[rpd] Soft Landing, Recovered Space and Priority (AFPUB-2026-IPv4-001-DRAFT02)

[Fundiswa Nadia Maseko]

Dear Jordi, colleagues,

Thank you for your response.

I appreciate your clarification. However, I do not believe my concerns have
been fully addressed.

My comments were not about the maximum allocation size under the current
policy. Rather, they were about the policy objective of maintaining a
reserve for future needs. Whether AFRINIC currently allocates up to a /22
does not, in itself, answer whether replacing a contiguous /12 with
fragmented recovered prefixes preserves the same operational flexibility
that the reserve was originally intended to provide.

Similarly, my question regarding quarantined address space was not intended
to prescribe implementation procedures. It was to understand how the
proposal defines the reserve itself. If quarantined resources may be
counted as part of the replacement reserve, the policy should make that
explicit. If they may not, that should also be stated. Without this,
different interpretations remain possible.

I also note that my question regarding how the replacement reserve will be
represented in AFRINIC's public inventory during the transition was not
addressed. Transparency in the accounting of recovered, quarantined,
reserved, available, and delegated resources is important for community
confidence and consistent policy interpretation.

I respectfully disagree that these are merely operational matters. While
implementation is rightly left to AFRINIC staff, the policy should still
define the principles and constraints within which implementation occurs.
Otherwise, key aspects of the reserve's management are left open to
interpretation rather than being governed by community-approved policy.

Finally, I believe it is important to recognise that several community
members have raised related concerns from different perspectives during
Last Call. The fact that similar issues continue to be raised should not be
viewed as repetition alone, but as an indication that these policy
questions remain unresolved and are significant to the community.
Reiterating concerns is sometimes necessary to emphasise that the
underlying issues have not yet been substantively addressed.

For these reasons, I remain of the view that the proposal would benefit
from further clarification before it advances.

Kind regards,

Fundiswa Nadia Maseko
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