:  8,548,752 /32s (0.5 /8)



Kris Seeburn  
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> On 14 Feb 2019, at 22:50, Lee Howard <lee.howard at retevia.net> wrote:
> 
> Colleagues,
> 
> It has seemed to me that there has been a lack of information in some of the policy debates. I finally got around to looking up how much legacy address space is in the Afrinic region.
> 
> When Afrinic was founded, legacy address space was transferred to it from RIPE-NCC. I think address space from ARIN had already been transferred to RIPE-NCC before that, so the RIPE-Afrinic transfer was all of it, but I'm not completely certain, and if anyone else remembers better, please correct me.
> 
> The list of legacy IPv4 addresses transferred is at https://www.afrinic.net/services/220-erx-transfer <https://www.afrinic.net/services/220-erx-transfer> and also https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/legacy-resources/erx/transferred-resources <https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/legacy-resources/erx/transferred-resources>
> A total of 271,604 legacy IPv4 addresses was transferred.
> 
> Within this series were three Class B blocks (/16s) currently registered to the European Space Agency, Sweden, and IDSC in Egypt. There was also one /17 currently registered to TE Data in Egypt.
> 
> Distribution of the blocks:
> 
> Three Class Bs (/16s)
> One /17
> One /19
> One /21
> One block of six /24s
> Seven blocks of five /24s
> Four /22s
> Eleven /23s
> Forty-six /24s
> One /26 (!?)
> Unless there were separate legacy block transfers from ARIN or APNIC, or other addresses have been re-registered into Afrinic since its founding, this is the total of legacy address space in the region.
> 
> I hope this is useful information to the community.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Lee
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