[rpd] Last Call - RPKI ROAs for Unallocated and Unassigned AFRINIC Address Space AFPUB-2019-GEN-006-DRAFT03.

[AFRINIC Policy Liaison]

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Dear PDWG,

We have noted your concerns raised during the Last Call in respect of 
RPKI ROAs for Unallocated and Unassigned AFRINIC Address Space
AFPUB-2019-GEN-006-DRAFT03, and we wish to assure you as follows:

 1.

    AFRINIC’s adopted policies are incorporated by reference to its
    Registration Service Agreement (RSA) and consequently, both AFRINIC
    and its Resource Members are bound to the terms thereof;

 2.

    AFRINIC’s staff are bound to act in accordance with and to give
    effect to the aforesaid RSA;

 3.

    In regard to AFRINIC’s delegated resources, status change updates
    e.g. from allocated/assigned to ‘reserved’ and at a later stage to
    ‘available’ are only effected when the concerned resources either
    have been returned to AFRINIC by the Resource Member or following
    their de-registration from the WHOIS database of the said Resource
    Member subsequent to the termination of the RSA;

 4.

    Termination of the RSA is triggered as a last resort pursuant to the
    terms of the RSA, after having offered the Resource Member the
    opportunity to remedy any identified breach(es);

 5.

    As a consequence of the WHOIS deregistration, the resources are
    considered as bogons and those still using the resources will
    experience connectivity issues;

 6.

    The AFRINIC team has the capacity to implement this policy.
    Technically, at a high level, this implementation will be quite
    similar to the current RPKI infrastructure. This same infrastructure
    has undergone several major changes which the team carried out
    successfully, examples are; 

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    Changes from single trust anchor (TAL) to split TAL - RPKI V2.0
    https://www.afrinic.net/library/news/1407-rpki-v20-announcement-to-the-public
    <https://www.afrinic.net/library/news/1407-rpki-v20-announcement-to-the-public> 

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    All resources trust anchor 
    https://afrinic.net/rpki-moving-towards-an-all-resources-trust-anchor
    <https://afrinic.net/rpki-moving-towards-an-all-resources-trust-anchor> 

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    Additionally there have been operations in recent years where
    resources received from IANA were added to RPKI. We believe this
    demonstrates enough capacity.


 7.

    The impact assessment of the aforementioned proposal will be updated
    to reflect that should this proposal reach consensus and is
    ratified, the implementation will be done on a new (separate) Trust
    Anchor so that it becomes an opt-in service and does not impact the
    current RPKI setup.

Regards

Policy Liaison Team*

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