[rpd] Soft Landing, Recovered Space and Priority AFPUB-2026-IPv4-001-DRAFT01.

[jordi.palet at consulintel.es]

Hi all,

I just want to make a short intro to this proposal, aiming to create, hopefully, some discussion.

This proposal aims to resolve in a single step, most of the conflicts that have been raised by the staff and summarized here:
https://www.afrinic.net/policy/implementation-reports/pier-summary

Those conflicts are because the soft landing policy takes over some of the articles in other parts of the CPM.

This proposal address that by basically stating that in case of conflict, soft-landing articles will have higher priority and actually removing 3 articles and rewording one more, to avoid confusion for anyone reading the CPM.

This is the actual way the staff is doing for any request for IPv4 addresses, so basically, the proposal doesn’t imply changes in the actual evaluation process, just ensuring that there are no misinterpretations or confusions.

Please, let me know if you feel that something is broken or can be improved or whatever.

Note that this proposal doesn’t prevent the community to improve the soft-landing policy, for example regarding what do to with the IPv4 addresses being recovered, but reaching consensus in changes to soft landing, probably can take longer discussion cycles.

Tks!

Regards,
Jordi

@jordipalet


> El 15 may 2026, a las 17:46, dacostadarwin at gmail.com escribió:
> 
> Dear PDWG,
> 
> We have received a new draft policy proposal - Soft Landing, Recovered Space and Priority, ID AFPUB-2026-IPv4-001-DRAFT01  from author Jordi Palet Martinez. The proposal contents are published at:  
> 
> https://afrinic.net/policy/proposals/afpub-2026-ipv4-001-draft01
> 
> We encourage you to take some time to go through the proposal contents and provide feedback as follows: 
> 
> a) Do you support or oppose the proposal?
> b) If you oppose the proposal, state your reasons?
> c) Is there anything in the proposal that is not clear?
> d) What changes could be made to this proposal to make it more effective?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Vincent Ngundi & Darwin Da Costa
> AFRINIC PDWG Co-Chairs.
> 
> 
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