[rpd] AFRINIC Number Resources Transfer Policy Version 1.0

[Noah]

Hi Ekatarina,

Please see responses inline.

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 7:42 PM Ekaterina Kalugina <kay.k.prof at gmail.com>
wrote:


> Dear Noah, dear community,

>

> "AFRINIC Number Resource Transfer

>

> a.                   Not realistic for one-way inter RIR resource

> transfer as it has to be reciprocal. One way would never happen as only

> global resources can come in and go out

>


If you read the proposal, you will note that;

   - The proposal provides for two-ways inter-RIR transfers as it allows
   resources to be transferred in and out.
   - The proposal clearly marks any "*resources transferred into the region*"
   and  "*Legacy resources in AFRINIC service region*" as “*Global*”.
   - “*Global*” resources so defined are eligible to be transferred out of
   the AFRINIC region.

The proposal is also *reciprocal and compatible* and AFRINIC staff can
confirm the same. Each RIR decides which resources are eligible to be
transferred out and AFRINIC would not be doing anything special.




> b.                  It would be difficult for the recipient to follow the

> rules of AFRINIC if they are not in the African region.

>


Section 3.6 of the proposal reads as below.

"If the recipient is in another region, the conditions on the recipient are
defined in the counterpart’s RIR transfer policy." This is stand practice
across all RIR.




> c.                   No need for ASN transfer. If one is moving regions

> and doesn't have an ASN in the new region, it can request and receive from

> the local RIRs

>


This has been discussed many times and there are cases where members need
to acquire 4-byte ASN mappable to 2-byte ASN which are scarce resources
now. AFRINIC Staff policy implementation report presented at AIS2019 also
raises the needs for some members to transfer ASN.

Please see the link below.

https://www.afrinic.net/ast/pdf/policy/afrinic-pier-2019.pdf

And FWIW, other RIRs inter-RIR policies also allow ASN transfer.



> d.                  Additional attributes create none-operational

> complexity in the whois database."

>


The only interesting thing that this proposal requests is for resources to
be tagged.

FWIW, number resources have always been tagged as you can see here
https://ftp.afrinic.net/stats/afrinic/delegated-afrinic-extended-latest

Cheers,
Noah
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