[rpd] AFRINIC Number Resources Transfer Policy

[Fernando Frediani]

In practice this situation you describe is very hard to happen, we 
cannot have things in place to treat the very unlikely situation and 
that Phase 2 is about to happen soon. Until there the vast majority or 
organization (really the vast!) can get addresses from AfriNic fine.
I hardly doubt one can justify anything more than a /13 at once at the 
moment. Even in a remote hypothesis that is possible the organization 
can receive the /13 and work with that until transfers are allowed as 
per Jordi's proposal that has been changed to start with Phase 2 is 
triggered and that organization will be able to transfer whatever else 
is needed.
One rule for all and much simpler.

Fernando

On 10/11/2019 18:51, Owen DeLong wrote:
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>> On Nov 10, 2019, at 10:51 , Chevalier du Borg <virtual.borg at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:virtual.borg at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> Le dim. 10 nov. 2019 à 21:58, Jaco Kroon <jaco at uls.co.za 
>> <mailto:jaco at uls.co.za>> a écrit :
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>>     Hi Chevalier.
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>>     Please allow me to be blunt.  That's short sighted.
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>>     We cannot transfer IN from other regions unless we allow OUT.
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>>
>> Agree 100%,
>> Then you have no problems with wait till all RIRs are equal run out 
>> before we etablish full in and out transfer policy no?
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>>     All the other RIRs require reciprocal *compatible* policies,
>>     which means bi-directional transfers.
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>> All RIRs don't all have equal amount of free space. Big difference
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> Depending on your definition here, 4 out of 5 have exactly equal 
> amount == 0.
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>>     Not allowing this means we can't get resources in either.
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>> While AfriNIC have free space, operators don't need it
>> When it run out, then we can allow transfer policy
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> This isn’t entirely true.
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> It’s possible that an operator needs more than they can get via 
> current AfriNIC policies due to “soft landing” limitations.
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> In such a case, said operator might prefer to transfer a large amount 
> of space in even if they are paying for it on the market
> rather than suffer with the small amount of space they can get from 
> AfriNIC due to the current restrictions.
>
> Is there a valid reason to preclude such a transfer which, in reality, 
> prolongs the AfriNIC free pool to the benefit of other
> organizations in Africa?
>
> Owen
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