[rpd] general question for the staff

[Policy Liaison Team]

Dear Jordi/PDWG

We appreciate the inquiry regarding post-delegation follow-up and the 
subsequent comments shared by the working group members. Please find 
AFRINIC’s response below.

The Registration Service Agreement (RSA) and Bylaws serve as the primary 
legal instruments governing the relationship between AFRINIC and its 
Resource Members. For this matter in particular, Clauses 4 and 6 of the 
RSA and 8.2 of the Bylaws outline the expected behaviours of members, 
including the mandatory requirement to comply with established policies. 
These clauses also provide the necessary legal basis for AFRINIC to take 
action when a member’s conduct or resource utilisation deviates from the 
policies.

While it is important to ensure compliance, embedding specific 
post-delegation follow-up actions within applicable individual policies 
may present significant scalability and agility constraints as below:

  *

    Managing unique per-policy mechanisms for every individual policy
    could lead to a complex administrative burden.

  *

    Detailed operational steps within the Consolidated Policy Manual
    (CPM) can make it rigid to meet evolving administrative or technical
    needs without undergoing the full Policy Development Process (PDP).

However, if the Working Group deems it necessary, then a recommendation 
would be that:

  *

    A consolidated guide or framework could be introduced to the Policy
    Manual with general reference to the RSA and Bylaws. Setting the
    high-level mandate for compliance reviews without prescribing
    specific, operational steps is beneficial.

  *

    Specific details, such as timelines, notification stages, and
    reclamation steps, can be published by AFRINIC in separate publicly
    accessible operational document(s) and implementation notes for
    specific policies. This ensures that the community understands the
    "how" while allowing the staff the flexibility to manage the process
    effectively and inline with any prevailing operational constraints.
    As reference , please see Section 5 of
    https://afrinic.net/reverse-dns and
    https://afrinic.net/20210428-lame-dns-delegation-policy

  *

    The resource policies be drafted in clear and unambiguous text so
    that compliance or lack of compliance requires no additional
    interpretation

Kind Regards

Madhvi

On 22/05/2026 14:01, 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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