[rpd] New Policy Proposal Received - "IPv4 Inter-RIR Legacy Resource Transfers (Comprehensive Scope) AFPUB-2019-v4-002-DRAFT01"

[Fernando Frediani]

Hello

I want to highlight an interesting comment from staff in both proposals 
that matches something that was discussed and mentioned by some people 
who objected this proposal.

"/Section 5.7.3.3 is now removed from the new policy proposal ("Source 
entities must not have received a transfer, allocation, or assignment of 
IPv4 number resources from AFRINIC for the 12 months prior to the 
approval of transfer request"). This restriction excludes mergers and 
acquisitions transfers.*Removal of this clause will open the way for 
companies to set up in the AFRINIC service region, get resources and 
transfer them out of the region* - that is, new members will be able to 
immediately sell/transfer their resources as soon as received - *paving 
way for serious abuse and at the same time conflicts with the 
soft-landing policy* clause that requires a demonstration of need for 
next 8 months (CPM 5.4.5)./"

The highlighted part in bold matches with the concerns about external 
organizations coming to Africa, request space and transfer them out of 
the region which only brings risks to the region and zero benefits at 
the time as vast majority of African organizations are able to receive 
allocations directly from AfriNIC and don't need to go to market.

Another point I want to quote is the 12 month period a source entity 
shall not be eligible to receive IPv4 addresses from AfriNIC. I consider 
this a short time for a entity who gave away resources which supposedly 
weren't being used and consider this period should be extended.

Best regards
Fernando

On 29/08/2019 12:56, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote:

> Jordi,

>

>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 at 08:49, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via RPD

>> <rpd at afrinic.net> wrote:

>>> In short. I'm waiting for the staff impact analysis (Ernest any news ?). Once we got that, in addition to resolving any issues discovered by the staff, I will add a "security belt" to the existing text, in the line of:

>>>

>>> 1.Each time a transfer is completed, the relevant, non-confidential information will be automatically published in a specific web page, including at least: Date of the transfer, transferred addresses, source organization and RIR, destination organization and RIR.

>

> Staff assessment reports for the two transfer policy proposals are available at:

>

>    IPv4 Inter-RIR Legacy Resource Transfers

>    https://afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2019-v4-001-d1#staff-assessment

>

>    IPv4 Inter-RIR Resource Transfers (Comprehensive Scope)

>    https://afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2019-v4-002-d1#staff-assessment

>

> Regards,

> Ernest.

>

>

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