[rpd] Legacy addresses in Afrinic region

[Lee Howard]

Thanks Andrew, and Mark Elkins who also told me I was missing 
significant data.

I'm doing further research to see if I can provide a more complete data 
set to the community, and I both ask forgiveness for sending incomplete 
data and thank those who are helping me improve the data set.

Lee

On 2/15/19 1:45 AM, Andrew Alston wrote:
>
> Lee,
>
> There is **WAY** more than that.
>
> You have a significant amount of space sitting in academia that came 
> from ARIN and even pre-arin days.
>
> I am going to decline to comment on the exact ranges and asn’s since I 
> believe it would not be polite to do so and will let the space owners 
> speak for themselves – but I will say that in a previous job I was 
> controlling the announcements for very close to a /12 worth of legacy 
> space distributed amongst multiple blocks – and that wasn’t anywhere 
> near all of it on the continent.
>
> A lot of this space came either from ARIN (or quite probably pre-dates 
> even ARIN)
>
> Andrew
>
> *From:*Lee Howard <lee.howard at retevia.net>
> *Sent:* 14 February 2019 21:50
> *To:* AfriNIC Resource Policy Discussion List <rpd at afrinic.net>
> *Subject:* [rpd] Legacy addresses in Afrinic region
>
> 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
>
> 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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