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

[Jaco Kroon]

Hi Jordi,

Thanks for raising this.

To be clear:  I'm mostly neutral on this.  To a degree I'm of the 
opinion that the remaining space should just go away so that IPv4 can 
now go the way of the dodo and those that have not yet deployed IPv6 can 
remain behind in an eventually disconnected world of their own.  That 
said ...  "no IPv4 space" makes you the "currently disconnected from 
reality" service provider - whilst in most cases is possible to overcome 
by providing services on IPv6-only and using a service like Cloudflare 
to bridge from IPv4 to IPv6 - but that's not always possible for all 
services.  From the latter perspective I'm in support of what you're 
saying, but I do thing we're just pro-longing our pain.

I do thing we also need to urgently address if possible is a policy 
around how to handle space that's recovered that were leased to AFRINIC 
members (or entities that could legitimately become AFRINIC members) by 
the entity from where the space is recovered.

I see two options:

1.  Lose it.  For some of those entities this could be a death stroke.
2.  If the space could be justified as per existing AFRINIC policies, 
the space (or the portion that can be justified) gets assigned to the 
AFRINIC member.

This is aimed towards not penalising downstream customers (presumably 
innocent) of entities that engaged in policy violating behaviour (not 
speaking towards guilt/not - that's for others to determine, but it 
doesn't hurt to prepare for space recovery in the case that that happens).

Kind regards,
Jaco

  On 2026/05/21 14:45, jordi.palet--- via RPD wrote:

> 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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