[rpd] New Draft Policy Proposal - Amendment of Utilisation in Soft Landing AFPUB-2026-IPv4-002-DRAFT01.

[Jaco Kroon]

Hi Jordi,

In principle in support, this could potentially have helped me a few 
years back to avoid nasty renumbering.

Having said that, I think this becomes a bit too lenient.  Must be 
"where it can be shown that the new requirement cannot practically be 
served by existing resources", so in your case where you have four POPs 
each needing to originate it's own /24, you will require extra resources 
to set up a fifth POP.  The counter argument would be "but you can use 
/25s internally and just advertise >=/24s to the outside world" - but 
this would result in sub-optimal routing which is where I stand with you.

I just think the wording as is could potentially be abused and I'd like 
to see it a bit more strict in the sense that it must be shown that even 
with renumbering it cannot be accommodated from existing resources.

I like that you mention examples, and some of them definitely tickled my 
curiosity as to why you'd need IPv4 to achieve that, but I don't think 
that matters, except that these could potentially be used to obtain 
additional resources prematurely and I'd like a requirement that it must 
be shown that the current allocations/assignments cannot be utilised to 
fulfil the technical requirements.

Kind regards,
Jac


On 2026/05/21 15:28, jordi.palet--- via RPD wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This proposal, continuing with the idea of resolving the issues that have been discovered by the staff, is attempting to fix the problem of operators that need additional resources for redundancy, new sites (for example data centers), or even transition technologies.
>
> The actual soft landing proposal doesn’t cover those cases and only allows obtaining additional resources when 90% of utilizations is reached.
>
> Of course, I think is clear for all, that you don’t setup a data-center or other kinds of redundancy when your 1st data center is almost full, you actually want to have them being built even at the same time.
>
> Similarly when you, for example, want to deploy 464XLAT, and you have 4 PoPs where you will locate the NAT64 boxes, you will need some free IPv4 pools (for example 1x/24 and each POP), and you want to do that in all the PoPs, not one, wait for 90% utilization, then the next one, etc., because you want to make sure to provide high-availability. This is a very clear case for me, in my day-job deploying IPv6-only with IPv4-as-a-Service worldwide.
>
> This is easily achieved by waiving those requests from the 90% utilization and considering them as a “first request” (in fact, it is a first request for a new site).
>
> The advantage for Afrinic, compared with other RIRs, is that we have recovered 3 millions of IPv4 addresses, so multiple sites allocations for every member, doesn’t mean draining earlier than expected the available pool when we entered in soft landing phases.
>
> Comments welcome!
>
> Tks!
>
> Regards,
> Jordi
>
> @jordipalet
>
>
>> El 15 may 2026, a las 17:51, dacostadarwin at gmail.com escribió:
>>
>> Dear PDWG,
>>
>> We have received a new draft policy proposal - Amendment of Utilisation in Soft Landing, ID AFPUB-2026-IPv4-002-DRAFT01 from author Jordi Palet Martinez. The proposal contents are published at:
>>
>> https://afrinic.net/policy/proposals/afpub-2026-ipv4-002-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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