[rpd] general question for the staff

[Jaco Kroon]

Short answer or long answer?

This hits straight at the disputes between Cloud Innovation and Afrinic 
as I understand, and this is currently being tested back and forth in court.

NRS is also sending a bunch of (in my humble opinion) FUD-generating 
emails around what and what does not constitute IP leasing.  For me the 
difference is quite clear, am I leasing IPs for the sake of leasing IPs, 
or do I utilise IPs as part of selling an IP-based service?

I personally think things are clear-cut, as per inference below, but if 
that was the case it would not have ended up in court.

I'm not a lawyer and I don't know what the right way forward here is.

Kind regards,
Jaco


On 2026/05/22 12:01, jordi.palet--- via RPD wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This point comes back frequently in discussions in different policy proposals, and I think we need to make it clear for once.
>
> For example, yesterday Sami requested to add some kind of text for post-allocation follow-up.
>
> I don’t think we have specific policy (other RIRs have it) for reclaim and recover, however, my understanding is that the existing RSA already enforces the policy compliance and AFRINIC may reclaim resources to any member that, for example, requested IPv4 or IPv6 addressing space with some specific plans, and after 1 or 2 years, the plans have been sensibly altered or even not complied at all, showing  bad-faith on the original request.
>
> Is my interpretation correct and coincident with AFRINIC or we should add very specific text for any policy proposal (or a generic proposal for lack of compliance like in some other RIRs), for AFRINIC to “verify” after a given period the compliance?
>
> I will understand that plans for an organization may change, but I think in those cases, the organization must for its own interest, have an alternative plan for the business continuity/business strategy changes and that should be re-addressed with AFRINIC, in case the allocation of resources need to be modified.
>
> I think a very clear (and urgent) response is needed in case we need to add some text into a new version of the current proposals under discussion before the dead line for a possible v2.
>
> Tks!
>
> Regards,
> Jordi
>
> @jordipalet
>
>
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