[rpd] inputs on IPv4 Inter-RIR policy proposals - AFRINIC needs this policy now!

[Andrew Alston]

Alan –

For clarity – can you qualify the meaning of

“Services” – since this does not state IP services – it states services – so – what services exactly fall under this?

Now – let’s for a second break down the rest of this:

"any Person who is geographically based within, and providing services in the African region, and who is engaged in the use of, or business of providing, open system protocol network services”

This as per the definitions section of the bylaws refers to both natural and non-natural persons – so long as they are domiciled – so I don’t think there is any cause to quibble over that – though for clarity I quote:

Person
Any individual, company, body corporate, registered organisation, unincorporated association, governmental organisation and intergovernmental organisations or non-governmental organisation.

"any Person who is geographically based within, and providing services in the African region, and who is engaged in the use of, or business of providing, open system protocol network services”

This is meaningless without a definition of services – the guy who washes my car at the car wash is delivering a service in Africa – its entirely open.

"any Person who is geographically based within, and providing services in the African region, and who is engaged in the use of, or business of providing, open system protocol network services”

If you are reading this email – you are engaged in the use of open system network protocols – because this email got to your PC using such.

Again – this comes down to whats in the policy – and provided you are not using IP space allocated under the soft landing policy – I still maintain there is absolutely no requirement codified that prevents off continent use of allocated resources.

Andrew

From: Alan Barrett <alan.barrett at afrinic.net>
Date: Monday, 1 July 2019 at 15:04
To: RPD <rpd at afrinic.net>
Subject: Re: [rpd] inputs on IPv4 Inter-RIR policy proposals - AFRINIC needs this policy now!



> On 30 Jun 2019, at 22:39, Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
>
> In message <539D1303-4A80-4ACB-A70A-9CBD8E4C3B73 at consulintel.es>, Jordi wrote:
>
>> As said, this is something that the legal counsel should clarify.
>
> I can only say that I hope that -someone- will provide a definitive
> answer.
>
> I should perhaps clarify that my interest in knowing the
> current operative meaning of Section 6.1 of the Afrinic Bylaws
> is a consequence of my belief that more than one party that is
> located outside of the Afrinic region and that is providing -no-
> services whatsoever within the Afrinic region are already enjoying
> the benefits arising from the exclusive use of Afrinic-assigned
> IPv4 number resources.

In order to be an AFRINIC member and receive address space from AFRINIC, it is necessary to comply with AFRINIC’s Bylaws article 6.1: "any Person who is geographically based within, and providing services in the African region, and who is engaged in the use of, or business of providing, open system protocol network services”. A party that is not based in the AFRINIC service region, or that does not provide services within the AFRINIC service region, is not eligible.

If you know of parties that do not meet these conditions, but which have received resources from AFRINIC, then please report them to hostmaster at afrinic.net.

Regards,
Alan Barrett
CEO, AFRINIC




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